High School Programs

Refer to the CTE Dual Credit Database or the CTE Dual Credit Options for High School Students page. If you have a class you are interested in offering as CTE Dual Credit, but do not see the course on these lists, please reach out to cte@skagit.edu to inquire.

If you are interested in pursuing an articulation for one of the listed courses please submit the CTE Dual Credit Inquiry for New Articulation form. You will need to submit one form for each high school class you are requesting to articulate.

After submitting the CTE Dual Credit Inquiry for New Articulation form, we will email you the applicable CTE Dual Credit Articulation Request form with a list of required documentation. Please email articulation documentation to cte@skagit.edu  or ali.holmes@skagit.edu for review. Once reviewed, an approval decision will be made and communicated to the district.

• OAAP Application Workshop
  • Select this option to schedule an SVC representative walk your students through using the OAAP to apply to SVC.
• CtcLink Course Enrollment Workshop
  • Select this option to schedule an SVC representative to teach your students how to enroll in their CTE class in the ctclink to receive Dual Credit at the end of winter or spring quarter. 
• Using Dual Credit After High School Presentation
  • Select this option if you are looking help your students how they can CTE Dual Credit, why it is useful, and how to get started at SVC post high school.

• Administrator Training (For Principals and CTE Directors)
  • Select this option if you are an administrator looking to partner with SVC and begin the articulation process. We will compare course catalogs, discuss potential articulations, and answer questions you have around the articulation process. 

There a variety of benefits that offering CTE Dual Credit can provide to your students including:

• lowering the cost of college 
• potentially graduating faster or lightening the load of required courses to graduate
• helping each student see themselves as "college ready"
• introducing students to higher education programs, processes, and resources

No. It is completely free. However, ordering an official transcript costs $6 if they are transferring official credits to an external institution. 

We are happy to look at articulating any workforce program class. However, the most commonly articulated classes are 100-level classes. 

Typically we are unable to articulate classes that are:

• 200 Level (but not always)
• Very specialized classrooms where the high school doesn't have the necessary infrastructure/tools to teach SVC Course Outcomes
• SVC classes or programs where also students must by 18+ or 21+ to participate in the course
• Classes or programs that have outside accrediting bodies where high schools can't meet the accrediting bodies standards

Our goal at SVC is to only articulate courses that sit on program pathways. That means we are looking to articulate courses that are required in specific programs because we don't want students receiving random credits that aren't useful to them. Instead, if we create meaningful articulations with classes on program pathways the student can:

• Have fewer classes to take to graduate with a specific degree
• Potentially graduate slightly faster (this depends on the program and if it is a cohorted model or not).
• Free up space in their schedule take other required courses like ENGL& 101 or free up space for jobs/work

Articulations must be renewed every three years or if something major changes in the high schools outcomes or the college's outcomes in between the three-year renewal period.

Articulations need to be renewed so that both partners can make sure the classes are still in alignment with one another. If the college makes an update to the course outcomes of an articulated high school course, the high school must work to update the articulation even if it has not come up for renewal in the three year period.

This happens, especially with older articulations where outcomes have changed but the articulation wasn't updated. Contact the CTE Dual Credit Coordinator at cte@skagit.edu to request and articulation update. We will work with you to find a different class that is aligned.

First and foremost, we try our best not to cancel articulation agreements. However, there are times that we need to. Most commonly this happens when:

• The college phases out a specific program and no longer offers the previously articulated class
• The articulation is out of date and the high school can no longer meet SVC course outcomes

If this does happen, we promise to be transparent about why we care cancelling the articulation and also look for new potential articulations in place of the cancelled articulation. 

It is always up to the district whether they choose to articulate or not. At SVC, we think articulation is often more powerful than AP credit because:

• If a student received a B or above in their AP course, credits are transcribed directly to the student's SVC transcript creating a higher likelihood of transferability to other higher education institutions
• Receiving dual credit is free for the student (they aren't paying for an AP test or paying for the College Board to send their AP scores to a higher ed institution)
• It can be better for students with test anxiety because their grade is transcribed based on the grade they received in the class, not one high stakes assessment.

A course can be articulated and students can still take the AP exam too. We think having both offers more flexibility for the student.