Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1895-1896 [PAGE 103]

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NATURAL SCIENCE GROUP

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The major and minor courses in Lists A and B in this group are respectively the maximum offerings and the minimum requirements in the various subjects of these lists. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION In the natural science group a student may graduate from either a specialized or a general course. A specialized course is one containing at least two years of major work in a single subject preceding the senior year, followed by an additional year of major work in that subject, and the writing of an acceptable thesis. No student may be enrolled in a specialized course without the permission of the head of the department in which he wishes to do his principal work; and each student who wishes to be so enrolled must specify the course he desires to enter not later than the beginning of his junior year. Only those students who pursue a specialized course shall be selected for fellowships, scholarships, and other similar University honors. A general course is one in which less than three years' work in any one line is required for graduation, and in which no thesis is required. Students who specialize in geology or mineralogy may count all work done in those branches, and their credits in chemistry, in the list of credits required before the beginning of the senior yoar. No student may graduate in natural science until he has completed all the required courses, has done at least nine terms' work on one major elective, or twelve terms' work on more than one such major (list A), and has taken at least minor coursos in all the other electives in which such courses are offered (list 13). The necessary number of forty full termcredits for University studios may be made up by additional elections from the three lists of electives, except that at least five of them must be chosen from list C. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION BY YEARS AND TERMS The following list of prescribed studies and major eleotivos shows the terms in which the principal studies of the natural science group must be taken. The prescribed studies,