1973-1974 Academic Catalog

32 Cedarville College Major Field The amount of work for a typical major field is usually about 45 quarter hours and must include the requirements of the department. Comprehensive majors are typically about 70 to 90 hours. Specific requirements are listed at the beginning of division course offerings. No courses in which 11 0 11 grades are received may be counted as meeting the requirements of the major field. Minor Field Twenty-four hours in one department normally constitutes a minor. Minor fields are optional. Electives The student's program has been planned so that he should have from ten to twenty hours of electives. The provision of elective choice is based upon the premise that the student should have an opportunity to either further strengthen his major field or minor field or further broaden his back– ground by selecting courses in areas of inadequacy or interest. Elective choice also provides the student with some flexibility if he should decide to change major fields. Sessions and Credits The regular college year consists of three quarters of eleven weeks each, extending from October to June. Credits are earned in terms of quarter hours. A quarter credit hour is one fifty-minute period a week for one quarter. As an illustration; a student completing the work required in fifteen such periods a week for one quarter receives credit for fifteen quarter hours. Exceptions to this are laboratory sessions, applied music, and physical education. Classification of Students Regular students are those who have met the requirements for admission. Regular standing implies that the student is enrolled in a degree program and is carrying at least twelve quarter hours of credit. Special students are those who have met most of the requirements for regular admission but are not enrolled in a degree program. This classifica– tion also includes those students whose high school record or ACT scores show that a period of special counseling, instruction and adjustment is needed before they can be classified as regular students. Part-time students are those who have met all admission requirements and are enrolled in a degree program but are carrying less than twelve quarter hours credit.