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Hooding/Academic dress



Jean,

        The following is what Queens College (Charlotte, NC)
includes in every Commencement program:

        The history of academic dress reaches far back into the early
days of the oldest universities.  Gowns may have been necessary
for warmth in the unheated buildings frequented by medieval
scholars.  Hoods might have served to cover the tonsured head.
        Over the years, European institutions determined their own
varying codes of dress.  American colleges and universities
established a common code of academic dress in 1895; the code
has been reviewed and revised several times since.
        The three components of the academic costume are the cap,
the gown, and the hood.
        The caps for all degrees are black.  Mortarboards are
generally recommended, although soft square-topped caps are
permissible for women.  The tassels may be black or the color
denoting the wearer's academic discipline, and the doctor's cap
may have a gold tassel.
        The style of the gown varies with the degree it represents.
The gown for the bachelor's degree has pointed sleeves, for the
master's degree oblong sleeves, and for the doctor's degree bell-
shaped sleeves.  There is no trimming on either the bachelor's or
the master's gown.  The gown for the doctor's degree is faced with
velvet, either black or the color denoting the academic field in which
the degree was obtained.  Some subjects and their corresponding
colors are listed below.

Arts, letters, humanities       White   Music           Pink
Commerce, business              Drab            Nursing         Apricot
Economics                       Copper  Philosophy              Dark blue
Education                               Light blue      Physical Ed.    Sage green
Fine Arts                               Brown   Science     Golden yellow
Library Science                 Lemon   Theology                Scarlet

        The hoods are black.  The length of the hood increases from
the bachelor's degree to the doctor's degree.  The hood is lined in
the colors of the institution which conferred the degree and edged
in the color denoting the subject-matter field in which the degree
was obtained.

        This may be more than you wanted to know, but that's what we
use.
        Jean R.



Jean Reed
Archives Specialist
Everett Library, Queens College
Charlotte, NC 28274
reedj@rex.queens.edu
fax 704-337-2517

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