IMHO, it should be an MS when the field or work is scientific, and an MA when it isn't. I tried to get my department to offer an MS in Sociology, but it would have required an act of the state legislature.
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of Thomas Burg Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:29 PM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] something totally different
Dear Members: I dare to ask something on the margins of this list. We at our university have to invent Master Programs that are internationally comparable. That means here in Austria we are moving from national to international systems and naming. Due to a lack of tradition we struggle with the meaning of MA and MSc programs. We cannot distinguish precisely what makes up the one or the other. Our field is that of New Media, Telematics, Knowledge Management - thus more on the production and management side. We found several programs out there that cover more or less similar contents and courses but are named MA or MSc without any comprehensible reason. Some colleagues are opting for MSc as the default label for our programs but I'm not so sure about that.
Thanks for listening
Thomas N. Burg,
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