Advanced Placement Credit and General Education Requirements

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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<p>Hey, I'm going to UIUC and I have a very specific question about AP credit and fulfilling the gened requirements:</p>

<p>Do my fives on the AP English Lit and US History Exams fulfill the gened Composition I, Western Comparative Cultures and Humanities and the Arts requirements?</p>

<p>Here's the basis of my assumption that they do-</p>

<p>A. Based on this:
U</a> of I Admissions: Advanced Placement</p>

<p>A 5 on the English literature exam gets you credit for "English 110 & Rhetoric 105 (7 hours) and exemption from Composition I requirement"</p>

<p>A 5 on the US History exam gets you credit for "History 171 & 172 (6 hours)"</p>

<p>B. Now according to UIUC's course catalog for 2011-2012 (Course</a> Information Suite, Course Catalog, Class Schedule, Programs of Study, General Education Requirements, GenEd)</p>

<p>English 110 "satisfies the General Education Criteria for a Literature and the Arts course."</p>

<p>and History 171 and 172 each separately "satisf[y] the General Education Criteria for a
Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course"</p>

<p>C. Thus if we look at three of UIUC's gened requirements</p>

<p>Composition I is fulfilled by the AP English lit exam</p>

<p>Western Comparative Cultures is fulfilled by History 171 (through AP US History Exam)</p>

<p>Humanities and the Arts has two components:
1. History and Philosophy Perspective is fulfilled by History 172 (through AP US History Exam)
2. Literature and the Arts is fulfilled by English 110 (through AP English Lit Exam)</p>

<p>Is this analysis correct?</p>

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<p>Never mind, found the answer in the course catalog (look at last line/paragraph):</p>

<p>"The campus General Education requirements fall into several categories. Those in Composition I, Natural Sciences and Technology, and Quantitative Reasoning are met by courses required in engineering curricula. Beginning with the class that entered in fall 2000, students must complete a third-level college language course. Most students satisfy this requirement by completing three years of high school instruction in a single language.</p>

<p>The campus General Education requirements in social and behavioral sciences and in humanities and the arts can be met while satisfying the College of Engineering’s liberal education course work requirements (see below) . Proper choices will assure that these courses also satisfy the campus requirements in the areas of Western and non-Western cultures. Many of these courses satisfy the campus Advanced Composition requirement, which assures that students have the advanced writing skills expected of all college graduates.</p>

<p>Students may obtain credit from different academic sources, i.e., residential instruction, advanced placement (AP or IB) tests, and transfer credits."</p>

<p>Thanks anyway</p>