Online foreign language courses for high school credit?
Park City Independent Online High School has foreign language courses you can take for High School credit. They offer Spanish, French, German, Latin, and Chinese. They have AP classes in Spanish and french. Their foreign language courses are web-based and interactive. They are really popular among the student body. PCI is fully accredited, student can take individual classes for high school credit or they can enroll full-time and graduate through Park City Independent.
How hard is to take a foreign language course in college?
Beginning classes do not assume prior knowledge. Expect to put in a lot of work. You read in the foreign language, you listen to native speakers, you do tons of grammar and vocabulary, you write simple stuff based on the vocab you have learned. You also learn a bit about the culture and history of the country or countries where the language is spoken. My tip - if you can afford it at all, try to visit a country where the language is spoken prior to taking this class. Take a phrase book and do the best you can to struggle in the language before you start. You'll be surprised how much every day vocab you pick up. You won't feel so overwhelmed and you'll probably have a better handle on pronunciation.
Foreign Language Classes: High school vs College?
Well it depends on the school. When you learn german at hs you are going at a very slow base, you learn all the alphabets, then simple phrases, and then verbs commonly used over a long period of time (like a semester or year). You pace is very slow compare to college foreign language. For instant, be prepare to have all of your german (years of it) be taught in a semester (4 months or so). It's very high pace, and people get confused, but if it's something like 101 then you'll be ok. if you have learn any german before and take it later, at least you'll have a background. which should help.
Can you transfer JLPT scores to colleges for language credit?
It really depends on the university you're going to, but for the most part, it's unlikely. From JLPT.com: "Can I get college credit for passing the JLPT? Although the JLPT is highly regarded as a reputable measure of proficiency throughout the world, official affiliation with or endorsement from any academic institution does not exist. It has been reported that some US universities require their Japanese language majors to pass a certain level of JLPT for completion of their degree and some US high school Japanese programs give extra credit for taking the test. In addition, some Japanese institutions require foreign students to pass either a level 1 or 2 JLPT for admission. However, such issuing of merit for passing a certain level of JLPT is entirely at the discretion of each academic institution. Please check with your home institution for their JLPT policy." Which basically means that some schools use the JLPT for passing requirements, but since there's no official affiliation from any academic institution, you won't be able to earn actual credit for it. If your degree requires a foreign language but has no foreign language classes, how exactly is anyone supposed to graduate with that degree? You may want to clarify that point with your advisors.
If you didn't take foreign language classes in high school can you take them in college?
You can't go to UCSF. It's a graduate school that only specializes in medicine. They don't give out Bachelor's degrees. I went to UCI, and they did not mandate you take a foreign language in high school. They simply said if you took one for so many years you could waive it as a college requirements, but you had to take one in either high school or college. For some majors (like mine) you have to take a foreign language requirement regardless. Hope that helps.
Do I have to retake courses I took in high school again in college?
It depends on the college. Ironically the better the college, the more likely it is that you’ll have AP credits, but at the same time it is progressively less likely that you’ll use those credits to graduate earlier. Think for a second about what it means to get into MIT. You have lots of AP courses which is why you got in. But are you going to skip out of MIT’s math classes under the presumption that your high school taught you these subjects just as well as MIT could? If you believe that then why the heck would you go to MIT rather than just stay at your high school? The well-respected Atlantic magazine published an article on the subject that’s worth a look, entitled “AP Classes are a scam.”
Where can I take an online language for high school credit for free or with financial aid? I need 2 credits to graduate and I'm in 11th grade.
I saw in the collapsed answers comments that you say you asked the guidance counselor in your school but got no help there. This is very strange. Unfortunately, people on Quora won’t be able to help you if your own school cannot help. Why? Because for you to get credits necessary for graduation, the online courses have to be approved by your school. You cannot just take an online course somewhere and then ask your school to include it in your transcript and count it towards the graduation requirements. It has to be approved by your school. In the US, there are official online programs for high school students - virtual schools. They are certified by state department of education, and the courses taken there get a credit.The point is, only your school can tell you what online course they will accept and count as a credit towards the graduation requirements. I don’t know why your guidance counselor didn’t give you this information, but you’ll have to try again to talk to them, or ask your principal.
How many credits do you get for each AP class in high school?
If you’re referring to high school, it’s usually worth the same number of credits as a normal class going towards a diploma. So if it’s 1 credit per class, it’s probably 1 credit. Not all high schools do this, but I’d suspect the majority do.However, at college AP classes are assigned different numbers of credit depending on the course taken and the score that you received. So a 4 on the BC exam is worth something completely different from a 5 on the AP Psych exam.