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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. Nor shall any student
take the Master's degree until at least one year after the prerequisite
Bachelor's degree has been conferred, except with the special
consent of the Academic Faculty.

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. 117-161. None of these courses indicated by the letter "C"
will be counted for the M. A. degree unless preceded by two "B"
courses in the same subject, or, (in case only one B course is offered
in that subject) by one B course in that subject and another B course
in the same Group (see p. 164); which B courses must be approved
by the professor in charge of the "C" course in question.

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.