UC Berkeley’s Spring 2022 Plans for Instruction Announced. Beginners' course. Not open to students who have completed more than two years of high school Spanish, or to native speakers. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of recitation per week
Prerequisites: Spanish 25 - Course restricted to declared Spanish & Portuguese majors who are at the end of their program Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade.
Continue to take honors courses if possible in your other core classes. Junior Year: Based on your experience and scores from freshman and sophomore year, start taking APs in core classes, for example AP English, AP Calculus, or AP Biology.
This will end up being between 7 and 12 AP courses. Selective Schools (Top 100): APs in most core courses, plus one or two additional courses. This will end up being between 4 and 8 AP courses. Less Selective Schools: APs in some core courses, or in courses related to your anticipated major.
For highly selective schools such as Ivy League schools, Stanford, and public universities like UCLA and UC Berkeley, it's common for accepted applicants to take about eight AP classes throughout high school, though that number can range from five to 13.
According to the UC Office of Admissions, throughout the period of suspension (2021-24), UC will still consider AP and SAT Subject Test scores, even during test-blind admissions. This is especially pertinent to applicants to engineering majors.
Berkeley took into consideration an applicant's performance on AP exams, but the general admissions pool didn't hold bad scores against students. So, in applying to Berkeley for, say, a history major, don't sweat your AP score of a 2, and definitely don't sweat your 3s and 4s.
Your goal should be to submit three AP or IB scores, with at least one related to the area you want to major in (so a math/science score if you want to be a biology major, a social science score if you want to major in history, etc.).
Credit granted for all Advanced Placement Exams on which a student scores 3 or higher. The credit may be subject credit, graduation credit, or credit toward general education or breadth requirements.
Never report or send an exam score of a 1 or 2. They are not considered “passing” scores. There are other scenarios where reporting your scores may not be a good idea.
UC offers college credit to students who have taken and scored well on Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) and A-level exams.
Credit Summary USC awards 4 semester units of elective credit for all AP examinations with a score of 4 or 5.
Students currently enrolled in AP courses are not required to submit AP scores as part of our admission process. However, we welcome the self-reporting of these scores as additional information to your application.
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1 pointWhile honors courses usually add 0.5 points to your GPA, AP classes often add 1 point. In other words, a 3.5 GPA would be boosted to a 4.0 in an honors class and a 4.5 in an AP class. This boost can prove particularly useful if you want to challenge yourself with more difficult training without punishing your GPA.
You'll need nearly straight As in all your classes to compete with other applicants since the average unweighted GPA of students admitted into UCLA is a 3.9. You'll also probably need to take AP or IB classes to show that you can do well at advanced coursework., especially if your GPA is below the average.
Second course of an intermediate Spanish language course for students who have oral proficiency in Spanish and/or are first or second generation of Spanish speakers in the U.S. This course aims to continue the development and expansion of academic registers through readings, writing, and discussion of academic texts and film. Spanish 22 students read academic articles, more complex than those read in Spanish 21.
Offered through Berkeley Summer Abroad in Puebla, Mexico, this course is intended for students whose native language is Spanish and for those who are very advanced in the language. It emphasizes the understanding of oral and written registers through analysis and discussion of several genres including film, literary and non-literary prose, as well as Internet resources. It will facilitate academic language to students as well as it will help them to appreciate their heritage/native language and culture. Students are expected to read and write critically about topics of historical and linguistic syncretism, mestizo consciousness, identity, human rights, diversity, and Latinx in the US.
Taught in Spanish, this course serves to further familiarize students with the structure of the Spanish sound system. The course centers on the vocalic and consonantal inventories of various Spanish dialects using both phonological and acoustic phonetic analyses with the goal of preparing students to conduct phonological and phonetic analyses on Spanish varieties, as well as on their own speech. Emphasis will be placed on the skills and techniques particular to sound spectral analysis. Sociophonetic variation (i.e., constant variability in speech production) will also be addressed in the context of empirical research studies.
This is a two semester course. H195A will be graded at the end of the first semester, which will indicate that students are making progress on developing the thesis. During the second semester, each student will enroll in H195B and write an honors thesis.
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
This course is designed to provide students with a broad overview of the literature, history, and culture of Spain in the modern era (19th-21st centuries). We will examine the major aesthetic movements that have characterized modern Spanish literature, with a focus on the complex relationships that imaginative literature and the arts maintain with history. By the end of the course, students should have a solid understanding of the literature and history of modern Spain as well as a broad set of critical frameworks for thinking about, discussing and analyzing literature and the arts in Spanish.
Spanish 100 is the foundational course for Spanish department majors in Hispanic Languages, Linguistics, and Bilingualism, as well as for any student interested in the Spanish language and Linguistics. Taught in Spanish, this course serves as an introduction to the formal linguistic analysis of the Spanish language and emphasizes the goals and methodology of the language sciences. It surveys key areas of the field of Spanish Linguistics, including Phonology and Phonetics, Morphology, and Syntax. Additional topics (Historical Linguistics, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Dialectology, Bilingualism, etc.) in the context of the Spanish language may also be covered.