Career and Technical Education (CTE)

Students will need to request to transfer CTE dual credits by emailing an unofficial high school transcript for review to ctedualcredits@lowercolumbia.edu.  Parents, school administrators or teachers cannot request transfers on behalf of students.

Pathways available at LCC:

• Automotive Technology
• Criminal Justice
• Diesel Technology
• Early Childhood Education
• Healthcare
• Machine Trades
• Nursing
• Welding

How to Get Started

• Talk to your high school counselor to choose a program
• Enroll in supporting classes at your high school on the  SERS website
• Earn a B or better grade in eligible classes and receive college credits

Articulation Requests for the 2021/2022 school year have closed. Information about articulation development for the 2022/2023 school year will be available in November 2021

Step 1: Request Articulation

Submit a request for articulation to the Career Connected Learning Coordinator.

Required information:

• High school
• Course name
• Course syllabus
• Teacher
• Contact information

Step 2: Syllabus Review/Approval

The course syllabus needs to have the correct teacher’s name, high school, and course name on it for records purposes. The Career Connected Learning Coordinator delivers the syllabus to the appropriate LCC Faculty. LCC Faculty reviews the syllabus to see if it matches at least 80% of an LCC course. LCC Faculty also look for key factors specific to different courses (ex: courses teaching Microsoft can’t use outdated software). The Career Connected Learning Coordinator will work with high school teachers if a syllabus is missing information in order to get it approved for articulation.

Step 3: Articulation

Once a syllabus gets approved, the Career Connected Learning Coordinator builds the articulation agreement. The articulation specifies the high school, high school course, and LCC course being articulated. After it is built, the articulation gets signed by the following: the high school CTE Director, high school teacher, LCC Program Dean, LCC Faculty, and LCC Career Connected Learning Coordinator. After the articulation is built and signed it gets entered into the Statewide Enrollment Reporting System (SERS). See the list of articulable courses with outcomes.

Step 4: Classroom Visit

The Career Connected Learning Coordinator will communicate with high school teachers to schedule classroom visits to help with registering students in the SERS database and to inform them about CTE Dual Credits.