Cand.mag.
Candidatus magisterii (male), or candidata magisterii (female), abbreviated as cand.mag., is an academic degree currently awarded in Denmark and formerly awarded in Norway.
In Denmark, cand.mag. is a higher-level degree awarded as a Kandidat (Candidate) degree by Danish universities to graduate students in the Humanities. The study requires 120 ECTS, and normally requires two years study in addition to a completed Bachelors degree. The title is officially translated to English as Master of Arts.[1]
The degree was also awarded in Norway from 1920-2003. In Norway, however, the degree was awarded as a lower-level degree. Completion required a minimum of 3.5 years for the faculties of mathematics and natural sciences, and 4-4.5 for the faculties of humanities and social sciences.[2] The cand.mag. degree was the sole lower-level degree awarded by Norwegian universities, though it could be translated to English as either Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science depending on the awarding faculty and university. In 2003, the cand.mag. degree was replaced in Norway by the less rigerous Bachelors degree as part of the adoption of the Bologna Process.[3]
It is not to be confused with the magister's degree (magister artium or magister scientiarum), a degree requiring 7–8 years of studies with strong emphasis on the scientific thesis, and which is the approximate equivalent of a PhD degree.[4][5]
References
- ^ https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=160853#Kap5
- ^ Kjell Raaheim og Edmund Utne (1985). Hvilket fag skal jeg velge, hvilken grad kan jeg ta? (s. 105). Bergen: Sigma. ISBN 8290373082, ISBN 9788290373080
- ^ https://snl.no/cand.mag.-graden
- ^ Dommasnes, Liv Helga; Else Johansen Kleppe; Gro Mandt; Jenny-Rita Næss (1998). "Women archeologists in retrospect – the Norwegian case". In Margarita Díaz-Andreu García and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (ed.). Excavating women: a history of women in European archaeology. London: Routledge. p. 115. ISBN 0-415-15760-9.
- ^ Jørgensen, Lise Bender (1998). "The state of Denmark". In Margarita Díaz-Andreu García and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (ed.). Excavating women: a history of women in European archaeology. London: Routledge. p. 231. ISBN 0-415-15760-9.
In recent years, the Anglo-Saxon style degree of PhD has been introduced, and is now replacing the degree of mag. art. At present, both mag. art. and PhD degrees are around. They are not identical, but their position in the educational system as the degree you take at the end of postgraduate studies is the same.
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