Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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20 Dr. John 0. Riedl Dean The nearly 600 students enrolled in Marquette's Graduate School direct their advanced study toward professional careers while at the same time serving the needs of the surrounding community. Graduate School students, having already obtained bachelor’s degrees, work for their masters through advanced study which often carries benefits for the community. Students in the graduate medical courses are affiliated with hospitals and clinics, as are nurses doing advanced study; Graduate School advanced education students often teach while still attending classes and business administration candidates for a master's degree work in a service training group which places them in city firms to gain experience in business. Graduate School Bellarmine Hall In the graduate fields of medicine the community especially reciprocates with instructors for the advanced courses of graduate students. Staff members of a number of Milwaukee hospitals assist clinical professors in graduate instruction in such fields as general surgery, internal medicine and radiology. There are also immeasurable areas of mutual benefits which school and community enjoy. The job experience the graduate student often obtains in the city helps him in his study, whereas the field in which he works is benefited by the advanced training he received at Marquette. Dr. John O. Riedl, dean of the Graduate School summarizes mutual benefits such as these in describing the University as a stimulus to research and creative thinking in its locality. Conversely he says. It draws to itself the resources of the local community which are creative in the advancement of knowledge and the arts. Working port-time of the Marquette Press, Moiscs Son-dovol, journolism groduotc student, checks a press proof. The mogozine which he edits. The Catholic School Editor, published by the Cotholic School Press Association, will be sent to all parts of the country.

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22 Instructing students in the use of calculating moc Hines, Sheila Con Heady, a graduate os-sistont in mathematics, attracts a crowd The undergroduates ore from o Biz Ad quality control class. Marquette graduate students obtain master's degrees through programs offered by 28 University departments. Students must spend at least one year devoted to graduate study and must complete thirty semester hours of work for a master’s degree. This includes work in a major field, study in related minor subjects and a master's thesis. The thesis must show knowledge and interpretation in a special phase of his major subject as well as research ability. A comprehensive examination must also lx passed by the graduate student in his major field, liefore he receives a degree. The Graduate School offers master's in arts, business administration, science, education and science of nursing, which includes all the programs offered by the University's departments. Graduate students do most of their work in graduate courses but can also take specified upper division undergraduate courses for credit in order to obtain a well-rounded program. The instructors for graduate courses are members of the individual departments or professional assistants. A maximum of twelve hours of graduate credit may be carried jkt semester by master’s degree candidates unless other activity such as graduate assistantship work is being done. A number of graduate fellowships are available in the basic medical sciences, and graduate assistantships are open each year to students who have completed their undergraduate work with distinction. They assist either in departmental classroom or la!x ratory work. To Ik admitted to the School, students must have a bachelor's degree and must be approved by the University’s Board of Graduate Studies in addition to taking certain prerequisite tests. Bonifills Chomony, physics grad student, studies cosmic coy events in photogrophic emulsion. GRADUATE SCHOOL