1931-1932 Academic Catalog

SEMESTER HOUR 29 per week per semester, and no student, the majority of whose grades, reckoned in terms of semester hours, for the preceding semester was not A will be allowed to take work for credit amounting to more than sixteen hours per week per semester. TIME REQUIRED Ordinarily the completion of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science takes four years. DEFINITION OF CREDIT OR SEMESTER-HOUR In all of the courses, credit is counted by the "semester– hour." A "credit" or "semester-hour" is one recitation, lecture, or laboratory period a week for one semester. A student com– pleting 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 year and satisfactorily completed, he receives credit for thirty semester-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.