ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
Requirements for the Admission of Men.—To be admitted to regular
standing in the Department of Education, men must have satisfied the entrance
requirements of the College. Students who have decided to enter the
teaching profession at the time of entering college should register with the
Dean of the Department of Education in order to be advised in planning
their curricula. Holders of State Teachers' Scholarships are required to
register in the Department of Education.
Requirements for the Admission of Women.—To be admitted to regular
standing in the Department of Education, women must be twenty years of
age, must meet the entrance requirements of the University and must have
completed two years of college work aggregating thirty session-hours in
academic subjects. Candidates not able to meet these requirements may
make up their deficiencies during the summer quarter.
Special Students.—(a) Graduates of colleges and universities other than
the University of Virginia, desiring to secure the necessary professional
training to qualify for the Collegiate Professional Certificate, may register
in the Department of Education and upon completion of the required courses
receive a certificate which will entitle them to the Collegiate Professional
Certificate issued by the State Board of Education.
(b) Men may be admitted as special students without fulfilling the entrance
requirements above specified, provided that, if they are Virginians,
they are more than twenty years old or, if they are not Virginians, they are
more than twenty-three years old, on the day of registration, and give adequate
evidence of serious purpose and of the training needed to pursue with
profit the courses for which they are registered. No special student may
be a candidate for a degree; but such students are permitted and encouraged
to make up deficiencies by private study or by taking courses in the Summer
Quarter. They will then be admitted as regular students, and may be accepted
as applicants for degrees, provided all entrance requirements are met
at least one academic year before the date of graduation.
(c) Women, twenty-five years of age, giving satisfactory evidence that
they are qualified to pursue courses in Education successfully, may be admitted
as special students, even though they fail to show credit for the 30
session-hours of academic work required of women for admission to regular
standing.
In addition to the above, each candidate must pass at the University a
qualifying examination in English before his registration can be completed.
This examination will be held on Monday of the first week of the session.
Any student who fails to maintain a reasonable standard of English in
all of his college work will be required to take an additional course in English
composition or to repeat a course in order to make up his deficiency.
Advanced Standing is given to any candidate who, in addition to meeting
the minimum requirements for entrance above stated, can show by passing
an examination given sometime during the first month of his first session
that he has done work equivalent to that covered by any of the following
courses offered in the college: Latin A1, Greek A1, Greek A2, English
A1 or A2 or A3, German A1, Mathematics A1, French A, Spanish A.
Candidates who apply for examination for advanced standing must present
a special certificate showing that the full content of the course, on which
advanced standing is sought, has been covered in a systematic manner in
the preparatory school, and in addition must present the specific recommendation
of the principal of the school that the candidate be admitted to the
advanced standing examination in question.
College Credit.—Candidates who desire credit for work done at other
colleges, must satisfy the entrance requirements for regular students, and
must, in addition, file with the Dean of the Department a certificate covering
the courses for which college credit is desired. The certificate must
bear the official signature of the head of the candidate's college, must specify
the character and content of the courses passed by the candidate, and
must give his grades. The final validation of such certificates is effected by
the successful completion of not less than 12 session-hours of work during
his first session. In no case will credit be given on more than forty-five
session-hours of work done elsewhere, and any candidate who receives this
maximum amount of credit can count among the remaining fifteen session-hours
required for his degree only the credit value of the courses he has
passed as a resident student in the College of Arts and Sciences, exclusive
of any credit for work done in the Summer Quarter or in any of the professional
departments. In every case the candidate must spend the last session
of his candidacy, which must be a regular session of nine months, exclusively
in college work in this university; and the courses offered as major
electives must all have been completed in residence in this university. A
maximum of 15 session-hours may be granted for one year of college work,
and 33 hours for two years.
Conditioned Students.—A candidate for entrance must offer fifteen
units as defined by the Southern Commission on Accredited Schools. At
least thirteen of the units offered must be included in the list of units accepted
for admission on page 123. A student who, while able to offer fifteen
units, cannot offer fifteen units as defined in this list, may be conditioned
on any two units not including English A, B, or C, or Mathematics
A1. All conditions should be absolved before the beginning of the session
following initial registration. This may be done by passing entrance examinations
or by passing equivalent courses in the Summer Quarter. But
no course taken to remove a condition may be counted as part of the work
credited toward a degree. No conditioned student may be later registered
as a special student.
