High School Equivalency GED

Certificate of Competency
#36871

This short-term program prepares students to successfully pass High School Equivalency (HSE) exams. Career development and academic counseling are also provided to increase employability, work skills and provide a pathway to community college courses. This program is designed to assist students in achieving the maximum score which allows for additional work opportunities and higher placement on college level placement exams. Students must pass both core courses to earn the HSE Math Certificate.

Program Learning Outcomes

School Equivalency Certificate for Math, students will be prepared to:   

• Solve word problems using fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Simplify and solve systems of equations and inequalities. 
• Evaluate functions. 
• Evaluate graphs to solve geometric problems. 
• Compute mean, median, and mode.
• Apply properties of triangles and quadrilaterals.
• Calculate scale factors.
• Calculate area, perimeter, volume, and surface area of composite figures. 

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Required Courses

Certificate of Competency
#36843

This short-term program prepares students to successfully pass High School Equivalency (HSE) exams. Career development and academic counseling are also provided to increase employability, work skills and provide a pathway to community college courses. This program is designed to assist students in achieving the maximum score which allows for additional work opportunities and higher placement on college level placement exams. Students must pass both core courses to earn the HSE Reading and Language Arts Certificate.

Program Learning Outcomes

School Equivalency Certificate for Math, students will be prepared to:   

• Identify main idea and details in a reading sample.
• Summarize workplace documents and literature.
• Identify author’s point of view, tone, and style.
• Compare and contrast texts in similar and different genres. 
• Edit sample texts.
• Construct thesis and cite supporting evidence.
   

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Required Courses

This short-term program prepares students to successfully pass High School Equivalency (HSE) exams. Career development and academic counseling are also provided to increase employability, work skills and provide a pathway to community college courses. This program is designed to assist students in achieving the maximum score which allows for additional work opportunities and higher placement on college level placement exams. Students must pass both core courses to earn the HSE Science Certificate.

Program Learning Outcomes

School Equivalency Certificate for Math, students will be prepared to:   

• Identify skeletal, muscular, digestive, and respiratory systems.
• Summarize ecosystems.
• Identify chemical properties.
• Evaluate the genetic code.
• Explain work, motion, and force.
• Compare and contrast animal and plant cells.
   

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Required Courses

Certificate of Competency
#36873

This short-term program prepares students to successfully pass High School Equivalency (HSE) exams. Career development and academic counseling are also provided to increase employability, work skills and provide a pathway to community college courses. This program is designed to assist students in achieving the maximum score which allows for additional work opportunities and higher placement on college level placement exams. Students must pass both core courses to earn the HSE Social Studies Certificate.

Program Learning Outcomes

School Equivalency Certificate for Math, students will be prepared to:   

• Identify how the U.S. government is structured.
• Identify the factors that led to the Constitutional Convention.
• Summarize the effects of the Civil War.
• Describe the events that led to the Great Depression.
• Describe how the events since World War II have shaped the United States foreign policy.
• Explain the new global culture and economy.
• Define economic terms.
• Explain how fiscal and monetary policies affect economies.
• Explain how people change the Earth’s physical geography.
• Analyze maps to understand boundaries and borders. 
   

Review Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for this program.

Required Courses