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The College’s curriculum is designed to
provide a four-year academic program for each student. It consists
of courses numbered in an orderly
sequence ranging from the first-year level to the senior level.
The abbreviations in parentheses after the names
of disciplines (“AR” for
Art, etc.) are those used by the College for permanent records and class
schedules. The bachelor’s degree designation to the right of names
of disciplines (Bachelor of Arts, etc.) indicate those degrees awarded
by the College for completing major requirements in the discipline.
The figure in parentheses after each course indicates
the amount of credit given for the course: a full-unit course (1),
a half-unit course
(½), a quarter-unit course (¼). Units of credit earned
at Birmingham-Southern College may be translated into conventional semester-hour
credits by multiplying the indicated figure by four. They may be translated
into conventional quarter-hour credits by multiplying the indicated figure
by six.
Prerequisite courses are designated after course descriptions; if no
designation appears after a course description, that course has no prerequisite.
The term a course is to be offered may follow the course description.
Students should plan their full undergraduate programs with this schedule
of offerings in mind, although the College reserves the right to cancel
the offering of any course.
Classes are usually scheduled each week on either
a Monday-Wednesday- Friday sequence or a Tuesday-Thursday sequence.
The academic day on the
Monday sequence is divided into six periods of 60 minutes each for instructional
use. The academic day on the Tuesday sequence offers five periods of
90 minutes each for instructional use. A “Common Hour” is
built into the schedule on Tuesdays and Thursdays for special programs,
speakers, and College community activities.
Recognizing that different kinds of courses require different contexts
for learning, the College has not restricted discussion groups, studio
activities, laboratories, and seminars to the schedule outlined above.
Some classes, particularly elementary courses in modern foreign languages,
meet every day for 55 minutes. Other classes meet on Monday and Wednesday
for 90 minutes. Double periods are available for laboratories and other
activities requiring large blocks of time. Students should consult the
printed class schedule as they plan their courses each term.
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