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Show employment and to work while they learn. This advantage is especially helpful in making arrangements for courses where both theory and practice are essential. Ogden is particularly attractive as a technical trade-training center because of the openings available to students who complete training courses in the trades. 2. The location of the community which the College serves enables it to cooperate with the high schools and senior institutions, the homes, and the students who are graduated from Box Elder, Davis, Morgan, and Weber County Districts. These students may live at home and attend college, a social and economic advantage to parents and students. 3. The Ogden locality affords abundant opportunity for field trips, observation, and study in courses in the sciences and the arts. Field trips in such subjects as botany, zoology, engineering, geography, geology, social studies, art, and photography are regularly scheduled. Situated forty miles from the Utah State Capitol, and within driving distance to mining and industrial interests of the magnitude of the Geneva Steel Mills and the Bingham Copper Mines, the College has acccess to these additional educational resources of the community. 4. The environmental features of the Ogden locality afford such recreational opportunities as mountain hiking, trout fishing, hunting, boating, swimming, golfing, motoring, skating, and skiing, all of which are utilized in the activity program of the College. INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS TRANSFERRING TO SENIOR INSTITUTIONS Weber College recognizes that there is some variation between the lower division requirements of colleges and universities. It is highly desirable, therefore, for a student who plans to transfer to a senior college to plan his program in accordance with the requirements of the institution to which he plans to transfer. Realizing that it may be advantageous to the student to know the requirements of the senior colleges in the State, we list the lower division requirements for the following schools: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Admission Requirements: A candidate to the freshman class must present an official statement from an approved high school showing that the candidate has completed satisfactorily a full high school course and has earned at least 15 units of high school work in subjects recognized by the University. The candidate must also have completed at least 10 basic units in groups 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, as follows: Group 1. English composition, literature and speech fundamentals. Group 2. Algebra, plane geometry, solid geometry, trigonometry. Group 3. General science, physiography, biology, botany, physiology, zoology, physics, chemistry, astronomy. Group 4. United States history and civics, European history, general history, ethics of citizenship, economics, sociology, psychology, education, and a maximum of one-half unit in commercial geography or commercial law. Group 5. French, German, Spanish, Latin, Greek. Three units in English and one unit in Algebra are required in all colleges of the University. In the College of Engineering, three units in Mathematics, including IV2 units in algebra, 1 unit in plane geometry, and 1 unit in Group 3 are required. An applicant over 19 years of age may be admitted under special conditions. (See University of Utah Catalogue). Lower Division Requirements: Specific Course Requirements: 1. General Education 1 (Freshman Orientation) 2. Basic Communication 11, 12 and 13 (9 hours); or English 1, 2 and Speech 1 (9 hours) 3. Physical Education 1 (3 approved courses) or Physical Education 1 and Military Training (3 approved courses) 4. Health Education 1 Area Requirements: The University of Utah will accept the completion of Weber College Area Requirements, as published in the Weber College Catalogue under Requirements for Associate of Arts or Sciences, as the equivalent of the University of Utah requirements. Curricula Requirements: Where there is a specific curriculum prescribed, such as the College of Engineering, a student should complete that specific curriculum as outlined in the Weber College Catalogue. General Requirements: For a Bachelor's degree, a student must complete a minimum of 183 quarter hours credit, 60 hours of which must be upper division work. Junior college credit will be accepted on the same basis as university lower division credit toward the completion of these requirements. The University reserves the right to reject transfer credit of "D" or barely passing. Transfer students from other schools in Utah are required to present an average of "C" or better in their most recent work as well as in the total to be eligible for admission in good standing. |