1916-1917 Academic Catalog

At the close of the course the student must write and publicly deliver a.n original oration upon a subject approved by the Faculty. The title of the oration must be submitted on or before Deeember first preceding graduation and a complete copy of the oration on or before April first. The limit of work in the Normal Department is the same as in the Collegiate Department, except that one or two high school studies may be taken in review in addition to the fifteen or eighteen collegiate or normal credits allowed. DEFINITION OF SEMESTER-HOUR. A "semester-hour," or "credit" is one recitation a week for one semester. A student completing fifteen hours of col– legiate or normal work a week for one semester receives fifteen credits, and if such work is continued for a full year, he receives thirty credits, which is considered full work for one year. ONE-YEAR COURSE FOR COLLEGE GRADUATES. The one-year normal course is open only to those holding bachelor's degrees from Cedarville College or institutions of similar standing. 1t leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education from Cedarville College, and in case all requirements of the state school laws are met, to the four-year state high school provisional certificate. These requirements call for thirty hours of strictly professional work, and whatever of this the student has not obtained in his undergraduate course, can easily be made up in meeting the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education. The requirements for this degree are thirty semester-hours of work, of which twenty.four must be in recitation or lecture work. 'f hc remaining six may be given for work on a thesis. These requirements can be completed or– dinarily within one collegiate year. Or the student may do the work for this degree entirely in the summer sessions, obtaining eight semester-hours of credit in each of three summers, complet– ing his thesis for the remaining six semester-hours in the suc– ceeding college year, and receiving his degree at the next com– mencement. But the work on the thesis cannot be counted as a. -34-