Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1894-1895 [PAGE 25]

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REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION.

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grouping the courses open to the student may be classified as follows: The Classical course; the Latin course; the English and Modern Language course; and the Philosophical course. In making out his list of studies the student should specify in which one of these groups of studies he wishes to do. his principal work. He is advised to choose his courses with a view to his special needs, determining first his principal subject and choosing as his other electives, in the main, subjects auxiliary to it. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION. Forty full term-credits, including Military, together with an acceptable thesis, are required for graduation. Every student must take the prescribed subjects: in addition he must select at least two subjects from list A as his major electives, in each of which he must make not less than six full term-credits. He must then choose from lists A and B work which will give him the remainder of his necessary credits. No credits will be granted in any subject in either list except according to the enumeration given. For example, if work may be taken in a subject for from three to six credits, no credit will be allowed for less than three terms' work. The thesis required for graduation must be on a subject directly connected with a study in which the student shall have completed at least one full year's work previous to the beginning of the winter term of his senior year, and which is listed among the major subjects in the College of Literature and Arts. On certain conditions the thesis may, by vote of the Faculty of the College, count as one of the forty credits required for graduation. The only degree given in this College is that of A.B. CLASSIFICATION OF STUDIES PRESCRIBED. English, 1^ credits; French, German, Greek, or Latin, 3 credits; History, If credits; Logic, 1 credit; Mathematics, 3 credits: Military, 2 credits; Rhetoric, 2 credits; Natural Science, 3 credits. The three credits required in science may be obtained by taking a single subject through the year, or by combining single term minors.