A student may, over a four-year period, pursue a program of part-time study leading to the free-standing M.A. degree in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Art History and Archaeology, Biotechnology, Classics, Conservation Biology, East Asian Languages and Cultures, English and Comparative Literature, French and Romance Philology, Germanic Languages, Italian, Mathematics with Specialization in the Mathematics of Finance, Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Modern Art and Critical and Curatorial Studies, Museum Anthropology, Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Philosophy, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Regional Studies (East Asian or Russian, Eurasian, and East European), Religion, Russian Translation, Slavic Cultures, Slavic Languages, Spanish and Portuguese, and Statistics. The Half and Quarter Residence Units are especially designed to accommodate these students. Students enrolled in designated part-time M.A. programs may take advantage of the Half and Quarter Residence Unit registration categories to earn Residence Unit credit toward the M.A. degree during the summer. (For further information, see the Summer Session Bulletin.)