The University of Virginia record :: April 1, 1919 :: University of Virginia Library

The general requirements for admission to the University may be
found on page 7. For admission to the college, the candidate should
possess an amount of preparation which is at least the equivalent of that
represented by four years of successful work in an accredited school. He
must offer, either by certificate or by examination (see page 9), fifteen
units, of which three must be in English, two and one-half in Mathematics,
and one in History. The remaining eight and one-half units may be
selected at will from the list on page 8, unless the candidate expects
to apply for a baccalaureate degree. In that case he should offer, if he
is an applicant for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, four units in Latin or
two units in Greek; if he is an applicant for the degree of Bachelor of
Science or Bachelor of Science in Education, two units in each of two
modern languages (French, German, Spanish); if he is an applicant for
the degree of Bachelor of Science in a Special Subject, or Bachelor of
Science in Medicine, two units in French and two units in German. For
definitions of the entrance units, apply to the Dean.

Advanced Standing is given to any candidate who, in addition to
meeting the minimum requirements for entrance above stated, can show
by passing an examination that he has done work equivalent to that covered
by any of the following courses offered in the college: Latin A1,
Greek A1 or A2, Greek A3, English Literature A1 or A2 or A3, Mathematics
A1. Such a candidate will be admitted to the corresponding B
course, and upon his successful completion of the same will be entitled
to count toward a baccalaureate degree the credit value of both the A
and the B courses in question. The examinations for advanced standing
are set at some time during the first month of the session.

College Credit.—Candidates who desire credit for work done at other
colleges must satisfy the entrance requirements for regular students, and
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 professors in charge of the courses
accredited. The certificate must bear the official signature of the head of
the candidate's college, must specify the character and content of the
courses passed by the candidate, and must give his grades. The final validation
of such certificates is effected by the successful completion of the

courses taken in this university. In no case will credit be given on more
than forty-eight session-hours of work done elsewhere, and any candidate
who receives this maximum amount of credit can count among the
remaining fifteen session-hours required for his degree only the credit
value of the courses he has passed as a resident student in the college, exclusive
of any credit for work done in the Summer School or in any of
the professional departments. In every case the candidate must spend at
least one regular session exclusively in college work in this university.

Conditioned Students.—A candidate for entrance must offer fifteen
units as defined by the Southern Commission on Accredited Schools. At
least thirteen of the units offered must be included in the list of units accepted
for admission on page 8. A student not able to offer fifteen
units as defined in this list may be conditioned on any two units except
English A and B. All conditions must be absolved before the beginning
of the session following initial registration. This may be done by private
study or by taking courses in the University or in the Summer School.
But no course taken to remove a condition may be counted as part of the
work credited toward a degree. No conditioned student may be later
registered as a special student.

Special Students.—A candidate may be admitted as a special student
without fulfilling the entrance requirements above specified, provided he
is more than twenty years old on the day of registration and gives adequate
evidence of serious purpose and of the training needed to pursue
with profit the courses for which he is registered. No special student
may be a candidate for a degree; but such students are permitted and encouraged
to make up their deficiencies by private study or by taking
courses in the University or in the Summer School. They will then be
admitted as regular students, and may be accepted as applicants for degrees,
provided all entrance requirements are met at least one academic
year before the date of graduation.

REGULATIONS.

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

Maximum and Minimum of Session-Hours in One Session.—Each
student is required to undertake each session courses aggregating at
least fifteen session-hours. This number may be increased in the following
cases:

(1) First-year students may take eighteen session-hours, provided (a)
three of these be in Greek A1, Greek A2, German 1, French 1, or Spanish
1; or (b) the student in question is credited with six hours of advanced
standing.

(2) Other than first-year students may take eighteen session-hours,
provided the student (a) has passed in the preceding session courses aggregating
fifteen session-hours, or (b) is repeating a course on which
he failed in the preceding session, or (c) is in his graduating year and
needs eighteen session-hours for his degree.

(3) Other than first-year students may take twenty-one session-hours,
provided they have passed in the preceding session courses aggregating
fifteen session-hours, with a general average of at least ninety per cent.

Exceptions to the above regulations will be allowed only by special
permission of the Academic Faculty.

Physical training is not counted in the maximum and minimum requirements
detailed above.

Grade.—The grade of a student in any course, either for a term or
for the session, is determined by his class standing and his examination
grade, combined in such proportion as the professor in charge of the
course in question may decide. Class standing in any course is determined
by the regularity of the student's attendance upon the lectures
(and laboratory or other similar exercises) of the course, and by the
quality of his work, as indicated by his recitation grades, written tests,
laboratory work, etc.

Grade Required for Passing.—For passing in any course a grade of
seventy-five per cent is required.

Grade Required for Reexamination.—A student whose session grade
in any course falls below seventy-five per cent, but not below sixty-five
per cent, may, upon the written recommendation of the professor in
charge, be admitted to reëxamination upon that course, or upon such portion
of it as the professor shall determine, during the registration week
of the following September. The fee for each reëxamination is five dollars,
and must be paid to the Bursar on or before July 15.

An applicant for a degree who fails on a single term of not more
than one of his courses during the last year of his candidacy, is entitled
to a special examination before Final Day on the work of that term, and
will receive credit for the course, provided the result of this special examination
entitles him to a grade of seventy-five per cent for the term in
question, considered independently and without reference to his grade
for the other two terms. In such cases no reëxamination fee is charged.

Minimum Grade Required.—Any student whose average grade in all
his courses for any term is less than fifty per cent, will be dropped from
the rolls.

Any first-year student whose average grade for any term is fifty per
cent or more, but who attains in no one of his courses a grade of sixty-five
per cent, will be put on probation for the term next ensuing, and if
he again fails to attain for the current term a grade of sixty-five per cent
in at least one of his courses, he will be dropped from the rolls.

Any student other than a first-year student whose average grade for
any term is fifty per cent or more, but who attains in no one of his courses
a grade of seventy-five per cent, will be put on probation for the term
next ensuing, and if he again fails to attain for the current term a grade
of seventy-five per cent in at least one of his courses, or sixty-five per
cent in at least two of his courses, he will be dropped from the rolls.

A student who through neglect of his work is evidently making no
real progress in a course may at any time, after due admonition, be required
to drop the course in question; and if, for the current term or for
any succeeding term of the current session, his grade in any one of his
remaining courses falls below forty per cent, he will be put on probation.

Advisers.—To each first-year student is assigned, before his registration
is completed, a member of the faculty as his adviser, whose acquaintance
he should cultivate, and whom he may feel free to consult on any
question touching his work or his life as a student of this university.

Subjects of Study in a student's schedule may be changed, dropped, or
added to, only with the consent of his adviser and of the professors concerned,
and only within the first two weeks of each term, except that first-year
students may make such changes at any time during the first month
of the session.

Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professors, but only
for sickness or like providential cause. Any explanation of an absence
which a student has to offer must be made on the day of the first lecture
after the absence. Unexcused absences from lectures render the student
liable to such penalties as his professors may impose, or, in serious cases,
to faculty discipline. No student who has, for any reason, been absent
from more than fifty per cent of the lectures of any one term, can receive
a grade on the work of that term.

Absence from Examinations will not be excused except for sickness
on the day of the examination, attested by a physician's certificate, or for
other cause which the faculty by special order may approve. An unexcused
absence is counted as a total failure.

Special Examinations.—A student whose absence from an examination
is excused, is entitled to a special examination on a date to be arranged
between himself and the professor in charge, not later than the
end of the registration period of the following session.

Reports.—Reports are sent at the end of each term to the parent or
guardian of each student. These reports indicate the number of times the
student has been absent from lectures, and give his term grade in each
course. Preliminary reports on attendance and class-standing are made
on November 4 to the parent or guardian of every first-year student. The
Dean will be glad at any time to furnish to the proper person a special
report on any student's standing.

REQUIREMENTS FOR DEGREES.

Full opportunity is 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. But when no well-considered plan 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 will be expected to enter upon the regular work of the
college leading to a baccalaureate degree.

Five degrees are offered candidates for graduation in the college.
Two of these, the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Science, are cultural;
the Bachelor of Science in a Special Subject, the name of which is
inscribed on the diploma, the Bachelor of Science in Education and the
Bachelor of Science in Medicine, are vocational degrees, designed for
those who wish to fit themselves especially for professional work.

No course offered by a successful candidate for one of the cultural
baccalaureate degrees can be offered by the same candidate as part of the
work credited toward the other cultural baccalaureate degrees, nor can
any work done to remove an entrance condition be counted for any degree.

For a student who enters without advanced standing the normal time
required for obtaining a baccalaureate degree is four years, assuming that
he completes each year courses which aggregate the regular minimum of
fifteen session-hours. A student receiving advanced standing in not less
than two subjects may obtain a degree in three years, provided he is able
to complete each year eighteen session-hours. A student may materially
shorten the time required for obtaining a degree by taking courses in the
Summer School on which college credit is given. For credit for work done
at other colleges, see page 49.

The requirements for a baccalaureate degree are such as to allow a
large measure of freedom of election on the part of the individual student,
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 a
degree a due measure of acquaintance with the methods of thought characteristic
of each of the leading departments of knowledge, as well as
with their subject matter, his courses must be chosen, subject to the specific
requirements detailed below, from the following groups, among
which are distributed all the undergraduate courses having credit value
toward a baccalaureate degree. The courses in parentheses may be counted
only as "electives-at-large."