Departmental Exams
If a student has experience equivalent to the content of a course described in the current catalog, upon approval of the department, credit may be earned for the course by passing an examination equivalent to a final course examination.
Students must receive departmental approval for any Baylor departmental exam. The CBE fee of $205 will be added to the student's Baylor account when the permission slip is submitted. Baylor's Credit by Exam policies are available at CBE Policies.
Below are some courses which have been pre-approved by the department. For courses not listed below, special approval must be received from the corresponding department.
Please note: Freshman-level course examinations in English (1302 and 1310), modern foreign languages (1401 and 1402), and Religion courses are not available.
| Baylor Discipline | Baylor Departmental Exams Available | Contact Person/Office | ||
| Foreign Languages: French, German, and Spanish | Exams available for certain 3000- and 4000-level courses. (certain 1000 or 2000-level courses available through AP, CLEP or IB) | Dr. Michael Boerm, Modern Languages & Cultures Dept. | ||
| For foreign languages not mentioned above, please see below. | Exams available for certain 2000- and 3000-level courses. | Please see below. | ||
| Mathematics | MTH 1320, MTH 1321, MTH 1322 | Dr. John Davis, Mathematics Dept. | ||
| Music | MUS 1301 or 1101 | Dr. Amy Fleming, Music School | ||
| Physics | Exams available for certain 1000-level courses. | Dr. Dwight Russell, Physics Department |
Obtaining Credit by Exam in a Foreign Language
Note - Students who are proficient in French, German, or Spanish should take a CLEP exam.
For foreign languages not covered by the CLEP exam, students should work with the Modern Languages and Cultures department. Students must receive departmental approval for any Baylor departmental exam. The CBE fee of $205 will be added to the student's Baylor account when the permission slip is submitted. Baylor's Credit by Exam policies are available at CBE Policies.
The professor to contact for each language is listed below:
- Arabic - Abdul Saadi, Associate Professor of Arabic, Abdul_Saadi@baylor.edu
- Chinese - Xin Wang, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Xin_Wang@baylor.edu
- Czech - Eva Hruska, Lecturer of Russian, Eva_Hruska@baylor.edu
- Italian - Tiziano Cherubini, Lecturer of Italian, Tiziano_Cherubini@baylor.edu
- Japanese - Yuko Prefume, Senior Lecturer of Japanese, Yuko_Prefume@baylor.edu
- Korean - Kim Uber, Lecturer of Korean, Sonia_Uber@baylor.edu
- Polish - Eva Hruska, Lecturer of Russian, Eva_Hruska@baylor.edu
- Portuguese - Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes, Director of Latin American Studies, Lilly_Fuertes@baylor.edu<
- Romanian - Cristian Bratu, Associate Chair & Division Director of French & Italian, Cristian_Bratu@baylor.edu
- Russian - Michael Long, Department Chair, Michael_Long@baylor.edu
- Vietnamese - Marie Level, Senior Lecturer of French, Marie_Losonsky@baylor.edu
- Other languages - Michael Boerm, Senior Lecturer of French, Michael_Boerm@baylor.edu
The Department of Modern Languages & Cultures is located in 275 Old Main Bldg.