<p>I guess you could potentially discuss this with the head of History department. I found that at Swarthmore things are not always “written in stone”… I would think that the reason might be that AP World is a relatively new AP, and they have not updated their policy regarding the credit. You can try to e-mail the department head and ask.</p>
<p>By the way, you will not automatically get a credit either way. Even if the course is acknowledged as a worthy of credit, you only get it if you take a history course at Swarthmore. If you want to get 2 credits (Euro+US), you have to take 2 history classes.</p>