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Advanced Credit Program

The Advanced Credit program provides college credit for approved language courses for qualifying high school students who participate.

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE
POLICIES REGARDING ADVANCED CREDIT COURSES

As our program grows and we serve the needs of a larger community of high school students, we find it necessary to implement a number of measures that will further strengthen the program and enhance ongoing credibility. To that end, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures needs to enforce a series of policies with the purpose of protecting the viability of Advanced Credit for modern foreign languages. The following is a reiteration of those policies:

  1. Advanced Credit is open to students in language III, IV, and V who have completed language II with at least a "B" and are taught in single level classes. Advanced credit is not given for split level classes if language III and IV are combined. In classes where language IV and V have to be combined, credit can only be granted if the respective UM-St. Louis faculty liaisons are provided the necessary course syllabi, course curricula, and end of year evaluation instruments with which to make the judgment that Language V is indeed a different and qualitatively advanced course from Language IV. If language V consists of 5 students or more, every effort should be made to teach language V in a separate class.

  2. Enrollment in Advanced Credit foreign language classes is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors. High school first-year students are not eligible for Advanced Credit.
  3. All High School visits to the UM-St.Louis campus are to be scheduled through the liaison faculty member responsible for the specific language.

October 2000

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