NEW REQUIREMENTS FOR THE A.B. DEGREE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

The Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has recently voted to
make certain changes in the requirements for the A,B. degree, to take effect,
except for Rule C, with the class graduating in June, 1940, Because students
who next fall begin the work for the A.B. degree will normally be eligible

for graduation in June, 1940, the new regulations, in effect, apply to the
Freshman Class entering the University in September, , Leos Por the convenience
of those who are interested in these regulations, they are listed here:

NEW RULES

(A), 1. Of the one hundred and twenty-four hours required for the A,B.
degree, twenty hours shall be taken in each of the first three divisions shown
on the last page. Fifteen hours must have been taken in each by the end of the
Sophomore year, of which five must be in each of two fields in each division,

2. Five hours of work offered by the Department of Home Economics
may be applied in the satisfaction of distribution requirements under one of
the following options: (1) five hours from 80a, Home Administration, 80b,

Home Administration, and 165, Public Aspects of the Household, may be applied
under Field B of Division It; (2) 3, Selection and Preparation of Foods, may
be applied under Field B of Division II; (3) five hours from 6a and 6b, Food
and Nutrition, and 12 and 83, Child Care, may be applied under Field C of
Division it,

(B) A maximum of forty hours shall be allowed in the major department,
of which the department may prescribe not more than twenty-five hours, The
minimum number of hours to be offered as completing a major course shall be
twenty, A maximum of not more than twenty-five hours shall be allowed in any
department other than the major, The maximum in a field of more than one
department shall be sixty hours, and in any one division eighty hours,

{C) In the total of one hundred and twenty-four hours of credit, at least
fifty hours shall be in Junior-Senior courses, This provision shall go into
effect as soon as in the opinion of the Administrative Committee a sufficient
number of Junior=—Senior courses are available, The rule must not become
effective, however, for at least two years,

The requirements in Rhetoric and in Foreign Language shall remain as
at present, except as modified by Rule A above and by Rules D, E, and fF,
which follow;

-(D) 1, The English Department shall offer the opportunity to all
students whom it ascertains to be qualified, to take, upon entrance to the
University, an examination testing them on the material of the Freshman course
in Rhetoric. <Any student who passes this examination may be excused from part
or all of the five hours of work in Rhetoric otherwise required, and he shall
then be regarded as having satisfied an equivalent number of hours of the
distribution requirement in Field A, Division I,

2. Before a student may enroll for any part of the final thirty hours
of residence work for the A.B, degree, he must pass a proficiency examination
in the correct writing of English prose, This examination shall be set by a
committee chosen from the Department of English, and the reading of the
examination papers shall be under the supervision of a committee of five, at
least two members of which shall be members of the Department of English,

(E) Students who present two units of one foreign language from high
school shall be deemed to have also met a ten—hour distribution requirement in
Field B of Division I,:. provided that by the end of the first semester after
matriculation they pass a proficiency examination, given by the department
concerned, in the reading of prose of average difficulty in that language, with
the aid of a dictionary,

(F) Students who satisfy the minimum distribution requirement of five
hours only in Field B of Division I must take these five hours in a language
in which they already have credit,