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ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS.

Required for Admission to the Department.—A candidate for admission
to the Department of Graduate Studies must have a baccalaureate
degree from a recognized institution of collegiate rank or from a standard
state normal school offering a four year course; or, in case the institution
he attended does not confer such a degree, he must present a certificate
of graduation in a course of study accepted by the Academic Faculty as
fully equivalent to that ordinarily required for the degree in question.

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION.

A candidate who has received a baccalaureate degree from the University,
or who has fulfilled the conditions above specified under entrance
requirements, is entitled to the degree of Master of Science in Education
upon the successful completion of four graduate courses in Education in
three fields with the restrictions detailed below:

No C course which a candidate has offered as a part of the work credited
for a baccalaureate degree may be counted for the Master's degree.

A candidate must take at least two graduate courses in Education during
the last year of his work for a Master's degree, and no candidate may
receive this degree until at least one year after he has received his baccalaureate
degree, except by special consent of the faculty in Education.

A candidate may register for the degree of Master of Science in Education
who holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts, the cultural degree of
Bachelor of Science or the Bachelor of Science in Education of this University.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY.

A candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy must hold a baccalaureate
degree of this university, or, if he be a graduate of some other institution,
he must have fulfilled the conditions above specified under Entrance
Requirements. The requirements for the degree are as follows:

(1) A reading knowledge of French and German, attested by the successful
completion of the B courses in these languages, or else by examinations
held at the beginning of the first year of the candidate's work
for the doctorate, by committees consisting of the professor in charge of
the candidate's major subject and the professors of French and German,
respectively. If the candidate fails on one or both of these examinations,
he will be required to enter the appropriate course in one or both of
these languages. No student will be regarded as a regular candidate for
the doctorate until he has fulfilled this requirement.

(2) The successful completion of at least three years of graduate work
in Education in three fields, to be known, respectively, as the candidate's
major, primary minor and secondary minor. The major must be pursued

for at least three years, the primary minor for at least two years,
and the secondary minor for at least one year.

No C course may be counted toward the doctor's degree unless preceded
by B work in the same subject aggregating at least 6 session-hours;
or, in case only one 3 session-hour course is offered in that subject, by
one B course in that subject and a second B course in the same Group,
chosen with the approval of the professor in charge of the C course in
question.

Any student taking a D course in Education may be required by the
professor, with the approval of the Education Faculty, to attend such
lectures or courses in any of the Academic Schools as the professor may
deem necessary.

Graduate work done in other universities may be accepted in lieu of
resident work, provided sufficient evidence is furnished by examination,
written or oral, or both, that such work has been of a grade similar to
that required here, and has been satisfactorily performed, and provided
also that the candidate takes in this university at least one graduate
course in his primary minor, and does at least one year's resident work
in his major subject.

A candidate who is a professor in a chartered college or university,
of the subject selected by him as major, may be allowed by the Education
Faculty to spend only two years in resident work. In all cases the work
of the last year of candidacy shall be done in residence, unless the Academic
Faculty shall for special reasons direct otherwise.

(3) A dissertation exhibiting independent research in some branch
of the candidate's major subject. The dissertation must be submitted to
the Education Faculty not later than April 15 of the year in which the
candidate applies for the degree. Moreover, the copy presented for the
faculty's approval shall be written (typewritten, if feasible) on paper of
prescribed quality and size, shall be bound, and shall have certain prescribed
phrases on the cover and title page. If the dissertation is accepted
by the faculty as satisfactory the copy submitted shall immediately
become the property of the University. Before the degree is conferred
the dissertation must be printed at the candidate's expense, and one hundred
copies deposited in the library of the University; or, if this be impracticable
on account of lack of time, the candidate must deposit with
the Bursar a sum of money sufficient to have a hundred copies of the dissertation
printed.

(4) A candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with any
field of Education as a major subject, shall (a) pass, at least two terms prior
to receiving the degree, preliminary written examinations in each of the
following fields: History of Education, Educational Psychology, Educational
Administration, Secondary Education, Education Sociology; and
(b) pass a final oral examination upon his dissertation and the general fields
of his major and minor subjects.