1984-1985 Academic Catalog

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. NOTE: The catalog in use when a student first enrolls governs his graduation requirements. Consequently, that catalog should be retained and used as a guide in case changes are made in the course or graduation requirements during the time the student is enrolled. 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. A $100 refundable deposit is required. Academic Advising Each student is assigned to an academic counselor according to his major field of study. A student who has not declared a major will be assigned to a special advisor equipped to offer assistance in selecting a field of study. The student should consult with his advisor not only at registration but also throughout the year whenever he encounters an academic problem or is formulating plans for changes of educational programs or procedures. A stu– dent with low grades in a major or minor field may be advised to select another field of study. Course work to be completed at other institutions by a student enrolled at Cedarville College should be approved by his academic advisor. Upon the completion of such courses, the stu– dent should request that an official transcript be sent to the Academic Records Office. 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– minute period a week for one term. 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 educa– tion. 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 vice president. Students working more than twenty hours per week are not ad– vised to carry the full course of studies. The student's academic load is subject to reduction or limita– tion by the academic vice president for poor scholarship or exces– sive work outside of school hours.