The Advanced Placement Program is an activity of the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) enabling secondary school students to do college-level work and receive credit for it at the college they enter. The CEEB informs colleges of the grades received. Members of the specific Wittenberg College departments reevaluate the tests. The departments may then award credit for the work and/or place the student in an advanced course. On the Wittenberg campus the liaison officer for this program is the Registrar. Further information about the program is available from the Admission Office.

POLICY
(By Faculty action, December 10, 1963)

Recommendation that as a matter of institutional policy advanced placement and credit be given to students scoring 4 and 5 on the Advanced Placement Examinations in the respective field, that neither advanced placement nor credit be permitted for students scoring grades of 1 and 2, and that departments make recommendations regarding advanced placement and/or credit for students scoring 3. This recommendation has reference to the Advanced Placement Program of the College Entrance Examination Board.

CREDIT BY EXAMINATION
(By Faculty action, January 10, 1967)

In attempting credit by examination there must be no duplication of credit. This means that a student may not receive credit of any course whose contents have been included in a course for which the student has already received credit. (This includes a grade of NC).

The student seeking to gain credit by examination for a course must first submit to the chairperson of the department in which the credit is sought evidence of a reasonable mastery of the materials of the course (e.g., informal oral examination, annotated reading notes, essays, records of laboratory works, etc.).

The student will make the request for formal examination by petition to the Assistant Provost for Academic Services. The petition must be accompanied by a statement from both the student’s adviser and the department chairperson indicating that in their best judgment the student is qualified to attempt the examination. A fee will be charged for credit by examination (cost of one overload credit ). This fee must be paid before the exam can be administered.

PLACING OUT
(By Faculty action, January 10, 1967)

If a department chairperson is convinced by appropriate means such as examination that a student (a) is prepared to the next level of a sequence of courses without having formally studied these courses on campus, or (b) need not enroll in a course set as an institutional requirement because the student has gained a grasp of the subject matter represented by the course, then the chairperson may permit the student to “place out” of that course. The chairperson must report this action to the Registrar in writing for entry on the student’s record.