CATALOG 1952-1953


 Transfer students who wish to enter the College of Arts and Sciences are referred
to the Board of University Examiners in accordance with the provisions of the section
of this catalog entitled Admissions.
 Admission to Graduate Study: The general section of this catalog dealing with
admissions describes certain minimum requirements for the admission of graduate stu-
dents to the University. In addition to these requirements, students wishing to be
admitted to graduate work in any department of the College of Arts and Sciences
must also have earned a 3.0 (B) average during the last two years of undergraduate
work; (2) have earned a 3.0 (B) average in all work attempted in the proposed grad-
uate major field; (3) have completed an amount and distribution of work in the pro-
posed graduate major field which is satisfactory to the major department; and (4)
have submitted to the Admissions Office of the University a complete report of results
on The Graduate Record Examination at the time of application for admission.


 REQUIREMENTS FOR DEGREES

Degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science: The programs which lead to the
degrees Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science are alike in all basic requirements. The
requirements for graduation with either of these degrees are as follows:
 A minimum of sixty-four semester hours credit with an average of C in all work
transferred to or completed in the College. In this work must be included (1) either
a Departmental Major or a Group Major as described below, (2) satisfaction of the
Language Requirement as described below, and (3) at least twelve semester hours of
approved electives as described below in the statement of the elective requirement. It
is further required that in the entire program of studies of the student he shall
have earned credit in each of the Comprehensive Courses of the University Col-
lege or shall have earned an equal amount of credit in the area covered by
each Comprehensive Course in which he does not present credit. It is also required
that each student qualifying for a degree from this College shall possess facility in the
oral and written use of the English language. This requirement will be considered
satisfied when the department of the student's major has certified such facility.
 The degree Bachelor of Arts will be conferred upon those who fulfill the require-
ments for degrees with majors in one or more of the fields of Anthropology, Art,
Economics, English, French, German, Greek, History, Homemaking, Italian, Latin,
Library Science, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Portuguese, Religion, Sociology,
Spanish, and Speech.
 The degree Bachelor of Science will be conferred upon those who fulfill the re-
quirements for degrees with majors in one or more of the fields of Astronomy, Bac-
teriology, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Meteorology, and Physics.
 The degree of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science will be conferred upon those
who fulfill the requirements for the degree with majors in one or more fields of
Geography, Mathematics, and Psychology according as their remaining courses are se-
lected predominantly from the other fields which lead to either one or the other
degree.
The Departmental Major: Many students desire to specialize in some one subject-
matter field. Such students should undertake to earn a departmental major. A de-
partmental major consists of two parts, as follows: (1) Concentration consisting of not
less than twenty-four and not more than thirty-two semester hours in one subject-matter
field. This field is called the student's major field. Work in this field taken in the