1949-1950 Academic Catalog

COURSE NUMBERS, GRADING AND CREDITS In all courses students are graded according to their scholarship by the use of the following symbols: A, denoting excellent; B, denoting good; C, denoting fair; D, denoting passing; and F, denoting failure. The compara­ tive merit of tests, examinations and all other exercises, and the final standing of the student in any course, are indicated by the use of the same symbols. Course Numbering System.—Each course offered at Cedarville College is given a number. The purpose of the number is to index the course in the college filing system and also to use on transcripts. Courses below 100 are non-college credit courses. 100 to 200 courses are college credit open to freshmen; 200 to 300 are sophomore courses; 300 to 400 are junior courses; 400 and above are senior level courses. Courses ending in 0 are offered or can be taken both semesters. Courses ending in an odd number are offered the first semester and those ending in an even number are of­ fered the second semester. Cedarville College reserves the right to offer or withhold any of its listed courses. Semester-Hour.—In all of the courses, credit is counted by the “semester- hour.” A “credit” or “semester-hour” is one recitation, lecture, or lab­ oratory period a week for one semester. As an illustration a student com­ pleting the work required in fifteen such periods a week for one semester receives credit for fifteen semester-hours. Required Merit Points.—In every course in the collegiate department as many merit points are required for graduation as credits of semester-hours. For grade “A” , three points for each credit are awarded; for grade “B” two points; for grade “C” one point; for grade “D” no points. A minimum of 124 merit points is required for graduation from a degree course. It is evident that an average grade of “C” is necessary for gradu­ ation. By the use of points a student may readily determine the quality of progress he is making in his course. Commencement Honors.—A student who wins eighty per cent of the maxi- mum number of merit points obtainable in his course will be graduated cum laude, “with praise;* one who wins ninety per cent of the maximum number obtainable in his course, will be graduated magna cum laude, “with great praise,” and one who wins the maximum number obtainable in his course, will be graduated summa cum laude, “with the highest praise.” Cedarville College Crown Club.—In 1920 anhonor society, called theCedar- ville College Crown Club, was established, to which members are elected by the faculty on the basis of excellence in scholarship. (1) A Junior or Senior who for two semesters, not necessarily consecutive, has acquired a grade of A in all of his studies may be elected to membership in this so­ ciety. (2) One who in four semesters has obtained not more than one grade of B in each semester, all other grades being A, may be elected to mem­ bership. (3) A student may be elected to membership upon graduation after a full four-year course, provided he has no grade below B and three-fourths of his grades are A. (4) Students who have taken part of their college course in other institutions are eligible to the society by either of the first two standards given above, but not by the third. 15