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COLLEGE OF LITERATURE AND ARTS

Physiology 4, 1, 2 ; 1, 2 or 5 credits. Physical Culture for "Women, 1 ; 1 to 4 credits. Physics 2 ; 1, 3 to 7 ; 1 to 11 credits. Political Science 1 to 9 ; 2-5 to 9 2-5 credits. Psychology 1 to 9 ; 1 to 9 credits. Rhetoric 3 , 4 ; 1 to 4 credits. Spanish 1 ; 3 credits. Zoology 1 to 6, 10, 11 ; 2 to 11 credits. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION

UNDER THE GENERAL COURSE SYSTEM

Forty full term-credits, including Military, are required for graduation under the general-course system. Every student must take the prescribed subjects ; in addition, he must select at least two subjects from list A. 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 is offered in a subject for from three to six credits, no credit will be allowed for less than three terms' work.

UNDER THE SPECIALIZED COURSE, OR GROUP, SYSTEM

Forty full term-credits, including Military, together with an acceptable thesis, are required for graduation under the group system. Every student must take the prescribed subjects. In addition he must, not later than the beginning of his junior year, specify the group in which he wishes to graduate. He must at this time select one subject in the group as his major subject, the study of which, alone or with the subjects designated as specifically preparatory* to it, he must pursue during the remaining two years, securing therein at least nine full term-credits. He must also select, with the approval of the head of the department in which his major subject lies, a sufficient number of other studies to yield him the necessary complement of credits, and he must present an acceptable thesis. The thesis required for graduation must be on a topio

* See p. 60.