Vancouver College - Collegian Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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rovides Excellent Choice of Solid Courses year s that there are any changes. The University Program student must write provincial exams in his major subjects and therefore he faces a more difficult curriculum. If he majors in Englsh, for example, apart from the compulsory four year course, he must take an extra English 91 class in his senior year. The majors offered at V.C. have the same basic requirements. To major in Social Studies one must take the compulsory three year pro- gram and an extra class in Grade Twelve. Math has the same requirements. A Science major con- stitutes two years of General Science supplemen- ted by Chemistry and Physics in the Junior and Senior years. A Commerce major is also avail- able at College. In the foreign language depart- ment a four year study of either French or Latin constitutes a major. Together with the program of majors a variety of minor studies give partial credits. Music and Ar t give three credits to a year. Health and Personal Development is a prescribed course worth five credits a year for three years. Jour- nalism provides a student five credits toward the hundred and twenty he needs to graduate. Making the right choice in high school has a great deal to do with success in later life. Realizing that a student on Grade nine level is seldom able to assess his talents accurately, the faculty places students in the program best suit- ed for them. Then, as his knowledge of avail- able fields is filled in and his interests develop, the student is equipped to make correct choices later in his high school career. The course outlined above is primarily academic and though there are many vocational and technical subjects recognized for credit in the British Columbia curriculum it is quite im- possible to cover all these fields in one school of this size. Science

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Vancouver College CURRICU LU M a? HYPERBOLE W 4 ft English St RS ' W 4jr 4 «| 57 Jl Social Studies ctiaque cm 10 SOIS S0YOH5 SOYEZ Scalpel, please! Perhaps this phrase will become familiar to some of our students in later years, others may become more accustomed to courtroom or commercial scenes, many will pro- bably find their future in the vast fields of en- gineering. In whatever position one chooses to build his future, he must lay the foundations in high school. Subjects in the university program must be selected according to the faculty one wishes to ’ « . . enter on being admitted to university. The sciences and medicine, for example, require four years of Mathematics and four years of Science The majors offered at V.C., if properly selected, will provide the necessary requirements for any phase of study at U.B.C. ' »“• ■ •-»« The freshman faces a decision: ' Shall it be Genecal Program or University Entrance? The qualifications of the General Program are not as stringent but one is not qualified to pursue fur- ther study at university. Throughout hjs high school coprse the student must earn one hundred and twenty credits in order to graduate; major subjects are usually worth five credits per year while minor subjects may be assigned less. The University w 4 . Program requires that at least three major sub- jects be selected for concentrated study. At V.C. the student who selects General Pro- gram takes a course very much like University Entrance for the first three years of high school. He studies two years of General Science and a foreign language, two years of Mathematics and three of Social Studies and a four year English course. When he graduates, the General Pro- gram student is ready for a commercial or tech- nical pursuit. Those taking University Program follow much the same pattern during their first two years in high school; it is only in the Junior and Senior Language

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Brothers Walsh and Bates discuss future projects outside the newly-completed Mackin Hall. BROTHER E. B. WALSH, M.A. Vice-Principal Mathematics, English MONSIGNOR T. M. NICHOL, V.G. Pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul FATHER J. SWINKELS Assistant Pastor 8