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Course Selection Process

• 2007-2008
• Please sit in middle section
• Pick up a personalized folder

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Preparation

• Prepare to make appropriate course requests by
• reviewing your transcript
• discussing options with parents, teachers, and
  counselor.
• Be sure to consider graduation and college
  admission requirements.

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Course Requests

• Make your course requests by completing the
  Course Request Form.
• Obtain a teacher approval signature for any
  course that has a prerequisite.
• These signatures should come from your current
  teacher in each department.
• If you do not currently have a teacher in a
  requested department, go to the most recent
  teacher you had in that department.
• If this is your first request for a department,
  see the department chair.

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Seriously Consider Your Needs

• Since the master schedule will be constructed
  based upon your requests, you should make
  requests based only upon the classes you need and
  want.
• Do not consider when courses were offered or who
  the teacher was this year, because these are
  subject to change.

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Six Period Requirement

• Remember that you must have a minimum of six
  class periods of class each semester. There are
  no exceptions.

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Prep Hour

• At the bottom of the request form, please
  indicate if you have a preference in prep hour.
• This request is not guaranteed, but every attempt
  will be made to structure the schedule to
  accommodate this request.
• Please note that there will be a limited number
  of students who may have prep any given hour
  (e.g. not everyone can have prep at 1200).
  Priority will be given to upperclassmen.

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Parent Signature

• Be sure your parents signature is on the bottom
  of the request form.
• Request forms will not be accepted without a
  parent signature.

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Return Directly to Counselor

• When your form is completed, it must be returned
  directly to the counselor.
• The counselor will verify its accuracy as well as
  number the order received.

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Additional Forms

• Bloomington Area Vocational Center
• Illinois State University Dual Enrollment Program
  
• complete an additional application form.
• These forms are available in the Counseling
  Center and are due with your U-High Course
  Request Form.

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Deadline

• All forms are due to the counselor no later than
  Friday, January 26 at 300 pm.

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Scheduling

• In April, students will need to schedule an
  individual appointment with a counselor for the
  purpose of creating their actual schedule for
  next year.
• More detailed information will be made available
  at that time.
• Keep in mind that since you will be creating your
  own schedule, changes should NOT be necessary

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Course Guide Highlights

• Pages 2 - 4
• NCAA Eligibility
• Page 6
• Foreign Language Requirements
• Page 7
• Graduation Requirements
• Pages 7 8
• AP Course Procedures

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Course Guide Highlights

• Page 9
• Driver Education Requirements
• 16 before April 1 select PE221 for first quarter
  classroom
• 16 after April 1 select PE222 for third quarter
  classroom
• Also sign up for the desired PE course
  (Activities or Personal Fitness)

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Course Guide Highlights

• Page 10
• Grade Improvement
• Pages 11 12
• PE Waiver Policy
• Page 12
• Summer School
• Do not assume summer school when selecting
  courses for next year
• Page 13
• Begins course descriptions

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Course Descriptions

• AR201 Sculpture A Look at the Third Dimension
• Credit 0.5 credit, Fall Semester
• Prerequisite AR101/102
• Lab Fee 50.00
• This one-semester course explores design and
  construction problems in the areas of sculpture,
  ceramics, plaster, wood, and other media relevant
  to a three-dimensional design. Study will be
  approached through analysis of 3-D forms,
  readings, reports, and the creation of sculptural
  forms. Evaluation is based on class involvement,
  growth, and performance.
• This course is offered on an alternating year
  schedule and will be offered during the 2007-2008
  school year. However, it will not be offered
  2008-2009.

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Department Highlights

• Pages 16 -20
• English Semester Electives
• Argumentation Debate paired with Introduction
  to Theater Acting
• Creative Writing with Shakespeare
• Science Fiction with Contemporary Rhetoric

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Department Highlights

• Pages 21- 24
• Engineering Technology
• Now qualifies as Fine Arts credit
• Semester courses not currently tied together,
  this will be determined by requests
• Organized by prerequisite
• Pages 26 27
• Foreign Language
• AP French Spanish offered
• Suggest also ISU Dual Enrollment application

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Department Highlights

• Pages 33 34
• Physical Education
• Limited enrollment in Early Bird sectionsFirst
  come, first serve
• Pages 38 40
• Social Science
• New courses Philosophical Foundations of
  American Democracy and Multimedia History
• Civil Law retitled to Civil Rights, Civil
  Liberties, Issues and Cases
• Govt Studies 2 now Illinois History and
  Government
• Psychology/Sociology, senior status

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Area Vocational Center

• Separate Application Required
• Select Preferred Class Period
• Section 1, 730-914
• Section 2, 950-1128
• Section 3, 1231-215
• All classes not offered every section
• AVC representative will be here on Thursday,
  January 25 at 100 in Room 240

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Non-traditional Courses

• Pages 45 47
• For most, indicate the request, additional forms
  not necessary at this time
• Ex request HC301 if you plan on taking a course
  at Heartland in the fall and/or HC302 for a
  course in the spring.
• ISU Dual Enrollment
• Additional application required
• IS401 for fall, IS402 for spring

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Course Offering List

• Pages 48 50
• Listing of all course codes and titles available
  for 2007-2008.
• Indication of grade levels each course is open to

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Four-Year Plan

• Page 51
• Strongly recommended for future planning

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Course Request Form

• Enter Your Name, Next Year Grade, Student Email,
  Phone
• Please Follow These Directions
• Fill out the table for each course for which you
  are requesting. Be sure to write in the Course
  Code. Please note the numbers in the first
  column do not represent the class period a course
  will be offered, but are only provided as a guide
  to the number of course periods for which you are
  requesting. Remember that you must have at least
  6 periods worth of classes each semester.
• Make a first and second choice as to your
  preferred prep hour. Please remember that these
  are not be guaranteed.
• If you are thinking of attending summer school,
  for planning purposes only, please indicate the
  course title you are considering. Keep in mind,
  that this does not sign you up for summer school,
  nor does it guarantee a seat in any summer school
  course.
• Discuss your requests with your parents, and have
  them sign the bottom page of this form.
• Obtain a teacher approval signature for any
  course that has a prerequisite.
• Return this form directly the counselor by
  January 26, 2007

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Questions?

• Email
• skinner_at_ilstu.edu
• AIM Instant Message
• uhighcounseling
• Phone
• 309-438-5691
• Appointment
• Contact Mrs. Cropp