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PROPOSED REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION

(Revision of the form adopted by action

of the Faculty of the Graduate School on

May 25, 1937.)

The student must spend the equivalent of three full academic years in resident
graduate study at this or some other approved University of which at least the
last year mist be in residence at this University. With the consent of the
Dean of the Graduate School and of the student's major adviser, the student
may be required to include as a part of his program of studies one semester

of apprentice work under vroper supervision in a school system approved for
such work by the Faculty of the Department of Education.

Before being admitted to the preliminary examination, the candidate must show
that he has had three years of successful experience in the field of pro-
fessional HEducatione

The student must choose a major and a minor field of study subject to the
approval of the student's advisory committee and the Dean of the Graduate
School, The major field shall be the one in which he will do his intensive
work, and the minor a closely related field.

Before being admitted to the preliminary examination, the student must pre-
sent satisfactory evidence of special competence in whatever two or more of
the following his advisory committee, after conference with him, may deem
necessary to the pursuit of his particular line of study:

a. Reading knowledge of one or more of the foreign languages
which, if any, are to be used as tools for study in the
major or minor fields.

b. Ability to use statistical techniques.

ec. Ability to administer and evaluate the results of
educational tests of all types demanded in a reasonable
system of educational counseling or guidance.

d. Ability to analyze and evaluate educational documents or
writings and to make high grade written reports of the
findings.

@e Specialized knowledge of some field of ettucational practice
which may be of particular importance in the pursuit of
the student's line of study.

The student must pass satisfactorily a preliminary examination, both written
and oral, in his major and minor fields of study near the time of completion
of two-thirds of the required amount of graduate study for the degree.

The candidate must present a treatise of high character which will show the
result of original research or of applying existing kmowledge in his major
field of study.

The candidate must pass a final oral examination after the completion of
the treatise. ;

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