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The Wildcat

Academic Emphases

The chief purpose of Wiley College is to furnish an environment for the development of young men and women as leaders. To this end, an able continuous faculty has been assembled, together with a select student body. These have worked together with modern equipment under a system which effects high standards. The curricula provide a liberal academic background characterized by a Christian emphasis.

Students who enter Wiley College come mainly from accredited high schools, and have the distinct advantage of being oriented by the combined results of a unique Freshman Week program and an unusually strong orientation course. The quarter plan of work is in vogue, and demands a definite quantity of work in a definite time with the stress upon the quality of work rather than upon the amount thereof. The entire system is so built as to encourage the formation of the following habits: straight thinking, exactness, punctuality, and dispatch.

The academic curricula lead to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. Co-operating with the department of Arts and Sciences are the School of Music, the School of Commerce, and the School of Home Economics. Standard requirements are met by prescribed subjects and group electives, while the group electives and free electives provide for individual differences. These are further capitalized by choices of major and minor fields of concentration by the beginning of the spring quarter of the second collegiate year.

Every student is given a thorough training in the vernacular; and because of the value of a little required work in a field in which there is not a multiplicity of opinions, mathematics has not been disregarded. This subject is used as a tool both in Statistics and in natural science. The prescribed list is completed by the addition of general psychology and physical education, subjects which enable the student to develop both mind and body in a way that will enhance his personality. Group electives include modern foreign language for its value as a tool, and natural science, history and government, sociology and economics, philosophy and religion as content subjects of distinct liberal value. However, a real appreciation of what all this means comes only to the student who receives the benefit of intellectual, social, and spiritual growth in the Wiley College environment.