Learn about Dual Credit, Work Experience and the Registered Apprenticeship Program in High School

Dual Credit 

What is Dual Credit?

• Students earn credits in both High School and Post-Secondary at the same time.
• Students can take regular post-secondary courses while enrolled in high school.
• Medicine Hat Public School Division is partnered with Olds College and Lethbridge College to provide this opportunity.

Benefits of the Dual Credit Program

• Students earn 5 – 30 level high school credits and 3 post-secondary credits upon successful completion of each course.
• Complete/explore post-secondary courses while still in high school.
• Ease the transition from high school to post-secondary by completing required courses for your post-secondary program.
• Tuition fees are paid for by Medicine Hat Public School Division.
• Successfully completing a post-secondary course in high school helps build an application/resume to competitive post-secondary programs.

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Work Experience

Work Experience provides an opportunity for students to enhance and apply, to real-life situations, knowledge, skills, and attitudes acquired through course work at school. It also allows our students to obtain skills that they cannot necessarily learn here at school. For example customer service, employer/employee interactions, fellow employee dynamics in a work setting, etc.

This program provides for partnerships between the student, the school, the employer, parents, and the community. These partnerships provide opportunities for students to explore and expand their career interests and aptitudes in meaningful activities, situated in community-based work environments. Additionally, students have the opportunity to

• understand employer expectations
• develop work skills
• see the relation between school and work
• benefit from employer contacts
• obtain references
• explore possible career interests

Any student in grade 10, 11, or 12 who has a part-time job during the school year or a position during the summer months, or who volunteers, can sign up for Work Experience. Grade 9's can also register in the summer following graduation from Grade 9.

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The Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP)

RAP is an opportunity for a focused student to get a jump start on a career in the trades through building their skill-set and accumulating hours towards their bluebook. Most trades take approximately 1400 hours to advance a level. This program allows young people the chance to start to accumulate those hours needed to complete their year one or two of their apprenticeships. There are over 50 certified trades in Alberta that students can apprentice in and every hour can count.

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