Most art schools DO NOT give AP Credit, for precisely the reason you speak
of, they want to train the students their way from day 1. I opted NOT to
teach the course for two reasons, 1) my students would not be able to
sustain the level of work required and 2) colleges don't accept the credit.
If you go on the AP site (collegeboard.com) they give you a list of schools
that will accept the credit. I have found that they will "bump" my AP Art
history students into another "next" class if they score well, but not give
them credit (i.e. take art history for art majors vs. art history for non
art majors). That said all of my AP art history students get A's in their
college courses and LOVE the material because of their AP Art History class
in high school regardless of their AP scores. In addition, you will find
that colleges that are not art based (i.e. state colleges) MIGHT give AP
credit for AP Studio, but their art departments are not that strong to begin
with, IMHO.
San D
-----Original Message-----
From: joe3cox@cox.net [mailto:joe3cox@cox.net]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 7:10 PM
To: TeacherArtExchange Discussion Group
Subject: [teacherartexchange] Another AP Question
Hello All
I have been reading the post on AP Studio Art and I too had a real difficult
time getting the students to produce enough work within a class to meet the
requirements. The question I have is does AP Studio Art really benefit the
students as an AP Class is suppose to do by earning a student college credit
if they have a passing score? I have always felt that a college would want
an entering freshmen to take their foundation art classes which is the class
that an AP art course would earn them credit for. If I am wrong here let me
know. If any AP teacher have had students that received a passing score on
the test and this score helped them receive credit in college please let me
know. I have talk to several students who said that once they got to
college that their AP scores really didn't help them. I no longer teach AP
but have been thinking about doing it again. It is a fun class to teach,
lot of work but challenging. I think that it is great for directing the
student to begin thinking about college and preparing a student for college
by making them create a portfolio, but I don't want to sell it as a way to
earn college credit if it really isn't going to do that.
