 | The University of Virginia record March 1, 1926 |  |
GRADUATE STUDIES
Registration Graduate students of the Summer Quarter, new or old, are
required each summer of their residence, if they wish to become candidates
for the Master's Degree at this University, to register at the office of
the Dean of Graduate Studies, Graduate House, West Lawn, who will
advise them in regard to a program of studies.
This registration should promptly follow registration at the Summer
Quarter Office in Peabody Hall.
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
Admission to the Department.—For admission to the Department of
Graduate Studies a baccalaureate degree from a recognized institution
of collegiate rank is required, for men and women alike. In order to
become a candidate for a degree, the student must be advanced to candidacy
by the Committee on Rules and Courses upon formal application
as set forth below.
Final approval of candidacy will depend upon the record made during
the first term or quarter of residence.
Advancement to Candidacy for a Degree.—Any graduate student who
wishes to become a candidate for a degree must file with the Dean of the
Department his application on a blank form to be secured from the Dean's
Secretary. This application must include a proposed program of work
arranged in accordance with the requirements for the several degrees as
stated below, and must be accompanied, in case the applicant does not
hold an academic degree from this University, by an official transcript of
the applicant's academic record made out by the Registrar of the institution
from which the baccalaureate degree was received, and by a catalogue
of that institution, marked to show the courses of study pursued. The
application will be submitted by the Dean to the Committee on Rules and
Courses, who will consider it in conference with the professors concerned.
The Committee will have the right to require that the applicant add to his
program any courses, undergraduate or graduate, considered necessary to
supply his deficiencies, or to enable him to pursue with profit the courses
he has selected. When the program has been finally approved, the Dean
will report to the applicant his advancement to candidacy for a degree.
It should be distinctly understood that graduate degrees are not conferred
merely upon the basis of the number of courses passed, or of the
length of time spent in resident or non-resident work, but upon the basis
of the quality and scope of the candidate's knowledge and his power of
investigation in his chosen field of study. Candidates whose training and
attainments are inferior cannot expect to secure a degree in the normal
length of time estimated below for the respective degrees.
REQUIREMENTS FOR DEGREES.
Master of Arts.—The degree of Master of Arts will be conferred upon
the holder of a degree of Bachelor of Arts who has fulfilled the following
requirements:
(1) The successful completion, in not less than one full year of resident
graduate work, or three summer quarters, of the program of studies approved
for the candidate by the Committee on Rules and Courses, as embodied
in his formal application for advancement to candidacy. This application
must be submitted not later than one week after registration.
The program must form a consistent plan of work, to be pursued with
some definite aim, and grouped around some one subject to be known as
the candidate's Major Subject, the name of which will be incorporated in
the body of each diploma conferring the degree. The program should be
arranged in consultation with the professors concerned, and must be approved
in writing by a professor of the candidate's Major Subject, who
shall be designated by the Dean of the Department of Graduate Studies,
after consultation with the candidate.
(2) The preparation and submission of a thesis, and an examination
written or oral, upon the program of study, to be accepted as satisfactory
by the professor of the candidate's Major Subject in the regular session
in three Summer Quarters shall select his subject for a thesis not later than
the beginning of his second summer of residence. This subject should be
approved by October 15 following. Two copies of the thesis, typewritten
on paper of prescribed quality and size, and substantially bound, must be
deposited in the office of the Dean of the Department of Graduate Studies
not later than May 15 of the year in which it is expected that the degree
will be conferred. The back of the cover must bear the title of the thesis
and the writer's name, and the title page must bear the words: A thesis
presented to the Academic Faculty of the University of Virginia in candidacy
for the degree of Master of Arts.
(3) A final comprehensive examination, oral or written, after the acceptance
of the candidate's thesis, conducted by the candidate's major
professor and one or more of his departmental colleagues.
Master of Science.—The degree of Master of Science will be conferred
upon the holder of a degree of Bachelor of Science who fulfills requirements
corresponding to those stated above for the degree of Master of Arts.
Graduate Work in Education.—Graduate work in Education leading to
the degree of Master of Arts and Master of Science may be pursued in the
Summer Quarter.
Residence.—As stated above, the Master's degree may be won by properly
qualified persons in three full Summer Quarters of two terms each. In
no case will a degree be conferred without resident graduate study during
three Quarters, the equivalent in time of the regular session. Graduate
students in the Summer Quarter are required to make their Master's degree
in three out of five summers, after being accepted for graduate courses
without conditions. Graduate students are advised to continue their residence,
if possible, during one or more terms of the regular session.
Courses, Session-hours, and Grade.—Only those courses marked C in this
catalogue may be counted toward the Master's degree. Not more than
two graduate courses each term of the Summer Quarter will be credited
toward the degree except by special permission of the Dean and the Committee
on Graduate Studies.
At least twelve session-hours of resident work, constituting a definite
program of study and distributed over three Quarters, or six Summer
terms, are required for the Master's degree. Terms devoted entirely
to undergraduate study will not be counted in residence for the Master's
degree.
A graduate student's standing in a course is indicated not by a numerical
grade, but by one of the following terms: Distinguished, Satisfactory,
Unsatisfactory.
PRE-LAW COURSES
For Admission to the Department of Law, in addition to the completion
of an approved high school course of four years, or its equivalent, the
candidate must present evidence that for at least two years he has pursued
in a standard college courses leading to a baccalaureate degree, of which
he must have successfully completed at least thirty session-hours.
Applicants may, however, be registered as regular students on presentation
of a certificate of the completion of 27 session-hours, and may
make up the three additional hours before entering upon the work of
their third year.
All the required pre-Law courses are offered in the Summer Quarter.
PRE-MEDICAL COURSES
The requirements given below are strictly minimum requirements. Premedical
students are advised to take more than thirty session-hours of college
work, either by spending an additional year in college or by taking
thirty-three or thirty-six session-hours during their two years as college
students. Entrance conditions of any kind whatsoever are absolutely prohibited
and no substitution can be allowed for any required subject.
In addition to the high-school work specified above, a candidate for admission
to the Department of Medicine must present evidence of the completion
in a manner satisfactory to this medical school of at least thirty
session-hours of collegiate work in a college approved by the Council on
Medical Education of the American Medical Association. A session-hour
is the credit value of one hour a week of lecture or recitation or two hours
a week of laboratory work throughout a session of at least thirty-two weeks,
exclusive of holidays. The subjects included in the thirty session-hours of
college work should be in accordance with the following schedule:
| Session-hours | |
| General Inorganic Chemistry (a) | 4 |
| Organic Chemistry (b) | 3 |
| Physics (c) | 4 |
| Biology (d) | 4 |
| English Composition and Literature (e) | 3 |
| Other non-science subjects (f) | 6 |
Subjects Strongly Urged:
French or German, Advanced Botany or Advanced Zoölogy, Psychology,
Advanced Algebra, Solid Geometry, and Trigonometry, additional
courses in Chemistry.
Other Suggested Electives:
English (additional), Economics, History, Sociology, Political Science,
Logic, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, Drawing.
Credit not Given for an Incomplete Course.
Credit can be accepted only when the student has a clear record on the
entire course; for example, if the course in general physics is a six session-hour
course consisting of 3 hours lecture and six hours laboratory weekly
for three trimesters and the student passes on two trimesters but fails on
the third, no credit for admission to medicine can be given for the portion
of the subject passed, even though the credit value of this work is four
session-hours. In all cases the student must have completed the entire subject
for which he has registered. Deficiencies of this kind may however be
made up by obtaining a clear record in the portion of the subject in which
the failure has occurred, without repeating the entire course.
All the pre-medical courses are offered in the Summer Quarter.
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