WCCC offers summer credit classes
Westmoreland County Community College is conducting registration for summer credit courses offered during four sessions with the first beginning Monday, May 19.
Two convenient five-and-a-half-week sessions are offered beginning May 19 and June 25 and an eight-week session begins June 9.
The classes are open to current and new students, including those who attend other colleges and universities during the academic year.
Each summer, thousands of students from other colleges attend WCCC and transfer their credits to the bachelor’s degree programs at their home schools.
They typically enroll to lighten their fall credit load, to concentrate on tough courses, or to complete their degree sooner.
High school juniors and seniors, on recommendation of their guidance counselors or principals, are also eligible to take courses at WCCC and earn college credit.
Classes will be conducted Monday through Thursday, mornings, afternoons and evenings at eight locations.
In Westmoreland County, classes will meet at the Youngwood campus; WCCC-Bushy Run, Export; WCCC-Laurel, Latrobe; WCCC-Mon Valley, Belle Vernon; and WCCC-New Kensington, New Kensington.
Classes are also scheduled at the WCCC Fayette County Center, 140 North Beeson Boulevard, Uniontown; WCCC Indiana County Center, 45 Airport Road, Indiana; and at the WCCC Greene County Center, EverGreene Drive, Waynesburg.
Students also have the option of taking classes without attending any campus.
The summer schedule lists 256 online classes conducted via the Internet.
Online classes are worth either three or four credits each and appear on transcripts the same as classroom-based courses.
Career preparation courses are offered in the areas of accounting; allied health/nursing; business; culinary arts and hospitality; computer technology; engineering science and industrial technology; horticulture; human services; multimedia and photography; and office administration.
Liberal arts and science and general education courses are offered in the areas of art, economics, education, humanities, mathematics, music, political science, natural science, social science and speech. Credits earned in these courses will transfer to bachelor’s degree programs at most four-year colleges and universities.
Tuition for summer courses is $93 per credit for Westmoreland County students, which is one of the lowest rates in Pennsylvania.
For a complete schedule of summer classes, visit wccc.edu.