<p>On the College Board website, two new AP courses were offered for the 2006-2007 school year. They were Japanese Language and Culture Exam and the Chinese Language adn Culture Exam. Is anyone familiar with the process of designating a class AP? or how the Chinese/Japanese courses were added?</p>
<p>I'm not quite sure what you mean.....</p>
<p>I can tell you the general process of how a particular high school designates a class as AP, but do you want to know why the Chinese/Japanese tests were offered by The College Board?</p>
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Is anyone familiar with the process of designating a class AP? or how the Chinese/Japanese courses were added?
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Haha. It sounds like you want to make your own AP.</p>
<p>Alex</p>
<p>That's what I thought. Something like AP Design-an-AP. It teaches necessary life skills.</p>
<p>nah. I was going to complain to the Korean-American association to pressure the college board to make Korean an AP too. Lolz. I was just wondering how Japanese and Chinese did it. I'm pretty sure the immigrants pushed for it.</p>
<p>yay free 5!</p>
<p>^I know, we need AP Hindi/Urdu. Unfortunately, I can't speak it, but it would help represent another billion people who are rising quickly in the global economy.</p>
<p>Well, really, they shouldn't be adding any more language APs, and they should probably get rid of Russian and Japanese. I think anthropology, philosophy, and geophysical science tests would probably be better. Maybe sociology, but that's partially covered with psychology.</p>
<p>That is probably because Chinese and Japanese are used much more frequently than Korean or Hindi in the real world. But on the flip side Italian is rarely used in the real world and they offer an AP test for it.</p>
<p>^^ Problem is, for reading/writing, there are 2 scripts for Hindi/Urdu - Devnagari and Nastaliq.</p>
<p>However, even though I am Indian (not native Hindi speaker), I would totally take AP Hindi/Urdu... AP Hindustani?</p>
<p>Now that would be pretty awesome.</p>
<p>aren't they getting rid of Italian after next year?</p>
<p>AP Korean and AP Hindi would not be the smartest choices for the CollegeBoard though. Very, VERY few high schools in the US teach those languages and I'm sure they would lose money if they developed the tests in the first place. In fact, Chinese already seems like a stretch to me (though I hear it's kind of popular at schools on the East and West Coasts.) </p>
<p>And yes, book_worm, they are getting rid of Italian.</p>
<p>AP Bull$hiting would be terrific and I'm sure lots of business and political science majors would take it.</p>
<p>^ It would be a pre- or co-requisite for any AP course.</p>
<p>Well, CollegeBoard's changing the AP's a bit next year.</p>
<p>They're taking away Spanish Lit (I think), one of the Latin tests (I think) and Italian & Computer Science 2 (I'm sure).</p>
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On April 3, 2008, it was announced that AP courses in Italian, Latin Literature, French Literature, and Computer Science AB will be discontinued after 2009
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<p>****10char</p>
<p>ap korean would be so awesome (free 5 ;) but most of the people that would take it would be koreans</p>
<p>Chinese is gradually becoming useful in this society, I think
but I'm not sure about Japanese...perhaps more people read comics nowdays...</p>
<p>I'd petition for AP PC games.</p>
<p>AP Music Performance/Portfolio :P</p>