General guidelines

  • All students must take courses totaling 15 credits per year. Most students take five one-credit courses per term. However, Health and Human Development and some applied music instruction allow for exceptions to this practice. (See the note at the music department section.)
  • No student may take more than five full-credit courses in any term.

  • No student may take fewer than four full-credit courses in a given term.

  • No student may take courses totaling six credits in a given term except for ninth-graders and new 10th-graders, who may take five term courses, 2/3 credit in applied music or dance and 1/3 credit in health.

  • Students must take partial-credit applied music courses in consecutive terms to earn diploma credit, unless they are a part of Music 450. (See music course descriptions.)