CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH

POLICY STATEMENT

NUMBER: 75-13

UNIFORM FILE

REFERENCE: Graduate Program

SUBJECT: Comprehensive Examination/Thesis Policy

The following policy for Comprehensive Examination/Thesis Policy which was approved by the Academic Senate's meeting of April 4, 1975, is approved as follows:

1. Failure of the comprehensive examination or thesis requirement is failure of both options. In other words, a student failing the comprehensive examination may not proceed to the thesis option or vice versa.

2. Once a student has completed a semester of enrollment towards fulfillment of either the comprehensive examination or thesis option, the student may not change from one option to the other without the approval of the faculty concerned, of the department chairperson, and of the appropriate dean or designee.

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5/75
Effective Fall 1975