Our DS is a sophomore interested UC Boulder. His high achool only offers two years of spanish. They do offer dual enrollment for college Spanish 1 and college spanish 2. If he took two years of high school spanish and one semester of college level spanish 1 would he fullfill the MAPS requirement of three years of a foreign language?
From the CU MAPS website, it looks like it would…
Foreign Language
3 units in a single foreign language
Or
2 units in each of 2 separate foreign languages
What this requirement means is that students must demonstrate written and oral language proficiency through the third-level of a single foreign language, where third-level means third full year of high school or third semester college course (e.g., SPAN 2110 Second-Year Spanish 1). Alternatively, a student must demonstrate second-level proficiency in two different foreign languages (e.g., complete 2 years of high school French + SPAN 1020 Beginning Spanish 2).
For students working on a sequence of foreign language courses to satisfy MAPS, the courses must be taken for a letter grade. The minimum grade for pre-req courses is C-, but the terminal course (e.g., SPAN 2120, which is third semester Spanish at CU Boulder) can be a grade of D-. If a student petitions and is approved to complete their MAPS coursework elsewhere, the terminal course (e.g., SPA 211 at Front Range Community College) grade may be D-. The course wouldn’t transfer in if grade is lower than C-, but student can send official transcript to UCB Admissions Office for the purposes of satisfying MAPS foreign language requirement.
Thank you @cu123. That is very helpful.