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GRADUATE SCHOOL BULLETIN

Advisers and the Special Committee

The director of graduate study in the student’s major area will be the stu-
dent’s adviser until he has selected his dissertation director and has been
accepted by him. When the dissertation director has been chosen, the student’s
Special Committee will be set up by the dean after he has conferred w1th the
student, the director of graduate study, and the dissertation director. This com-
mittee should be set up as soon as the student has adjusted himself to the Uni-
versity environment and has found a suitable dissertation problem. Until the
Special Committee is formed, the director of graduate study will advise the ap-
plicant as to his schedule of study, and he must initial each schedule before it
is presented to the Dean.

The Special Committee will consist of the dissertation director as chairman,
two or three other members from the major area, and one or two members
from the minor academic area—in all, five members. This committee will ad-
vise the applicant and will set the requirements which the student must meet
before he will be admitted to the final examination.

The Special Committee keeps minutes of all meetings and sends abbreviated
copies to the Dean’s Office to be made a part of the student’s record. This Com-
mittee determines when the qualifying examination is to be administered, and
the chairman schedules the examination in writing, sending a copy of the an-
nouncement to the dean. The appointed Special Committee will be the final
judge on a majority basis of the questions to be asked on the qualifying exami-
nation and of the result of the examination. This committee may be advised
by colleagues when it thinks advice is desirable.

Courses of Study and Student Loads

Every applicant for the degree must select one major area of study and no
more than two minor subjects, at least one of which must be outside the major
area. The major subject shall be one in which he intends to concentrate his
efforts; the minor subjects must be approved by the major area and by the
representative of the minor on the Special Committee. '

The applicant’s principal work must be in the major subject. Although the
regulations are somewhat elastic respecting the time to be devoted to the major
and minor subjects, the major subject should represent approximately two—
thirds of the student’s entire time. The other one-third should be devoted to
the minor subject(s). At least one-sixth of the total time must be devoted to a
minor outside of the major academic department, and at least one member of
the Special Committee from outside the major area must represent this outside
minor. Only the Graduate Council may authorize departures from this rule.

A full—time course load for any semester ranges from 9 to 15 semester hours
of credit; in the summer, from 6 to 9 semester hours.

Residence

A minimum of three collegiate years of resident graduate work above the
bachelor’s degree (two above the master’s, or its residence equivalent) is re-
quired for the doctorate. At least two semesters, exclusive of summer sessions,
of the required residence above the master’s (or its residence equivalent) must
be earned at the University of Kentucky in full-time devotion to graduate study,
or to a combination of graduate study, research, and part—time teaching at the
University. “Residence equivalent" to the master’s degree is interpreted as
thirty-six weeks of official residence. The amount of residence to be transferred
on account of prior graduate work at some other institution is determined
iSOilntlyl by the Special Committee, the Registrar, and the Dean of the Graduate
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