How to remove bold in ToC, ideally without a package

Question

I am writing my thesis, using a document class unique to my university - based on the article class. I have to remove ALL bold formatting in the Table of Contents, and for some reason I get an error that I can't figure out when I use the tocloft package.

To remove the bold in the title of the ToC, and rename it to Table of Contents, I used \renewcommand... but as you can see below, to get the title page formatted correctly, I just used \bigskip alot, and that seems to be what tocloft doesn't like:

\documentclass{csun}[12pt]
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{\textnormal{Table of Contents}}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}

\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{large}
\begin{center}
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE
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Fermi Coordinates and Relative Motion in Inflationary Power Law Cosmologies
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A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements

for the degree of Master of Science Mathematics

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by

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The Author

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\vspace*{8 em}
December 2012
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\end{center}
\pagebreak

\chapter*{\textnormal{Dedications}}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Dedications}
Dedication goes here.
\tableofcontents %makes a ToC with chapter names and page numbers bolded.
My thesis goes here.
\end{large}
\end{document}

Sorry that is a monster block of code, I realize that's not minimal, but I think it's relevant. When I try to use tocloft, and hit go to error, it sends me to one of the \bigskips. The error message says:

Error: Command \c@lofdepth already defined.

Or name \end... illegal

Any suggestions for how to make tocloft work, or how to remove the bold formatting without tocloft would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The link to the class package you are using is http://www.csun.edu/~mathgs/LaTex.html, The class in the given link is now named CSUNthesis.cls. Your document will not compile with the code that you provided. You are required to supply the following information in your preamble since, according to the documentation, these are required.

\author{<author–name>}
\committee {<chair member>}{<2nd member>}{<3rd member>}
\title{<title of work>}
\coordinator{<coordinator–name>}
\submitted {<month>}{<year>}
\abstract{<abstract material>}

According to the given link, the CSUNthesis.cls

"automatically produces a document which adheres to campus guidelines."

so, IMHO, it is best that you follow the documentation provided with the class file.

By the way, there is an optional \dedication{<>} command that you can use to typeset your dedication.

The code below does just fine and I see no boldfaced letters in the Table of Contents.

\documentclass[12pt]{CSUNthesis}
\author{Sam}
\committee{Jose}{Pepito}{Juan}
\title{Title}
\coordinator{The Coordinator}
\submitted{December}{2012}
\abstract{This is the abstract material and nothing more.}
\dedication{Dedication goes here.}
\begin{document}

\end{document}

If you got your csun.cls modified, perhaps you can provide a link to the modified class file.