STANDARD COURSE OF STUDY

ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP)

The AP modern foreign language courses are designed to provide rigorous intermediate college level foreign language courses for high school students. The College Board recommends that teachers complete an AP Institute or workshop before teaching an AP course. However, there is no official AP teacher certification issued by the College Board or by the state. Additional information on teacher professional development is available at the College Board website http://apcentral.collegeboard.com. AP teachers can also join a discussion group with other AP teachers in their discipline by signing up on AP Central. Students can visit www.collegeboard.com/apstudents for additional information.

With permission of the College Board, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has adapted the College Board materials to provide course outlines in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study format. These course outlines are in no way intended to replace, but are to be used in conjunction with, the extensive guidelines provided by the College Board. The AP course description books for each subject, which include the recommended topics and required skills, are revised frequently. It is the responsibility of AP teachers to obtain and follow the current course description for their course.

Students enrolled in the course are expected to take the AP exam in order to validate their academic experience, although students are not required to take the course before taking the exam. In order to be successful in this course, students need previous intensive language development and/or a minimum of three years of formal language instruction or the equivalent.

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