<p>I just read this on the Spanish Dept website:</p>
<p>"If you place into Spanish S200 or higher, you automatically receive special credit for S105. However, to get special credit above S105, you need to complete the IUB course you tested into with a grade of C- or higher and then actively claim the credits."</p>
<p>Does this mean if I test out of Spanish 105, 200 and 250 I still have to take a Spanish class to receive credits for Spanish 200 and Spanish 250? This is not what has been posted on CC. Am I misreading this?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Senario 1: – 4 total credits earned for testing beyond S105
—“If you place into Spanish S200 or higher, you automatically receive special credit for S105.”—</p>
<p>A lot of people test into S200 or S250 and don’t take any Spanish classes at IUB. Testing into S200 or higher at IUB gives you four credits for S105 regardless of whether you take any more Spanish classes.</p>
<p>Senario 2: – 10 total credits possible by taking only S250
“If you place into Spanish S200 or higher, you automatically receive special credit for S105. However, to get special credit above S105, you need to complete the IUB course you tested into with a grade of C- or higher and then actively claim the credits.”</p>
<p>You test into S250. You automatically get four credits for testing beyond S105 per Scenario 1. In order to get three free credits for S200, however, you need to take S250 and get a C- in it. Get a C- or above in S250, and you will get three credits for S200 and three credits for S250.</p>
<p>Senario 3: – 13 total credits possible by taking only S280
Test into S280. You still automatically earn only four credits for S105. To get more credits you take S280 and pass it with a C- or higher. Then you will get 3 credits for S280; 3 credits for S250; and three credits for S200. And you got four automatically for testing beyond S105.</p>
<p>[Undergraduate</a> Studies: Department of Spanish and Portuguese](<a href=“Indiana University Bloomington”>Indiana University Bloomington)</p>
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<p>Yankees, since you have only two years of high school Spanish from your freshman and sophomore years, you would probably be better served fulfilling the World Languages & Cultures requirement by just taking two A&H classes that also qualify for World Cultures credit rather than taking Spanish at IUB. Just passing first-year Spanish won’t do you any good to meet the World Languages & Cultures requirement unless you also pass Spanish S200 and S250. It is much less time consuming just to take two classes that appear on each of the following lists – the list of approved gen ed A&H classes and the list of approved World Cultures classes – than to take two semesters of 200-level Spanish.</p>
<p><a href=“http://gened.iub.edu/courses/art_humanitiescourses.html[/url]”>http://gened.iub.edu/courses/art_humanitiescourses.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://gened.iub.edu/courses/worldculturescourses.html[/url]”>http://gened.iub.edu/courses/worldculturescourses.html</a></p>
<p>Individual classes that are on both lists above “double count” for gen ed degree requirments; they can be applied to both the World Languages and Cultures requirement and the A&H requirement.</p>
<p>Some classes on the S&H list and the World Cultures list also double count. Most people are already taking a lot of S&H classes anyway, though, such as micro and macro economics, so they don’t need S&H classes as badly as they do A&H classes to help them meet the World Languages and Cultures gen ed requirement.</p>
<p>[S</a> & H Courses](<a href=“http://gened.iub.edu/courses/social_historicalcourses.html]S”>http://gened.iub.edu/courses/social_historicalcourses.html)</p>
<p>bthomp1 …thanks for your advice. It now makes sense to me.</p>