<p>I've been drawing and doing creative writing (on my own, but using a few books) for the last few years. They're two of my main ECs, but I'm not sure whether I should also add them as an "arts" and an "other" course, here or on the Homeschool Transcript:</p>
<p>It’s hard to tell by home school. To be honest, I don’t really know. </p>
<p>However, some of the things like web design as an art course seems like stretching it. If that was the case, I’d be taking a course in molecular neurobiology and Pre-Common era Evolution of Politics. :)</p>
<p>So “art” only refers to hand-drawn stuff? For my web design, I’m learning to use Adobe Illustrator, a computer drawing program (which is great fun :))… so that wouldn’t count?</p>
<p>I would refer to web design as digital graphics. Art departments will look at it as art/design experience (although technically it isn’t) and other departments will see it as a computer science course. That’s what the public high schools seem to call it.</p>
<p>My son was partially homeschooled and I called the school he eventually attended and asked a similar question. They said to describe creative writing and expository writing as courses and get references from people who looked at the work. It seemed to work.</p>
<p>So creative writing can count as a (presumably “Other”) course as well as an EC? It’s one of my major ECs and something I’ve so far done independently, so I don’t want to take it off my resume.</p>
<p>This school seemed to want to validate the fact of the activity by getting a reference from someone involved in helping you with it. As the head of the homeschool activity for my son, my answer to the Common App question involved explaining that we didn’t think that learning only took place in classroom settings and described some specific examples.</p>