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, which
means that they must be selected, for example, from such kindred
groups of subjects as languages and literature, or mathematics and
natural science, or history, economics and philosophy, or philosophy,
education and biology, etc. 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. 123-167. None of these courses indicated by the letter "C"
will be counted for the M. A. degree unless preceded by undergraduate
work of "B" grade amounting to at least six session-hours
in the same subject, or (in case only one three-session-hour
course is offered in that subject) by one B course in that subject
and another B course in the same Group (see p. 170); 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.
