GENERAL LIST OF PREPARATORY SUBJECTS

Units of Credit.-The amount of work represented both by preparatory or high school subjects and by the University courses is specified quantitatively. In the University a unit signifies one hour per week of recitation or lecture, with preparation therefor, during one half-year. A course of study taken in the preparatory school for one year at five periods per week is valued at 3 units. Laboratory hours not requiring preparation are estimated at a lower rate than recitations and lectures.

* Subject A will hereafter not be required for matriculation, but will be required for Junior standing in all the colleges at Berkeley. An examination in this subject will be given shortly before the close of each half-year. Every intrant admitted to regular first-year or second-year standing is required to take an examination in Subject A before the close of his first half-year's work; failure to take the examination in Subject A at the time required, or failure to pass, has the same effect upon the student's standing as a failure to pass in an ordinary course.

Special students, as heretofore, will be required to pass a test in oral and written expression before entering the University. This test will be conducted for each appli cant by his advisor. A student who passes this test is still required to pass Subject A if he desires promotion to Junior standing.

The dagger indicates subjects for which equivalent courses are offered in the University. For further description of these courses reference should be made to the annual Announcement of Courses.

Subjects 6ab1, 15a1, 15b1, and 15c1 represent the minimum credit in Latin, French, German, and Spanish, respectively-one year of high school work. Such credit is ordinarily given only upon recommendation, not upon examination.

GROUP I

The requirements for complete matriculation in the colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Commerce, and Agriculture, and in the five-year courses in the colleges of Mechanics, Mining, Civil Engineering, and Chemistry are as follows:

(a) English, two years, subject 1

(b) Plane geometry, one year, subject 2

(c) Elementary algebra, one year, subject 3

(d) United States history and government, one year, subject 5

6 units

3 units

3 units

3 units

(e) Physics, chemistry, or other third-year or fourth-year science, one year, from subjects 11, 12b, 12c, 12d, 12f.... 3 units (f) Foreign language or languages, ancient or modern, two years, from subjects 6, 7, 8, 9, 15

(g) Additional foreign language as shown in f above; additional advanced sciences as shown in e above; intermediate mathematics, advanced mathematics, from subjects 4 and 12a. Any combination

(h) Electives (which may include not to exceed 9 units chosen from subjects 18-21 or from high school subjects not listed by the University)

Total

6 units

6 units

15 units

45 units

The candidate for admission must have chosen his preparatory subjects in such a way as to have a total of 12 units of subjects designated as "advanced," including United States history and government, and including one of the following sciences, if taken, with laboratory work, in classes made up of third-year or fourth-year pupils in the high school: physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, physiology. Subjects which may be offered as advanced subjects are as follows: 4a', 4a2, 4b, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12 (excluding sciences given in the first and second years of the high school), 13b, 14, 15a3, 15a', 15b3, 15b1, 15c3, 15c.

Applicants entering the Colleges of Engineering, or the College of Chemistry, or expecting to take up other courses of study (for example, medicine, home economics, or agriculture) presupposing a knowledge of the elements of physics or chemistry, with laboratory practice (matriculation subjects 11, 12b), should provide for this work either during the high school course or during the University summer sessions. No equivalent for this work is offered during the regular sessions of the University. Prospective students of home economics should if possible include among their high school studies physics 11, chemistry 12b, freehand drawing 16, industrial arts 18c (3 units) and 18d (6 units). Applicants for the College of Letters, the College of Social Sciences, or for other courses

of study requiring matriculation Latin, subject 6, should notice that the University does not offer instruction in this subject either during the regular sessions or during the summer sessions.

Applicants who enter the colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, or Commerce with less than twelve units of matriculation credit for foreign language may find it necessary to complete an unusual amount of foreign language during the freshman and sophomore years.

Caution. The work for matriculation is so closely related to the work of the freshman and sophomore years in the University, that the matriculation electives cannot be intelligently chosen without reference to the requirements for the Junior Certificate. These requirements are stated elsewhere in this circular.

GROUP II

For matriculation in the four-year courses in the Colleges of Mechanics, Mining, Civil Engineering, and Chemistry: Subjects 1, 2, 3, 4a', 4a2, 4b, 5, 11, 12a3, 12b, 16, 17, and 12 units (four years) further work in language (subjects 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15) chosen in such a way as to provide for at least 6 units (two years) of work in foreign language, ancient or modern.

The attention of students who are preparing to enter any one of the engineering colleges is directed to the following facts: The regular curriculum of the first year in all engineering colleges (the four-year courses) includes mathematics, physics, chemistry, and surveying. Admission to any one of these courses is conditioned upon the satisfaction of the following entrance requirements: For mathematics and surveying: plane and solid geometry (2 and 4b); two years of algebra (3, 4a1, 4a2); plane trigonometry (12a); for physics: elementary physics (11); for chemistry: elementary chemistry (12b); for surveying, in addition to the mathematics: geometrical drawing (17). Deficiency in any one of these prerequisites will postpone the corresponding University course until the deficiency is removed and will usually prevent the completion of the course in engineering in four years. Moreover, courses in elementary physics and chemistry are not offered by the University, except during the summer session. In this connection the attention of prospective students of engineering is called to the provision which has been made by the University for regular five-year courses in engineering; the matriculation requirement is group I.

For the course in Architecture, students may matriculate either in Letters, Social Sciences, or Natural Sciences. Such students should include in their high school course the work in mathematics, physics, and drawing required for the Colleges of Engineering as indicated by matriculation group II.

For matriculation in the College of Medicine-the four years' course leading to M.D.-the student is required to obtain the Junior Certificate in any of the colleges at Berkeley or to present an equivalent preparation. If he is a candidate both for the bachelor's degree and for M.D. he must complete at least a year of academic work following the Junior Certificate, before entering the College of Medicine.

Prospective students of medicine must include in their high school course, Latin, 2 years, physics, 1 year, chemistry, 1 year; and in their University studies certain specific subjects which are required by the faculty of the College of Medicine in the interest of thorough professional preparation. For a statement of these subjects in detail, see later pages of this circular.

For admission to the School of Jurisprudence at Berkeley, senior standing in the College of Letters or Social Sciences is required. The same privileges are open to regular students in senior standing in the College of Natural Sciences or Commerce, provided they have completed at least six units of matriculation or college Latin.

For admission to the School of Education, senior standing is required. College of Dentistry.-Until further notice, applicants will be admitted on the same terms as to regular courses or courses at large in the colleges at Berkeley, i.e., forty-five units of preparatory work evidenced by proper high school recommendations or matriculation examinations; not more than nine units chosen from subjects 18-21 may be included in the forty-five. In and after August, 1913, this credit must include physics (subject 11) or chemistry (subject 12b).

Hastings College of the Law.-In and after August, 1913, the applicant must possess the Junior Certificate in an academic college of the University, or credentials evidencing an equivalent preparation-being six years of properly selected high school and collegiate work. The requirements for the Junior Certificate are given elsewhere in this circular.

College of Pharmacy.-Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Phar macy, to be conferred after June, 1915, must have satisfied, in addition to the regular professional course, all requirements for the Junior Certificate in an Academic college of the University-i.e., at least six years altogether of high school and college work. For details concerning admission to the professional colleges, reference should be made to their respective annual announcements.

Admission with Deficiencies.-The question of admitting an applicant to the University with matriculation deficiencies is decided in each case by the Academic Senate or its committees upon the merits of the case. In general, applicants with less than forty-five units of matriculation credit are not admitted.

All courses taken in the University for the purpose of making up matriculation deficiencies are credited solely on the student's matriculation account, and are not credited as part of the sixty-four units required in the Lower Division for the Junior Certificate. This holds even though the student enters with forty-five units of matriculation credit. For example: a student may enter the University under Group I with fortyfive units of matriculation credit but with only six units of credit in foreign languages. Such a student is conditioned in six units of matriculation work in foreign languages, and these six units, whether taken in the University or otherwise, form no part of the sixty-four units required in the Lower Division for the Junior Certificate.

SURPLUS MATRICULATION CREDIT

Students who bring from accredited preparatory schools credits in excess of the requirements for matriculation must pass an examination at the University in the subjects covered by such credits before these may be counted as canceling any portion of the one hundred and twenty-four or more units required for graduation. In lieu of such examination for university credit in a given matriculation subject, the faculty may accept as a sufficient evidence of proficiency, a thoroughly satisfactory record (at least second grade) in higher work in the same subject, or in a closely related subject, taken in the University. The preparatory subjects in which university credits may be acquired are as follows: 4, 7, 8, 9, 12a', 12a2, 12a3, 15, 16, and 17.

A surplus matriculation credit in the foregoing list of subjects, or in other subjects, which may be granted upon recommendation or credentials, without examination, may be used to reduce the number of units in these specific subjects prescribed, in the University, for the Junior Certificate, but not to reduce the total number of units required (normally 64) for the Certificate.

STUDENTS AT LARGE

The recommended graduates of accredited secondary schools are admitted to the University to the status of Students at Large on any forty-five units of credit for subjects included in the University's preparatory list; provided not more than nine units chosen from subjects 18-21 be included in the forty-five. Students entering in this way may take as much University work as is permitted to regular students without matriculation conditions. They will, like all other students in the University, be permitted to enroll only in courses of instruction for which they have the necessary scholastic preparation. By virtue of their status they are not candidates for a degree.