1982-1983 Academic Catalog

28 Degree Requirements Cedarville College grants three baccalaureate degrees: Bachelorof Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Music Education (B.M.E.), and Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B. S .N.). A degree candidate should carefully study the requirements for that degree as well as the special requirements for graduation found in this bulletin. Careful attention to these requirements will enable the student to avoid doing work which will not apply to a degree. General re– quirements are the following: I . Meet all admission stipulations. 2. Complete at least 192 quarter hours, 60 hours of which must be of upper division work (200-400 courses). 3. Maintain a grade point average of not less than 2. 00. 4. Establish minimum residency of one year (45 quarter hours, normal!y the senior year.) 5. Complete the general education requirements. (The Biblical Education requirement for freshman and sophomore transfer students is 24 quarter hours; junior and senior transfers must complete at least one Biblical Education course each quarter of full-time residence.) 6. Complete the specific requirements for the desired major, one third of which must be taken at Cedarville College. Students should check their department for any additional requirements unique to their area. Minors may be declared but are optional. 7. Demonstrate proficiency in the use of the English language on a standardized examination or complete freshman English with a 2.0 grade point average, or better, on a four-point scale. 8. Complete at least two years of either classical or modern for– eign language in high school or one year at the college level. 9. Graduating seniors are required to participate in the senior testing program. Graduation Upper division students must realize that it is their own respon– sibility to check on their progress toward meeting all requirements for graduation. They are urged to plan the class schedule for each quarter of the senior year at preregistration time at the end of the junior year. This plan should be approved by the faculty counselor and checked to see that when it is completed all degree require– ments will have been met. Students who cannot finish their program before the end of the spring quarter in their senior year, but who can finish during the following summer, will be granted their diplomas in August. These students may participate in the June commencement pre– ceding the summer in which their work is to be completed. Academic Counseling Each student is assigned to an academic counselor according to his major field of specialization or interest. The student should consult with his counselor not only at registration time, but also throughout the year whenever he has an academic problem or is formulating plans for changes of educational programs or proce– dures. A student with low grades in a major or minor field may be advised to select another field of concentration. Any class work taken by students at other institutions while en– rolled at Cedarville College should be approved by respective academic advisors. 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 being one fifty-mi– nute period a week for one term. As an illustration, a student com– pleting 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. Academic Load A total of 192 quarter hours is required for graduation. A stu– dent should average sixteen credit hours each quarter if he wishes to graduate upon completion of the twelfth quarter. Fifteen or six– teen hours each quarter is considered the normal academic load, although the student is allowed to take up to eighteen hours with– out special permission from the academic dean. Students working more than twenty hours per week are not ad– vised to carry the full course of studies.