SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM 105

Students who have completed two or more years in another institu-
tion (college, university, or normal school), must be eligible for junior
standing in the general course of the College of Letters and Science lead-
ing to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in order to be admitted to the School
of Journalism. If they desire to complete the requirements for graduation
from the School of Journalism in two years, they should present the same
or equivalent credits for admission to the School that students do who have
attended the University for the first two years of their college work.
Credits in journalism are not essential for admission. Students from other
institutions should send a certified copy of their preparatory school and
academic records to the chairman of the Committee on Advanced Standing,
Bascom Hall, before coming to the University.

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION. For graduation from the School of
Journalism, 124 credits are required, in which are included those secured
in the first two years of college work and those obtained in the junior and
senior years in the School of Journalism. Of this total, 30 credits must
be taken in required and elective courses in journalism, inclusive of prin-
ciples of advertising (Econ. 15) and advertising campaigns (Econ. 16), but
not of the freshman survey of journalism (Journ. 1) or of marketing meth-
ods (Econ. 18). Advertising campaigns (Econ. 16) may be included in
the required 30 credits in journalism only by students in the journalism-
advertising group.

The total number of grade-points secured in courses other than jour-
nalism and advertising must equal the total number of credits in those
courses. The total number of grade-points in courses in journalism and
advertising must be fifty per cent greater than the number of credits in
those courses. Students who fail to secure even grade-points with credits
in the first two years of college work will not be admitted to the School of
Journalism. Those students in the School of Journalism who fail to main-
tain the grade-point requirements will be advised to withdraw from the
School.

Students are required to have 32 credits in one or more foreign lan-
guages for graduation from the School of Journalism, part of which may
be taken in preparatory schools; each year of foreign language satisfac-
torily completed in a high school or academy is counted as four credits up
to a maximum of 24 toward the required 32 credits. It is advisable for
students to complete as much of the foreign-language requirement as pos-
sible before entering the School of Journalism. A reading knowledge of
at least one modern foreign language, French, German, or Spanish, is
desirable before graduation from the School of Journalism.

Upper-group seniors in the School of Journalism (those who have ob-
tained fifty per cent more grade-points than credits in all their courses at
the beginning of the senior year) are required to write a thesis (4 credits)
presenting the results of a year’s research in either contemporary or his-
torical phases of newspapers, magazines, or advertising. These theses are
bound and filed in the University Library. Lower-group seniors (those
who have less than fifty per cent more grade-points than credits at the
beginning of the senior year) will take four credits in elective courses in
journalism, in place of the thesis.

The degree of Bachelor of Arts in Journalism is granted to students
who complete satisfactorily the requirements for graduation from the
School of Journalism.

The other required courses for graduation from the School of Jour-
nalism and the number of credits to be secured in each are as follows: