A course (14 weeks) of Elementary Spanish I in community college while I am in high school counts as 1 year or what? How am I suppose to know it? Because my counselor is unable to fit a language course in my high school schedule, I have to take it at local community college. But it does not got as 1 year or 2 year etc. Also, my counselor does not know if that counts when applying for college. Any ideas?
College language courses tend to move faster than high school language courses, so one college semester is often equivalent to one high school year or even more.
But check with the Spanish instructors at the high school and college for the specifics on your situation.
Hi, thanks for replying. I checked with CMU and they said they would consider 1 semester of college foreign language course as equivalent to 1 year of high school foreign language. However, is my 14 week long (3 hours each week, worth 3 credits total) course a semester course?
A semester usually has 15 weeks of instruction, not including final exam week.
3 hours of class time per week is typical of a 3 credit course under the usual credit hour system. However, the typical expectation is 2 hours out-of-class work for every hour of class time, so a total time commitment of 9 hours per week.
Obviously, a 3 credit language course that meets 3 times per week will cover less than a 5 credit language course that meets 5 times per week (as is done in some colleges).
If a class is three or more college credits, it’s considered worth one semester, whether it’s 15 weeks long or 12. So your 13 week long class is one semester of college Spanish.
What I’d recommend to you is that, if you plan to take the first Spanish at a college in the fall, you take the second Spanish at that same college in the spring. Don’t take a break, then expect to jump into Spanish 2 in high school next year and do well. You will have forgotten too much.
RoaringMice, thanks for the tips, and yeah I plan to do that since its own like 14 weeks… But it may conflict with my athletics in the spring though, which is kinda of annoying. The other problem is that… does Elementary Spanish I require any Spanish at all or is it a beginner course? I am assuming everyone in there do not know any Spanish
The level of students taking the class should be listed in the course description. Judging from the title of the class though, it seems like the typical title for entry level Spanish courses in which students are complete beginners.