Licentiate
- A Licentiate of the RUM has completed 15 credit-hours of classes spread among any of the Colleges.
- An individual class may only count towards the degree once.
- Recipients of the Licentiate degree may call themselves “[name], Licentiate of the Royal University of the MidRealm.”
- If 7 hours are taken in a particular college, the Licentiate may include an emphasis in that discipline, IE: “[name], Licentiate of the Royal University of the MidRealm with an Emphasis in [College name]”.
Graduate
- A Graduate of the RUM has completed 30 credit-hours of classes spread among any of the colleges.
- An individual class may only count towards the degree once.
- Hours earned for a Licentiate degree may be used towards the Graduate degree.
- 15 credit-hours of the required 30 must be taken within a single College of Emphasis.
- Recipients of the Graduate degree may call themselves “[name], Graduate of the Royal University of the MidRealm with an emphasis in [College name].”
Adept
- An Adept of the RUM has completed 55 credit-hours of classes spread among any of the colleges.
- An individual class may only count towards the degree once.
- Hours earned for all previous degrees may be used towards the Adept degree.
- 30 credit-hours must be taken within a single College of Emphasis.
- Recipients of the Adept degree may call themselves “[name], Adept of the [College name], Graduate of the Royal University of the MidRealm.”
Here’s how it works:
Lady Guinevere is new to the RUM system. She goes to the RUM event and takes four classes:
- Heralding 101 (1 hour, College of SCA Administration & History)
- How to Run a List Table (2 hours, College of Martial Arts)
- Combat Archery 101 (1 hour, College of Martial Arts)
- Elizabethan Hats (1 hour, College of Technological and Studio Arts & Sciences)
This gives her five credit hours on her transcript. Later that year, she goes to Pots and Pens, and takes three classes:
- Calligraphy 101 (1 hour, College of Technological and Studio Arts & Sciences)
- Applying Gold Leaf (1 hour, College of Technological and Studio Arts & Sciences)
- Bar and Ivy in Italian Illuminated Manuscripts (1 hour, College of Technological and Studio Arts & Sciences)
This gives her three more credit hours, or eight total credit hours. Then, she goes to Pennsic and takes five classes over four days:
- Advanced List Table Management (2 hours, College of Martial Arts)
- Combat Archery 201 (2 hours, College of Martial Arts)
- How to Crew a Siege Weapon (1 hour, College of Martial Arts)
- How to Make a Calligraphy Quill (1 hour, College of Technological and Studio Arts & Sciences)
- Identifying Blazons in Heraldry (1 hour, College of SCA Administration & History)
This gives her an additional seven credit hours, which gives her fifteen credit hours total.
Her transcript breaks down like this:
College of Technological and Studio Arts & Sciences (5 hours)
College of Martial Arts (8 hours)
College of SCA Administration & History (2 hours)
Because Lady Guinevere has over seven hours in the College of Martial Arts, she is allowed to declare herself a Licentiate of the RUM, with an emphasis in the College of Martial Arts.
When Lady Guinevere decides to proceed to a Graduate degree, she may use all of these hours towards it. She has a total of 15 hours, with a lot of hours in Martial Arts, and several hours in Technological and Studio Arts & Sciences. Guinevere can take any classes she wants, so long as she ends up with 30 hours total, with 15 of those hours from a specific College. The same thing applies for an Adept degree — all hours earned towards the Licentiate and Graduate degrees count towards achieving the Adept degree.