Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1928 [PAGE 565]

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board of trustees

[March 13

SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM (1) I submit a recommendation from the University Senate for the approval of the following requirements for admission to and graduation from the School of Journalism: General Statement The School of Journalism offers a two-year curriculum in journalism based on an entrance requirement of two years of college work (60 semester hours, exclusive of physical education, military science, and hygiene), leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in journalism. Requirements for Admission For admission to the School of Journalism as a candidate for a degree a student must be able to matriculate in one of the undergraduate colleges and must offer, in addition, 60 semester hours of college work of acceptable grade, exclusive of physical education, hygiene, and military; but inclusive of the following prescribed subjects: Rhetoric and composition, 6 hours. Science, 10 hours in any two of the following subjects: zoology, botany, chemistry, physics, geology. Attention is called to the University requirement that a student who enters the University without at least one unit of high-school work in laboratory science must substitutefivehours of a laboratory science for five hours free electives in the requirements for graduation. History, political science, economics, and sociology, 8 hours. As desirable electives the following subjects are suggested: English literature, 6 hours; accountancy, 3 hours; newspaper reporting, 6 hours; printing and publishing, 4 hours; introduction to journalism, 2 hours; foreign language, 8 hours. Requirements for Graduation The requirements for graduation are as follows: (1) Registration in the School of Journalism. (2) Completion of a total of 130 hours, including the 60 hours required for admission. (3) Completion of the following work as a part of the 130 hours required for graduation: a. At least 30 hours in journalism including: reporting, 6 hours; copyreading, 6 hours; printing and publishing, 2 hours; newspaper advertising or business problems, 2 hours; history of journalism, 3 hours; ethics of journalism, 3 hours; editorial writing, 2 hours; special problems or thesis, 4 hours. b. At least 20 hours chosen from the following subjects, with one or more courses in any four of them: history, economics, political science, sociology, business organization and operation. c. At least 12 hours in literature. (The work in literature may be done in any language. In foreign languages, only courses that are based on two years of college work, or their equivalent, in the given language, may be counted toward these twelve hours.) d. A course in rhetoric beyond I and 2. e. Three hours in philosophy. O n motion of Mrs. Grigsby, these requirements were approved. APPOINTMENT OF DR. ALFRED JOSEPH MARIA (2) O n recommendation of Acting Dean Daniels and Professor Townsend, I recommend that Dr. Alfred Joseph Maria of Norfolk, Virginia, be appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematics for one year from September 1, 1928, at a salary of $3,000. O n motion of M r s . Evans, this appointment was made.