For over 25 years, Kirkwood Community College has provided high school correspondence courses to students.  Correspondence courses are in an independent study format.  For most courses, students work with a textbook and course guide. 

Correspondence courses include homework to help students prepare to take exams and complete the course requirements.  This work is graded pass/fail and must be submitted in order to complete the course.

Most courses also require a test proctor to be identified who agrees to administer tests and verify assignments are being completed.  Usualy the proctor is a school counselor or other school employee. 

A student enrolling in a correspondence course has six months from the date of registration to complete their course. (Effective June 1, 2009 students will have four months to complete courses from the date of registration.)  To learn what courses are available in the correspondence format, view our current course listings.