1990-1991 Academic Catalog

All students must realize that it is their own responsibility 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 early registration 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 gradu– ation requirements. Consequently, that catalog should be retained and used as a guide in case changes are made in the course or graduation require– ments during the time the student is enrolled. However, a student may select a subsequent catalog if the student wishes. Students who cannot finish their program before the end of the spring quarter in their senior year, but who can finish during the following sum– mer, will be granted their diplomas in September. A separate application is required, however, along with a $100 deposit. These students may partici– pate in the June commencement preceding the summer in which their work is to be completed. Those students completing their program Fall Quarter will receive their diplomas in December and participate in commencement the following June. Sessions The regular college year consists of three quarters of eleven weeks each, extending from September 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. Laboratory sessions, applied music courses, physical education courses, and internships are exceptions to this pattern. Each student is assigned to an academic counselor who offers advice concerning course scheduling. 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 throughout 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. Coursework 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 require– ment that the transferred course is to satisfy. This approval must occur before the course is taken. Course approval forms are available in the Academic Records Office. 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 graduate 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 limitation by the academic vice president for poor scholarship or excessive work outside of school hours. 'Hn.on.nwit•.nn.11-w.n.,,... of Students Regular students are those who have met the requirements for admis– sion. Regular standing implies that the student is enrolled in a degree program and is carrying as least twelve quarter hours of credit in that academic quarter. Special students are those who are not enrolled in degree programs. Part-time students are those who have met all admission requirements and are enrolled in a degree program but are carrying fewer than twelve quarter hours. Transfer students are those who have studied full-time for at least one term at another accredited college or university.