1992-1993 Academic Catalog

36 Academic Information Graduation 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. The catalog in use when a student first enrolls governs his graduation requirements unless that catalog is over ten years old. 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. However, a student may select a subsequent catalog if the student wishes; but all requirements from that catalog must be completed. Students who cannot complete their graduation requirements before the end of the spring quarter in their senior year, but who can complete them during the following summer or fall, will be granted their diplomas in September or December, as appropriate. A separate application is required, however, along with a $100 deposit. Seniors who are eligible to receive their diplomas in September or December may be approved to participate in the June commencement preceding the completion of their work. Information concerning eligibility for September or December graduation is available in the Registrar's Office. Sessions and Credits 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, compressed courses, and internships are exceptions to this pattern. Academic Advising 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 chairperson of the academic department governing the course requirement 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. 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 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 a 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.