Bergen Community College’s Division of Continuing Education will begin offering high school summer school courses starting later this month. “This is a great opportunity for high school students to make up courses or to take a new work-for-credit course to jumpstart their next school year,” said Sandra Sroka, assistant dean of Continuing Education Corporate and Public Sector Training. “The enrichment courses help students keep their skills sharp during the summer in algebra, reading and writing so they can hit the ground running in September.”

Students throughout Bergen County may take advantage of the “High School Summer School Program,” which will offer remedial and new work-for-credit courses on Monday through Thursday from June 29 through July 29. Students may register for one or two remedial courses with sessions running from 8:00 am to 11:20 am and from 11:40 am to 3:00 pm. Students may take a single work-for-credit course from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. 

The remedial courses, $425 tuition per course plus $25 registration fee, are available for students who failed a high school course in English; Algebra 1 and 2; Geometry; World History; U.S. History 1 and 2; Biology; Chemistry; Physics, and Spanish 1 and 2.

Bergen Community College is offering new work-for-credit courses in Geometry Honors and Geometry, Algebra 2 Honors and Algebra 2, and U.S. History 1 and 2. The tuition is $900 plus $25 registration fee.

Enrichment courses for students entering the 9th grade who are seeking to refine their skills in reading, writing and Algebra are available from July 12 through July 15, 8:00 am to 11:00 am The “High School Summer School” will offer Foundations in Algebra and Strategic Reading and Writing courses. Tuition is $150 plus $25 registration fee.

For additional information about the “High School Summer School Program” at Bergen Community College, visit www.bergen.edu/pages/5779.asp  or call (201) 447-7831. Bergen Community College (www.bergen.edu ) based in Paramus is a public two-year coeducational college, enrolling nearly 17,000 students at locations in Paramus, the Philip J. Ciarco Jr. Learning Center in Hackensack and Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands in Lyndhurst. The College offers associate degree, certificate and continuing education programs in a variety of fields.