|
|
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| [[Image:Mark Twain DLitt.jpg|right|thumb|180px|{{center|[[Samuel Clemens]] (Mark Twain), wearing the full-dress gown of an [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] DLitt. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in letters in 1907}}]]
| | {{#InterwikiExtract: {{{1|{{PAGENAME}}}}} |
| '''Doctor of Letters''' ({{lang-la|Litterarum doctor}}; '''D.Litt.'''; '''Litt.D.'''; '''D. Lit.'''; or '''Lit. D.''') is an [[academic degree]]. It is a higher [[doctorate]] which, in some [[countries]], may be considered to be beyond the [[Ph.D.]] and equal to the [[Doctor of Science]] (Sc.D. or D.Sc.). It is [[wikt:award|award]]ed in many countries by [[universities]] and [[wikt:learned|learned]] bodies. It is given in recognition of achievement in the [[humanities]], original contribution to the [[creative arts]] or [[wikt:scholarship|scholarship]] and other merits. [[Cambridge University]] requires a candidate to "give proof of distinction by some original contribution to the advancement of science or of learning."<ref>University of Cambridge, ''Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge 2009'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), p. 535</ref> When awarded without an application by the conferee, it is awarded as an [[honorary degree]]. A Doctor of Letters is a commonly awarded honorary degree.<ref>James J. F. Forest; Kevin Kinser, ''Higher Education in the United States'' (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002), p. 335</ref>
| | |wiki = wikipedia |
| | | |format = html |
| == References ==
| | |intro = true |
| {{reflist}} | | }} |
| | | <div style="text-align: right;"><code>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{{1|{{PAGENAME}}}}} from Wikipedia]</code></div> |
| {{stub}}
| |
| | |
| [[Category:Education]]
| |
| [[Category:Academia]]
| |
Revision as of 16:52, 27 August 2020
{{#InterwikiExtract: Doctor of Letters
|wiki = wikipedia
|format = html
|intro = true
}}
