1927-1928 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. be may be allowed to make up, not to exceed two units under the di– rection of a member of the faculty. This work must be completed be– fore the student enters the Junior year. Candidates for admi ssion to the college must p1·esent High Schoo-I credit as follows:- Foreign language, 2 units; English language, 3 units; Algebra, 1 unit; Geometry, 1 unit; American History, 1 unit; Natural Science, 1 unit, and six units selected from any subjed given by a High School of the first grade, or by a Preparatory scho0l of equivale11t standing. A unit consists of four or fi ve hours' work per week in a given subject throughout the year. Arpong the subject s which will be a ccepted as electives for entrance to the freshman class are ; Latin, Greek, German, Fren ch, Spanish, or other foreign language; algebra, geometry, trigonome try, commercial arithmetic; general, ancient, mediaeval, modern, English or American history; civics, economics, sociology, comme1·cial law, commercial geography; physical geography, physiog1·aphy, physiol– ogy, botany, biology, geology, agriculture, chemistry, physics, a.stronomy, 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 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 and to the deJ?ree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Ohio State University; 5. The Agri cultural Curriculum, leading t o t he degree of Ba ch elor of Science in Agriculture from Ohio St ate Un iver sity, the fir st two years of the curriculum being given in t he college , and the last two in t he university. DEFINITION OF CREDIT OR SEMESTER-HOUR In all of the curricula, credit is counted by the "semester-hour." A "credit" or " semester-hour " is one recitation, lecture, o·r laboratory peri od a week for one semester. A student completing the work re– quired in fi f teen such periods a week for one semester receives credit for fifte n s mester hours, and ii such work is continued for a full year and satisfactorily completed, he receives credit for thirty semes– ter-hours which is considered full work for one year. A semester fo ight en weeks or one-half of the academic or collegiate year o:f nine months. PAG Fl TEEN