Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940 [PAGE 325]

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BOARD O F

TRUSTEES

[May 26

T h e following provisional list of courses in the College of Liberal A r t s and Sciences indicates the general character of the pre-professional curriculum. T o some extent the courses taken by each student would be governed by his choice of major and minor subjects. Provisional

FIRST YEAR

List of Pre-professional Hours 6 8 3 3-5 2 8-6

Courses Hours 3 4 3 or 4 3 3 3 3 2 5 or 6

SECOND YEAR

Rhetoric I and 2 Foreign Language 1 Physiology 1 Science Hygiene 2 or 5 Electives Physical Education Military Science (for men)

Economics 2 Psychology 1 Political Science 1 or 16 Philosophy 1 History 3a or 3b Sociology 1 Zoology 5 (required) Home Economics 38 Electives 1 Physical Education Military Science (for men)

FOURTH Y E A R

THIRD YEAR

Economics 41, 52 Philosophy 4 Education 25, 55 Sociology 8, 14 Electives 1

6 4 6 6 8

Political Science 12 3 Psychology 23 3 Sociology 9, 18 6 Home Economics 40, 56a, and 80 . 5 1 Electives 13

Professional and Graduate Program Thirty semester hours, ten hours of which must be in supervised field work with approved agencies where the University maintains regular field work centers, entitle the student to a degree of Bachelor of Social Administration. A minimum of 480 clock hours is required in field work. An additional ten hours of class instruction, four of which may be for a required thesis, and a minimum of 480 clock hours more of supervised field work with a total of 8 units of graduate credit will entitle the student to a degree of Master of Social Administration. Graduates from the pre-professional curriculum will be eligible to enroll in the graduate curriculum, and transfer students may enroll on condition that they have 16 semester hours of credit in pre-professional social work courses. Provisional List of Professional

F I R S T YEAR

and Graduate

Courses

First Semester Hours Sociol. 5 or 6—Urban or Rural Sociology 3 Sociol. 17—Methods of Sociological Research 3 •Mental Hygiene 2 *Social Case Work 3 •Social Field Work 5 Total.

1

Second Semester Hours Sociol. 27—Community Organization 3 *Legal Aspects of Social W o r k . . . . 3 *Medical Information 2 *Social Case Work 3 •Social Field Work 5 Total.

16

16

Electives may be used for major requirements, for specialization, or for meeting deficiencies in foreign language. *New courses, to be added to present offerings.