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Convocation Ceremonies

Below is a guide to the winter and spring ceremonies that will recognize you for your academic accomplishments.

Winter Convocation

Saturday, December 17, 2011, at 10 a.m.
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

LAS hosts a collegewide ceremony in December to recognize students earning a degree in August, October, or December 2011. Students have the option of participating in the LAS Winter Convocation ceremony or in the campuswide ceremony and an LAS departmental ceremony held the weekend of May 12-13, 2012. There is no campuswide ceremony in winter. Degree candidates for the winter ceremony will be sent information via email regarding registration.

• Register for Winter Convocation
  You must register between Monday, October 3 and Monday, November 28 to participate in Winter Convocation and to receive tickets for your guests. PhD candidates are asked to provide the name of the faculty who will perform the ceremonial hooding.

• Additional Instructions for Students
  How to order regalia (required) and obtain tickets, driving directions, when to arrive, and more.

May Commencement and Convocations

Saturday, May 12, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Several options are available to you if you choose to participate in the May commencement ceremonies. You may attend the campus commencement as well as the LAS ceremony that applies to your major.

Campus Commencement

The University hosts a campuswide commencement ceremony.

LAS Convocations

Many units within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences hold convocations, which are more personalized than the campus commencement ceremony. You may attend both a college ceremony and the campus commencement.

• Astronomy and Physics
• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Chemistry
• Communication
• Earth, Society, and Environment, School of
  Atmospheric Sciences; Earth, Society, and Environment; Geography; Geology
• Economics
• English and Rhetoric
• History and Philosophy
• Honors Program
• Integrative Biology, School of
• Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, School of
  Classics, Comparative and World Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, French, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Interdisciplinary Studies, Linguistics, Religion, Russian, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Teaching English as a Second Language, Translation and Interpetation
• Molecular and Cellular Biology, School of
• Mathematics (including Math-Computer Science) and Statistics (including Statistics-Computer Science)
• Psychology
• Political Science and International Interdisciplinary Studies
  African Studies, Global Studies, Individual Plans of Study, International Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Political Science, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Sociology, Anthropology, and Interdisciplinary Studies
  African American Studies, Anthropology, Gender and Women’s Studies, Latina/Latino Studies, Sociology