Masters 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 at least 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 brief summary of the C courses open to candidates for the
Master's degree is given upon a following page, together with a
schedule of the hours of lectures and examinations: a description of
each is given in its proper connection in that portion of the catalogue
which treats of the work of the independent Academic Schools.
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, of course, 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 Academic Degrees
has duly considered the application and reported to the Academic
Faculty, the latter will decide whether the application will be
accepted; and, if so, the applicant will then 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
convinced by the report of the Committee on Academic Degrees 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.
