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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 19, 2009, at 10 a.m.
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

LAS hosts a collegewide ceremony in December for students who graduate at the end of either the preceding summer or fall semester. Students have the option of participating in this ceremony or waiting until spring. There is no campuswide ceremony in winter. Degree candidates are sent information in October regarding registration and participation.

• Register for Winter Convocation
  You must register before December 1 to participate in Winter Convocation and receive tickets. PhD candidates are asked to provide the name of the faculty who will hood you.

• 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 15, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010

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 ceremony within LAS that applies to your major.

Campus Commencement

The University hosts a campuswide commencement ceremony.

LAS Convocations and Receptions

Many units within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences hold convocations and receptions, 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
• Economics
• English and Rhetoric
• History and Philosophy
• Honors Program
• Integrative Biology, School of
• Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, School of
  Cinema Studies, Classics, Comparative and World Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, English as an International Language, French, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Humanities, Linguistics, Religious Studies, Russian, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Teaching of French, German, Latin, or Spanish
• Molecular and Cellular Biology, School of
• Mathematics (including Math-Computer Science) and Statistics (including Statistics-Computer Science)
• Psychology
• Social Sciences
  African Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, Individual Plans of Study, International Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Political Science, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Sociology, Anthropology, and Earth Sciences
  Anthropology, Atmospheric Sciences, School of Earth, Society, & Environment, Geography, Geology, Sociology