1924-1925 Academic Catalog

COLLEGIATE DEP.l\.RTf,1ENT REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION Graduates of the preparatory department of Cedarvi11e College are admitted to the rank of freshman in the collegiate department without examination. Graduates of approved high schools, and other institutions offering preparatory work to the amount of fifteen units, are admitted to the freshman class. If applicant lacks any of the required units, as indicated be– low, he may be allowed to make up, not to exceed two units, in the Preparatory Department. This work must be completed before the student enters the Junior year. _ 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 science, 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 give n subject throuhout 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-Science Curriculum, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science; 4. The Arts-Agricultural Curriculum, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science from Cedarville College an to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Ohio State University; 5. The AgTicultural 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 '·credit" or "semester-hour" in one reci– tation, lectur e, or laboratory period a week for one semester. A student comple 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 y ar and satisfactorily completed , he receives cr edit for thirty semes ter-hours which is considered full work for one year. A semester is eighteen weeks or one-half of the academic or collegiate year oi n ine months. PAGE FIFTEEN