faculties or those which would be credited by approved institutions for their graduate degrees.

6) Medical missionaries.-Special arrangements may be made in the case of graduate students preparing for work as medical missionaries.

2. Degrees conferred.-The Graduate Divinity School offers courses leading to the degrees of A.M., D.B., and Ph.D. The eighteen vocational majors of the curriculum must be taken by all candidates for the D.B. and Ph.D. degrees.

THE CURRICULUM

The Divinity School endeavors to shape its curriculum in such a way as to prepare men for efficiency in religious leadership. In this leadership four chief fields are recognized as demanding specific preparation: the pastorate, foreign missions, religious education, social service. In addition to preparing for these four fields, the Graduate Divinity School prepares men to be specialists in the various fields of theological discipline. Its graduates who have thus specialized are now widely located in theological seminaries and colleges.

1. Studies leading to the Ph.D. degree.-The Divinity School offers a very large opportunity for specialized work in various departments. The courses to be taken by candidates for this degree will be determined by the department in which the students work, and such students are referred to the regulations governing the Ph.D. degree on p. 113.

2. The general plan of the curriculum leading to the D.B. degree.-The general plan of the curriculum is determined by the efficiency demanded by the church of its leaders. This efficiency involves (1) broad training in methods of church work, (2) a knowledge of social and psychological principles, the truths of Christianity as set forth in the Bible, and the history of religious institutions and thought, and (3) individual specialization.

a) The curriculum thus includes eighteen prescribed "vocational majors," and a year of elective work under direction and advice calculated to prepare each individual student for the particular type of religious activity to which he purposes to devote himself. For this third year each department provides "sequence majors."

b) Election of field of work, department of study, and degree.—When the student has completed at least nine prescribed majors, in which he gains a general knowledge of the field of theological study, he should determine, provisionally, in what department of the great field of Christian ministry he expects to do his future work, and what line of study he wishes to emphasize in preparing for such work. Accordingly, he submits to the Faculty for approval a written statement indicating

1) His selection of one of the following fields of future work: (a) the pastorate, (b) religious education, (c) social service, (d) foreign missionary work.

2) One of the following departments as that of his principal subject (except in the case of those students planning to enter foreign missionary work): (a) Old Testament, (b) New Testament, (c) Church History, (d) Systematic Theology, (e) Practical Theology, (f) Practical Sociology.

3) A professor in the department in which he has chosen his principal subject, as his adviser, under whose direction he does his subsequent work.

c) The student's work in his third year of residence includes: 3 sequence majors in his principal department; 6 majors under the direction of his adviser. These 6 majors need not be in any one department.

Three majors in Hebrew may be substituted for the prescribed majors in Old Testament.

NOTE 1. Students choosing Comparative Religion as their principal department may have three of the "prescribed majors" designated by and regarded as belonging to that Department.

NOTE 2.-Work in Public Speaking and Music.-All candidates for the D.B. degree are required to take one hour a week during three quarters in Public Speaking and one hour a week during two quarters in Music. These courses do not give academic credit and should be taken in the first year of residence in the School.

NOTE 3.-Observation and study of churches, institutions, settlements, etc.-All students are required to give one session a week during one quarter to such visitation and study under the direction of the Department of Practical Sociology.

THIRD YEAR

In his third year of residence the student will choose three sequence majors in a principal department and six other majors under his adviser.

GROUP II. PREPARATION FOR THE FOREIGN MISSION FIELD

1. The eighteen prescribed vocational courses.-A student preparing for the foreign mission field will take, during his first two years of residence, the eighteen prescribed vocational majors, as stated above, but may substitute courses in Comparative Religion and the Psychology of Religion for Practical Theology 1, 2, 20. The particular courses so substituted may be determined in consultation with the Dean.

2. In his third year of residence a student will be required to take the following three courses: (1) Educational Psychology; (2) The Mind of the Oriental; (3) Survey of Twentieth Century Missions, or, Principles and Methods of Missionary Enterprise; and six majors from the following: (1) Introduction

to Comparative Religion; (2) The Religions of India; (3) Sanskrit; (4) The Spread of Islam; (5) Arabic; (6) International Law; (7) Phonetics; (8) Church and Roman Empire; (9) The Missionary Presentation of Christianity; (10) The Greco-Roman World in the First Century, or, The Apostolic Age; (11) Minor Prophets; (12) The Psalter; (13) The Book of Matthew, 51 or 61. This work will be supplemented by special lectures by experts in missionary work and returned missionaries.

3. All students are required to take a general course in Missions.-Practical Sociology 70, Problems and Methods of Church Expansion. Elective work in the history of missions is offered during at least three quarters of the year, as well as courses by experts from the foreign field. During the year 1913-14, these latter courses were on China (Problems of the New China) by Rev. Herbert Finley Rudd of Suifu, China, and Japan (Christianity in Japan) by Dr. Katsuji Kato of Osaka, Japan.

4. The Board of Missionary Preparation, created by and representing the Foreign Missionary Societies of the United States and Canada, recommends students preparing for regular foreign missionary service to add a year of special preparation for this work to a three years' non-specialized theological course. Students whose circumstances permit them to adopt this plan are advised to add to the eighteen prescribed majors, as above indicated, the nine majors as indicated for the third year of the candidate for the pastorate and the nine majors indicated for the candidate for the foreign mission field.

5. Students preparing to be medical missionaries, who are eligible for matriculation in the Graduate Divinity School, may arrange to take the first two years of their medical preparation at the University. Such of these students as may need assistance in the way of tuition may write the Dean of the Divinity School.

GROUP III. PREPARATION FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

1. The eighteen prescribed vocational courses.—A student preparing for professional work in the field of Religious Education will take the above-mentioned eighteen prescribed majors, but will substitute three majors in Religious Education for Practical Theology 1, 2, 20.

2. In his third year of residence the student will take courses under the direction of his adviser from those listed in the Department of Practical Theology as approved in the field of Religious Education. As far as possible, the student will be given practice work in Sunday schools and other agencies of religious education.

GROUP IV. PREPARATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICE

1. Eighteen prescribed vocational majors.-Students may make substitution of introductory courses in the Department of Sociology in the place of Practical Theology 1, 2, 20. The particular courses must be determined by consultation with the Head of the Department of Practical Sociology and with the Dean.

2. In his third year of residence the student will take courses under the direction of the Department of Practical Sociology in such departments of the University as may particularly prepare him for the field of social service in which he plans to enter. The more important of such fields are in connection with charity organizations, settlements, institutional churches, the Young Men's Christian Association, reformatories, and recreative centers.

DEGREES IN THE GRADUATE DIVINITY SCHOOL

MASTER OF ARTS

Candidates for the degree of A.M. are recommended by the Divinity Faculty to the Faculties of the Graduate School of Arts, Literature, and Science, and are subject to the general regulations governing the granting of the degree. See p. 112.

BACHELOR OF DIVINITY

1) Twenty-seven graduate majors are required for the degree of D.B. Candidates must have received a Bachelor's degree equivalent to that given by the University of Chicago, and in general must fulfil the requirements stated under "The Curriculum" above.

Of the twenty-seven majors thus required not less than eighteen must have been pursued in residence at a theological school of high standing, and the remainder in accordance with the general regulations for non-resident work. Of the total twenty-seven not less than nine must have been pursued in residence at the University.

2) All candidates for the D.B. degree are required to take at least one seminar

course.

3) With the approval of the Dean, a student in the Divinity School may pursue studies in any department of the University. But no student may do more than one-third of his work in any given quarter in non-Divinity courses; provided, however, (1) that a student who has been accepted as a candidate for the Ph.D. degree may pursue such courses in the department of the Graduate School closely related to that department of the Divinity School in which his principal work is done, as the head of that department may, in a written statement to the Dean, recommend and accept as done in the principal department; and (2) that students who have completed the eighteen prescribed majors and have been recognized as selecting Religious Education or Practical Sociology as their principal department may elect such non-Divinity courses as are specified by those departments as required for a degree.

NOTE.-All Graduate courses offered by members of the Divinity Conference are for the purposes of this regulation reckoned as Divinity courses. These courses are printed in the Quarterly Announcements under the head "Courses Offered by the Divinity School."

4) A student who has fulfilled the requirements for the degree of D.B. may receive the degree at the Convocation at which he receives another degree from the University without further conditions of residence or interval of time; provided that this shall not be construed as modifying the existing regulations governing the granting of degrees other than D.B. or the crediting of the same work for two degrees.

5) Graduates of other theological schools must, in order to receive the degree of D.B. from this University, after matriculation select a principal subject, and continue in residence not less than three quarters. Such students must (a) take such of the prescribed majors as they have not already covered, and (b) accomplish the remainder of a year's work (nine majors) under the direction of the department in which the principal subject lies.

6) Admission to candidacy.—Blanks for application may be obtained in the office of the Dean. Students must be admitted to candidacy at least two months before their final examinations.

7) Thesis.-The candidate for the degree of D.B. is required to prepare a thesis upon some subject in a Divinity department. The subject must be submitted for approval, to the department to which it pertains, not later than the quarter preceding that in which the student is admitted to candidacy. The thesis itself must be submitted in written form at least three weeks before the date of the final examination, and, after final criticism, in typewritten form, upon the thesis paper prescribed by the University, at or before the final examination. Any exception to the above rules of time limit will be permitted only on recommendation of the department concerned. The student is permitted to offer in a developed form a thesis already presented in his regular class work. Accepted theses become the property of the University.

The degree will be recommended only after two bound, printed or typewritten, copies of the thesis of the candidate have been deposited with the Librarian of the University.

8) Final examination.—The student must present for examination at least nine majors, approved by his principal department, six of which must be within that department. These examinations may be in writing or oral, subject to regulations which may be found on file in the office of the Dean of the Divinity School.

9) Non-resident work. After being admitted, the student will be permitted to substitute for resident work non-resident work, provided that: (1) The nonresident work to be offered shall be performed under the direction of a professor or instructor of the University Extension Division of the University, and shall be a full equivalent in amount and character of that for which it is substituted. (2) A satisfactory examination shall be passed upon the same at the University. (3) Not more than nine majors of non-resident work may be offered for the degree of D.B. and in no case will that degree be given unless the candidate has been in residence in the Graduate Divinity School at least three quarters and has completed at least nine resident majors.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

1) In order to be recommended by the Divinity Faculty to the Faculties of the Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature, and Science, the candidate must have completed a Bachelor's course equivalent to that required for the Bachelor's degree in the University of Chicago, and in all other respects have met the requirements for the degree as formulated by the Graduate Faculties of Arts, Literature, and Science.

2) He must have completed eighteen majors in theological study, distributed as stated under "The Curriculum" above.

3) He must have a reading knowledge of French and German, a good command of literary expression, and such knowledge of subjects considered fundamental as may be prescribed by the individual departments. Examination in French and German must be taken at least one year before the final examination.

4) Having made the elections indicated under "The Curriculum" above, which in this case must include also the selection of a secondary department (which may be either in the Divinity School or in the Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature, and Science), and having passed examinations in French and German, and having been by vote of the Divinity Faculty recommended to the Graduate