1930-1931 Academic Catalog

LLEGI TE DEPARTMENT DEFI ITIO OF REDIT OR EME TER-HOUR In a ll of t he cur r icula, cr edit is counted by the " semester-hour." A "cr edit" or "semest er-hour" is one recitation, lecture, or laboratory per iod a week for one semester. A student completing the work re– quired in fifteen s uch periods a week for one semester r eceives credit for fifteen semes ter hours , and if such work is cont inued for a full year and satisfactorily completed, he receives credit for thirty semes– t er -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. THE ARTS CURRICULUM Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts Upon t he completion of the following requirements, which comprise the arts curriculum, the degree of Bachelor 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 pur sued throughout an entire collegiate year); 6. History (three semester-hours, a required course in American history); 7. Oratory (four semester-hours); 8. Ar gumentation 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). Work required in any department may be counted as a part of the major study in 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 select ed by the student from a department closely related to the major st udy, with the advice and consent of the professor at the head of the department in which the major study is taken.) Work required in any department may be counted as a part of the minor study in that department; 16. Elective Studies (in addition to those specified above, to an amount sufficient to 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 fr om any department of instruction PAGE E IGBTEE -