<p>I have downloaded the list of classes that are eligible for credit for passing AP scores as well as the freshman year carolina core list of classes. I have two questions-</p>
<p>The courses that are "overlay" courses- do they count for both required sections, but with the credit hours counting only one time? The example being Hist 108 being listed as both a GHS and a VSR requirement.</p>
<p>There are classes that are listed as being FULLY approved by the carolina core faculty senate (they are highlighted in green) and classes that are "pending." Many of the classes that are "pending" are the classes that they give AP credit for, such as POLI 201 for AP Gov/Poli and PSYC 101 for AP Psych. Are the classes that are "pending" likely to ever be eligible for credit? </p>
<p>Here are the link to the referenced information so it may be a little easier to understand my questions-
<a href="http://www.sc.edu/provost/forms/CCoreCoursesForAdvisement_2013-14.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.sc.edu/provost/forms/CCoreCoursesForAdvisement_2013-14.pdf</a></p>
<p>Thanks for any assistance! We have orientation this weekend and I would like my son to walk into the advising session with a gameplan of what classes to take before he gets there.</p>
<p>These are really good questions for an advisor. Depending on the advisor, they may or may not have the right answers. The Carolina Core only began this year, so a lot of the advisors just really aren’t familiar with the requirements. The first graduating class under the new requirements isn’t until 2016, so not all of the kinks have been ironed out.</p>
<p>However, looking at the list, I’d imagine that a lot of those non-green courses will eventually be qualified. Things like Sociology 101 and Psychology 101 are really common courses that students take to fulfill their social sciences credit. I took Psych 101 and it was almost entirely freshman. (It was 200 people this semester and he did a poll and I think over 80% were freshmen.) In my recitation for psych, I was the only sophomore. I don’t think those students would have been taking that class if they weren’t going to get credit for it.</p>
<p>I also took Astronomy this past semester. It is a class specifically designed for non-science majors to fulfill the science requirement. They only offer three astronomy classes (only two of which have labs), so as far as I know, it doesn’t fulfill major or minor credits for anything. The class is specifically designed to fulfill the general education science requirement. So, I’d assume that they’ll continue to offer it and it’ll eventually be approved to count as a science requirement (or whatever it’s called under the new system).</p>
<p>It is also my experience that Carolina is not extremely picky about giving credit for classes. I actually had to speak to the dean, because I’m studying abroad next semester. She had to approve the classes that I’ll be taking abroad. She was very generous with finding classes to fit my different general education requirements. For example, there was a class that wasn’t specifically a literature class, but had a literature element to it, so she said she would give me credit for it as a literature class. </p>
<p>I also took dual enrollment at a 4-year college in high school. I emailed the Registrar’s Office/Dean and asked what I needed to do to get that class titled “Public Speaking” to count for Speech 140 at USC, and they simply emailed me back and said they went ahead and changed it and I should see the change within the next few weeks. I didn’t have to give them a syllabus, fill out a form, or anything. They just went ahead and let it fulfill one of my general education requirements.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, most advisors are prepared to have students come in with no idea of what they’re going to take. And if your son changes his mind about classes, he can change his courseload up through the first week of classes without consulting his advisor (except for honors college courses).</p>
<p>For overlay the class would only count once even though satisfies 2 areas. At least that’s the way it works when a required major class can also satisfy gen ed. I agree with Au that many classes will be added to approved as this core has only been around a year. I wouldn’t worry about it now since you’re only have to start with 5 classes and for now ap will give you credit to get higher standing in things like football and spring registration. For now focus on classes where clearly don’t have crossover with classes like psych that prob will be approved.</p>
<p>Re: registration, does anyone have any interesting course recommendations to satisfy the “Fine Arts” requirement? I only have to take 1 but this isn’t really my thing. thanks</p>
<p>Coleman - you can satisfy this with any of the “appreciation” classes. My D took music appreciation and it was very easy for her, but she played piano and oboe and grew up hearing classical music so maybe not for everyone. Can also take dance or I think theatre apprec…involves going to shows, etc. Check your major bulletin for suggestions. Some allow studio art classes to count and some don’t, but that doesn’t sound like your thing anyway.</p>
<p>Also, OP…along with list of core classes, look at course listing on mysc I think you may be able to use the core category as search criteria and that may be more up to date than a list even though it looks pretty current. I would say everything on that list that is pending will be approved or it wouldn’t be on list…there’s lots of Carolina classes that aren’t there. Probably just a matter of departments showing that the class is going to meet benchmarks they are setting for Core classes (ex: writing or presenting skills) so may just be matter of retooling a syllabus.</p>
<p>The Fine Arts Requirement can be met by a bunch of different classes and different majors have different requirements.</p>
<p>If you actually want to do something and not just have to study, then I think Theatre 170 is a good choice. It’s Intro to Acting and it’s an acting class. It’s taught by grad students and as long as you put in effort, they’ll make sure you get an A.</p>
<p>If you hate the idea of acting, then Music Appreciation, Theatre Appreciation, Jazz Appreciation, and Dance Appreciation classes are all options. They are usually lecture classes and in my opinion, aren’t really all that fun. They satisfy the credit though and you can approach them like most other classes.</p>
<p>Music performance classes don’t count because they’re usually only one credit hour.</p>
<p>Thank you for the feedback! :)</p>