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ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

Admission to the Department.—For admission to the Department of
Graduate Studies a baccalaureate degree from a recognized institution of collegiate
rank is required, for men and women alike. In order to become a
candidate for a degree, the student must be advanced to candidacy by the Committee
on Rules and Courses upon formal application as set forth below.

Final approval of candidacy will depend upon the record made during the
first term or quarter of residence.

Advancement to Candidacy for a Degree.—Any graduate student who
wishes to become a candidate for a degree must file with the Dean of the Department
his application on a blank form to be secured from the Dean's Secretary.
This application must include a proposed program of work arranged in
accordance with the requirements for the several degrees as stated below, and
must be accompanied, in case the applicant does not hold an academic degree
from this University, by an official transcript of the applicant's academic record
made out by the Registrar of the institution from which the baccalaureate degree
was received, and by a catalogue of that institution, marked to show the courses
of study pursued. The application will be submitted by the Dean to the
Committee on Rules and Courses, who will consider it in conference with
the professors concerned. The Committee will have the right to require that
the applicant add to his program any courses, undergraduate or graduate, considered
necessary to supply his deficiencies, or to enable him to pursue with
profit the courses he has selected. When the program has been finally approved,
the Dean will report to the applicant his advancement to candidacy for a degree.

It should be distinctly understood that graduate degrees are not conferred
merely upon the basis of the number of courses passed, or of the length of time
spent in resident or non-resident work, but upon the basis of the quality and
scope of the candidate's knowledge and his power of investigation in his chosen
field of study. Candidates whose training and attainments are inferior cannot
expect to secure a degree in the normal length of time estimated below for the
respective degrees.

As a prerequisite to full candidacy for a Master's degree, at least 6 collegiate
session-hours, or 12 semester-hours, of foreign language credit are required.
A reading knowledge of at least one foreign language may be attested by an
examination.

Candidates for degrees at the Summer Quarter Final Exercises must hand
in their theses by August 1 and take their final comprehensive examinations as soon
as their theses have been approved.

Note.—Each graduate student is urged to consult with the professor of the Major Subject,
and to have his course of study finally arranged and approved before registering is
Peabody Hall.

No student may enter a graduate course for credit after three days.

No graduate student is entitled to a special examination on any course in the Summer
Quarter on which his or her grade has been unsatisfactory. This deficiency may be made
up during another summer or in the regular session.