<p>I am leading a group of students that are creating an English independent study at our high school that we will take all year during our senior year (next year). We would’ve made it a class, but that process takes 2+ years in our district. Our school is more than willing to give us English credit, though they tell us that all colleges recognize that credit in different ways. Apparently, even some of the official English classes at our school don’t count as English credit in terms of admissions at certain colleges.</p>
<p>To what extent is this true? I always figured that colleges looked at how much high school credit you earned, not whether or not they recognize your class as legitimate credit. That must be rather hard to do given all the different classes at the thousands of high schools across the country.</p>
<p>In this independent study, we will debate, discuss, and write about political, social, economic, and philosophical topics. I would think if the Mass Media class where all you do is make movies counts as English credit, our independent study should too.</p>
<p>Does anyone know anything about this subject? I can’t find anything on college websites nor have I ever heard anything about certain classes not counting for credit (even if your school grants it) in terms of the admission process.</p>
<p>Colleges have certain classes that they count as credits and certain classes that don’t.</p>
<p>No matter what your class should count as an elective but not necessarily an English credit. For example at my high school, speech class was an english credit for the high school, but an elective credit for most colleges. Colleges recognize most classes, but depending on the rigor of the college they won’t recognize classes that can be viewed as “slacker classes” which your independent study could be possibly considered because there’s no teacher, it’s new, etc.</p>
<p>We do have a teacher and we will be receiving a grade. It’s just technically an independent study so we don’t have to go through the board of education’s 2 year process, therefore making us unable to take our own class.</p>
<p>What do colleges think of having 4 HS English credits but only 3 that they recognize?</p>
<p>In California, you may not be able to use it for UC or CSU credit. Maybe elective credit but not even sure on that. They do have to recognize that the class is a legitimate credit. However, you can satisfy the requirement by passing the AP or IB exam.</p>
<p>They address this on the a to g requirements page. But they also give sample course outlines should a school be developing a course they would like submit for approval.
<a href=“A-G Policy Resource Guide”>A-G Policy Resource Guide;
<p>I know it is meant well, but curriculum development is not for amateurs. </p>
<p>I see that the University of California has some very useful information this topic, although I come up empty with other colleges. Surely other colleges would have their policies posted somewhere, but I can’t find any. It seems like UC’s is on their website since they got sued.</p>
<p>How will the class be listed-- as an ‘indepedent study’ or ‘English: Independent study’-- on your transcript? I would also encourage you to either include the syllabus (or the topic and works read) in the additional information of the application and ask your counselor to mention how and why the course is listed and considered by the school.</p>
<p>It will probably be listed as whatever the title is. Apparently the counselor working with us doesn’t like the title “Advanced Argumentation”, so we’ll have to change that I guess and then whatever it is called will be what’s listed.</p>
<p>Our school will consider it a full English credit (the principal has already said that), but the next step is to ask a bunch of colleges if they will accept it.</p>
<p>It would be rather time consuming if each college had to be contacted individually, so is there some sort of standardized process for course approval?</p>
<p>The counselor working with us is more than willing to go through this college course approval process - I just have no idea what it actually is nor the standards or level of detail that they would expect a course to have.</p>