CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
Graduate Study
CHAPTER 2
Admission and
Registration
CHAPTER 3
Degree
Requirements
CHAPTER 4
Fields
of Study
CHAPTER 5
Members of
Graduate Studies
Committees
APPENDIX
Course
Abbreviations
Appendix: Course Abbreviations
The University offers courses in the following fields of study. The abbreviations following the fields of study are used in catalogs, course schedules, and student records. Fields preceded by an asterisk are offered only at the undergraduate level.
| Accounting | ACC | |
| * | Actuarial foundations | ACF |
| Advertising | ADV | |
| Aerospace engineering | ASE | |
| * | African and African American studies | AFR |
| * | Air force science | AFS |
| * | American Sign Language | ASL |
| American studies | AMS | |
| * | Ancient history and classical civilization | AHC |
| Anthropology | ANT | |
| * | Applied learning and development | ALD |
| Arabic | ARA | |
| * | Archaeology | ARY |
| Architectural engineering | ARE | |
| * | Architectural interior design | ARI |
| Architecture | ARC | |
| Art education | AED | |
| Art history | ARH | |
| * | Asian American studies | AAS |
| Asian studies | ANS | |
| Astronomy | AST | |
| Bassoon | BSN | |
| * | Bengali | BEN |
| Biochemistry | BCH | |
| Biology | BIO | |
| Biomedical engineering | BME | |
| Business administration | B A | |
| Chemical engineering | CHE | |
| Chemistry | CH | |
| Chinese | CHI | |
| Civil engineering | C E | |
| Clarinet | CLA | |
| Classical civilization | C C | |
| Cognitive science | CGS | |
| Communication | COM | |
| Communication sciences and disorders | CSD | |
| Communication studies | CMS | |
| Community and regional planning | CRP | |
| Comparative literature | C L | |
| Computational and applied mathematics | CAM | |
| Computer sciences | C S | |
| Conducting | CON | * | Cultural studies | CLS |
| Curriculum and instruction | EDC | |
| Czech | CZ | |
| * | Danish | DAN |
| Design | DES | |
| * | Developmental studies | DEV |
| Double bass | D B | |
| Drama | DRM | |
| * | Drum set | DRS |
| * | Dutch | DCH |
| Economics | ECO | |
| Educational administration | EDA | |
| Educational psychology | EDP | |
| Electrical engineering | E E | |
| Energy and mineral resources | EMR | |
| Engineering management | ENM | |
| Engineering mechanics | E M | |
| English | E | |
| * | Ensemble | ENS |
| Euphonium | EUP | |
| * | European studies | EUS |
| Finance | FIN | |
| Fine arts | F A | |
| Flute | FLU | |
| Foreign language education | FLE | |
| French | FR | |
| * | French civilization | F C |
| French horn | F H | |
| * | Freshman/forum seminar | F S |
| * | General engineering | G E |
| Geography | GRG | |
| Geological sciences | GEO | |
| German | GER | |
| * | Germanic civilization | GRC |
| Government | GOV | |
| Graduate school | GRS | |
| Greek | GK | |
| Guitar | GUI | |
| Harp | HAR | |
| * | Harpsichord | HSC |
| Health education | HED | |
| Hebrew | HEB | |
| Hindi | HIN | |
| History | HIS | |
| Human development and family sciences | HDF | |
| Human ecology | H E | |
| * | Humanities | HMN |
| Information studies | INF | |
| International business | I B | |
| * | Islamic studies | ISL |
| Italian | ITL | |
| * | Italian civilization | ITC |
| Japanese | JPN | |
| * | Jewish studies | J S |
| Journalism | J | |
| Kinesiology | KIN | |
| * | Korean | KOR |
| Landscape architecture | LAR | |
| Latin | LAT | |
| Latin American studies | LAS | |
| Law | LAW | |
| Legal environment of business | LEB | |
| * | Liberal arts | L A |
| * | Liberal arts honors | LAH |
| Linguistics | LIN | |
| Malayalam | MAL | |
| Management | MAN | |
| Management information systems | MIS | |
| Management science | MSC | |
| Manufacturing systems engineering | MFG | |
| Marine science | MNS | |
| Marketing | MKT | |
| Materials science and engineering | MSE | |
| Mathematical statistics | MST | |
| Mathematics | M | |
| Mechanical engineering | M E | |
| Medieval studies | MDV | |
| * | Mexican American studies | MAS |
| Middle Eastern languages and cultures | MEL | |
| Middle Eastern studies | MES | |
| * | Military science | M S |
| Molecular biology | MOL | |
| * | Museum courses | MSM |
| Music | MUS | |
| * | Natural sciences | NSC |
| * | Naval science | N S |
| Neuroscience | NEU | |
| * | Norwegian | NOR |
| Nursing | N | |
| Nutrition | NTR | |
| Oboe | OBO | |
| Opera | OPR | |
| Operations research and industrial engineering | ORI | |
| Organ | ORG | |
| Percussion | PER | |
| Persian | PRS | |
| Petroleum and geosystems engineering | PGE | |
| Pharmacy | PHR | |
| Philosophy | PHL | |
| * | Physical education | PED |
| * | Physical science | P S |
| Physics | PHY | |
| Piano | PIA | |
| Polish | POL | |
| Portuguese | POR | |
| * | Portuguese civilization | PRC |
| Psychology | PSY | |
| Public affairs | P A | |
| * | Public relations | P R |
| Radio-television-film | RTF | |
| Real estate | R E | |
| * | Recorder | REC |
| Religious studies | R S | |
| * | Rhetoric and composition | RHE |
| Risk management | R M | |
| Russian | RUS | |
| Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies | REE | |
| Sanskrit | SAN | |
| Saxophone | SAX | |
| * | Scandinavian | SCA |
| * | Science | SCI |
| Science and technology commercialization | STC | |
| Science-mathematics education | SME | |
| Serbian/Croatian | S C | |
| Slavic | SLA | |
| * | Social science | S S |
| Social work | S W | |
| Sociology | SOC | |
| Spanish | SPN | |
| * | Spanish civilization | SPC |
| Special education | SED | |
| Statistics | STA | |
| Studio art | ART | |
| * | Swahili | SWA |
| * | Swedish | SWE |
| Tamil | TAM | |
| * | Technology, literature, and culture | TLC |
| * | Textiles and apparel | TXA |
| * | Theatre and dance | T D |
| Trombone | TRO | |
| Trumpet | TRU | |
| Tuba | TBA | |
| Turkish | TUR | |
| * | Tutorial course | T C |
| TxPharm | PHX | |
| * | Urban studies | URB |
| Urdu | URD | |
| * | UTeach liberal arts | UTL |
| * | UTeach natural sciences | UTS |
| Vibraphone | VIB | |
| Viola | VIA | |
| Violin | VIO | |
| Violoncello | V C | |
| * | Visual art studies | VAS |
| Voice | VOI | |
| Women's and gender studies | WGS | |
| Writing | WRT | |
| * | Yiddish | YID |
| * | Yoruba | YOR |
Graduate Catalog
Contents
Chapter 1 - Graduate Study
Chapter 2 - Admission and Registration
Chapter 3 - Degree Requirements
Chapter 4 - Fields of Study
Chapter 5 - Members of Graduate Studies Committees
Appendix - Course Abbreviations
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