Course descriptions
The Course Description Library
$24 One purchase · instant download · yours to keep
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131 written course descriptions for a high school record, in one editable Word file. These are the ten to twenty pages that sit behind the transcript, drafted in the register an admissions reader expects. Most families leave them until the week an application is due.
What is in it
- 131 academic course descriptions across seven subject areas: English (19), mathematics (16), science (19), history and social science (20), world language (18), fine arts (20), and practical and elective courses (19).
- Regular, Honors and AP versions of the courses where that distinction matters, each marked with its level and its credit value.
- An "Aligns with" line under every description, naming what the course usually sits beside and how far the reading list can move before the description stops being true.
- A blank template at the end, same shape, for the course your student took that nobody else did.
- A short page on how to use them, including when Honors is fair to write and why AP is not yours to claim unless the course was registered through the College Board audit.
What is not in it
Academic subjects only. The Bible and theology descriptions are a separate file, as are the transcript workbook, the fifty-one state summaries, the records forms and the guide. Nothing here calculates anything. This is prose, not a spreadsheet.
Straight answers
Am I meant to use these as written? No. Use them as a first draft. A description is honest only when it matches the books that were actually on your table, which is why the file is editable. Change the titles. Cut the units you skipped.
How many will I need? A four-year plan usually runs to twenty-four or twenty-eight courses. That is the size of the problem this was built for.
What format? A Word .docx. It opens in Word and it uploads to Google Docs if that is where you work.
One child or all of them? All of them. One purchase, one household, as many students as you have, for as long as you teach them.
About the price
$24 on its own. It also sits inside the Homeschool High School Records System at $39, alongside the transcript workbook, the Bible descriptions, the fifty-one state summaries, the records pack and the guide, so if you want the records pack too, at $40 for the pair the system is already cheaper.
Instant download. Personal single-household use. If it is not right for you, write within 14 days and we will refund it without asking you to justify it.