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Planning Your Early College Course Schedule

Plan for your concurrent enrollment general education, major, and elective courses with these course planning tools.

Course Planning Tools

See upcoming semester registration dates and times, learn how to calculate your registration date, where to find your registration date, etc.

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Available Courses
All BYU-Idaho classes are opened to high school students if the appropriate prerequisite requirements are met. To see all courses, view our catalog below.

Students should work with high school counselors to ensure that the BYU-Idaho courses they select also meet high school graduation requirements.

FYI: Concurrent Enrollment students are limited to fifteen credit hours per semester.
Pre-requisites
As you prepare to register, you may find that some of your courses have pre-requisites that need to be fulfilled. Often students get anxious when they see that an ACT or SAT score is required, but they have not taken either test.

Fortunately, BYU-Idaho offers more affordable and convenient alternative exam options that meet the course pre-requisites. These exams are the ALEKS Math Exam and the English Placement Exam.

Learn more about these exams here.

Understanding Courses

If you are planning to complete a college degree, you will want any Concurrent Enrollment courses you take in high school to apply toward your eventual college graduation. You don't want to waste time and money taking classes that won't help you progress. So, it's important to know that there are typically three kinds of college courses:

General Education Courses
In a college major, your studies are focused on a particular subject or career path. These courses help you progress toward a degree,but they can still be good options for Concurrent Enrollment students who know what major or discipline they want to pursue or explore
Required Major Courses
In a college major, your studies are focused on a particular subject or career path. These courses help you progress toward a degree,but they can still be good options for Concurrent Enrollment students who know what major or discipline they want to pursue or explore.
Elective Courses
If they help you graduate, elective credits can be good. But if you have too many elective credits that fall outside graduation requirements, you've wasted time, effort, and money. In fact, some majors don't have room for electives, so none are required to graduate.
Your high school counselor should be a resource to help you navigate which Concurrent Enrollment courses to take. The BYU-Idaho catalog can be accessed online and contains all requirements for courses, degrees, and general university requirement

Recommended Courses (some courses may have pre-requisites)


General Education
CourseCourse NameCreditsHas a Pre-requisiteGE Area
ECON 150Economic Principles and Problems - Micro3NoSocial Science
ENG 150Writing and Reasoning Foundations3YesWriting
ENG 301Advanced Writing and Research3YesWriting
FAML 160Family Relations3NoSocial Science
GECIV 100American Heritage3NoSocial Science
GESCI 101From Atoms to Humans3NoNatural Science
GESCI 110Sustaining Human Life3NoNatural Science
GESCI 201Natural Disasters3NoNatural Science
HUM 110Introduction to Humanities3NoArts and Humanities
MATH 108XMath for the Real World3YesQuantitative Reasoning
MATH 112XCalculus 14YesQuantitative Reasoning
NUTR 150Essentials of Human Nutrition3NoNatural Science
POLSC 110American Government3NoSocial Science
PSYCH 111General Psychology3NoSocial Science
SOC 111Introduction to Sociology3NoSocial Science
TA 115Introduction to Theater3NoArts and Humanities

Exploration (Non-General Education)
CourseCourse NameCreditsHas a Pre-requisite
ANTH 101Introduction to Cultural Anthropology3No
ART 125Adobe CC Basics3No
AUTO 125Automotive Ownership and Maintenance1No
CIT 110Introduction to Excel3No
COMM 102Public Speaking3No
COMM 150Interpersonal Theory and Practice3No
CSE 110Programming Building Blocks2No
HCA 280Medical Terminology2No
PUBH132Personal Health and Wellness2No
WDD 130Web Fundamentals2No