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GRADUATION IN COMMERCE.

GENERAL.

The course for the Degree in Commerce (B. Com.) extends over at least nine terms (three academical years) and is meant to meet the needs of those preparing for careers in commerce and administration by providing opportunities for the study of subjects cognate to their future pursuits.

In particular, the classes are designed to train those who desire to pursue any of the following: (1) General Business and Financial Work; (2) Banking, Insurance, Accountancy; (3) Transport Services; (4) Foreign Trade Agency and Consular Services; (5) Certain special branches of Journalism and Teaching.

PRELIMINARY QUALIFICATIONS.

While the courses are open to anyone who may desire to take them, attendance on them counts for the Degree only under the conditions laid down in Sections III. and IV. of the Ordinance, viz. :—

Candidates before entering on the curriculum for the Degree in Commerce must have passed the Preliminary Examination, or hold a qualification recognised as exempting from such examination. For further information, see under Admission to the University.

SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENTRANCE BOARD.

1. The Scottish Universities Entrance Board is the sole Authority to determine what Leaving or other Certificates shall be accepted as qualifying for admission to the University in the case of applicants from outside Scotland, and all questions relating to the tests of fitness for admission thereto of applicants who, owing to exceptional circumstances, have not been able to fulfil the normal conditions.

2. All applicants for admission to the University must, in the first place, submit their certificates of preliminary qualification, whether these be Preliminary Examination certificates, Leaving certificates, or other certificates, to the Secretary of the Entrance

Board, 81 North Street, St. Andrews, together with a fee of 5s. If found duly qualified the applicant will receive the Board's Certificate of fitness, which must then be presented to the Secretary of the University.

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF COMMERCE.

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UNIVERSITY COURT ORDINANCE, No. LXXXI.; Aberdeen No. 9. [Institution of a Degree in Commerce and relative Regulations.]

At Aberdeen, the Twenty-seventh day of March, Nineteen hundred and nineteen years.

WHEREAS, by Section 21 of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, it is enacted that after the expiration of the powers of the Commissioners under the said Act, the University Court of each University shall have power to make such Ordinances as it thinks fit, with the approval of His Majesty in Council: inter alia (Subsection 2) "altering or revoking any of the Ordinances affecting such University which have been or may be framed and passed under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858, or this Act, and making new Ordinances ";

And whereas, by Section 14 of the said Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, the said Commissioners had power to make Ordinances to regulate, inter alia, the granting of Degrees and the institution of new Degrees; and to regulate and alter the constitution and number of the Faculties and to create new Faculties;

And whereas the powers conferred on the said Commissioners have expired;

And whereas it is expedient that the University of Aberdeen should institute a Degree in Commerce and frame Regulations for the same:

Therefore the University Court of the University of Aberdeen hereby statutes and ordains as follows:

I. A Degree in Commerce may be conferred by the University of Aberdeen, namely, Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com.).

II.-1. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, Regulations shall from time to time be prescribed by the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, for graduation in Commerce, and these Regulations shall, subject to the control of the Senatus, be administered by a Board of Studies in Commerce until the institution of a Faculty of Commerce. The said Board of Studies shall consist of such members of the Senatus and such Lecturers in the University as are teaching subjects qualifying for the Degree in Commerce, and the Senatus shall appoint one of the members of the Board to be Convener thereof.

2. If at any time the University Court, upon the recommendation of, or after consultation with the Senatus, deems it expedient that a separate Faculty of Commerce be created in the University, the University Court may create such a Faculty and determine its constitution and composition; provided that the University Court shall have first communicated its intention to the General Council and shall have duly considered any representations made thereon by the General Council within two months from the date of such communication.

3. For the purpose of advising on the Curriculum for the Degree in Commerce, and on all matters connected therewith, the Court shall from time to time appoint a Committee of persons experienced in Commerce or Industry, including the President of the Chamber of Commerce for the time being, as an Advisory Committee in Commerce, which Committee shall appoint its own Chairman, who shall convene a meeting at least once a year in the month of March.

PRELIMINARY QUALIFICATIONS.

III. Before entering on the Curriculum for the Degree in Commerce, each student shall pass either (a) the Arts Preliminary Examination of the Scottish Universities for the time being, or (b) the Science Preliminary Examination for the time being; or shall hold a qualification recognised as exempting from such Examinations for the purposes of this Degree.

IV. 1. Students may attend any classes without having passed the Preliminary Examination within the meaning of this Ordinance, but such attendance shall not qualify for graduation. The Senatus may, however, on special cause shown, permit a student who has not passed the Preliminary Examination to attend a class and count it for graduation, on condition of his passing the Preliminary Examination within such time thereafter as the Senatus may from time to time determine; and in every such case the Senatus shall make a report to the University Court, setting forth the reasons for the relaxation.

2. Attendance on a class in any language shall not qualify for graduation unless the candidate, before entering the class, either shall have passed the Preliminary Examination for Arts or Science in that language; or shall have passed an examination in the same on a standard as nearly as possible equivalent to the standard of the modern languages included in the Preliminary Examination.*

* But by Resolution of Senatus of 21st October, 1919, the Certificate of the Entrance Board is sufficient even although the language is not included in the Entrance Examination except in the case of Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac.

CURRICULUM AND EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE.

V. The curriculum of study for the Degree in Commerce shall extend over not fewer than nine terms.

VI. Candidates for the Degree in Commerce who have taken or shall concurrently take any other Degree in the University shall not count more than three subjects approved by the Senatus as common to the two degrees.

VII. The subjects of instruction for the Degree in Commerce shall be studied in courses, consisting in all of not fewer than twenty-one term attendances, and shall comprise certain compulsory subjects which must be taken by every candidate for the Degree and certain additional subjects from which the candidate shall select a number sufficient to make up the required number of term-attendances, namely:—

A. COMPULSORY SUBJECTS.

(14 Term-attendances.)

(1) Political Economy-3 terms.

(2) Organisation of Industry and Commerce-2 terms.*

(3) Economic Statistics-1 term.

(4) Accounting and Business Methods-2 terms.t

(5) A Foreign Modern Language (or English for non-English speaking students)-3 terms.

(6) Economic Geography-2 terms.+

(7) Mercantile Law-1 term.

B. ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS.

(7 or more Term-attendances.)

(1) One or more than one foreign modern language (subject to the approval of the Senatus) other than that studied in A. (5); or an advanced full course in the language studied in A. (5)-3 terms each.

(2) One or more of the following subjects, Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Zoology, Geology, and such other Sciences as the Senatus may from time to time approve― not fewer than 2 terms each.

(3) Pure Mathematics-3 terms. Advanced Statistics-2 terms.

No student will be permitted to attend this Class until he has attended the Ordinary Class in Political Economy.

+ This class is spread over THREE terms although only two terms may be counted in making up the twenty-one term attendances required under this section.

(4) Other Subjects.

Economic History-3 terms.

Advanced Political Economy-3 terms.

Public Finance-3 terms.

Banking, Currency, and Foreign Exchanges-1 term.
Insurance-1 term.

Modern History-3 terms.

Constitutional Law and History (including Public Administration)-2 terms.

Public International Law-1 term.

Private International Law-1 term.

Industrial Hygiene-1 term.

(5) Such special Courses in Industry and Commerce as the Senatus may from time to time sanction with the approval of the University Court.

Advanced Economic History †−3 terms.

Industrial Psychology §-1 term.
Scots Law *-2 terms.

Advanced Geography **—3 terms.

VIII.-1. Each term-attendance in any subject shall consist of not fewer than twenty-five meetings of the whole class on separate days, and shall extend over a term of not less than nine weeks, with additional meetings for tutorial or other supplementary instruction where such is provided; but the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, may, in special cases and in consideration of the nature of the subject, sanction a term of less than nine weeks or a course of fewer than twenty-five meetings of the whole class.

2. A candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Commerce shall not be deemed to have attended a class as part of the Curriculum for that Degree who does not present a certificate bearing, not only that he has given regular attendance, but also that he has duly performed the work of the class.

3. The Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, may make additions to or modifications in the above courses of study, or their grouping, provided always that the University Court shall communicate to the General Council all such additions or modifications, and any representations made thereon by the General Council, within two months from the date of such communication, shall be duly considered by the University Court, before such additions or modifications are approved.

IX. Attendance on classes recognised as qualifying for graduation

+*Sanctioned by Senatus and approved of by the University Court. February, 1922. 9th May, 1922. *14th July, 1925. ** 9th March, 1926.

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