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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 courses open to candidates 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. 116-155.

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.