1925-1926 Academic Catalog

COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION Graduates of approved high schools, and other institutions of– fering preparatory work to the amount of fifteen units, are admitted to the freshman class. If applicant lacks any of the required units, as indicated below, he may be allowed to make up, not to exceed two units under the di– r ction of a member of the faculty. This work must be completed be– fore the student enters the Junior year. Candidates for admittance to the college must pre$ent High School credit as follows:- Foreign language, 2 units; English language, 3 units; Algebra, 1 unit; Geometry, 1 unit; History, I unit; Natural Science, 1 unit, and six units selected from any subject given by a High School o.f the first grade, or by a Preparatory school of equiva– lent 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, nacient, mediaeval, 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 first-grade high schools will be consider– ed for entrance. CURRICULA AND DEGREES The following cunicula 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 degr ee of Bachelor of Science; 4. 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; 5. The Agricultural Curriculum, leading to t he degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Ohio State University, the first two years of t he curriculum being given in the college, and the last two in the university. DEFINITION OF CREDIT OR SEMESTER-HOUR In all of the curricula, credit is counted by the "semester-hour." ,1 "credit" or "semester-hour" is one recitation, lecture, o,r laboratory ))<'riod a week for one semester. A student completing the work re– quired in fifteen such periods a week for one semester receives credit for fiftE>en semester hours , and if such work is continued fo,r a full y ar and satisfactorily complet d, he receives credit for thirty semes– ter-hours which is considered full work for one year. A semester is ighteen weeks or one-half of the academic or co,Uegiate year of nine months. PAGE FIFTEEN