Course descriptions

The Course Description Library

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The transcript is one page. The course descriptions are the ten to twenty pages behind it, and they are the part almost every family leaves until the week an application is due. This file is that work, drafted, in the register an admissions reader expects. Editable Word, not a picture of a document.

What is in it

  • 131 academic course descriptions in one file, 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 description 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, in the 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. So 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 only honest 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 file. 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, honestly

This library 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. On its own it is $24. Add the records pack at $16 and you are at $40, which is already more than the whole system costs. Any three of our standalone files come to at least $42, and all four come to $66. So: buy this one alone if it is the only piece you want. Add anything to it and you are between $36 and $40, close enough to the system that the total is worth a second look, and past two pieces the system always wins. We would rather say that here than let you work it out afterwards.

Instant download. Personal single-household use. If it is not right for you, write to us within 14 days and we will refund it without asking you to justify it.