CARTA Dual Enrollment

Step into the future with the FIU Dual Enrollment program, where high school students — in public, private or charter schools- can immerse themselves in the fields of our College of Communication, Architecture, and the Arts. Whether your passion lies in music, journalism, communication, architecture, theater, art, or the intersections of these fields, FIU Dual Enrollment offers an inspiring environment that empowers you to explore and excel.

Dual Enrollment at FIU CARTA: Your Future Starts Now!

Dual Enrollment gives students in public, private, charter schools and home education the opportunity to take college courses from the FIU College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts (CARTA) in the areas of Art + Art History, Architecture, Communication, Journalism and Media, Music and Theatre. While in the program, high school students earn college credits tuition free; students are exempt from the payment of registration, tuition, and laboratory fees.

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What’s In It For You?

Panther Privileges

  • Earn college credits while still in high school—for free!
    Dual Enrollment allows you to advance your college journey tuition-free. Whether taking classes on the FIU campus or at your high school, you’ll earn credits that count toward high school graduation and college education.
  • Boundless Opportunities
    Qualified high school students may take up to two FIU classes per semester.
  • Panther Privileges
    Dual Enrollment students at FIU enjoy all the perks of being a Panther—your own Panther ID, full access to FIU’s world-class libraries, tutoring services, a wealth of student resources designed to support your academic success, and a chance to Experience FIU firsthand.

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How It Works

While Dual Enrollment provides a pathway to earning college credits tuition-free, future admission to FIU as a degree-seeking student remains selective. Depending on your chosen major, you may need to submit a portfolio or audition.

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Ready to get a head start? FIU Dual Enrollment courses can be taken at an FIU campus, at high school or online. See if you meet eligibility criteria and apply to Dual Enrollment today!

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Course Offerings for Spring 2025 and Fall 2025

FIU CARTA offers exciting Dual Enrollment courses in these areas of specialization: Architecture, Art + Art History, Communication, Journalism + Media, Music, Theatre + Dance. Dual Enrollment courses can be taken alone or, for a more in-depth understanding of students’ chosen majors, in bundles. Welcome to CARTA! We invite you to explore our offerings. Questions? Contact Us.

GL – Global Learning Course
UCC – University Core Curriculum Course
GW – Gordon Rule Writing Course

School of Architecture

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These 3 courses are required for the professional degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Interior Architecture.

Pre-requisites: ART 1201C, ART 1203C, ART 2300C 

FIU Credit                                      3 

High School Credit                      0.5 

HS Graduation Requirements    PF 

Recommended Grade Level      10-12 

Type                                             Elective  

Course Description 

Drawing from model. Student will study gesture, movement, form, volume, light, and other varied media.  

FIU Credit                                      3 

High School Credit                      0.5  

HS Graduation Requirements    PF 

Recommended Grade Level      10-12 

Type                                             Elective  

Course Description 

Survey of architectural, interior, and landscape design from antiquity to the Middle Ages, including western  

and non-western traditions. Critical reading and writing course. 

FIU Credit                                      3 

High School Credit                      0.5 

HS Graduation Requirements    PF 

Recommended Grade Level      10-12 

Type                                             Elective  

Course Description 

Survey of architectural, interior, and landscape design from the Renaissance to the XIX century, including western and non-western traditions. Critical reading and writing course. 

Department of Art and Art History

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FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 9 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description: 

Studio course introducing the basic art elements such as line, value, and color to develop students’ vocabulary and awareness of two-dimensional potential in various media. 

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 9 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description  

Studio course introducing the basic elements inherent in three-dimensional works of art. Shape, mass, balance, proportion, and scale are elements which will be explored. 

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement EL 
Recommended Grade Level 10 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

Foundation skills for the graphic design discipline. Students build their vocabularies in visual communication, working with basic design elements and principles. 

FIU Credit 

3 

High School Credit 

0.5 

HS Graduation Requirement 

EL 

Recommended Grade Level 

10 – 12 

Type 

Elective 

Course Description 

Aims to provide students with the skills to illustrate using a variety of mediums from traditional to digital illustrations. It is an introduction to visual storytelling.

FIU Credit 

3 

High School Credit 

0.5 

HS Graduation Requirement 

PF 

Recommended Grade Level 

10 – 12 

Type 

Elective 

Course Description  

An introduction to the fundamentals of drawing. The course equips the student with a variety of basic skills, approaches and concepts explored through a comprehensive range of media. 

Pre-requisites: ART 1201, ART 1203, ART 2300 

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 10 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

Drawing from model. Student will study gesture, movement, form, volume, light, and other varied media. 

Pre-requisites: ART 1201C, ART 1203C, ART 2300C 

FIU Credit 

3 

High School Credit 

0.5 

HS Graduation Requirement 

PF 

Recommended Grade Level 

10 – 12 

Type 

Elective 

Course Description 

Introduces the student to processes including relief, intaglio, and monotype. Presents the key concepts and applications of print-based media.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement EL 
Recommended Grade Level 10 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

Introduction to the practice of still photography. Includes dark room work and camera skills. Frequent critiques of student work.

Pre-requisites: ART 1201C, ART 1203C, ART 2300C, ART 3820 

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 10 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

Introduction to development of expression, through individual understanding of tools, materials, technique, perception, and vocabulary of painting.

Pre-requisites: ART 1201C, ART 1203C, ART 2300C, ART 3820 

FIU Credit 

3 

High School Credit 

0.5 

HS Graduation Requirement 

PF 

Recommended Grade Level 

10 – 12 

Type 

Elective 

Course Description 

A beginning course for art and non-art majors that introduces the fundamentals of throwing and glaze applications. 

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement EL 
Recommended Grade Level 10 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description  

Introduction to the practice of documentary digital photography. Includes basic digital camera skills, imaging software, ink jet printing and critiques.

FIU Credit 

3 

High School Credit 

0.5 

HS Graduation Requirement 

PF 

Recommended Grade Level 

10 – 12 

Type 

Elective 

Course Description 

In this course, students will develop the ability to think critically about human culture and be provided with the tools to understand, analyze, and discuss works of visual art and material culture.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 10 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

A broad survey of the visual arts and architecture from the Paleolithic Period through the Middle Ages.

FIU Credit 

3 

High School Credit 

0.5 

HS Graduation Requirement 

PF 

Recommended Grade Level 

10 – 12 

Type 

Elective 

Course Description 

A broad survey of the visual arts and architecture from the Renaissance through the Modern Age. 

School of Communication

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FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 9 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

The study of speech communication fundamentals-interpersonal skills; critical listening; small group problem-solving; verbal and nonverbal communication; persuasion; and public speaking.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 9 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

Lectures and activities concerned with audience-centered reasoning. One will learn the nature of arguments consisting of analysis, reasoning, evidence, values, and building and refuting arguments.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 9 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

Study of the principles of ethical and effective public speaking, with practice in the construction and delivery of original speeches before an audience.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement EL 
Recommended Grade Level 11 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

An introduction to the theory, history, practice, and future of public relations. A comprehensive introductory survey of the field.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement EL 
Recommended Grade Level 11 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

Comprehensive survey of basic principles and practices of advertising emphasizing creative/media strategy decision processes and historical, social, economic, and social influences.

FIU Credit 

3 

High School Credit 

0.5 

HS Graduation Requirement 

EL 

Recommended Grade Level 

11 – 12 

Type 

Elective 

Course Description 

This course will examine the unique relationship between communication and film from the 1920’s (the era of silent film) through today. 

Lee Caplin School of Journalism & Media

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Pre-requisites: ENC 1101 and ENC 1102 

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement EL 
Recommended Grade Level 11 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

Intro to news reporting/writing developing digital skills in journalistic setting. Instruction on sourcing, interviewing, data gathering/presentation, civic governance, and public records search.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement EL 
Recommended Grade Level 11 – 12 
Type  Elective 

Course Description 

Study and analytical discussion of the history of journalism in America, including its current practice, through intensive readings of primary historical sources as well as broad, direct exposure to current news sources. 

Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music

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FIU Credit 

3 

High School Credit 

0.5 

HS Graduation Requirement 

PF 

Recommended Grade Level 

 9 – 12 

Type 

Elective 

Course Description 

A beginning music theory course in the basic elements of music rhythms, meter notation, key signatures, scales, intervals, and triads.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 8 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description  

Students will survey the history of classical music from Antiquity to the modern period, focusing on Western music. The curriculum may also integrate a variety of popular and global styles where appropriate.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level  10 – 12 

Course Description 

This course is designed to promote and develop comprehensive musicianship in all disciplines of the musical art, analysis, composition, performance, and listening.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 9 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description  

A history course that surveys jazz styles from mid-19th century to the present. A sociological and musical look at jazz, the personalities, and their experience.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement EL 
Recommended Grade Level 9 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

This course traces the historical origins, characteristics, and stylistic developments of rock music from musical and sociological perspectives.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement EL 
Recommended Grade Level 9 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description 

This course traces the development of The Beatles from their beginnings to their solo work. Discussions begin in America with the Blues, Rockability and the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll. The role of The Beatles in the revolutionary decade of the 1960s will be explored in detail, from musical and sociological perspectives.

(UCC: Arts Requirement) 

FIU Credit 

3 

High School Credit 

0.5 

HS Graduation Requirement 

EL 

Recommended Grade Level 

10 – 12 

Type 

Elective 

Course Description 

Survey of folk, popular and classical musical traditions from around the world.  

Examination of musical style and social context with film and performance demonstrations. 

Department of Theatre

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Theatre Courses

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 11 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description (insert link to the online catalog) 

For the beginning student of filmmaking. Survey of the origins and development of cinematography as an art form. Presentation and technical analysis of selected films.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 9 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description (insert link) 

In this course, students will explore dramatic structure, techniques, and various organizational elements. The course introduces theatre as a collaborative art form through the critical analysis of its historical context, production, theory, and connections to theatrical literature, including the Western cannon.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 9 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description (link, catalog) 

For the student with little or no acting experience. An introduction to the acting process. Self-awareness, physical and vocal control, basic stage techniques and beginning scene work will be studied.

Dance Courses

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 10 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description  

Development of techniques and understanding of the art of contemporary dance includes theoretical component of studies in dance science or history. May be repeated.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 10 – 12 
Type Elective 

 Course Description  

 Development of the dance techniques and understanding of jazz dance. May be repeated.

FIU Credit 3 
High School Credit 0.5 
HS Graduation Requirement PF 
Recommended Grade Level 9 – 12 
Type Elective 

Course Description  

An overview of dance from a variety of cultural and traditional perspectives. Through film, lecture, and movement, this course explores the diverse ways in which we organize and interpret our life experiences through dance. 

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