ACA Registration

Procedure

The ACA 122 course is designed as the college’s First-Year Experience course, intended to deliberately engage students in their first semester of enrollment and support them through that term as they transition into the college. It is a graduation requirement for all Durham Tech Associate degrees.

Students in AAS and AGE Programs of Study

The course is required for all students enrolled in Associate in Applied Science (AAS) degree programs and students in the Associate in General Education (AGE) degree program. These students must enroll in ACA 122 at Durham Tech unless they meet one of the waiver criteria:

1. They have transfer credit for ACA 122 from another North Carolina community college.
    
2. They have transfer credit for 12 or more college credits at the point of entry into their associate degree program (either at the point of entry into Durham Tech or after a change of program).
    
3. They are enrolled in the LPN to ADN AAS Program or a Public Safety Program (Criminal Justice Technology, Emergency Medical Science, or Public Safety Administration).
    

Students in Transfer Programs of Study

• The course is required for all university transfer students enrolled in the following degree programs: Associate in Arts (AA), Associate in Science (AS), Associate in Fine Arts (AFA), Associate in Engineering (AE), Associate in Arts in Teacher Preparation (AATP), and Associate in Science in Teacher Preparation (ASTP). These students must enroll in ACA 122 at Durham Tech unless they have transfer credit for ACA 122 from another North Carolina community college.
   
• Students who switch into a transfer program of study listed above must still complete ACA 122, even if they were given a waiver when they were first enrolled in an AAS or AGE program of study unless the student already holds a bachelor's degree or higher.
   

In extraordinary circumstances, only the Chief Academic Officer may waive the ACA 122 requirement for individual students.

Registration Rule in Self-Service

To encourage students to register for ACA 122 in their initial term (and in any future terms if they do not receive completion credit for ACA 122), we use a registration rule in Colleague and the following procedures: 

1. Transcript evaluators place a non-course equivalency (NC) credit on the records of entering AAS and AGE program students who have twelve or more college credits earned, waiving them from the ACA 122 registration rule.
    
2. Transcript evaluators award transfer credit (TR) to students transferring in credit ACA 122 from another North Carolina community college; these students are also waived from the registration rule.
    
3. All associate degree-seeking students who do not have a waiver for ACA 122, which appears as NC credit in Self-Service or transfer credit from another North Carolina community college, receive a message in Self-Service when they register stating that they must also register for ACA 122. Self-Service will not allow students to register for a schedule that does not include ACA 122.
    

Exception to the Registration Rule:  

• Students who place into the lower levels of EFL courses are recommended to delay registration for ACA 122 until they reach the EFL 074 and 094 levels. 

Definition

Registration Rule – A rule programmed in Colleague that requires a particular action tied to a student’s enrollment (e.g., requiring a student to register for ACA 122 in their first semester of enrollment or until they receive credit on their record for the course)