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The Bulletin of the UNIVERSITY of MINNESOTA The Graduate School Announcement for the Years 1948~1950 Volume LI, Number 32 July 27, 1948 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS James Lewis Morri1l, B.A., LL.D., President of the University Malcolm M. Wi1ley, Ph.D., Vice President, Academic Administration Wi1liam T. Middlebrook, B.A., M.C.S., Vice President, Business Administration Theodore C. Blegen, Ph.D., L.H.D., Utt.D., Dean of the Graduate School John G. Darley, Ph.D., Assistant Dean of the Graduate School GRADUATE SCHOOL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Theodore C. Blegen, Ph.D., Professor of History and Dean of the Graduate School, Chairman Henry Schmitz, Ph.D., Professor of Forestry and Dean of the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics-Agricultural Sciences A. Orvi1le Dahl, Ph.D., Professor of Botany-Biological Sciences Edward H. Sirich, Ph.D., Professor of Romance Languages-Languages and Literature Elexious T. Bell, M.D., Professor of Pathology-Medical Sciences, Minneapolis Victor Johnson, Ph.D., M.D., Professor of Physiology and Associate Director of the Mayo Foundation-Medical Sciences, Mayo Foundation Donald G. Paterson, M.A., Professor of Psychology-Education, PhilClSophy, Psychology, Child Welfare, Music, Speech Pathology Lee 1. Smith, Ph.D., Professor and Chief of the Division of Organic Chemistry-Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering Lloyd M. Short, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Director of Public Adminis tration Training Center-Social Sciences , UNIVERSITY CALENDAR Fall Quarter ~ 1948 Aug. 2-0ct. 1 Registration for graduate students September 27 Monday Fall quarter classes begin, 8 :00 a.m.' October 7 Thursday Language examinations November 4 Thursday Last day for filing Ph.D. theses for the fall quarter November 4 Thursday Last day for filing Master's theses for the fall quarter December 16 Thursday Commencement, 8 :00 p.m. Fall quarter closes 1949 Willtel' Quarter January 3-7 Registration for graduate students January 4 Tuesday Winter quarter classes begin, 8 :00 a.m.' January 13 Thursday Language examinations February 3 Thursday Last day for filing Ph.D. theses for the winter quarter February 3 Thursday Last day for filing Master's theses for the winter quar- ter March 17 Thursday Commencement, 8:()() p.m. \\Tinter quarter closes Spring Quarter March 28-April 1 Registration for graduate students 11arch 28 Monday Spring quarter classes begin, 8 :00 a.m.' April 7 Thursday Language examinations April 29 Friday Last day for filing Ph.D. theses for the spring quarter April 29 Friday Last day for filing Master's theses for the spring quar- ter June 11 Saturday Commencement, 8 :00 p.m. Spring quarter closes Summer Scssioll June 13,14 Registration, first term. First term fees due June 15 Wednesday First term Summer Session classes begin, 8 :00 a.m.' June 23 Thursday Language examinations Last day for filing theses for first term of Summer Session July 21 Thursday Commencement, 8 :00 p.m. July 23 Saturday First term closes July 25 Monday Registration, second term. Second term fees due July 26 Tuesday Second term classes begin, 8 :00 a.m.' July 28 Thursday Last day for filing theses for second term of Summer Session August 27 Saturday Second term closes 1 First hour classes begin at i :+5 a.m. at St. Paul Campus. THE GRADUATE SCHOOL Though the Graduate School was not organized as a separate unit until 1905, the University of Minnesota awarded its first Master's degree as early as 1880 and its first Ph.D. degree eight years later. From 1888 to 1913, when Guy Stanton Ford assumed the deanship of the Graduate School, 54 Ph.D. degrees were earned at Minnesota. Since 1913 the school has expanded greatly both in fields and areas and in numbers of students. By 1946, the Graduate School had awarded 1,858 Ph.D. degrees and some 7,000 Master's degrees. Central to the purposes of the Graduate School are the advanced traning of men and women in a wide variety of fields for service and leadership in state and country and the promotion of research and the making of contributions to knowledge by faculty and stu dents in an atmosphere of freedom of inquiry. The Graduate School crosses the boundaries of the departments, schools, and colleges comprising the University, and it includes the Mayo Foundation at Rochester. Its faculty of full and associate members, numbering more than nine hundred, teach both in the Graduate School and in the several undergraduate and professional colleges. In the following pages detailed information is given with respect to the structure and rules of the Graduate School, fellowships and scholarships open to graduate students, the programs of study made possible by the offerings in more than seventy-five depart 1 ments, and a list of the courses offered. ADMISSION Any student with a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent from a recognized college or university may apply to the dean of the Gracluate School for admission. An applicant of satisfactory scholastic record whose Bachelor's degree was granted by an institution on the list of colleges and universities approved by the Association of American Universities 1 will be admitted, with the approval of the major department concerned, for graduate work involving a major in that department. The scholastic records of applicants from institutions other than those on the ap proved list of the Association of American Universities wi1l be reviewed and the applicant may be admitted, with or without conditions. Such conditions as may be found necessary will be determined in each case by the dean and the department of the student's proposed maj or. If more than six additional prerequisite credits must be earned, the applicant may be asked to register as an adult special student in the appropriate undergraduate college. An applicant who does not designate a major may be admitted to take work for which he is qualified, but if at a subsequent time he chooses a major he must meet the require ments of that department for acceptance to do major work. An applicant whose scholastic record and qualifications are unsatisfactory will be refused admission to the Graduate School, but may be advised, if a resident of Minnesota, to register for a probationary period as an adult special student in the appropriate under 1 graduate college. Such an adult special student must complete successfully one quarter's work in courses acceptable for credit by the Graduate School before being permitted to transfer his registration to the Graduate School. Upon the successful completion of this probationary quarter the student may petition to transfer all work of graduate quality taken while registered as an adult special student to the records of the Graduate School. Residence credit in the Graduate School wi1l be granted with such transferred credits. College graduates who desire simply to take additional work of undergraduate char , acter without a view to ultimate preparation for an advanced degree should not apply for 41 GEXER.1L I.VFORJIATION 5 admission to the Graduate School but should apply to the Office of Admissions and Records for registration as special students in the college giving the work. L'nder univer sity rules the status of adult special normally is closed to nonresidents. Certain departments at present require that the student complete the Miller Analogies Test, Form G, as part of the application process. At present these departments are: Child Welfare, Economics and Business Administration, Political Science, including Public Administration, Psychology, and Zoology. The Graduate School itself may ask the stu dent to take this and other tests, and in such cases the student will be notified where and when the tests will be given. In addition, the results of the Graduate Record Examination may be requested as supplementary information in determining the admission of students. It would be wise therefore for candidates to arrange to complete this test either in their senior year of undergraduate work or prior to filing an application for admission. For further informa tion with regard to this examination and places where it may be taken, students should write to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 522 Fifth Avenue, New York 18, New York. Students in the vicinity of the University of Minnesota may make arrangements to take the examination by communicating with the director of the Student Counseling Bureau, 101 Eddy Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 14, Minnesota. All inquiries concerning admission should be addressed to the dean of the Graduate School, 234 Administration Building, University of )"finnesota, Minneapolis 14, Minne sota. Applications for admission must be accompanied by official transcripts in duplicate of undergraduate work and single official transcripts of any graduate work that may have been taken. Applications should be sent to the dean of the Graduate School at least four weeks before the opening of the quarter in which the student matriculates. CANDIDACY FOR A DEGREE Admission to the Graduate School does not admit a student to candidacy for a degree. Admission to such candidacy is contingent upon the ability of the student and the quality of his work in the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota. Admission to candi dacy indicates a judgment by members of the graduate faculty that the student shows sufficient promise to be permitted to proceed toward a degree. Under no circumstances will a student be admitted to candidacy until he has been in residence for at least one quarter or one Summer Session and until he has removed any deficiencies which may have conditioned his admission to the Graduate School. The procedure in applying for candi dacy will be found in connection with the description of the requirements for the various degrees.