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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEARS

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(Upper Division) T h e work of the last two years is organized into nine Fields of Concentration: Accountancy, Banking and Finance, Commerce and Law, Commercial Teaching, Economics, Industrial Administration, Marketing, Management, and Public Affairs. In the Field of Concentration the courses are grouped around the subject of the student's major interest. T h e programs of study should not be considered as specifically designed for vocational training, but rather as different avenues of approach to a life-time of living and working in the midst of a business civilization. T o be graduated with the bachelor of science degree, a student must have completed ( i ) the requirements of one of these Fields, (2) a total of 130 credit hours (including the prescribed Military and Physical Education) of which not less than 60 credit hours must be in courses given in the College of Commerce (except that in the Field of Commerce and Law this shall be 45 h o u r s ) , and (3) must have an average grade of not less than " C " in the courses taken at the University of Illinois while registered in a Field of Concentration. Fields of Concentration in the Upper Division ACCOUNTANCY: for those preparing to follow industrial or public accounting. Primary List ( A t least 43 hours including not less than 18 hours in accountancy and including the courses shown in italics must be selected from the following) : Accountancy 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 13, 20, 30; Economics 3, 10, 11, 36, 72; Bus. Law la, lb, 10; Rhetoric 22; B.O.O. 1, 2. Secondary List (Fifteen hours of electives must be chosen from courses in history, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology.) BANKING AND FINANCE: for those preparing to enter banking or finance. Primary List ( A t least 21 hours including the courses shown in italics must be selected from the following): Econ. 3, 10, 11, 72; Bus. Law la, lb, 10; Accy. 4b, 30; B.O.O. 1, 2. Secondary List (Fifteen hours of electives must be chosen from history, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology.) Technical List ( A t least 15 hours must be selected from courses in either or both of the following two g r o u p s ) : ( A ) F o r Banking—Econ. 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 ; Math. 2 3 ; Agr. Econ. 15. ( B ) F o r Finance—Econ. 6, 36, 51, 55, 81, 9 2 ; Accy. 3 a ; Math. 23. COMMERCE AND L A W : for those who wish to combine commercial and legal studies and obtain both the degree of Bachelor of Science and the degree of Bachelor of Laws in six years (see also requirements for graduation from the College of L a w ) . In their fourth year, students who have received credit in at least 100 credit hours of pre-legal work will be regularly registered in the College of Law, but must file copies of their study-lists in the office of the Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration at the beginning of each semester. Primary List ( A sufficient number of hours must be selected from the following courses to make a total of at least 45 hours in Commerce for the three years of w o r k ) : Econ. 3, 10, 25, 51, 65, 92, 42, 44, 6 1 ; Accountancy 3a, 13, 20; B.O.O. 1, 2, 20. Secondary List (Twelve hours of electives must be chosen from courses in history, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology.)

menced in college. For the purpose of this requirement a candidate is assumed to have a reading knowledge of a modern foreign language if he has passed French 2b or a more advanced course, German 5 or 6 or a more advanced course, Italian 2b or a more advanced course, or Spanish 2b or a more advanced course, or if he has passed a proficiency examination equivalent to the final examination given in any of these courses. Students expecting later to elect Government Foreign Service as a Field of Concentration (See Public Affairs, on page 280) or Foreign Trade as a Field of Concentration (see Marketing, on page 280) must choose the foreign language option. *Rhetoric or Speech.—Students taking Rhetoric 10 the first semester must take Speech 1 the second semester; those taking Speech 1 the first semester must take Rhetoric 10 the second semester.