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NCAA ELIGIBILITY CENTER
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16 core courses are required for student athletes to be eligible to participate in Division I and Division II athletics
4 years of English3 years of Mathematics (Algebra II minimum)2 years of Lab Science (Biology/Chemistry)2 years of Social Science (World/U.S. History)1 year of additional English or Math or Science4 additional years of a core class or Foreign LanguageHigh School athletes also must be sliding scale criteria for SAT/ACT scores and grade point average.NCAA legislation permits a student to receive credit for a core course only one time. As a result, if a student repeats a core course, the student will only receive credit once for the core course, and the highest grade earned in the course will be included in the calculation of the student's core course grade point average. Likewise, if a student completes a course that is duplicative in content with another core course, the student will only receive credit for one of the duplicative courses, and the course with the highest grade earned will be included in the calculation of the student's core course grade point average.
English
Course Weight
Title
AMERICAN LITERATURE/ADV COMP
ENGLISH 1
ENGLISH 1/H
ENGLISH 2
ENGLISH 2/H
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & COMP/AP
ENGLISH LITERATURE/COMP AP
EXPOSITORY READING/WRITING
JOURNALISM 1
SPEECH 1
WORLD LITERATURE/ADV COMP
Social Science
Course Weight
Title
CIVICS
ECONOMICS
HISTORY IN FILM
PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY AP
US GOVERNMENT & POLITICS AP
US HISTORY/AP
US HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY
WORLD HISTORY CULTURES GEOGRAPHY
WORLD HISTORY CULTURES GEOGRAPHY H
Mathematics
Course Weight
Title
ALGEBRA 1
ALGEBRA 2
CALCULUS
CALCULUS AB/AP
GEOMETRY
PRE-CALCULUS/TRIGONOMETRY
STATISTICS
STATISTICS/AP
Natural/Physical Science
Course Weight
Title
Lab
AG BIOLOGY
X
ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY
BIOLOGY
X
BIOLOGY/AP
X
CHEMISTRY
X
CHEMISTRY/AP
X
CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS
X
PHYSICS
X
Additional Core Courses
Course Weight
Title
FRENCH 1
FRENCH 2
FRENCH 3
FRENCH 4
SPANISH 1
SPANISH 1/SS
SPANISH 2
SPANISH 2/SS
SPANISH 3
SPANISH 4/AP (LANG & COMP)