Applying Credits to Your Degree

Advanced Placement Program

This Advanced Placement program is administered by high schools in the form of college-level courses.

Through enrollment in special courses in these high schools, qualified high school seniors may take achievement examinations in one or more academic area subjects at the college level.

Hawkeye Community College grants college credits for completion of Advanced Placement exams at the score levels listed below.

AP Exam Minimum Score Hawkeye Course Credit
Art History 3 HUM-XB1 Literature & Fine Arts
Elective (6 credits)
Biology 3 BIO112
BIO113		 General Biology I AND
General Biology II
Calculus 3 on Calculus AB or BC

4 on Calculus BC		 MAT210

MAT210
MAT216		 Calculus I

Calculus I AND
Calculus II
Chemistry 3

4		 CHM165

CHM165
CHM175		 General Chemistry I

General Chemistry I AND
General Chemistry II
Comparative Government and Politics 3 POL125 Comparative Government & Politics
Computer Science A 3 CIS142 Computer Science
English Language 3 ENG105
ENG106		 Composition I AND
Composition II
English Literature 3

4		 LIT101

ENG105
LIT101		 Introduction to Literature

Composition I AND
Introduction to Literature
Environmental Science 3 ENV115
ENV116		 Environmental Science AND
Environmental Science Lab
European History 3 HUM-XAT Humanities Category A
(3 credits)
Foreign Language (Chinese, French German, Japanese, Latin, Spanish) 3

4

5		 FLS-XTX

FLS-XTX

FLS-XTX
 		 100 level foreign language elective (5 credits)
100 level foreign language elective (10 credits)
100 level foreign language elective (15 credits)
 
Human Geography 3 GEO115 Human Geography
Macroeconomics 3 ECN120 Principles of Macroeconomics
Microeconomics 3 ECN130 Principles of Microeconomics
Physics 3 on Physics B


3 on Physics C: Mechanics

3 on Physics C:
Elec & Mag

 PHY162
PHY172

PHY212


PHY222		 College Physics I
College Physics II

Classical Physics I


Classical Physics II
 
Psychology 3 PSY111 Introduction to Psychology
Statistics 3 MAT156 Statistics
U.S. Government
and Politics		 3 POL111 American National Government
U.S. History 3

4
 		 HIS151

HIS151
HIS152		 U.S. History to 1877

U.S. History to 1877 AND
U.S. History Since 1877
World History 3 HUM-XAT Humanities Category A
(3 credits)
All Other Exams (Music, Theory, Spanish Literature, Studio Art) 3 XXX-XTX General Elective

 

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