The University of Virginia record :: February 1, 1918

The general requirements for admission to the university may be found
on page 62. 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 64), 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 63, 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, see pages 66-75.

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, Mathematics A1 or A2. 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

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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, which should in no case fall below the standard of seventy-five
per cent. 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 63. 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

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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 and Military Science are 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 Reöxamination.—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 reöxamination 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 reöxamination 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
reöxamination 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.

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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

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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 (see page 213). For credit for work done at other colleges,
see page 137.

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."