8. A student expecting to be graduated in December must have his thesis subject approved on the third Monday of the preceding February, present the work for examination and criticism on or before the first Monday in November, and submit the thesis complete on or before the last day of November. In all other respects he will be guided by the above instructions, 1-7. NOTE. The size of page for theses is 82 X 11 inches. Record ink should be used. For further instructions the student should consult the department in which his thesis work is taken. For the regulations governing theses in the College of Agriculture see page 110. HONORS Departments or colleges are authorized to recommend for honors with the bachelor's degree such students as shall have satisfied the requirements for honors, which are normally as follows: (a) In the colleges of general culture and of Commerce and Chemistry every candidate for honors must complete with marked scholarly success a course or combination of courses equivalent to not more than two to three hours a week of attendance, but calling for a total of about fifteen hours a week of effort, inclusive of attendance or formal conferences, and entitling the student to five units of credit. Such honor courses will be open to seniors, not exceeding twelve in number for each course, who, because of the quality of their previous work, shall have been declared eligible therefor by the department concerned. (b) In the colleges of Engineering and Agriculture, and in the College of Medicine for students who become candidates for a bachelor's degree, and in the departments of Jurisprudence and Architecture, students may be recommended for honors on the basis of the quality of the work done in the regular curriculum of the senior year or its equivalent, or on the basis of a thesis showing ability to do original work. (c) Or, students may be recommended for honors in any college or department on the basis of a thesis showing ability to do original work. (d) Or, students who have distinguished themselves in the advanced work of any department may be recommended by that department for honors at graduation. The Academic Council has established a standing committee of seven members on honors, whose duty it is to report from time to time on matters concerning uniformity of standard and the co-ordination of the requirements of the several departments. HONORABLE MENTION The term "Honorable Mention" shall be placed upon the junior certificates of students who have attained at least second grade in forty-eight (48) units of their freshman and sophomore courses. Students in the colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences, who receive honorable mention with the junior certificate, and who devote the junior and senior years to strictly academic (non-professional) courses, will be required to complete only fifty-one units in the upper division. DEGREES Every undergraduate student who intends to become a candidate for a degree must file with the Recorder of the Faculties a detailed schedule of studies offered for the degree sought. This schedule must be filed by regular students at least six calendar months, by all other students at least one full academic year, before the date proposed for graduation, and must be approved by the committee on graduation of the college in which the student is enrolled. Of the one hundred and twenty-four (or more) units required for the bachelor's degree, at least twenty-four units must have been completed at this University. Courses not required by the curriculum for graduation may be dropped from the record of any student on formal petition to the Faculty concerned. Work done in any professional college or school of this or any other university, or in any independent professional school, will not be accepted as a substitute for any part of the work of the first three years of the undergraduate course or of the first year of the upper division. Work done in a professional college of this university by a regular student will be accepted as a substitute for not more than one year's work (normally the senior year) in a college of general culture, the amount and character of said year's work to be determined after consultaion with the professional faculties. As a matter of courtesy between different faculties of the University, there is no objection to the acceptance of work done in a professional college as a substitute for work done in an academic college, provided such substitution be made in accordance with the regulations and with the consent of the department concerned at Berkeley certifying that the work is of equal value. But such work cannot be counted twice (except by special legislation), once for a professional degree in a professional college and again also for an academic degree. All the graduates of any one calendar year-January 1 to December 31-shall be ranked as belonging to the so-called class of that year. THE GRADUATE SCHOOL COLLEGES OF LETTERS, SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING GRADUATE COURSES Advanced instruction, leading to the degrees of Master of Arts (with the corresponding degrees in Letters, Sciences, and Engineering), Doctor of Philosophy, Juris Doctor, Mechanical Engineer, Civil Engineer, Mining Engineer, etc., is offered by the University of California to graduates of any recognized college or university. The University Library contains about 290,000 volumes, not including the material contained in the Bancroft Collection. The Library is admirably adapted, so far as its extent allows, for purposes of advanced study and research. The laboratories are extensive and well equipped, and every facility is afforded for research work in pure and applied science. TEACHERS' COURSES Professional training for students who desire to teach is offered by the University through the department of education and other departments that offer special teachers' courses. The requirements for the recommendation for the Teacher's Certificate are given hereunder. REGULATIONS OF THE FACULTIES CONCERNING GRADUATE ADMISSION TO GRADUATE STANDING Persons holding the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Letters, Philosophy, or Science from a reputable institution authorized by law to confer these degrees, or holding any other degree or certificate which the Academic Council may accept as equivalent, may be admitted as graduate students in the University of California upon presenting official credentials. Graduates of the following institutions, constituting the Association of American Universities, may be admitted as qualified candidates for a higher degree: University of California, Catholic University of America, University of Chicago, Clark University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, University of Illinois, Indiana University, State University of Iowa, Johns Hopkins University, University of Kansas, Leland Stanford Junior University, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin, Yale University. Graduates of other institutions may be admitted as qualified candidates upon presenting evidence of preparation for strictly graduate work in the University of California. The grade of work to which graduate students are assigned and their standing as candidates for degrees will depend upon the extent and character of their undergraduate course. If in any department the preliminary training of candidates has not been sufficient to qualify them for strictly graduate work, they must undertake such undergraduate courses as may be suited to their needs. Admission to graduate standing does not imply admission to candidacy for a degree. The conditions of candidacy for the several degrees are stated hereunder. II CANDIDACY AND RESIDENCE Students in the Graduate School are classified as resident graduate students or as graduate students in absence. Resident graduate students register with the Recorder of the Faculties on a day set aside for that purpose at the opening of each session, in August, in January, or in June. Graduate students in absence may complete their registration only with the approval of the department or departments in which studies are to be pursued and of the Dean of the Graduate School, from whom blank forms for graduate study in absence may be obtained. If necessary, registration for graduate study in absence may be arranged by correspondence with the Dean. All graduate students, whether in residence or in absence, are required to renew their registration at the University at the beginning of every session (August, January, or June), or in lieu of such renewal to obtain formal leave of absence. A blank form of petition for a leave of absence may be obtained from the Recorder of the Faculties. No graduate student is considered as a candidate for any degree unless he is expressly advanced to candidacy by the Academie Council upon formal petition. At least one-half year must elapse between formal advancement to candidacy for any degree and the conferring of the degree. Actual residence and study as a graduate student must, except for graduates of the University of California, precede formal advancement to candidacy for a higher degree. If a student who has pursued graduate studies in absence later becomes a resident student and a candidate for a higher degree, the work done in absence will be given due consideration on its merits, but in every case except that of candidacy for certain advanced degrees in engineering at least one year in residence at the University is required. Residence at the Lick Observatory at Mt. Hamilton, at the Herzstein Research Laboratory at New Monterey, at the Southern California Pathological Laboratory at Whittier, at the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture at Riverside, at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research at La Jolla, or at the University Farm at Davis is residence at the University for such students as have been appointed to work at any of these places. Residence wherever a student may be directed by the Faculty to prosecute regular scientific investigation is regarded as residence at the University. Two summer sessions, devoted to an approved course of study, may be rated as the equivalent of one half-year for purposes of residence; and registration in summer sessions, with satisfactory completion of the work undertaken may be accepted as satisfying to that extent the residence qualification for a higher degree. Candidates for degrees may, at the discretion of the Academic Council, be given credit for work taken at other universities; but such allowance of credit will not reduce the minimum period of residence, normally one year, required in the University of California. Every resident graduate student must attend at least one regularly authorized course of instruction; but such attendance does not satisfy the minimum requirement of residence in candidacy for any degree unless it amounts to at least four hours per week. A graduate student who ceases to attend at least one course must enroll as a non-resident, receive an official leave of absence, or be considered to have withdrawn from the University. III CONDITIONS FOR A BACHELOR'S DEGREE FOR A GRADUATE STUDENT Graduate students may be recommended as candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Letters, or Bachelor of Science on completing at least twenty-four units during one or more years of attendance upon such courses of instruction as are regularly pursued by seniors in the University of California, and on performing such additional work and passing such examinations as may appear necessary to the Academic Council. In all cases candidates must satisfy the graduation requirements |