UT Austin
Graduate Catalog
1999-2001



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
 

Chapter 5: Graduate Studies Committee

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The faculty members listed here were members of Graduate Studies Committees during the spring semester 1998-1999; the titles shown are for that period.

Warwick P. Wadlington, Professor, Joan Negley Kelleher Centennial Professor in Rhetoric and Composition, Department of English
BS, United States Military Academy, 1961; MA, Tulane, 1966; PhD, 1967

Robert Harrison Wagner, Professor, Department of Government
BA, Rice Institute, 1958; BA, Oxford, 1960; MA, 1964; PhD, Harvard, 1966

Terry John Wagner, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
BS, California (Berkeley), 1959; MS, 1961; PhD, 1963

Lonnie H. Wagstaff, Professor, M. K. Hage Centennial Professor in Education, Department of Educational Administration
BS, Alabama State, 1955; MEd, 1962; EdD, Oklahoma, 1969

James R. Walker, Professor, Department of Microbiology
BS, Northwestern State College, 1960; PhD, Texas, 1963

Lorraine O. Walker, RN, Professor, Luci B. Johnson Centennial Professor in Nursing, School of Nursing
BSN, Dayton, 1963; MSNEd, Indiana (Indianapolis), 1965; EdD, 1971

Sheila S. Walker, Professor, Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts, Center for African and African American Studies and Department of Anthropology
BA, Bryn Mawr, 1966; MA, Chicago, 1969; PhD, 1976

Robert E. Wall, Professor, Department of Linguistics
BS, Illinois, 1957; MA, Harvard, 1958; PhD, 1961

Rodger M. Walser, Professor, Annis and Jack Bowen Endowed Professor in Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
BSEE, Michigan, 1959; MSEE, 1961; PhD, 1967

Jess Walters, Professor Emeritus, School of Music
Diploma, Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture, 1929; student of Frank LaForge

S. Keith Walters, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Center for Middle Eastern Studies
BA, Furman, 1975; MA, South Carolina (Columbia), 1981; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1989

C. Michael Walton, PE, Professor, Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering and Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
BSCE, Virginia Military Institute, 1963; MCE, North Carolina State, 1969; PhD, 1971

Kathryn G. Wambach, Associate Professor, School of Social Work
BS, Purdue, 1973; MSW, Florida State, 1980; PhD, 1992

Peter Ward, Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Department of Sociology
BA, Hull, 1973; PhD, Liverpool, 1976

John L. Warfield, Associate Professor, Center for African and African American Studies and Department of Educational Psychology
BA, Kalamazoo College, 1959; MA, Denver, 1961; PhD, Oregon, 1969

David C. Warner, Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
BA, Princeton, 1963; MPA, Syracuse, 1965; PhD, 1969

E. Mark Warr, Professor, Department of Sociology
BA, Pacific Lutheran, 1974; MA, Arizona, 1976; PhD, 1979

Ellen A. Wartella, Professor, Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication, Department of Radio-Television-Film
BA, Pittsburgh (Main Campus), 1971; MA, Minnesota (Minneapolis-St. Paul), 1974; PhD, 1977

Samuel Craig Watkins, Assistant Professor, Center for African and African American Studies and Department of Sociology
BA, Texas (Austin), 1988; PhD, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1994

Gwendolyn Webb-Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education
BA, Knox College, 1975; MA, Northeastern Illinois, 1984; EdD, Illinois State, 1994

Stephen E. Webber, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
BA, Washington (St. Louis), 1962; PhD, Chicago, 1965

Stephen Wechsler, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
BA, California (Berkeley), 1979; PhD, Stanford, 1991

Bernard W. Wehring, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
BSE, BSE, Michigan, 1959; MSPhy, Illinois, 1961; PhD, 1966

Steven Weinberg, Regental Professor; Professor, Jack S. Josey-Welch Foundation Chair in Science, Department of Astronomy and Department of Physics
BA, Cornell, 1954; PhD, Princeton, 1957

Claire Ellen Weinstein, Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
BS, Brooklyn College, 1967; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1975

John Weinstock, Professor, Department of Germanic Studies
BSME, Wisconsin, 1957; PhD, 1967

Sidney Weintraub, Professor Emeritus, Dean Rusk Chair in the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
BBA, City College (New York), 1943; BJ, MA, Missouri, 1948; MA, Yale, 1958; PhD, American University, 1966

A. J. Welch, PE, Professor, Marion E. Forsman Centennial Professor in Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Program and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
BSEE, Texas Technological College, 1955; MSEE, Southern Methodist, 1959; PhD, Rice, 1964

Dan E. Welcher, Professor, The Lee Hage Jamail Regents Professor in Fine Arts, School of Music
BMusic, Rochester, 1969; MMusic, Manhattan School of Music, 1972

William F. Weldon, PE, Professor, Josey Centennial Professor in Energy Resources, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering
BS, Trinity, 1967; MSME, Texas (Austin), 1970

Stanley N. Werbow, Professor Emeritus, Department of Germanic Studies
BA, George Washington, 1946; PhD, Johns Hopkins, 1953

Max R. Westbrook, Professor, Department of English
BA, Baylor, 1949; MA, Oklahoma, 1953; PhD, Texas, 1960

James D. Westphal, Assistant Professor, Department of Management
BA, California (Davis), 1988; MS, Northwestern, 1993; PhD, 1996

Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian
BA, Princeton, 1982; MPhil, Columbia, 1989; PhD, 1993

David Anthony Wevill, Professor, Department of English
BA, Cambridge, 1957; MA, 1969

Dan L. Wheat, PE, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
BSCE, Colorado (Boulder), 1969; MSCE, Denver, 1973; PhD, Colorado State, 1980

Harovel G. Wheat, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
BA, Colorado (Boulder), 1969; MSMetallurgy, Denver, 1974; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1985

J. Craig Wheeler, Professor, Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor in Astronomy, Department of Astronomy
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965; PhD, Colorado (Boulder), 1969

John A. Wheeler, Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus, Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor Emeritus in Physics, Department of Physics
PhD, Johns Hopkins, 1933; DSc (hon), Princeton, 1986

Mary F. Wheeler, Professor, Ernest and Virginia Cockrell Chair in Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Department of Mathematics, and Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
BA, BS, Texas, 1960; MA, 1963; PhD, Rice, 1971

Frank Whigham, Professor, Department of English
BA, Occidental College, 1967; MA, San Diego State, 1970; PhD, California (San Diego), 1976

Andrew B. Whinston, Professor, Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Department of Computer Sciences, Department of Economics, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Department of Management Science and Information Systems
BA, Michigan, 1957; MS, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1960; PhD, 1962

Thomas Bacon Whitbread, Professor, Department of English
BA, Amherst College, 1952; MA, Harvard, 1953; PhD, 1959

Barbara W. White, Professor, Centennial Professor in Leadership for Community, Professional, and Corporate Excellence, School of Social Work
BS, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical, 1964; BS, Florida State, 1974; MSW, 1975; PhD, 1986

John M. White, Professor, Norman Hackerman Professor in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
BS, Harding College, 1960; MS, Illinois, 1962; PhD, 1966

L. Michael White, Professor, Department of Classics
BA, Abilene Christian, 1971; MA, 1973; MDiv, Yale, 1975; MA, 1977; MPhil, 1978; PhD, 1982

Philip L. White, Professor, Department of History
BA, Baldwin-Wallace College, 1947; MA, Columbia, 1949; PhD, 1954

Stephen A. White, Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Department of Philosophy
BA, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1978; MA, 1980; PhD, Nebraska (Lincoln), 1981; PhD, California (Berkeley), 1987

Christian P. Whitman, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and College of Pharmacy
BS, Connecticut, 1979; PhD, California (San Francisco), 1984

David Charles Whitney, Professor, Department of Journalism
BA, Clemson, 1968; PhD, Minnesota (Minneapolis-St. Paul), 1978

Susan Whyne, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History
BFA, Cooper Union, 1968; MA, San Francisco State College, 1974

Frank W. Wicker, Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
BA, Texas Christian, 1959; MA, 1961; PhD, Princeton, 1966

Nichole Wiedemann, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
BDesign, Florida, 1989; MArch, Princeton, 1992

Gary B. Wilcox, Professor, John A. Beck Centennial Professor in Communication, Department of Advertising
BBA, Texas (Austin), 1974; MA, 1977; PhD, Michigan State, 1982

Richard E. Wilcox, Professor, College of Pharmacy
BAPsy, Butler, 1968; MS, Southern Illinois, 1974; PhD, 1976

Peter J. Wilcoxen, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
BA, Colorado (Boulder), 1982; MA, Harvard, 1985; PhD, 1989

Walter Wilczynski, Professor, Department of Psychology and Department of Zoology
BA, BS, Lehigh, 1974; PhD, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1978

Darlene Wiley, Professor, School of Music
BMusic, College of Wooster, 1967; MMusic, Illinois, 1969

Karin Wilkins, Assistant Professor, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Radio-Television-Film
BA, Bucknell, 1984; MA, Pennsylvania, 1987; PhD, 1991

Lynn R. Wilkinson, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies
BA, California (Santa Barbara), 1973; MA, California (Berkeley), 1975; PhD, 1983

Barbara E. Williams, Associate Professor, School of Social Work
BA, Lamar State College of Technology, 1959; MSW, State University of New York (Buffalo), 1962; PhD, Texas Medical Branch (Galveston), 1981

Christine L. Williams, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
BA, Oklahoma, 1980; MA, California (Berkeley), 1982; PhD, 1986

Robert O. Williams III, Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy
BS, Texas A&M, 1979; BSPhr, Texas (Austin), 1981; PhD, 1986

Eric B. Williamson, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
BSArchE, Texas (Austin), 1990; MSCE, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1992; MS, PhD, 1996

Richard A. Willis, Professor, Department of Human Ecology
BS, Southeastern Louisiana College, 1969; MSHyg, Tulane, 1971; PhD, Oklahoma, 1979

Derek Wills, Professor, Department of Astronomy
BSc, ARCS, London, 1963; PhD, Cambridge, 1966

C. Grant Willson, Professor, Rashid Engineering Regents Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
BS, California (Berkeley), 1962; MS, California State (San Diego), 1969; PhD, California (Berkeley), 1973

Clark R. Wilson, Professor, Wallace E. Pratt Professor in Geophysics, Department of Geological Sciences
BA, California (San Diego), 1970; MS, 1973; PhD, 1975

Dennis E. Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
BSAsE, Texas (Austin), 1970; MS, Missouri (Rolla), 1972; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1976

James P. Wilson, Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy
BS, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, 1970; PharmD, 1971; MS, Purdue, 1985; PhD, 1986

Kristopher M. Wilson, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism
BS, Northern Arizona, 1980; MA, Ohio State, 1986; PhD, Colorado (Boulder), 1993

Patricia A. Wilson, Associate Professor, School of Architecture
BA, Stanford, 1969; MRP, Cornell, 1971; PhD, 1975; Member, APA

Paul R. Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciences
BS, State University of New York (Regents College), 1985; BS, 1987; MS, Illinois (Chicago), 1988; PhD, 1991

Paul W. Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Economics
BA, Rice, 1980; MA, Brown, 1982; PhD, 1986

Robert H. Wilson, Professor, Mike Hogg Professor of Urban Policy, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
BS, Oklahoma State, 1971; MS, 1972; MA, MCityP, Pennsylvania, 1974; PhD, 1979

Samuel Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
BA, Southwest Missouri State, 1978; MA, Chicago, 1981; PhD, 1986

Lewis R. Wiman, Professor, Department of Art and Art History
BS, East Texas State College, 1963; MFA, Florida, 1966

James I. Wimsatt, Professor Emeritus, Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor Emeritus in English Literature, Department of English
BA, Michigan, 1950; MA, Wayne State, 1959; PhD, Duke, 1964

Donald E. Winget, Professor, Department of Astronomy
BS, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1976; MA, Rochester, 1978; PhD, 1982

Michael B. Winship, Professor, Department of English
BA, Harvard, 1971; MS, Simmons College, 1982; PhD, Oxford, 1989

Gary L. Wise, Professor, Jewel McAlister Smith Professor in Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Mathematics
BA, Rice, 1971; MA, MSE, Princeton, 1973; PhD, 1974

Patricia D. Witherspoon, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies
BSRTF, Texas (Austin), 1973; MA, Wisconsin (Madison), 1974; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1977

Robert E. Witt, Professor, Betty and Glenn Mortimer Centennial Professor in Business, Department of Marketing Administration
BA, Bates College, 1962; MBA, Dartmouth College, 1964; PhD, Pennsylvania State, 1968

Seth L. Wolitz, Professor, L. D., Marie, and Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies, Department of French and Italian, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
BA, Chicago, 1958; PhD, Yale, 1965

Baxter F. Womack, PE, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
BSEE, Arkansas (Fayetteville), 1956; MSEE, 1958; PhD, Purdue, 1963

Martin D. F. Wong, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciences
BS, Toronto, 1979; MS, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1981; PhD, 1986

Patrick P. Wong, Associate Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
BA, Rochester, 1978; MSW, Washington (St. Louis), 1980; PhD, Wisconsin (Madison), 1988

Kristin L. Wood, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
BS, Colorado State, 1985; MS, California Institute of Technology, 1986; PhD, 1990

Sharon L. Wood, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
BSCE, Virginia, 1982; MSCE, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1983; PhD, 1986

Helena Woodard, Associate Professor, Department of English
BS, East Carolina, 1976; MA, 1979; PhD, North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1991

Anthony C. Woodbury, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Linguistics
BA, Chicago, 1975; PhD, California (Berkeley), 1981

Paul B. Woodruff, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities, and Hayden W. Head Regents Chair in the Plan II Honors Program, Department of Philosophy
BA, Princeton, 1965; BA, Oxford, 1968; PhD, Princeton, 1973

Marjorie Curry Woods, Associate Professor, Department of English
BA, Stanford, 1969; MA, Toronto, 1970; PhD, 1977

Curt F. Woolhiser, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
BA, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1983; MA, Indiana (Bloomington), 1986; PhD, 1995

Jacqueline D. Woolley, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
BS, Carnegie-Mellon, 1980; MS, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1987; PhD, 1990

M. Jo Worthy, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
BS, Virginia (Charlottesville), 1977; MEd, 1984; PhD, 1989

David A. Wright, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Studies
BA, Northern Colorado, 1986; MA, Arizona, 1992; PhD, 1997

Donald Benjamin Wright Jr., Associate Professor, School of Music
BMusic, Rochester, 1952; MMusic, 1958

John C. Wright, Senior Lecturer, Department of Human Ecology, Department of Psychology, and Department of Radio-Televsion-Film
BA, Harvard, 1954; PhD, Stanford, 1960

Stephen G. Wright, PE, Professor, Brunswick-Abernathy Regents Professor in Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
BS, California (Berkeley), 1966; MS, 1967; PhD, 1969

Robert E. Wyatt, Professor, W. T. Doherty Professor in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Department of Physics
BS, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1961; MA, Johns Hopkins, 1963; PhD, 1965

Hal Wylie, Associate Professor, Center for African and African American Studies and Department of French and Italian
BA, Arizona, 1957; MA, Stanford, 1961; PhD, 1965

Ronald E. Wyllys, Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
BA, Arizona State, 1950; PhD, Wisconsin (Madison), 1974

Charters Wynn, Associate Professor, Department of History
BA, California (Santa Cruz), 1977; MA, Stanford, 1979; PhD, 1987

 

Bugao Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology
BS, Northwest Institute of Textile Science and Technology, 1982; MS, 1984; MS, Maryland (College Park), 1991; PhD, 1992

Guanghan Xu, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
BS, Shanghai Jiao Tong, 1985; MSEE, Arizona State, 1988; PhD, Stanford, 1991

 

John A. Yancey, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1980; MFA, Georgia Southern, 1993

James R. Yates, Professor, John L. and Elizabeth G. Hill Centennial Professor, Department of Educational Administration and Department of Special Education
BS, Abilene Christian College, 1962; MS, North Texas State, 1963; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1971

Hao Ying, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
PhD, Alabama, 1990

David M. Young Jr., Ashbel Smith Professor, Department of Computer Sciences and Department of Mathematics
BS, Webb Institute, 1944; MA, Harvard, 1947; PhD, 1950

Phyllis C. Young, Professor, Parker C. Fielder Regents Professor in Music, School of Music
BMusic, Texas, 1949; MMusic, 1950

Robert K. Young, Professor, Department of Psychology
BA, Miami (Ohio), 1951; MA, Northwestern, 1953; PhD, 1954

Gang Yu, Associate Professor, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
BS, Wuhan, 1982; MS, Cornell, 1985; PhD, Pennsylvania, 1990

Joseph Andrew Yura, PE, Professor, Warren S. Bellows Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
BSCE, Duke, 1959; MSCE, Cornell, 1961; PhD, Lehigh, 1965

 

S. Amir A. Zaidi, Associate Professor, Department of Physics
BS, Punjab, 1956; Diplom, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg, 1960; Dr, 1964

Harold H. Zakon, Professor, Department of Zoology
BS, Marlboro College, 1972; PhD, Cornell, 1981

Margherita Zanasi, Assistant Professor, Center for Asian Studies, Department of Asian Studies, and Department of History
Laurea, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, 1985; MA, Columbia, 1990; MPhil, 1991; PhD, 1997

Jane Zander, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History
BFA, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1970; BA, Florida Atlantic, 1985; MA, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1993; EdD, 1997

Suzan L. Zeder, Professor, Theater for Youth Chair, Department of Theatre and Dance
BFA, Trinity, 1969; MFA, Southern Methodist, 1972; PhD, Florida State, 1978

Xu Zheng, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
BS, Nankai, 1984; MS, 1987; MA, PhD, Princeton, 1992

Avraham Zilkha, Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and Center for Middle Eastern Studies
BA, ha'Universita ha'Ivrith bi'Yerushalayim, 1964; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1970

Stanislav Zimic, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Diploma B-Italijanscina, Univerza "Edvarda Kardelja" v Ljubljani, 1955; MA, Miami (Florida), 1958; PhD, Duke, 1964

Andrew Zissos, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics
BA, Calgary, 1986; MA, 1993; PhD, Princeton, 1997

David Zuckerman, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciences
AB, Harvard, 1987; PhD, California (Berkeley), 1991



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