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II. PREMEDICAL COLLEGE COURSE.

In addition to the high school work specified above, a candidate for admission
to the Department of Medicine must present evidence of the completion
of thirty session hours of collegiate work in a college approved by
the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association.
A session-hour is the credit value of one hour a week of lecture or recitatation
or two hours a week of laboratory work throughout a session of at
least thirty-two weeks, exclusive of holidays. The subjects included in the
thirty session-hours of college work should be in accordance with the following
schedule:

           

Required Subjects:	Session-hours.
Chemistry (a)	6
Physics (b)	4
Biology (c)	4
English Composition and Literature (d)	3
Other non-science subjects, including one modern foreign language (e)	6

Subjects Strongly Urged:

• French or German.

• Advanced Botany or Advanced Zoölogy.

• Psychology.

• Advanced Algebra, Solid Geometry, and Trigonometry.

• Additional courses in Chemistry.

Other Suggested Electives:

• English (additional), Economics, History, Sociology, Political Science,
  Logic, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, Drawing.