Dual Enrollment
FALL 2026 CLASSES BEGIN AUGUST 24TH. SEATS ARE LIMITED. CONTACT [email protected] TO ENROLL.
What is M.O.C.S. Start?
Maximizing Opportunities for a College Successful Start
M.O.C.S. Start is UTC's dual enrollment program which allows high school junior and/or senior students to enroll in college classes.
These course meet both their high school graduation requirements and provide an early start to earning college credit.
We offer dual enrollment courses on UTC’s campus, online, and even at some local high school campuses.
Have you completed your sophomore year of high school?
Is your high school grade point average 3.0 or higher?
If you answered Yes to both questions, that's MOC-tastic! You are eligible to become a M.O.C.S. Start participant.
Face-to-Face (UTC Campus)
This is your opportunity to commute to our campus for lecture and/or laboratory experiences. You will attend class with our college students.
Courses taught in-person/face-to-face are scheduled and will occur on the UT Chattanooga Campus.
UTC virtual parking pass required to park on campus.
Internet
Can't make it to campus? No worries. We offer courses via internet so you can access college courses with your laptop.
Internet sections taught wholly online (80% or more) are scheduled on the UTC Online campus.
High School campus
UTC is credentialing Hamilton County teachers to provide college-level courses at your high school.
Ask your school counselor if this is an option at your high school.
University High School (Hamilton County only)
University High (UH) is a college access and opportunity initiative that represents a collaborative partnership between Hamilton County Schools and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
This full immersion experience is designed for 11th- and 12th-grade students to attend college classes on UTC's campus Monday through Friday of each week,
What is Dual Enrollment?
Simply put, dual enrollment lets local high school senior and junior students enroll in college classes to meet their high school graduation requirements and start earning college credit.
UTC’s dual enrollment options include enrolling in courses on their high school's campus, online or on UTC’s campus.
Have you completed your sophomore year of high school and have a 3.0 GPA? You’re eligible for dual enrollment.
Get ahead. Be prepared.
Knock out a few college classes before you graduate from high school. You’ll get a jump-start on your college career and be that much closer to your college degree.
By taking a few college courses while you’re still in high school, you get a taste of what your future holds. Our faculty don’t know you’re a high school student—you’ll be working alongside college students, completing the same assignments and meeting the same requirements.
The transition from high school to college will be that much easier.
And if you don’t plan on attending college at UTC, most of the credits you earn here will transfer.
Online Course Offerings for Fall 2026
- ANTH1200: Cultural Anthropology
The comparative study of culture, social organization, economic systems, political systems, sex/gender systems, religions, languages, and arts across diverse societies with special attention to non-Western societies, globalization, and cultural change.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- ART1110: Introduction to Art
This course exposes students to art and different themes of art-making across time and space. It teaches students to identify, describe, contextualize, and analyze artworks from a wide range of media, as well as apply these observations to their lives outside of the classroom. By bridging the gap between art of the past and our contemporary visual world, this course expands students’ understanding of visual history, how images come to produce meaning, and how the nature of visual experience is constructed. The course is organized thematically and showcases significant artworks from cultures across the globe ranging from the prehistoric-era to the contemporary moment. Focus is divided between learning historical trends, critical concepts, and interpreting artworks. These materials are considered in isolation as well as within the socio-cultural contexts that produced them.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- BIOL1050: Life on Earth & BIOL1050L: Life on Earth Laboratory
An introduction to systematic ways in which the human mind comprehends the natural world; emphasis on scientific reasoning, the diversity of life, evolutionary relationships, interactions between living systems, chemical transformation pathways, the natural and anthropogenic influences on Earth’s climate, and how changes in climate affect living systems. The laboratory integrates the scientific approach and provides hands-on experience in developing and testing explanations for natural patterns observed in living systems.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- CPSC1000: Introduction to Computing
Overview of the development of the electronic computer, its technology, capabilities, and limitations. Ethical and social issues are considered, as well as the role of computers in society. Introduction to the use of a range of useful microcomputer hardware and software. Extensive laboratory experience.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- CRMJ1100: Introduction to the Criminal Justice System
An overview of the criminal justice system as it currently operates in its three major components: police, courts, corrections. A broad-based interdisciplinary perspective is employed to introduce students to the criminal processing system in the United States.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- CRMJ1700: Criminal Law
An overview of both substantive and procedural law related to the definitions, investigations, processing and punishment of crimes, providing students with an overall understanding of the articulation between law and the criminal justice system. It also reviews the historical foundations of criminal law, elements of crime, purposes and functions of law, limits of the law, and the function of law in American society.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- CRMJ2200: Criminalistics: Crime Scene Investigation
This is an introductory course to criminalistics, which explores the history and scope of forensic science. Criminalistics is the application of science to those criminal and civil laws that are enforced by police agencies in a criminal justice system. The scope of this course includes discovery at a crime scene, the most important location of evidence; physical evidence; analytical techniques for organic and inorganic materials; forensic toxicology; firearms, ammunition, unique tool marks, and various impressions (e.g., shoe prints, fabric properties, and bloodstains)
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- CRMJ2460: Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System
Students will examine the intersection between mental health and the criminal justice system by exploring how individuals with mental health disorders interact with law enforcement, including topics like police response to mental health crises, the correlation between psychiatric disorders and criminal behavior, treatment options within prisons as well as barriers to receiving adequate care, and the challenges of managing mental health within the community, with a focus on understanding the psychosocial factors contributing to this junction and potential strategies for improving responses to criminogenic and mental health needs within these systems. Through review of current and relevant literature, and practical application exercises using case vignettes, students will gain a deeper understanding of these topics and how crucial it is to develop interdisciplinary teams to effectively address psychosocial issues and minimize crime.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- ENGL1010: Rhetoric & Composition 1 (Seniors Only)
The principles and practice of effective reading and writing. Frequent themes, exercises, and selected readings. Attention to individual problems of grammar and usage.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- HIST2030: History of Tennessee
This course will familiarize students with the historical development of Tennessee from the earliest beginnings of the state to the present. We will examine social, political, economic, and intellectual change to better understand the emergence of contemporary Tennessee.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- MATH1130: College Algebra
Includes topics such as polynomial, rational, radical, exponential, and logarithmic functions and their graphs, factoring, solving linear inequalities, solving linear, quadratic, exponential, and logarithmic equations, slope and equations of lines, difference quotient, systems of equations, exponential growth and decay, and mathematics of finance. Mathematical models are taken from business, biology, and the social sciences. Prerequisite: A score of 19 or higher on the ACT Math.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- MATH1530: Introductory Statistics
Introductory course suitable for students in a variety of disciplines. Emphasizes basic concepts, including descriptive statistics, elementary probability, estimation, and hypothesis testing. This course teaches students how to interpret, to develop, and to use statistical and probabilistic models of real-world phenomena. Students will learn how to solve practical problems using statistical vocabulary, notation, and appropriate technology.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- MUS1110: Introduction to Music
Designed to promote awareness of western art music as a mode of communication and a major component of western culture, this course will examine styles, significant works and prominent musicians in an historical context. The relationships among political, religious, scientific and philosophical issues and styles in western music will be considered.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- PSPS1010: American Politics
The foundations, institutions, processes and policies of American national government with attention to the Constitution and such topics as elections, political and civil rights and liberties, federalism, public policy, public opinion, political culture, interest groups, and the role of citizens in governance.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations
- THSP1110: Introduction to Theatre
A study of the theatre and its drama; examination of selected plays as representative types of drama, as products of a cultural milieu, and as works intended for performance. Designed to heighten the student’s perception, appreciation, and enjoyment of a variety of forms of theatre in performance.
Online, No Set Meeting Times, Structured Expectations