Fall Semester Will Be the Last
for KET College Courses

Registration is in progress for KET College Courses at many participating Kentucky colleges and universities for 2008’s fall session. The courses begin airing August 25 and are available through videostreaming and DVD rental in addition to regular broadcast delivery. Due to recent state budget cuts, this will be the final semester that KET College Courses are offered.

For nearly 30 years, KET has managed the Kentucky Telecommunications Consortium (KTC), serving students with college-credit courses through television broadcast and streaming video online. The program was funded by a grant from the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE). As a result of state budget cuts, the CPE has discontinued funding for the KTC program. Consequently, all KET College Courses services will cease following the fall 2008 semester.

“Over the years, the College Courses program has helped more than 140,000 Kentucky students earn college credits,” said Malcolm Wall, KET executive director. “We are proud to have been a partner in providing this important community service.”

Campus instructors facilitate these fully accredited college courses, which may require a few on-campus sessions, and students can communicate with their instructors through e-mail, phone, or fax. Upon successful completion of each course, students earn three hours of college credit.

The following colleges and universities are offering credit for some or all KET College Courses this fall: Eastern Kentucky University, Elizabethtown Community and Technical College, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University.

The lineup for the 2008 fall semester includes the following undergraduate-level courses:

  • Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition
  • Exploring Society: Introduction to Society
  • Framework for Democracy: Introduction to American Government
  • Human Geography: People, Places, and Change
  • It’s Strictly Business: An Introduction to the World of Business
  • Journey to Health: Mind, Body, Spirit
  • Literary Visions: Reading, Writing, and Literature
  • Our Diverse World: Studies in Cultural Anthropology
  • Our Families, Ourselves: Marriages and Families
  • The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century
  • Something Ventured: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Small Business Management
  • The Unfinished Nation I—Early Colonization to Reconstruction (to 1877)
  • The Western Tradition I—Pre-Western Civilization Through the Middle Ages

More information about KET College Courses, including how to register, is available at www.ket.org/collegecourses or by calling (800) 432-0970.