Graduation
Special Requirements of the College
All students must fulfill the general requirements for graduation. Students in the College of Liberal Arts must also fulfill the following requirements.
- The University requires that the student complete in residence at least sixty semester hours of the coursework counted toward the degree. For the Bachelor of Arts, Plan I, the Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, and the Bachelor of Science in Psychology, these sixty hours must include at least eighteen hours in the major. For the Bachelor of Arts, Plan II, thirty of these sixty hours must be taken in the College of Liberal Arts or the College of Natural Sciences.
- The University requires that at least six semester hours of advanced coursework in the major be completed in residence. Additional requirements of the College of Liberal Arts are given later in this chapter with the requirements of the college’s four degrees.
- Students may not complete degree requirements at another institution of higher education during the semester in which the degree is to be conferred.
Degree Audit and Applying for Graduation
An official degree audit lists all the requirements of the student’s major, according to a catalog under which the student is eligible to graduate. The audit also includes any requirements that are specific to the student’s individual program. It is the official statement by the Office of the Dean, Student Division, of the student’s progress toward a degree. Students are required to have an official degree check appointment with a Dean’s Office, Student Division adviser one semester before the semester in which the degree is to be conferred. It is strongly recommended that students schedule regular degree check appointments with the Student Division advisers once they have completed ninety semester hours of coursework.
The degree audit normally provides an accurate statement of requirements, but the student is responsible for knowing the requirements for the degree as stated in a catalog under which he or she is entitled to graduate and for registering so as to fulfill these requirements. The student should seek an official ruling in the Student Division before registering if in doubt about any requirement.
A student may schedule an official degree check once he or she has completed ninety hours of coursework and has officially declared a major and minor or concentration in the Student Division. A student in the College of Liberal Arts is required to declare a major by the time he or she has completed sixty semester hours of coursework. The student may submit an Official Declaration of Major and Minor either online at http://www.utexas.edu/cola/student-affairs/Academic-Planning/Majors-and-Degrees/Declare-a-Major.php or in the Student Division, Dorothy Gebauer Building 2.200.
In the semester or summer session in which the degree is to be conferred, the candidate must be registered at the University and must file a graduation application form either online at http://www.utexas.edu/cola/student-affairs/Academic-Planning/Graduation/Application.php or in the Student Division. This should be done at the beginning of the last semester; it must be done by the deadline to apply for an undergraduate degree, which is given in the official academic calendar. No degree will be conferred unless the graduation application form has been filed on time.