Master of Arts.
The degree of Master of Arts of the University of Virginia will
be conferred upon a Bachelor of Arts of this University who has completed
the work in four fully organized graduate courses chosen by
himself and approved by the Academic Faculty; each of which courses
must be one in which the professor regularly meets the class not less
than three hours a week. The four courses must be chosen from at
least three distinct subjects distributed among three different Academic
Schools, except by special order of the Academic Faculty; and
three of the courses must be cognate. Students who take such
graduate courses in some subjects before receiving the B. A. degree
will not be granted the M. A. degree unless they take at least two
of their graduate courses in the academic year when the latter degree
is conferred.
A description of the C courses open to candidate for the Master's
degree is given in its proper connection in that portion of the catalogue
which treats of the work of the independent Academic Schools,
pp. 115-157.
The courses indicated are also, in many cases, included among
the advanced courses that may be offered as electives at large for the
degree of Bachelor of Arts: credit can be obtained for any such course
in but one of these capacities by the same candidate; work done for
the lower degree being in no case counted again as part of the work
required for the attainment of the higher degree.
Students holding baccalaureate degrees from other chartered institutions
of learning and desiring admission to candidacy for the
degree of Master of Arts should write immediately to the Registrar
of the University and ask for a blank form of application, to be filled
out (partly by the applicant, and partly by the President of the institution
from which the applicant has received a degree) and
promptly returned to the Registrar. When the Committee on Rules
and Courses has duly considered the application, the applicant will be
informed what work he will have to do in order to obtain the M. A.
degree.
In general, the Faculty will require that, unless the baccalaureate
degree of the candidate conforms with reasonable closeness to the
B. A. degree of the University in the character of its requirements,
the candidate must take such undergraduate courses here as will supplement
his deficiencies. In particular, the Faculty will require the
candidate to take not only the four graduate courses mentioned above,
but also the undergraduate courses in the same subjects, unless the
Committee on Rules and Courses consider that the candidate's work
done elsewhere in one or more of these subjects has been fully equal
in quality and quantity to the undergraduate work required in such
subject or subjects at the University of Virginia. Nor can the candidate
be excused from doing the undergraduate work in any one of
these four subjects without the consent of the professor of that
subject.
