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I. Regulations Concerning the Cultural Degree of
Bachelor of Science.

(1) Selection and Number of Courses.

Unless admitted to advanced standing (p. 80) the candidate must
select the required thirteen courses as follows:

• (a) A Courses: The candidate must complete the work of English Literature
  1A, and of Mathematics 1A.

• (b) B Courses: The candidate must complete the work of eight B
  Courses, selected from the six groups given above (p. 157), as follows:
  two B Courses must be selected from Group I, and neither
  of these shall be a Course in Latin or Greek; one B Course must be
  selected from Group II; two from Group III; one from Group IV;
  one from Group V. and one from Group VI.

• (c) B or C Courses: The candidate must complete the work of three
  courses selected from the electives-at-large, in accordance with section
  (3), below, of these regulations. [See also Section (4)].

First-Year Students receiving no advanced standing should take
English Literature 1A, Mathematics 1A, a foreign language from
Group I, and a Natural Science from Group III.

(2) Time Required for Obtaining the B. S. Degree.

All undergraduates, except first-year students who enter without
advanced standing (Section (1) ), are required to undertake the
work of three courses each session; and of only three unless otherwise
authorized by the academic faculty. Hence the time normally
required for obtaining the degree of Bachelor of Science, by the
candidate who enters without advanced standing, is four years.
(See also Section (4), (b), below.)

The candidate who enters, with advanced standing, from another
college (p. 80), must devote at least one full session exclusively to

collegiate work here, and must complete the work of at least three
of the required B Courses, (Section (1) ), in this college. The
programme of studies offered by such candidate must satisfy all
the requirements of the B. S. degree as here established.

(3) Electives-at-large, and Major Group.

Each elective-at-large consists of a B Course or a C Course of
which the precedent B Course has been completed. After having
selected eight B Courses in accordance with Section (1), (b), of
these regulations, the candidate may offer as an elective-at-large
any B Course, not already selected, described under the head of the
academic schools, pp. 116-155, or any C Course, of which the precedent
B Course has been completed, described under the head of the
academic schools, pp. 116-155.

But in every case at least two of the electives-at-large must be
selected from the subjects of some one of the six groups (p. 157);
select this group is to be known as the candidate's Major Group.

(4) Substitutions Allowed for Electives-at-large.

The candidate who has satisfied the requirements of Section (1),
(a) and (b), of these regulations, will be permitted to offer in lieu
the three electives-at-large, (Section (1), (c) ), the work of the
first year in the Department of Law, or of Medicine, or any three
technical courses in the Department of Engineering. Thus the
candidate who desires to obtain both the B. S. degree and a professional
degree, may save one year of the time required for both
degrees.