Credit by AP Exam

Edgewood College encourages high school students to seek Advanced Placement (AP) credits. To be eligible to receive credit for an AP exam, students must obtain a score a 3 or better. Please note that credit is not granted for all exams offered by the College Board. Credits are accepted based on departmental approval, according to the chart below. All departments reserve the right to reevaluate the content of exams and to change the assignment of credit and course equivalences. For more information about AP Exams, please visit www.collegeboard.com/ap/creditpolicy.

*Edgewood’s four-digit College Board code is 1202.

Foundations Requirements Explained
Edgewood College’s curriculum aims to prepare students for lifelong learning and personal development, fulfilling careers and growth in responsibility for the wider community. The goal of the college’s General Education Foundations curriculum is to educate students in the liberal arts tradition by providing a strong foundation in skills and learning in the disciplines. Click here for more information.

Math Foundation Requirment
The Math Foundation requirement may be satisfied by completing MATH 101, 111, 112, 122, 131 or 231 with a passing grade, or demonstrating proficiency by taking the Math Proficiency Exam.

Foundations of Human Learning

F1 Literature: to develop skills of interpretation and critical evaluation of literature and to develop one’s ability to experience literature with thoughtful enjoyment.

F2 History and Appreciation of the Fine Arts: to express aesthetic awareness and critical judgments of creative works.

F3 Fine Arts Studio Experience: to enable the student to express personal ideas, thoughts, and feelings in an original and creative manner, to explore a variety of media and to foster perceptual, creative, and aesthetic awareness.

F4 Social Sciences: to gain the ability to search in a disciplined way for answers to questions about human social behavior and societal changes and to examine the link between the individual’s experiences and larger social processes and public issues.

F5 Natural Sciences: to see the natural sciences as a human activity that, in part, deals with a variety of problems that societies face when interacting with the environment.

F6 History: to investigate the complexity of the human condition in time, the dynamic and global nature of history and historians’ approaches to the past.

F7 Philosophy: to stimulate consideration of the ultimate human questions, such as the nature of the universe, the cause of the universe, the purpose of existence, and the criteria for genuine human living within the context of the search for goodness, truth, beauty, and happiness.

F8 Religious Studies: to reflect and critically study faith, spirituality, and religious traditions as an integral part of the human experience.