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PRE-MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS.

Courses covering all the required subjects for entrance to the first
year of the Department of Medicine, as described on page 262 of the
regular catalogue, are offered in the Summer Quarter.

In addition to the completion of a four-year high school course, of
at least fifteen units, a candidate for admission to the Department of
Medicine must present evidence of the completion of, at least, thirty
session-hours of collegiate work in a college approved by the Council

on Medical Education of the American Medical Association. The
subjects included in the thirty session-hours of college work should
be in accordance with the following schedule:

Required Subjects:

             

	Session-hours
General Inorganic Chemistry (a)	4
Organic Chemistry (b)	3
Physics (c)	4
Biology (d)	4
English Composition and Literature (e)	3
Other non-science subjects, including one ancient or modern language (f)	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.

For fuller information see pages 263-265 of the regular catalogue of
the University.