1940-1941 Academic Catalog

COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT 27 Adjustments can be made for the following fields: 1. Business 6. Law 2. Dentistry 7. Library 3. Engineering 8. Medicine 4. Home Economics 9. Pharmacy 5. Journalism 10. Politics & Social Science 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 Bachelor of Arts is conferred: 1. Bible (six semester-hours selected from this department); 2. Rhetoric (six semester-hours); 3. English (six 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); 5. 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. American History (three semesters hours); 7. Speech (two semester-hours); 8. General Psychology (three semester-hours); 9. Social Science (three semester-hours, selected from the departments of economics, sociology, and political science); 10. Ethics (three semester-hours); 11. Philosophy (three semester-hours); 12. A Major Study (a study selected by the student and consisting of three years of collegiate work in any one de– partment 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; 13. A Minor Study (consisting of fifteen semester-hours of collegiate work to be selected by the student from a depart– ment closely related to the major study, 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 a s a part of the minor study in that department. 14. Elective Studies (in addition to those specified above to an amount sufficient to make a total of one hundred and twenty– four 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.