What should I wear to my graduation USYD?
At your ceremony, you’ll need to wear full academic dress appropriate for your degree or diploma. This comprises a gown, bonnet/trencher cap, and hood or stole. You will need to return your academic dress after your ceremony to the USYD store located in the Holme Building. The trencher hat is yours to keep.
What is a graduation hood?
Graduate students receive hoods during a hooding ceremony at the time their degrees are conferred. The hood is a triangular fold of cloth worn over the back of the gown. The hood is faced with a color that denotes the graduate’s field of study.
What do Phd graduates wear?
At the doctoral level, regalia consists of a more elaborate gown with a five-inch velvet panel down the front and three velvet bars on each sleeve. The velvet trim on a doctoral gown indicates the degree and academic discipline of the graduate. Some schools choose a color other than black for their doctoral regalia.
What is a PHD graduation hat called?
The very recognizable square academic cap is often called a mortarboard because of its similarity in appearance to the board used by bricklayers to hold mortar. This popular doctoral tassel is permanently attached to the top of the cap or tam.
Is Testamur a degree?
A testamur is the legal certification of your degree and will be given to you at the time of graduation (or sent to you if graduating in absentia).
Do diploma graduates wear caps?
Diploma candidates do not wear a cap.
What is a doctoral tam?
Academic Doctoral Tams – Phd Tams Academic tams are a big part of the academic regalia. They are worn not only by the graduates but by the professors, school administrators and school faculty who form part of the graduation ceremony. They are easy to pair with your doctoral gowns since the Tams are made of velvet.
What color are PHD hoods?
blue
Bachelor’s wear their gowns without hoods. The velvet trim from the hood signifies by color the type of Doctoral degree: blue trim for PhDs and yellow for ScDs.
What is the difference between a bachelor’s gown and a master’s gown?
There are subtle differences to the regalia worn at graduation. The bachelor’s degree recipient wears a plain black gown with a bell sleeve and a red tassel on the cap, or mortar board, and no hood. The master’s degree recipient wears a black tassel, a colored hood and a gown that has a visibly odd sleeve.