Jump start your college career with an online college course. You pick the time and the place for class. Course materials are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Iowa State University has introductory college courses on the Internet. View lecture notes and images while listening to lectures on the Internet. Tests, homework, and interaction with instructors and other students are all online.

The credit is the same as that earned by an Iowa State student on campus. When you go to college at Iowa State or elsewhere, your academic advisor will determine how many of your Iowa State credits fit in your specific degree program. Credits earned appear on your ISU transcript.

Most courses have specific dates when assignments and tests are due. The beginning and ending dates of the courses coincide with ISU semesters.

Online courses take advantage of the speed, storage capacity, and interactivity of the Internet. Taking a course online gives you a world of information at your fingertips. Links to sites that further illustrate ideas discussed in the course can make independent study online a valuable learning experience.

Iowa State University is internationally recognized as an outstanding broad-based university, with excellent programs in the scientific and technical fields, as well as humanities and the arts. Iowa State is one of only 62 major research universities in the United States and Canada named to the prestigious Association of American Universities.

Courses available online fall semester 200 are:

Biology 109, Introductory Biology

Biology 123/Environmental Studies 123, Environmental Biology

Biology 201, Principles of Biology I

Economics 101, Principles of Microeconomics

Economics 102, Principles of Macroeconomics

Entomology 201, Introduction to Insects

Mathematics 141, Trigonometry

Mathematics 142, Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry

Zoology 155, Basic Human Physiology and Anatomy

For more information visit www.lifelearner.iastate.edu and select the “For High School Students” section.