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The Master's Degrees.

A candidate who has received a baccalaureate degree from this university,
or who has fulfilled the conditions above specified under Entrance Requirements,
is entitled to a master's degree upon his successful completion of four
graduate courses, chosen in accordance with the restrictions detailed below.

No C courses which a candidate has offered as part of the work credited
for baccalaureate degree (General Catalogue, pp. 143-144) may be counted for a
master's degree.

A candidate must take at least two graduate courses during the last year
of his work for a master's degree, and no candidate may receive this degree
until at least one year after he has received his baccalaureate degree, except by
special consent of the Academic Faculty.

The degree of Master of Arts is conferred upon a Bachelor of Arts who
has successfully completed four graduate courses, chosen with the approval
of the Academic Faculty. These four courses must be in at least three distinct
subjects, and in three different Academic Schools, except by special order of the
Academic Faculty. Three of the subjects must be cognate, which means that
they must be selected from kindred groups of subjects, such as, for example,
languages and literature, or mathematics and natural science, or history,
economics, and government, or philosophy, education, and biology.

The degree of Master of Science is conferred upon a holder of the cultural
degree of Bachelor of Science (general catalogue, p. 144), who has successfully
completed four graduate courses chosen in accordance with the regulations
prescribed for the Master of Arts above.

The degree of Master of Science in a Special Subject, the name of which
is inscribed on the diploma, is conferred upon a holder of the vocational degree
of Bachelor of Science in a Special Subject (General Catalogue, p. 144), who has
successfully completed four graduate courses selected from among those offered
in his special subject, or from among other courses which meet with the approval
of the professor or professors in charge of his special subject.