1923-1924 Academic Catalog

COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION Gra~uates of the preparatory department of Cedarville College ai:e admitted .to ~he rank of freshmen in the collegiate department ~1t~out. exannnat~on. Graduates of approved high schools, and other mstitut10ns offermg preparatory work to the amount of fifteen units, are admitted without conditions to the freshman class. Candidates for admission to the collegiate department must present two units in foreign language, three in English one in algebra, one in geometry, one in history, one in natural sci~nce, and six selected from any subject given by a high school of the :first grade, or by a preparatory school of equivalent standing. A unit consists of four or five hours' work per week in a given subject throughout the year. Among the subjects which will be accepted as electives for entrance to the freshman class are: Latin, Greek, German, French, Spanish, or other foreign language; algebra, geometry, trigonometry, commercial arithmetic; general, ancient, medieval, modern, English or American history; civics, economics, sociology, commercial law, commercial geography; physical geography, physiography, physiol– ogy, botany, biology, geology, agriculture, chemistry, physics, astronomy, general science; English composition, rhetoric, litera– ture, history of literature, advanced grammar ; stenography, type– writing, manual training, home economics; music, drawing, elocu– tion. Other subjects given in reputable high schools will be con– sidered for entrance. CURRICULA AND DEGREES The following curricula are offered in the collegiate depart– ment: 1. The Arts-Curriculum, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts; 2. The Arts-Education Curriculum, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts and to the state provisional high school certificate; 3. The Arts-Theology Curriculum, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts and to the diploma of graduation from the theo– logical seminary; 4. The Arts-Science Curriculum, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science; 5. The Arts-Agricultural Curriculum, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science from Cedarville College and to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Ohio State University; 6. The Agricultural Curriculum, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Ohio State University, the first two years of the curriculum being given in the college, and the last two in the university. DEFINITION OF CREDIT OR SEMESTER-HOUR In all of the collegiate and graduate curricula, credit is counted by the "semester-hour." A "cred~t" or "semester-hour" is one reci– tation lecture or laboratory period a week for one semester. A stude~t compl~ting the work required in fifteen such periods a week for one semester receives credit for fifteen semester-hours, and if such work is continued for a full year and satisfactorily completed, he receives credit for thirty semester-hours which is considered full work for one year. A semester is eighteen weeks or one-half of the academic or collegiate year of nine months. PAGE FIFTEEN