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Required for Entrance upon the Work of the Departments.—For
admission as a regular student, the preparation of the candidate
should be at least the equivalent of that represented by four years
of successful work in an accredited high school. For entrance to
the college, as either a regular or a conditioned student, the candidate
must either present satisfactory certificates, or pass the entrance
examinations described in detail, pp. 75-89. The seven and
one-half units which the candidate may select at will (p. 75) must
be so chosen as to absolve in full the requirements for entrance
upon the courses for which he desires to be registered.

Admission with Advanced Standing.—The preceding paragraph
states the minimum requirements for admission to the college. Candidates
for admission who have in addition completed, in an accredited
secondary school, courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, or
Greek, equivalent to the A courses in these subjects, and who are
recommended officially and in writing by the principal of the school
for such credit, may receive college credit for such courses, after
conforming to the regulations regarding such advanced standing on
the course in question. These regulations are given in connection
with each course in the requirements for degrees in the college.

Entrance with College Credit for Courses Passed at Other Colleges.—Candidates,
who desire college credit for work done at other
colleges, must satisfy the entrance requirements for regular students,
and the programme of subjects offered by such candidates must conform
in essentials to the degree requirements in this college. The
candidate must, in addition, file with the dean of the college a certificate
covering the courses for which college credit is desired. This
certificate must be acceptable both to the dean and to the professor
in charge of the course accredited. The certificate must bear the official
signature of the head of the college; must specify the character
and content of the course followed by the student; must give his
grades, which should in no case fall below the standard seventy-five
per cent of this university; and must recommend the student as
worthy of admission to the University of Virginia in respect of both
character and scholarship. The final validation of such certificates

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is effected by the successful completion of the courses attended in
this university. In no case will college credit be given on more than
45 session-hours of work done elsewhere, and in every case the
candidate must spend at least one regular session exclusively in college
work in this university, no credit being given such candidates
for the last 15 session-hours of the degree if passed in the Summer
School or while enrolled in one of the professional departments.

Special Students.—Applicants for registration who are more than
twenty years old, and desire to enter for the pursuit of special elective
courses, must present adequate proofs of good character and of
the necessary maturity and training. Such applicants may then be
registered by the Dean of the university as Special Students, and
will be admitted without formal examination to the privileges of the
university, but not as candidates for any titled degree. Such students
must in all cases meet the specific entrance requirements as
prescribed for the courses elected by them.

Regulations.

The Session-Hour.—All undergraduate courses are measured in
terms of the session-hour as a unit. The session-hour is one hour
a week a session of lecture or recitation, or two hours a week a session
of laboratory work.

Maximum and Minimum of Session-Hours in One Session.—
Each student in the college is required to undertake each session
courses aggregating not less than 15 nor more than 18 session-hours.

Minimum Grade Required.—Any student whose average grade
on all courses for any term is less than 40 per cent will be dropped
from the rolls of the college. Any student whose average grade at
the end of any term is more than 40 per cent, but whose grade on
each of his courses is less than 65 per cent, will be put on probation
for the term next ensuing. The student on probation who again
makes less than 65 per cent on each of his courses will be dropped
from the rolls.

Grade Required for Passing.—The grade required in the college
for passing in any course is 75 per cent.

Requirements for Degrees.

Full opportunity has in the past been, and will in the future be,
given to any student to carry out any definite plan of work which
he may have in view on coming to the university, or which may
have been prescribed for him by those under whose direction he is
completing his education. Every student is, however, expected to
come to the university for a definite purpose: and when no well considered

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plan as above indicated, has been outlined in advance, and
the end in view is that for which the great majority of students enter
college, namely, the attainment of a liberal education, the student in
question will be expected to enter upon the regular work of the college
which leads to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, or to that of
Bachelor of Science.

Three degrees are offered candidates for graduation in the College.
Each of these degrees requires four sessions of work of collegiate
grade, aggregating not less than 60 session-hours. Two of
these degrees, the Bachelor of Arts and the Cultural Bachelor of
Science, are cultural; the Vocational Bachelor of Science in a special
subject is a professional degree, designed for those students who
wish to fit themselves especially in some branch of the mathematical
or natural sciences as a vocation.

Bachelor of Arts and Cultural Bachelor of Science.

The Group System of Election.

The requirements for each of the baccalaureate cultural degrees,
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science, are such as to permit of
the large measure of freedom of election on the part of the individual
student which has characterized the work of the university from the
beginning: such restriction only being placed upon this liberty as is
necessary to insure at the same time the thoroughness and the
breadth of culture for which these degrees stand. In order to secure
to the recipient of either degree in due measure an acquaintance
with the methods of study and of thought characteristic of each of
the leading departments of knowledge, as well as with their subject
matter, as far as possible, his courses must be chosen,—subject to
the restrictions and exceptions detailed below,—from certain groups
of subjects, as stated in the following sections.

No elective offered by a successful candidate for one of the cultural
baccalaureate degrees can be offered by the same candidate as
part of the work required for the other cultural baccalaureate degree,
nor can any work done toward the removal of entrance conditions
be counted for any degree.

A detailed account of the courses in the various groups as given
below will be found under the Academic Schools, page 135, seq.

A schedule of lectures and examinations in these courses will be
found, p. 189.

A—Group-Electives.

Group I: Languages.

Each course in this group has a credit value of 3 session-hours.

Nine session-hours are required in not less than 2 subjects. Candidates

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for the B. A. degree must elect 6 session-hours in either
Latin or Greek. Candidates for the B. A. degree offering both Latin
and Greek must elect 6 session-hours in each, of which 3 session-hours
must be Latin A1 and 3 session-hours Greek A2.

Candidates for the B. S. degree must not offer either Latin or
Greek.

Election must be made from the following courses:

Latin A1. (Advanced standing will be given on this course
only after the applicant has passed the written examination
on the work of the course, given at the
beginning of each session.)
Latin B1.
Latin B2.
Greek A2. (Advanced standing may be given on this course.)
Greek B1.
Greek B2.
French B1.
Spanish B1.
Italian B2.
Portuguese B2.
German B1.
German B2.

Group II: Mathematical Sciences.

Each course in this group has a credit value of 3 session-hours.

Six session-hours are required, 3 of which must be in Mathematics
A1.

Election must be made from the following courses:

Mathematics A1 or A2. (Advanced standing will be given on
either of these courses only after the
applicant has passed the written examination
on the work of the course,
given at the beginning of each session.).
Mathematics B1.
Mathematics B2.
Mathematics B3.
Astronomy B1.

Group III: Natural Sciences.

All courses in this group have a credit value of 6 session-hours, with
three hours of lectures and six hours of laboratory work a week
in each course.

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Twelve session-hours in two subjects are required from the following
courses:

Chemistry B1, or Chemistry B2.
Physics B1.
Botany B1.
Zoölogy B1.
Geology B1.

Group IV: Social Sciences.

All courses in this group have a credit value of 3 session-hours.

Six session-hours are required from the following courses:

History B1.
History B2.
Economics B1.
Political Science B1.

Group V: English.

All courses in this group have a credit value of 3 session-hours.

Nine session-hours are required, 3 of which must be English
Literature A1.

Election must be made from the following courses:

English Literature A1 or A2. (Advanced standing will be
given on either of these
courses only after the candidate
has passed the written
examination on the work of
the course, given at the beginning
of each session.)
English Literature B1.
English Literature B2.
English B1.
English B2.
Biblical History and Literature B1.
Biblical History and Literature B2.
Public Speaking B1, or Public Speaking B2.

Group VI: Philosophical Sciences.

All courses in this group have a credit value of 3 session-hours.

Six session-hours are required from the following courses:

Philosophy B1. (Logic.)
Philosophy B2. (Ethics.)
Philosophy B3. (Psychology.)
Education B1.
Education B2.
Education B3.

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B. Electives-at-Large and Major Group.

In addition to the session-hours required in group-electives, all
candidates must offer 12 session-hours of electives-at-large, chosen
from the courses given in the groups above, or from the courses open
to graduates and undergraduates in the graduate department (C
courses). Candidates who offer both Latin and Greek, i. e., 12 session-hours
in Group I (p. 183), are credited as having absolved three
session-hours of electives-at-large, and are required to offer only 9
additional session-hours of electives-at-large. English B1 may be
offered as an elective-at-large either in Group I (Language), or in
Group V (English). One C course offered as an elective-at-large will
have a credit value of 6 session-hours. Of the 12 session-hours of
electives-at-large, not less than 9 session-hours must be offered from
some one group to be known as the candidate's major group.

Substitutions Allowed for Electives-at-Large.

Candidates who have completed in this college 48 session-hours
of group-electives may offer, instead of 12 session-hours of electives-at-large,
the first year course in the Department of Law, or
in the Department of Medicine, or 12 session-hours of technical
courses in the Department of Engineering.

Time Required for Obtaining the Degree of Bachelor of Arts or the
Cultural Degree of Bachelor of Science.

Students in the College are required to undertake each session
courses aggregating not less than 15 nor more than 18 session-hours.
For students, therefore, who enter without advanced standing the
normal time required for graduation is 4 years. A student receiving
advanced standing on not less than two A courses may obtain
a baccalaureate degree in three years if he is able to complete the
maximum course of 18 session-hours each session.

College credit will be given for courses in certain subjects offered
in the Summer School of this university, so that a student by
work in the Summer School may materially shorten the time required
for obtaining a baccalaureate degree. Students entering from
other colleges of recognized standing may be credited with not more
than 45 session-hours, and must, therefore, spend at least one year
in residence and complete not less than 15 session-hours of work in
this college. The programmes of studies offered by such candidates
must moreover satisfy all the requirements above stated, as to group-electives,
electives-at-large and the major group.

Requirements for Vocational Degrees of Bachelor of Science.

A. Group Electives. Thirty session-hours.