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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE.

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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE.

The College of Science affords an opportunity for the study of the natural, physical and mathematical sciences, and of the philosophical subjects, either as specialties or as the substance of a liberal education. The candidate for graduation may take a year each in any four of the principal subjects of this college, with a considerable amount of language, literature, and general study; he may concentrate his major work on any one of the several subjects in which major courses are offered— taking, for example, four years in the chemical courses, three years in botany or zoology, or two years in physiology, geology, psychology, pedagogics, economics, or philosophy; or he may adopt any program of concentration of his major work intermediate between these extremes. The subjects presented in this College are acordingly arranged in four groups—natural science, chemical, mathematical, 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 those of the required list 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 requirements 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 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, two of which must be earned by investigation work, the results of which are to be presented in the final thesis. Credit will be given for fractions of courses of instructions only in exceptional cases, by vote of the College faculty.

•Forty-one in the chemical group.