Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1884-1885 [PAGE 93]

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Miscellany.

DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES.

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The law provides that, "on recommendation of the Faculty, the Trustees may authorize the Regent, as president of the University, to issue diplomas to such persons as shall have completed satisfactorily the required studies, and sustained the examination therein, conferring such Literary and Scientific Degrees as are usually conferred by Universities for similar or equivalent courses of studies, or such as the Trustees may deem appropriate." Approved May 11, 1877. In accordance with the law the following system of Degrees has been adopted for the University : 1. All studies will remain as heretofore free. Each student may choose and pursue such studies as he may desire, subject only to such conditions as to preparation, times of study and number of studies as miy be necessary to secure efficiency in classes and economy in teaching. 2. But students who wish to be candidates for any degree must complete fully the course of studies prescribed for such degree, and must present an accepted thesis. 3. Students not candidates for any degree will be enrolled as special students, and will receive at the close of their attendance, if not less than a year, the certificates provided by law with statements of work done aud credits attained. 4. It is designed that the requirements for all the Bachelor's Degrees shall be, as nearly as possible, equal in amount and value. 5. The Degree of Bachelor of Science, B. S., will be given to those who complete either of their courses of studies in the Colleges of Engineering, Agriculture, or Natural Science. The name of the School will be inserted after the degree. 6. The degree of Bachelor of Letters, B. L., will be given to those who complete the course of the School of English and Modern Languages. 7. The Degree of Bachelor of Arts, B. A., will be given to those who complete the course in the School of Ancient Languages. 8. The Masters' Degrees, M. S., M. L., and M. A., and the equivalent degrees of C. E., M. E., etc., will be given only to those who have pursued and passed examinations on a year of prescribed post-graduate studies, or after a term of three years' successful practice. In either case an accepted thesis will be required.