ADMISSION TO GRADUATE STANDING Graduates of the institutions constituting the Association of American Universities and of many other institutions are admitted to the Graduate Division upon presentation of their Bachelor's diploma at the office of the Recorder of the Faculties. Graduates of institutions not in the accepted list of the University may be admitted to the Graduate Division with the approval of the Dean of the Graduate Division after an evaluation of their certified college records by the University Examiner. Admission to the Graduate Division does not of itself imply admission to candidacy for a higher degree. Graduates of approved schools and colleges in foreign countries may be admitted only if their command of English is sufficient to permit them to profit by university instruction. This will be tested by an oral and written examination set by the Board of Admissions. The grade of work which graduate students may elect and their standing as candidates for degrees will depend upon the extent and character of their undergraduate courses. If the preliminary training of candidates has not been sufficient to qualify them for strictly graduate work, they must pursue such undergraduate courses as may be suited to their needs. For the conditions under which the advanced degrees may be obtained, for a list of graduate scholarships and fellowships available, and for the graduate courses in the various departments of instruction leading to advanced degrees see the latest ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE GRADUATE DIVISION, to be obtained on application to the Dean of the Graduate Division. COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE The curriculum of the College of Letters and Science includes three elements that may be considered characteristic and essential: 1. Requirements to secure breadth of culture. In the present curriculum no specific courses are required, but the student must select courses within certain designated groups, some of the groups being alternatively elective. These groups have been chosen to represent the more important fundamental types of human intellectual endeavor. At present these requirements are limited to the lower division, but the student is given a wide freedom of election in the upper division to continue cultural studies of his own choice. 2. Requirements to provide for intensive study in a field of the student's choice, carried through several years and including work of a distinctly advanced character in the "major." 3. A reasonable freedom of elective time. Freedom of election gives the student an opportunity to develop his personal power and initiative, but it also makes possible an unwise selection of courses. The College aims to minimize the dangers of an elective system of studies by moderate requirements to ensure proper distribution and concentration; and by the development of the faculty adviser system. LOWER DIVISION* The work of the lower division comprises the studies of the freshman and sophomore years. The junior certificate in the College of Letters and Science is required for admission to the upper division. Students who transfer from other colleges of the Unversity of California or from other institutions will be required to meet the junior certificate requirements, but will not be held strictly to the time distribution of requirements, if the credit allowed them in the University of California amounts to at least sixty units. In the lower division of the College of Letters and Science it is expected that the student, in addition to fulfilling the prerequisites for the major work upon which he will concentrate in the upper division, will make an effort to establish a basis for that breadth of culture which will give him a realization of the methods and results of some of the more important types of intellectual endeavor, and a mental perspective that will aid him in reaching sound judgments. The junior certificate requirements were designed to provide in some degree for the accomplishment of this purpose, without unduly limiting the student's opportunity to satisfy his individual tastes and preferences. Certain courses taken in the high school are accepted as fulfilling in part or in whole some of these junior certificate requirements. It is desirable that the student should so arrange his high school programme as to reduce the required work in the fields of foreign language, mathematics, and natural science. This makes his programme more flexible, gives him a greater freedom of choice, and prepares him to pass more quickly into advanced work or into new fields of study. In no case, however, does the satisfaction of junior certificate requirements in the high school reduce the amount of work required in the University for the junior certificate (60) or for the degree (124). The degree requirement of 124 units is calculated on the assumption that the student will normally take 64 units of work in the lower division, including the prescribed work in military science, physical education, and hygiene, and 60 units in the upper division. However, the junior cer * See also Study-Lists Regulations below. , ༢༥༠༤ ག tificate will be granted on the completion of not less than 60 units of college work and the fulfillment of the following general and specific requirements: (a) General University requirements.† Subject A.‡ Military Science and Tactics, 6 units (men). Hygiene, 1 unit (men) or 2 units (women). Physical Education, 2 units. (b) Foreign Language. At least 15 units in not more than two lan- ' guages. Each year of high school work in a foreign language will be counted in satisfaction of 3 units of this requirement. Courses given in English by a foreign language department will not be accepted in fulfillment of this requirement. (c) Mathematics. Elementary Algebra and Geometry. Instruction in these subjects is not given in the fall or spring sessions of the University. (d) Natural Science. At least 12 units chosen from the following list: High School Physics (3A)*, 3 units (1 high school credit). High School Chemistry (3B)*, 3 units (1 high school credit). Astronomy 1, 2a-2b*, 4-2b*, 11. Bacteriology 1*. Botany 2A*-2b*. Chemistry 1A*-1b*, 5*, 6a*-6b*, 8. Geology 1A, 1B, 1C, 2c. Paleontology 1. Physics 1A-1B*, 1C-1D*, 2A-2B, 3A-3B*. Physiology 14*, 1B*. Plant Nutrition 3 (Elementary Plant Physiology-listed under Department of Agriculture). Zoology la*-1B*, 10. The student must include in the courses taken in satisfaction of the requirement in natural science at least one course in laboratory science. Any of the courses marked with an asterisk in the above list will be accpted in fulfilment of this requirement. Courses with but one unit of laboratory science are not accepted as fulfilling this requirement and are not marked above, unless they have as prerequisite a course that also requires one unit of laboratory work. For information concerning exemptions from these requirements apply to the Recorder of the Faculties. * Courses so marked will be accepted as laboratory courses. ‡ An examination in Subject A (English Composition) is required of all intrants at the time of their first registration in the University. Date of next examination, Saturday, August 16, 1924, 2 p.m. For further regulations concerning Subject A see General Regulations of the Faculties, in later pages of this circular. (e) Additional. A year-course (of at least six units) in each of three of the following groups: (1) English, public speaking. (2) Foreign language (additional to b). This may be satisfied in whole or in part in the high school, provided the language be Latin. (3) Mathematics: plane trigonometry, plane analytic geometry, introduction to calculus. This may be satisfied partly in the high school. (4) History, economics, political science. (5) Philosophy. The work offered in satisfaction of requirement (e) must consist of subjects of college grade, except as otherwise provided, as shown in detail in the following list: YEAR COURSES ACCEPTABLE IN FULFILLMENT OF REQUIREMENT (e) FOR THE Group 1-English and Public Speaking English 1A-1в, 56A-56в; Public Speaking 1A-1в. Group 2-Foreign Languages French: any two consecutive courses of A (or A2), B, C, D, 5A, 5â, or German: any two consecutive courses of A (or A2), B, C, D, CD; or Greek: 1A-1B; 2A-2B; 1AB-2AB; or 101, 102. Italian: any two consecutive courses of A, B, C, D, CD, or any upper division year sequence. Latin: any year sequence from the following: C, D; 1, 5, 102, 106. Two years of high school Latin are accepted as the equivalent of a year course. Oriental Languages: 3A-3B; 3C-3D; 9A-9B; or 9C-9D. Portuguese: 101A-101B. Sanskrit: 101A-101в, 102A-102b. Semitic Languages: 21A-21b. Slavic Languages: 1A-1B; 6A-6B; 10A-10в or 14A-14B. Spanish: any two consecutive courses of A (or A2), B, C, D, CD, 50A 50B, or any upper division year sequence. Group 3-Mathematics Any two of the courses C, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 3a-3b. High school plane trigonometry (2c) and plane analytic geometry (2ƒ) will be accepted in partial satisfaction of this requirement, each to count for 2 units. Group 4-History, Economics, Political Science Intersession and Summer Session Courses.-Students who desire to satisfy the specific subject requirements for the Junior Certificate in the Summer Session may use only those courses which are the equivalents of courses offered in the fall or spring sessions listed as acceptable in meeting junior certificate requirements and which are designated by the same numbers with the prefix "S." Requirements (b), (c) and (d) may be met in whole or in part by the completion of acceptable courses in the Summer Session. For a list of such courses, see the Announcement of the Summer Session. The requirements in units must be met in full. Courses offered in fulfillment of requirement (e) must be taken in the fall and spring sessions. University Extension.-The maximum amount of credit granted toward a degree to a student whose programme is confined to courses in the Extension Division (correspondence or class) is 15 units per year. Certain courses offered in the Extension Division may be accepted in fulfillment of some of the junor certificate requirements. A list of such courses may be obtained from the Director of the Extension Division. Honorable mention with the junior certificate.-Honorable mention will be granted with the junior certificate to students who attain at least B grade in 45 units. A student who gains honorable mention is thereby considered eligible for the honors status in the upper division. * Not offered in 1924-25. For this reason, during 1924-25, students who have previously completed Philosophy 4A or 4B may offer either course and 2A or 2B as a year course in philosophy. |