1929-1930 Academic Catalog

COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT 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, or laboratory p 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 fifteen semester hours, and if 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 is eighteen weeks or one-ha.If of the academic or collegiate year of nine months. THE ARTS CURRICULUM Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts Upon the completion of the following requirements, which comprise the arts curriculum, the degree of Ba.chelor of Arts is conferred: 1. Bible (six semester-hours selected from this department); 2. Rhetoric (six semester-hours); 3. English Literature (three semester-hours); 4. Foreign Language (from twelve to sixteen semester-hours, including two years' work in one language or one year's work in each of two languages, selected from the following: French, German, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish); 5. Natural Science (eight semester-hours, in any one of the following sciences: Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, or Physics, each science being pursued throughout an entire collegiate year); 6. History (three semester-hours, a required course in American history); 7. Oratory (four semester-hours); 8. Argumentation and Debating (four semester-hours); 9. General Psychology (three semester-hours) ; 10. Logic (three semester-hours); 11. Social Science (three semester-hours, selected from the de- partments of economics, sociology and political science); 12. Ethics (three semester-hours); · 13. Apologetics (three semester-hours) ; 14. A Major Study (a study selected by the student and includ– ing eighteen semester-hours' work in any one department of study). Wo!k requir<;d in any department may be counted as a part of the maJor study m that department, except that work in the first year of a foreign language in college cannot be counted; 15. A Minor Study (including ten semester-hours' work to be sel~cted by the. student fr~m a department closely related to the maJor study, with the advice and consent of the professor at the head. of t_he department in which the major study is taken.) Work required m any department may be counted as a part of the minor study in that department; lp. Elective S_tudies (in addition to those specified above, to an amount sufficie~t t? make a total of one hundred and twenty semester hours, which is the number required in the arts curriculum for the degree of Bachelor of Arts: these electives may be chosen by the student from any department of instruction. PAGE EIGHTEEN