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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 designations 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 on a two or three day per week sequence for fourteen weeks each semester. Courses offered on a three day per week sequence (typically Monday-Wednesday-Friday) meet three times per week for 60 minutes each instructional period. Courses offered on a two day per week sequence (typically Monday-Wednesday or Tuesday-Thursday) meet two times per week for 90 minutes each instructional period.
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. 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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