LOS ANGELES, 1921

In conformity with the declaration of purpose by the Board of Regents, the University of California established in 1918 the Summer Session in Los Angeles. The success of the experiment led to the decision of the

board to continue the session thus created. Instruction will be given as before in the group of buildings of the Southern Branch of the University of California (formerly the Los Angeles State Normal School).

Session of 1921

The fourth annual session will begin Monday, June 20, 1921, and will continue until Saturday, July 30, a period of six weeks. During the same period the University will also conduct its Summer Session in Berkeley. An Intersession will be conducted in Berkeley from May 9 until June 18, 1921.

In the Los Angeles Summer Session the number of students registered in 1919 was 894, in 1920, 1427.

Purpose of the Session

The courses in the Summer Session are designed to meet the needs of the following persons:

1. Teachers who wish to increase their professional skill, to revise and extend their knowledge of a chosen field, or to qualify in new subjects, preparing to meet the special demand for instruction in various departments. (With state and federal aid, under the Smith-Hughes Act, special Summer Session courses are offered at the Chaffey Junior College of Agriculture, Ontario, for those preparing to teach vocational agriculture and the supplemental vocational subjects in California high schools.)

Teachers who desire to prepare for service in vocational schools and classes maintained under the provisions of the State and Federal Vocational Education acts and the State Compulsory Part-Time Education Act, which became effective with the beginning of the school year 1920. The courses designed primarily for this purpose are listed on pages 54 to 56 of this bulletin.

2. School superintendents, supervisors, and other officers.

3. Graduate students, to whom the advantages of smaller classes and the more direct and intimate personal contact with the professors in charge are peculiarly possible during the Summer Session. Residents of Los Angeles and vicinity may continue studies leading to higher degrees without making the journey to Berkeley. However, it should be noted that strictly graduate courses are for the present offered only in the Department of Education.

4. Undergraduate students, and especially those registered in the fall or spring semesters of the University, whose homes are in the southern part of the state, who may use a portion of the vacation to take up studies for which they are unable to find room in their regular programmes, or to make up deficiencies, or to shorten their courses.

5. Properly recommended high school graduates who are about to enter upon regular university courses and who desire to broaden their preparation for university work.

6. Housewives, graduate nurses, social workers, Americanization workers, students of public health, and all adults who are qualified to pursue with profit any course given, whether or not they are engaged in teaching or study.

Faculty

The faculty of the Summer Session will include not only members of the regular faculties of the University but also a number of men of letters and science from other American universities.

Applications for Admission

All persons who desire to attend any of the courses are urgently requested to notify the Recorder of the Faculties at Berkeley on or before Wednesday, June 1, using the blank form of application at the end of this bulletin. Compliance with this request will facilitate the making of adequate arrangements by the University, and will make possible prompt communication with prospective students in case of change in the programme.

Admission Requirements

Attendants upon the exercises of the Summer Session are divided into two broad classes:

A. Auditors.—Any adult of good moral character is permitted to attend all the regular exercises of the session, as an auditor, upon the filing of an application and the payment of the regular tuition fee of $20. An auditor does not participate in recitations, does not take examinations, and hence does not receive credit.

B. Students. While there are no formal admission requirements and no entrance examinations, the officers in charge of admissions will keep in mind the fact that the instruction offered is that suitable for students of university grade, and these officers will exercise their discretion, admitting to student privileges only those applicants who appear to possess the requisite maturity, training, and intelligence. Furthermore, the instructor in charge of a given course may himself require of those who present themselves as students in his course any preliminary test, formal or informal, which he may deem essential to the work proposed.

The University will not, as a rule, admit to the Summer Session pupils from the high schools who have not yet completed the four-year high school course. Where an exception is made to this general rule the pupil will be required to devote himself to courses given primarily or exclusively for matriculation credit, such as the "A" or "B" courses in chemistry, physics, mathematics, drawing, stenography, typewriting, bookkeeping, and the languages. And in every such exceptional case the applicant will be required to procure from the principal of his school and to present at the University a special testimonial as evidence of superior scholarship and of unusual fitness for the work proposed. A blank form of testimonial for the principal's use may be obtained from the Recorder of the Faculties. Only by special arrangement made in advance may Summer Session courses other than the "lettered courses' be applied toward matriculation.

Registration Dates

The office of the Recorder of the Faculties will be established in Millspaugh Hall, Southern Branch of the University, and will be open for the

registration of students Saturday, June 18, and Monday, June 20. For detailed directions as to entrance see page 92.

With the approval of the Dean, teachers whose regular employment makes it impossible for them to register on the first day (Monday) may register as late as the second Monday, but such students may enroll in the courses desired only when, in the opinion of the instructor, they have satisfactorily covered the ground of the first week's work.

The tuition fee will be twenty dollars ($20) regardless of the number of courses taken. Laboratory fees will be charged in certain courses. The amount in each case is stated in the description of the course.

Persons desiring to attend courses or occasional lectures without examination or formal credit may secure for this purpose an auditor's ticket upon payment of the regular fee ($20).

All fees must be paid in advance, at the opening of the Summer Session, at the office of the Comptroller in Millspaugh Hall, Southern Branch of the University. No deduction will be made from fees by reason of late registration. After the first week no rebate will be allowed for withdrawal. No application for refund will be considered unless it is made at the time of withdrawal.

Special Summer Session scholarships equivalent in value to the Summer Session fee will be granted by the California State Board of Education to teachers, or prospective teachers, of vocational agriculture in the California high schools. Such scholarships are good only for the special teachertraining courses at the Summer Session conducted at the Chaffey Junior College of Agriculture at Ontario. Application for scholarship should be made in advance to the State Supervisor of Agricultural Education, State Department of Education, Sacramento, California.

Classification and Numbering of Courses

Undergraduate lower division courses are designated either by letters, without numbers, or by numbers. The "lettered courses," e.g., Chemistry A, Physics A, are equivalents, or nearly so, of subjects in the University preparatory list; they represent subjects of study which may be pursued either in the high school or in the University. Other lower division courses are numbered from 1 to 99 inclusive.

An upper division course is an advanced course in a department of study that has been pursued in the lower division, or of elementary work in a subject of such difficulty as to require the maturity of upper division students. All upper division courses are definitely announced as such, and are given the numbers 100-199.

Graduate courses are numbered from 200 to 299 inclusive.

Teachers' courses are numbered 300, 301, etc. Such courses may be classified either as upper division courses or as graduate courses; if offered for the master's degree, however, such courses are rated as upper division courses, not as graduate courses.

All Summer Session courses, graduate or undergraduate, which are identical, or nearly so, with courses given during the fall or spring sessions, are distinguished by the letter "S" prefixed to the regular number of the

course.

Credit

Credit toward a university degree will be given only to attendants who are qualified to do systematic university work, and is in every case subject to the requirement that the student shall at some time qualify in the University as a regular matriculant, either by passing the entrance examinations or otherwise. In the absence of formal entrance requirements, the instructor in charge of a given course in the Summer Session is the judge of the qualifications of candidates for credit.

In general, credit will be given at the rate of one unit for fifteen exercises. A course of five recitations or lectures weekly during six weeks may receive a credit of two units. Credit may be given, in due proportion,