SUMMER SESSION, 1919 June 30 to August 9 Session of 1919 The twentieth annual Summer Session of the University of California at Berkeley will begin Monday, June 30, 1919, and will continue until Saturday, August 9, the session covering six weeks. During the same period the University will conduct a Summer Session in Los Angeles. A special bulletin describes the courses offered. Earlier Sessions The University of California held its first regular Summer Session in 1900, though summer courses in several departments had been given during the years 1891-99. In the summer of 1918 there were, in Berkeley, two terms of the Summer Session, of six weeks each. In the first term the total enrollment, not including the Summer School of Surveying, was 3479; 2708 came from California, 723 from other states, 41 from foreign countries; 1705 were teachers. In the second term the enrollment was 594. In the Southern Division of the Summer Session, held in Los Angeles, the enrollment was 630. 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 Americanization, commercial subjects, biology, physics, chemistry, general science, physical education, manual arts, and vocational agriculture. (With state and federal aid, under the Smith-Hughes Act, special Summer Session courses are offered at the University Farm, Davis, and at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, for those preparing to teach vocational agriculture and the supplemental vocational subjects in California high schools.) 2. School superintendents, supervisors, and other officers. Supervisors of agricultural education, drawing and art, commercial subjects, music, physical education, and home economics will find work especially suited to their needs. 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. 4. Undergraduate students, and especially those registered in the fall or spring sessions of the University, 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 in the ensuing fall session and who desire to complete matriculation requirements or to broaden their preparation for university work. To meet their needs courses are offered in chemistry, commerce, drawing, French, Greek, home economies, mathematics, physics, and Spanish. 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 Eastern universities. Applications for Admission All persons who desire to attend any of the courses are urgently requested to notify the Recorder of the Faculties on or before Wednesday, June 11, 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 twenty dollars. This may be done by mail. An auditor does not participate in recitations, does not take examinations, and does not receive formal credit on the books of the University either for attendance or for any study or investigation which he may undertake. 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 such as is suitable for students of university grade, and these officers will exercise their discretion in 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 this 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, 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 full statement of the applicant's high school record, and of his plans for further study, either toward university matriculation or toward some other definite end. Only by special arrangement made in advance may Summer Session courses other than the "lettered courses'' be applied toward matriculation. In 1919, the elementary courses in the Summer Session will be open to students returning from service in the army or navy of the United States or the Allies as well as to high school pupils who, by reason of the influenza epidemic and other unusual conditions, have been unable to complete the high school course. Registration Dates The office of the Recorder of the Faculties will be open for the registration of students Saturday, June 28, and Monday, June 30. For detailed directions as to entrance see later pages in this bulletin. With the approval of the Dean, teachers whose regular employment makes it impossible for them to register at the opening of the session are allowed to register as late as Monday, July 7. Such students may be permitted to enter courses and to receive credit for them only when, in the opinion of the instructor, they have satisfactorily covered the ground of the first week. Fees The tuition fee will be twenty dollars ($20) regardless of the number of courses taken. Laboratory fees will be charged in courses in agriculture, botany, chemistry, civil engineering, home economics, mechanical engineering, office practice, physics, public health, and zoology. The fees in each case are stated in the description of the course. Persons who desire 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). Such tickets are obtain able by mail, upon forwarding the usual form of application. Address the Recorder of the Faculties of the University of California, Berkeley, California. All fees must be paid in advance, at the opening of the Summer Session, at the office of the Comptroller, in California Hall. No deduction will be made from fees in cases of late registration. After the first week no rebate will be allowed for early 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 prospective or to qualified teachers of vocational agriculture in California high schools. Such scholarships are good only for the special teacher-training courses at the University Farm and at Riverside. Application for scholarships should be made in advance to the State Supervisor of Agricultural Education, State Department of Education, Sacramento, California. Classification and Numbering of Courses I. Undergraduate Courses. 1. Lower Division courses. 2. Free elective courses. 3. Upper Division major courses. A major course is an upper division course of advanced work 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 major courses are definitely announced as such, and are given numbers 100-199, as explained below. II. Graduate Courses. NUMBERING Undergradaute courses are designated either by letters, without numbers, or by numbers. The lettered courses,'' e.g., Mathematics A, French 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 the University. All other undergraduate courses, excepting only the major courses, are numbered from 1 to 99 inclusive. 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. Undergradute major courses are numbered from 100 to 199 inclusive. Graduate courses are numbered from 200 to 299 inclusive. 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 examination 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, for a smaller number of exercises, when these are of more than the usual length (which for lectures and recitations is about fifty minutes). A recitation or lecture presupposes about two hours of study outside of the classroom; laboratory or other exercises which do not require outside preparation are estimated at a lower rate than recitations or lectures. If in a given course a final examination is required by the instructor, there can be no individual exemption from this examination. A student who fails to pass the examination does not receive credit for the course. It should furthermore be noticed that special examinations and re-examinations in the summer courses are not provided. The amount of credit normally obtainable during the session by a student who devotes his whole time to courses strictly of university grade is from four to six units, according to the character of the work selected. A bachelor's degree represents 124 or more units of credit, distributed according to the special requirements of the college or department in which the student is enrolled. For the master's degree there are required twenty units, including a thesis, which may count from two to four units. The courses must be graduate courses or undergraduate major courses. At least eight of the twenty units, including the thesis, must be strictly graduate work in the major subject. The work for Ph.D. and other doctor's degrees is not estimated in units of credit, and must be specially planned for every candidate. There are normally required four years of university residence for a bachelor's degree; one year for a master's degree, and at least two years for a doctor's degree; and while advanced credit is given for work done at other universities, the candidate's final year of residence for any degree must be spent in the University of California. Two summer sessions are accepted as the equivalent of one half-year of residence for any degree; but the amount of credit (the number of units) that may be completed during two summer sessions will not exceed three-fourths of the amount that could be completed during a single fall or spring session. |