In order to encourage the study of legal history and to attract able students into the field, the School of Law and the Corcoran Department of History offer a dual-degree program leading to the degrees of J.D. and M.A. in history. The program will take three years to complete and will require the student to take 98 total credits. The J.D. requires 86 credits, and the M.A. requires 30 credits. Normally, a student would have to take 116 credits to complete both degrees. In the dual-degree program, however, the School of Law offers 12 credits for M.A. courses, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers 6 credits for J.D. courses, so a student in the program needs to take only 98 total credits.