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Equivalency Details

Equivalency Details

The information presented is an unofficial guide to how courses may transfer. Other factors to consider are grades received in the courses, the year in which the course was taken, and the major pursued after transfer. In all instances, final decisions about acceptance of course credit will be made by Carlow University.

If you complete the following with AP - Advanced Placement:

  • The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and to become skilled writers who can compose for a variety of purposes. By their writing and reading in this course, students should become aware of the interactions among a writer's purposes, audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effective writing.
    Credits
    0.00
    Notes
    http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_englang.html?englang

You may receive up to 3.00 credits at Carlow University:

  • This course is designed for students to learn rhetorical terminology and concepts to describe and practice writing for a variety of audiences, genres and technologies. Students will develop their own writing process for drafting, evaluating, revising and editing their work. This course emphasizes critical reading of college---level texts and the development of information literacy skills. These skills include reading, summarizing and evaluating sources for relevance and reliability (information literacy). Students will develop knowledge of and practice the fundamentals of grammar, punctuation, sentence and paragraph structures and will develop an understanding of the fundamentals of MLA and APA documentation style and formatting. Students who successfully complete this course will be prepared to take SKW102 Foundations of Writing II
    Credits
    3.00

Additional Information

Minimum Grade

You need a minimum grade of 3 to transfer these courses from AP - Advanced Placement to Carlow University.