<p>I have a couple questions about the area studies.</p>
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<li><p>For Social Sciences, what exactly is the "Linguistics/General" discipline. Does it include the French language classes? (LIFR 1A etc.)</p></li>
<li><p>Say I have AP credit for AP US History and AP European History (and potentially Macroeconomics). For Warren, the AP credit would transfer as 1 course toward AS. My question is, does that only count if I choose to take that particular AS? Like, say i don't actually want to take history as one of my Area Studies and I take music instead. Would my AP credit for those history classes still exempt me from 2 (out of the 6) required AS courses?</p></li>
<li><p>Last note, would it be hard to take French as my "Foreign Language & Culture" Area Study (for humanities/fine arts)? The latter document says that it'd be hard to find 2 upper division classes for French</p></li>
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<p>I don’t know enough about foreign language classes, but for your second question, you would have to do history as your AS to apply those AP credits.</p>
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<li><p>Linguistics/General is just Linguistics…aka LING like morphology, semantics, etc. I think you can apply LIFR to Linguistics/General because I was able to apply LTRU - Russian Literature and it counted as Humanities.</p></li>
<li><p>I think $KingsElite$ is right. You wont get credit for history if you do music asyour PofC You can do General Humanities as your PofC and get credit for your 2 history classes and then take music classes. Also make sure to note that you cannot take Perspectives of Social Science and General Humanities as PofC’s (one must be specialized). They recently changed it. </p></li>
<li><p>Sometimes you can find Poli Sci or Comm classes that have to do with French Politics/Media.</p></li>
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<p>Note: Area studies are for engineerings and there are 4 of them. Points of Concentration (PofC) are for non-engineers and there are 6 of them.</p>
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<li><p>For Area Studies, you’d take one in Humanities & Fine Arts, and a separate one in Social Sciences. Each requires 1 lower-division course & 2 upper-division courses. Unfortunately, if you want to take a Foreign Language & Culture AS, your AP History credit won’t be of much help. If you decide to take a general Humanities/History AS instead, AP credit should only give you lower-division credit. That takes care of one class, (not 2/6 for AS, I don’t think APUSH or APEH helps with the Social Science discipline unless you have AP Psych/Econ or something else), so you would only need two upper-division classes to fulfill that AS.</p></li>
<li><p>Wish I could help you, but you could try calling academic advising or search for French courses in the catalog and see if you can fulfill prerequisites before you take those classes.</p></li>
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