What Is Dual Enrollment?
Dual enrollment means that a high school student attends a college class at the high school campus.
Why Should I Consider Dual Enrollment?
There are several reasons why high school students should work with their parents and school to participate in dual enrollment programs. These benefits include:
Where Is Dual Enrollment Offered?
Currently Escondido High School and Orange Glen High School are offering dual enrollment. Please see your counselor for more information.
What Classes Are Offered?
For the 2019-20 school year the following classes may be offered:
An historical survey of the Mexican American/Chicano people in the United States. Emphasis on cultural and historical roots from pre-Columbian times through the Spanish conquest period and subsequent cultural and racial mix, including the U.S. American culture in the Southwest.
Chicano Studies 102 - The Chicano and the American Political System
A basic and practical approach to understanding and utilizing the American political system. Includes a critical evaluation of leading issues affecting Chicanos as well as a survey of social and political organizations within the community. A description and analysis of Federal, State, and local government. This course plus CS 101 meets the State requirement in American History and Institutions.
Provides students with the skills and knowledge necessary to reach their educational goals. Topics include academic learning strategies, college and life skills, diversity awareness and assessment of personal characteristics related to educational success. The role of race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation and age in higher education and personal identity is a central theme of the course.
Investigates the sociological, physiological, and psychological sources of stress and well-being across the lifespan. An examination of how the mind-body relationship is affected by personality, thoughts, life events, and messages received from one’s culture, family, and society will be studied. Students learn mindfulness and stress reduction techniques that resolve stress and anxiety and promote well-being physically, energetically, emotionally, cognitively, socially, and behaviorally.