Book Purchase and Course Access

Thank you for enrolling in a course or program through Community Education.

Unless your book is covered by the tuition, you will need to purchase your book separately. Certain Community Education (CE) courses require book purchase from the college bookstore while other courses require you to purchase the book elsewhere. The information on this page shows you courses that requires a book purchase and how to obtain them, as well as courses that do not require a book purchase.

Community Education courses requiring a book purchase from the college bookstore

The books below require you to buy your book from the college bookstore. This ensures that you have the right book for your course.

• BSN-124E “SHRM Learning System S/CP Certification”
• BSN-124AE “SHRM Essentials of Human Resource Management”
• TRG-101E and TSG-101E “TEAS Test Prep”
• GED-104AE “HiSet Exam Prep”
• TFL-101E “TOEFL Preparation”
• BSN-126E “PMP Exam Preparation”
• WCE-473E “Real Estate Sales”
• Basic Language Literacy (BLL) students

Instructions to find and purchase your book from the college bookstore

Order Your Book Online

Visit https://bhcc.bncollege.com/

Once on the BHCC Barnes & Noble site, follow these steps:

1. Under “Course Materials & Textbooks,” select "Find Course Materials."
2. Under TERM, select the current semester from the drop-down menu.
3. Under Department, find and select your course. For example, if you registered for the TEAS Reading and Grammar course, choose TRG.
4. Under Course #, select the appropriate course number.
5. Under Section, choose the section you registered for.

Don’t remember either the course number or section?
Refer to your enrollment notification email that was sent to you when you had registered for the course. You will find you course number and section there. After making your Department, Course #, and Section selections, click “Retrieve Materials”. Choose Use or New and then click “Add to Cart”. Then Click, Proceed to Cart. View Your Order Summary, and if it is right, click “Proceed To Checkout”.

For questions, you may reach out to the bookstore team at sm8542@bncollege.com

Buy the Book In-Person

The bookstore is located at E-120, (first floor of the E-building, Charlestown campus, located at 250 New Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown, MA. Before going to the bookstore, visit their store operating hours.

Questions? Please contact the bookstore via email at sm8542@bncollege.com.

Once you purchase the book, do not break the packaging until after the class has started. If the course is canceled, the college bookstore will only accept book returns if it is still wrapped in its original packaging.

Course textbooks to be purchased outside of the college bookstore

Specific instructions to buy the book for these courses:

• NON-108E Cybersecurity: Immediate Immersion -- This course requires a textbook, which can be purchased at the publisher's website. Once you are registered for the course, buy the book here: https://nostarch.com/packetanalysis3.
• Personal Trainer Certification Program -- Fitness Professional’s Handbook 7th Edition with web resources by Howley, Edward T. and Thompson, Dixie L. 2017. (ISBN-13: 9781492523376). Publisher: Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL. You may buy the e-book at $70, which you will receive on the same day of purchase, or order the physical copy. The cost of physical copy is $89 + $15.95 shipping, for a total cost of $104.95. Your may purchase your book from W.I.T.S., at 1-888-330-9487 or order it online at https://www.witseducation.com/fit/store-shop/fitness-professionals-handbook-7th-edition/. The physical copy of the book arrives within two-three days via UPS/US mail.
• Intensive English Students: Purchase your book here: https://www.cambridge.org/us/cambridgeenglish/storefront/bunker-hill-community-college-iep-storefront
• BEL students: Purchase your book here: https://www.cambridge.org/us/cambridgeenglish/storefront/bunker-hill-community-college-workforce-development-storefront

If questions about your BLL or BEL book ordering, please contact Sonia Sharma at ssha4746@bhcc.edu.

If questions about your IEP book ordering, please contact Jenny Bobea at jenny.bobea@bhcc.edu.

Community Education courses that do not require a textbook purchase.

If you have registered for any one or more of the healthcare courses listed below, you will be receiving your course start up instructions, e-book, and Zoom link (if six or more students) to the email address you used to register for the course within two days of the course start date. Your materials will be emailed from this email address: Learner Support, info@edu2.com.

• Hybrid Dental Assisting
• Hybrid EKG Technician
• Hybrid Phlebotomy Technician
• Hybrid Veterinary Assistant

For the course below, the instructor will be providing her own materials.

• Beginning Spanish 1 and 2