Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1896-1897 [PAGE 81]

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courses are offered; or he may adopt any program of concentration of his major work intermediate between these extremes. The subjects presented in this College are accordingly arranged in four groups—chemical and physical, mathematical, natural science, and philosophical—each characterized by the predominant importance and development of the subjects indicated by its name. The studies of each group are again divided into required and elective subjects, and the latter are further subdivided into three lists, A, B, and C. All the required subjects are necessary to graduation in the group of studies specified; those of the elective lists A and B are open to election, restricted only by certain general requirements, varying in the different groups, regarding the amount and distribution of the work to be done on them; and those of list C are open to election unconditionally. It is the purpose of this system of classification and requirement to permit large liberty of choice with respect both to main lines of study and to associated or secondary subjects, and at the same time so to guide the student's elections that his course of study shall always contain a central core or axis of closely articulated major work. Preference is further given by this means to those minor subjects most important because of their relations to the major work elected. The only undergraduate degree given in this College is that of Bachelor of Science. Forty full term-credits for University studies are required for graduation, three of which may be earned by investigation work, the results of which are to be presented in a final thesis. Credit will be given for fractions of courses of instruction in exceptional cases only, by vote of the College faculty. EQUIPMENT Laboratories.—The College of Science occupies three of the University buildings—the Chemical Laboratory, Natural History Hall and the Astronomical Observatory—together with several rooms in University Hall assigned to the mathematical department, and to some of the departments of the philosophical group. The Physics laboratories and lecture room are in Engineering Hall, and the natural history museum is in University Hall.