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14. MAJOR STUDY

At the beginning of the sophomore or the junior year every candidate
for these degrees will normally select his major subject in one department
of the College of Letters and Science. This department prescribes the
manner in which the work of the major shall be completed, as stated in
connection with the announcement of courses offered by the several depart-
ments. At least as many grade-points as credits must be earned in the
major subject.

In completion of the requirements for the major study, departments
may permit upper-group students to substitute individual work, under the
guidance of some member of the department, for a prescribed number of
credits ordinarily earned in class. Such optional substitution of individual
for class work is subject to the approval of the Dean of the College.
Students electing to do individual work in lieu of regular class work,
shall, toward the end of their senior year, pass a comprehensive examina-
tion on the work offered for the major both in course and outside of course.

The candidate must accumulate at least 80 credits for work done out-
side of any one department, provided that in these 80 credits shall be
counted, for purposes of this section: (a) teachers’ courses not in excess of
a total of four credits, and (b) first and second-year work, not exceeding
14 credits, in a second foreign language in the same department.

tb: SPELESIS

All candidates are required to present a graduating thesis, except as
provided below. The subject of the thesis must be approved by the stu-
dent’s adviser and be filed with the chairman of the department in which
the candidate is taking his major. It must represent some phase of the
student’s work in the major study and must be of a scholarly character.
It is to be typewritten and bound according to specifications furnished by
the Librarian of the University and before it is accepted it must be ap-
proved by the instructor under whose guidance it has been done. It car-
ries four credits toward the major requirement and toward graduation.
It shall be deposited in the University Library by the second Friday be-
fore Commencement and its title, as approved in advance by the thesis
adviser, will appear in the Commencement Register.

One of the following substitutes for the thesis may be allowed when,
in the judgment of the department, it is advisable: (a) a course restricted
to seniors and graduates, in groups of not more than ten, with written
reports of independent work done in connection with the course under the
supervision of the instructor, or (b) an individual reading or research
course, with frequent conferences between student and instructor and with
written reports of independent work.

These substitutes shall involve work equivalent to at least four credits
and shall be so certified by the instructor on the class card of each student
taking either substitute. The several papers of each student shall deal
with correlated subjects, and must be prepared with due attention to ex-
pression and to logical form. Before any student’s papers shall be finally
accepted as a whole, they shall be typewritten and bound together accord-
ing to specifications obtaining in the case of the thesis. They shall be de-
posited in the University Library by the second Friday before Commence-
ment.

For the regulation excluding certain students from the privilege of
writing a thesis or a substitute for the thesis (as defined above), see Clas-
sification of Students, section 13 above.

 

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