: Applicants for employment in teaching or tutoring should apply at the office of the Appointment Secretary, Millspaugh Hall. Upon the request of school officials the Appointment Secretary recommends teachers who, in the opinion of the Faculty, are able to fill satisfactorily the positions for which teachers are being sought. To do this it is necessary that the Appointment Secretary have detailed information concerning the vacancies to be filled. The Secretary makes every endeavor to assist graduates to obtain positions of the kind for which they are best fitted. Students are urged to make occasional calls at the office of the Appointment Secretary throughout their entire course. There is no expense to the school officials or to graduates for the service rendered by this office. Little can be done in securing employment for students who are not actually on the ground to negotiate for themselves. It is usually so difficult for a stranger to obtain remunerative employment from the start that, in general, no one should come to Los Angeles expecting to become self-supporting through the University course, without having on hand sufficient funds to cover the expenses of the first half-year. LIBRARY, GYMNASIUM, INFIRMARY THE LIBRARY The Library Building has a capacity exceeding 60,000 volumes, and reading rooms are provided for about 500 students. The Library is open daily, except Sundays. From Monday to Friday, inclusive, the hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, from 7:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Library contains approximately 54,000 carefully selected volumes, and about 10,000 pamphlets. The Library is regularly receiving 540 periodicals and continuations. GYMNASIUM AND ATHLETIC FACILITIES For Men The Men's Gymnasium, though not large, affords opportunity for exercise in boxing, wrestling and gymnastic work and contains accommodations for approximately 1000 men in the locker rooms and 50 men at a time in the shower room. The athletic field measures 300 X 600 feet and contains a quarter-mile running track, three outdoor basketball courts and six handball courts, besides adequate room for football and baseball. There are six tennis courts. The swimming pool, 50 × 100 feet is at the rear of the Gymnasium. For Women The Women's Gymnasium is well equipped. Besides a main hall, 60 X 80 feet, there are class rooms, a corrective room, rest rooms, shower and dressing room accommodations. Nearby are two outdoor basketball courts and an athletic field, 200 × 300 feet. THE INFIRMARY The Southern Branch maintains on the campus, for the care of emergencies, an infirmary, with a physician and a trained nurse in charge. There are no facilities for hospital care. Students are entitled to medical consultation and advice. Every student receives a physical examination. MUSICAL EVENTS Five musical events are given during the year. The Christmas Concert consists of a University community programme of Christmas carols, given by the University Choral Club. At the Spring Concert an oratorio is performed by the University Choral Club, assisted by local artists as soloists. A series of Senior Piano Recitals is given by the fourth-year students. The Original Composition Programme is a public demonstration of the work of the year in music composition. STUDENT SELF-GOVERNMENT THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS The Southern Branch has student self-government. There is a complete organization, the Associated Students, that administers and controls all extra-curricular activities. This organization has an executive council composed of a president, two vice-presidents, three representatives of groups, and the chairmen of five activity boards. The activity boards control the activities in definite fields such as debating, athletics, dramatics or publications; while the council coördinates the work of these boards and administers the general business of the Association. All financial and athletic interests of the Associated Students are administered by the Graduate Financial Manager and the Graduate Athletic Manager, respectively. Subject to the approval of the Director, the University Affairs Committee, composed of ten members, passes on all cases of misconduct among the students. PUBLICATIONS The California Grizzly and The Southern Campus are the official publications of the students of the Southern Branch. The California Grizzly, the student paper, is published semi-weekly. The Grizzly contains news of all campus and college activities, and is in direct charge of an editor and a manager appointed by the council. The Southern Campus is the yearbook. It contains a complete record of the college life of the year, and is edited, managed, and financed by the students. CO-OPERATIVE STORE The Students' Co-operative Store was opened by the students of the Normal School in 1916, with the purpose of supplying a wide range of needed commodities at the lowest possible cost. Under the ownership of the Associated Students of the Southern Branch it has grown proportionately to the other campus activities. SUMMER SESSION The Summer Session of six weeks is designed for teachers and other persons who are unable to attend the University during the fall and spring sessions, as well as for students in the regular session who are desirous of shortening their college courses, or who have been unable to enroll in needed subjects. Any adult of good moral character, considered by the faculty to be of sufficient maturity and intelligence to profit by attendance upon the exercises of the session, may be admitted to the Summer Session. The courses of instruction are of University grade, and credit toward University degrees may be given to students who comply with such conditions of work and examinations as may be imposed by the instructors in charge. The tuition fee is $25, regardless of the number of courses taken. The Announcements of the Summer Sessions are issued in January of each year and may be obtained by addressing the Dean of the Summer Sessions, Berkeley, or the representative of the Summer Session in Los Angeles, 815 Hillstreet Building, Los Angeles. Summer Sessions are conducted at the seat of the University in Berkeley, at the Southern Branch in Los Angeles, at Davis, and at Riverside. In addition, the Intersession of six weeks, immediately preceding the Summer Session, has been organized in Berkeley. UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DIVISION For those who desire instruction of University grade and can devote to it only the leisure hours after performance of their business or professional duties, the Extension Division offers large opportunity.. Classes cover a wide range of subjects and meet at times and places convenient to the student. The Los Angeles office is at 817 Hillstreet Building. VII. CURRICULA There are established in Los Angeles: (A) The College of Letters and Science, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts; (B) The Teachers College, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Education. A. 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 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 electon 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. THE JUNIOR CERTIFICATE Registrants in the College of Letters and Science will receive upon completion of the first. two years' work a certificate to which their entrance credits and completed college credits entitle them. tificate marks the transition to the junior and senior years. This cer Honorable mention will be granted with the junior certificate to students who attain at least second or B grade in 45 units. A student who gains honorable mention is thereby considered eligible for the honors group in the department of his choice, subject to the approval of the department. In 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 junior and senior years, will make an effort to establish a basis for a breadth of culture 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 special 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. By so doing he makes his programme more flexible, gives himself a greater freedom of choice, and prepares himself 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 minimum amount of work required 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 and physical education and hygiene, and 60 units in the upper division. However, the junior certificate 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. Military, 6 units (men). Hygiene, 1 unit (men), or 2 units (women). (a) Southern Branch requirement: Psychology X. (b) Foreign Language. At least 15 units in not more than two languages. Each year of high school work in a foreign language will be counted in satisfaction of three 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. * See also "Candidacy for Honors," page 66 of this announcement. 1 An examination in Subject A, English Composition, is required of all intrants at the time of their first registration in the Southern Branch. See page 43. |