1988-1989 Academic Catalog

38 Academic b1formati011 Graduation Sessions and Credits All students must realize that it is their own responsibility to check on their progress toward meeting all requirements for grad– uation. 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 requirements 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 guide in case changes are made in the course or graduation requirements during the time the student is enrolled. Students who cannot finish their progam 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. Students cite some ofthe friendships developed with faculty members as one ofthe lasting benefits of attending Cedarville College. 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 recieves credit for fifteen quarter hours. Laboratory sessions, applied music courses, and physical education courses are exceptions to this pattern. Academic Advising Each student is assigned to an academic counselor according to his or her 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 or her advisor not only at registration but also through– out the year whenever an academic problem is encountered or plans for changes of educational programs or procedures are being formulated. A student 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 must be approved by his or her academic advisor and the chairman of the academic department governing the course requirement that the transferred course is to satisfy. Course approval forms are available in the Academic Records Office. Academic Load Assuming that proficiency requirements have been satisfied, a minimum of 192 quarter hours is required for graduation. A student should average sixteen credit hours each quarter to gradu– ate upon completion of the twelfth quarter. Fifteen or sixteen hours each quarter is considered the normal academic load, although a student may take up to eighteen hours without special permission from the academic vice president. Students working more than twenty hours per week are not advised 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.