_________________________________________________________________ 1. GRADUATE STUDY ___________________ The University of Texas at Austin, established in 1883, is a major research institution. It is the largest member of The University of Texas System. The University has grown from one building, two departments, eight faculty members, and 221 students on a forty-acre tract to a campus of more than three hundred acres, with more than 110 buildings. The enrollment is about forty-nine thousand. The faculty includes members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winners. The University awards the largest number of doctoral degrees in the South and is one of three southwestern members of the Association of American Universities. The Graduate School (which does not include the School of Law) was established in 1909. More than eleven thousand graduate students are enrolled; about seven hundred doctoral degrees and more than two thousand master's degrees are awarded each year. The administration of the Graduate School is the responsibility of the vice president and dean of graduate studies. Graduate degrees are available in about ninety fields. Each academic area that offers a graduate degree has a Graduate Studies Committee, a group consisting of all the assistant, associate, and full professors who are active in that graduate degree program. The Graduate Studies Committee recommends students for admission to the program, sets requirements for the graduate degrees in that area, and recommends students for admission to candidacy for degrees. Graduate education is the responsibility of the members of Graduate Studies Committees. One member serves as the graduate adviser to register and advise all graduate students, to maintain records, and to represent the Graduate School in matters pertaining to graduate work in that area. STATEMENT ON EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY To the extent provided by applicable law, no person shall be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under, any program or activity sponsored or conducted by The University of Texas System or any of its component institutions on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, veteran status, or disability. THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF GRADUATE WORK Graduate work at the University is divided into disciplines. These are normally associated with departments; they may, however, be broader in scope, involving courses and research in several departments. The candidate for an advanced degree presents work done in a chosen major area, but usually he or she is also expected to have done supporting work on an advanced level (upper-division or graduate) in one or more relevant areas. There are three components of graduate study: coursework, independent study, and independent scholarly research leading to a report, thesis, or dissertation. In some areas, internships, field studies, and other professional experiences may also be an integral part of the program. The proportion of each type of study varies according to the previous training of the student and the nature of the major area. The objective of graduate study is to develop the intellectual breadth and to provide the specialized training necessary to a career in teaching, in research, or in the professions. Emphasis is placed on the knowledge, methods, and skills needed for scholarly teaching, original research and problem solving, intellectual leadership, creative expression, and other modes of achievement in the student's discipline. GRADUATE DEGREES The Graduate School offers the following degrees. Master of Arts MA Master of Architecture MArch Master of Business Administration MBA Master of Education MEd Master of Fine Arts MFA Master of Library and Information Science MLIS Master of Music MMusic Master in Professional Accounting MPA Master of Public Affairs MPAff Master of Science in Applied Physics MSApplPhy Master of Science in Architectural Studies MSArchSt Master of Science in Community and Regional Planning MSCRP Master of Science in Computational and Applied Mathematics MSCAM Master of Science in Computer Sciences MSCS Master of Science in Economics MSEcon Master of Science in Engineering MSE Master of Science in Nursing MSN Master of Science in Pharmacy MSPhr Master of Science in Science and Technology Commercialization MSSTC Master of Science in Social Work MSSW Master of Science in Statistics MSStat Doctor of Education EdD Doctor of Musical Arts DMA Doctor of Pharmacy PharmD Doctor of Philosophy PhD The Doctor of Pharmacy is offered jointly with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. FIELDS OF STUDY Graduate degrees are offered in the following fields. A complete list of fields in which graduate courses are taught is given in the appendix. Architecture Architecture MArch, PhD Architectural studies MSArchSt Community and regional planning MSCRP, PhD Business Administration Business administration MBA Accounting MPA, PhD Finance PhD Management PhD Management science and information systems PhD Marketing administration PhD Communication Advertising MA, PhD Communication sciences and disorders MA, PhD Journalism MA, PhD Radio-television-film MA, MFA, PhD Speech communication MA, PhD Education Curriculum and instruction MA, MEd, EdD, PhD Educational administration MEd, EdD, PhD Educational psychology MA, MEd, PhD Foreign language education MA, PhD Health education MA, MEd, EdD, PhD Kinesiology MA, MEd, EdD, PhD Mathematics education MA, MEd, PhD Science education MA, MEd, PhD Special education MA, MEd, EdD, PhD Engineering Aerospace engineering MSE, PhD Architectural engineering MSE Biomedical engineering MSE, PhD Chemical engineering MSE, PhD Civil engineering MSE, PhD Electrical engineering MSE, PhD Energy and mineral resources MA Engineering mechanics MSE, PhD Environmental health engineering MSE Manufacturing systems engineering MSE Materials science and engineering MSE, PhD Mechanical engineering MSE, PhD Operations research and industrial engineering MSE Petroleum engineering MSE, PhD Fine Arts Art education MA Art history MA, PhD Studio art MFA Music MMusic, DMA, PhD Theatre MA, MFA, PhD Liberal Arts American civilization MA, PhD Anthropology MA, PhD Arabic studies MA, PhD Asian cultures and languages MA, PhD Asian studies MA Classics MA, PhD Comparative literature MA, PhD Economics MA, MSEcon, PhD English MA, PhD French MA, PhD Geography MA, PhD Germanic languages MA, PhD Government MA, PhD Hebrew studies MA, PhD History MA, PhD Latin American studies MA, PhD Linguistics MA, PhD Middle Eastern studies MA Persian studies MA, PhD Philosophy MA, PhD Portuguese MA, PhD Post-Soviet and East European studies MA Psychology MA, PhD Slavic languages MA, PhD Sociology MA, PhD Spanish MA, PhD Library and Information Science Library and information science MLIS, PhD Natural Sciences Astronomy MA, PhD Biochemistry MA, PhD Biological sciences MA, PhD Biological sciences (botany) MA, PhD Biological sciences (zoology) MA, PhD Chemistry MA, PhD Child development and family relationships MA, PhD Computer sciences MA, MSCS, PhD Geological sciences MA, PhD Marine science MA, PhD Mathematics MA, PhD Microbiology MA, PhD Molecular biology MA, PhD Nutrition MA Nutritional sciences PhD Physics MA, MSApplPhy, PhD Statistics MSStat Nursing Nursing MSN, PhD Pharmacy Pharmacy MSPhr, PharmD, PhD Public Affairs Public affairs MPAff Public policy PhD Social Work Social work MSSW, PhD Intercollegial Programs Computational and applied mathematics MSCAM, PhD Medieval studies PhD Science and technology commercialization MSSTC Writing MFA JOINT DEGREE PROGRAMS Joint degree programs are structured so that a student can pursue graduate work in two fields and fulfill the requirements of two degrees; in programs leading to two master's degrees, the degrees are awarded simultaneously. To enter a joint program, the student must be accepted by both of the individual programs. Joint programs are offered in the following fields. Asian studies/Public affairs MA/MPAff Asian studies/Business administration MA/MBA Latin American studies/Community and regional planning MA/MSCRP Latin American studies/Public affairs MA/MPAff Latin American studies/Business administration MA/MBA Latin American studies/Law MA/JD Latin American studies/Communication MA/MA Middle Eastern studies/Business administration MA/MBA Middle Eastern studies/Communication MA/MA Middle Eastern studies/Public affairs MA/MPAff Post-Soviet and East European studies/Communication MA/MA Communication/Business administration MA/MBA Communication/Public Affairs MA/MPAff Public affairs/Business administration MPAff/MBA Public affairs/Law MPAff/JD Public affairs/Engineering MPAff/MSE Public Affairs/Post-Soviet and East European studies MPAff/MA Law/Business administration JD/MBA Community and regional planning /Geography MSCRP/PhD Manufacturing systems engineering /Business administration MSE/MBA Nursing/Business administration MSN/MBA LIBRARIES AND OTHER ACADEMIC RESOURCES The University Libraries The University libraries are a resource center for Texas and the Southwest, as well as a national resource center for library materials on Latin America, Texas, the history of the American South and West, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century British, French, and American literature. The library system includes the General Libraries, the Center for American History, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, and the Tarlton Law Library. The General Libraries are the Perry-Castaneda Library, the Undergraduate Library, the Collections Deposit Library, nine branch libraries, and two special collections. The online catalog, UTCAT, available on public terminals in the library and from terminals and personal computers on and off campus, includes most items in the General Libraries and has partial listings for the Humanities Research Center and the Law Library. Detailed information about University libraries is given in General Information. PERRY-CASTANEDA LIBRARY The Perry-Castaneda Library is the University's main library, containing over two million volumes, over five thousand current journals and newspapers, and a large collection of microforms. It embraces most subject fields but emphasizes the humanities, the social sciences, business, and education. Special materials housed in the Perry-Castaneda Library include a collection of United States and United Nations documents, University theses and dissertations, the Map Collection, and the Textbook and Curriculum Collection. Traditional reference and computer-based information services are offered and photoduplication services are available during most hours the library is open. Graduate students may consult subject bibliographers to identify useful resources and gain access to them. CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY The Center for American History is a special collections library, archive, and museum that facilitates research and sponsors programs on the historical development of the United States. The center supports research and education by acquiring, preserving, and making accessible research collections and by sponsoring exhibitions, conferences, fellowships, and grant-funded initiatives. Research collection strengths are the history of the South, the Southwest, the Rocky Mountain West, congressional history, and specific national topics. HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, housed in the Harry Ransom Center and the Flawn Academic Center, is a complex of rare book libraries and special collections, primarily in the humanities but including also social science and history of science research materials. Its particular strength is in twentieth-century British, French, and American literature. Among the important collections in photography, theatre arts, and film are the Gernsheim History of Photography Collection. The center houses about a million books, thirty million manuscripts, five million photographs, and more than a hundred thousand works of art. TARLTON LAW LIBRARY The Tarlton Law Library is one of the largest academic law libraries in the country, with over eight hundred thousand volumes of codes, statutes, court decisions, administrative regulations, periodicals, textbooks, and treatises on law and related fields. It offers a strong collection of foreign and international legal materials. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND BRANCH LIBRARIES The University has a variety of special collections that serve the research needs of scholars in many fields. The Edie and Lew Wasserman Public Affairs Library, serving faculty members, students, and agencies of government, is a 118,000-volume collection that includes government financial statements and annual reports. The 633,000-volume Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection contains books, pamphlets, and magazines in addition to manuscripts, maps, audio recordings, and other nonprinted materials on subjects related to Latin America. The nine branch libraries are the Architecture and Planning Library, the Mallet Chemistry Library, the Classics Library, the McKinney Engineering Library, the Fine Arts Library, the Walter Geology Library, the Life Science Library, the Kuehne Physics-Mathematics-Astronomy Library, and the Marine Science Library in Port Aransas. The Balcones Library Service Center is administered through the McKinney Engineering Library. Reference services are available at all branch libraries, and most branch libraries provide computer-based information services. Other Libraries in Austin The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, located on campus, is operated by the National Archives and Records Administration. This library is a valuable resource for the study of the twentieth century. Faculty members and students also have access to other public and private libraries in the Austin area, including several special-interest libraries. Research Facilities The University has available some of the most extensive university research facilities in the United States. There are eighty-seven organized research units on campus and many other informally organized laboratories. Laboratory and field study facilities in the life sciences include the Institute for Biomedical Research, the Cell Research Institute, the Biochemical Institute, the Drug Dynamics Institute, and the Genetics Institute. In the physical sciences and mathematics, research is conducted at the Bureau of Economic Geology, the Fusion Research Center, the Center for Materials Chemistry, the Institute for Fusion Studies, and the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems, among others. In the social and behavioral sciences, research facilities include the Institute for Classical Archaeology, the Linguistics Research Center, the Population Research Center, and the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory. In engineering, research facilities include the Bureau of Engineering Research and its subsidiary units. Business research is undertaken in the Bureau of Business Research and IC2 Institute. The Center for Energy Studies and the Institute of Latin American Studies are multidisciplinary research facilities. Several other research facilities provide a range of support services to University research programs: the Animal Resources Center, the Brackenridge Field Laboratory, the Center for Fast Kinetics Research, the Plant Resources Center, and the Research Instruments Laboratory. Remote research facilities include the Marine Science Institute at Port Aransas and the McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis. The Computation Center Central academic computing facilities are available to all academic departments and research centers and to students, faculty members, and staff members. The Computation Center operates two supercomputers; many smaller, specialized computer servers and time-sharing systems; and a two-hundred-seat Student Microcomputer Facility in the Flawn Academic Center. The time-sharing systems and information servers provide general computing capabilities and information resources. Students use the Macintoshes and PCs in the Student Microcomputer Facility for word processing, graphics, and spreadsheet applications; for electronic mail; for access to the University's library catalog; and for access to the Internet. A separate facility, also in the Flawn Academic Center, offers hands-on access to UNIX and VMS workstations and to X-terminals connected to the center's time- sharing computer systems. The Computation Center maintains extensive communications networks for access to the University's computers from workstations, microcomputers, and interactive terminals both on and off campus. By means of these communications networks, including the high-speed campus backbone network, UTnet, a user can connect to a computer, communicate electronically with others, direct printing and plotting to output sites, or connect to state, national, and worldwide computer networks. The center's timesharing systems include a cluster of machines running the VMS operating system and machines running versions of the UNIX operating system. The Computation Center's High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) serves the research and instructional supercomputing needs of the University and of other Texas institutions of higher education. The center's resources include two Cray J90 supercomputers with twenty-one processors, a thirty-two-node Intel iPSC 860, and a variety of high-performance graphics workstations. Located at the J. J. Pickle Research Campus, the HPCF is accessible to the University community via UTnet. Nearly all of the center's publications are available online through the Internet Gopher and the Computation Center World Wide Web home page, http://www.utexas.edu/cc/. Opportunities for Internships and Field Research Many graduate programs provide extensive opportunities for directed participation in internships and traineeships. In the fields of health and psychology, these may include such university, community, and state agencies as the University's Learning Abilities Center, the Austin State School, the Veterans' Administration Hospital in Waco, and the Mental Health/Mental Retardation Center in Austin. In education, students may undertake research and development work with the Austin Independent School District, the Texas Education Agency, and the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory. Students of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs participate in summer internship assignments. Fieldwork activities include research in physics at the Clinton P. Anderson Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) at Los Alamos; in the marine sciences and marine geology at the Marine Science Institute at Port Aransas and aboard the Longhorn, a 105-foot research vessel, and the Katy, a 57-foot trawler; and in geophysics at the Galveston Marine Geophysics Laboratory of the Institute of Geophysics aboard the 165-foot research vessel Fred H. Moore. In astronomy, research may be done at the McDonald Observatory on Mount Locke near Fort Davis, which houses a 2.7 m telescope, and at the California Institute of Technology Submillimeter Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Students in classics, anthropology, art, and art history may participate in departmentally sponsored excavations in southern Italy. Additional information about internships and fieldwork in specific fields of study is given in chapter 4. COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENTS A cooperative arrangement between The University of Texas System and the Texas A&M University System allows a graduate student at one institution to use unique facilities or courses at the other institution with a minimum of paperwork. The graduate student registers and pays fees at the home institution and may retain any fellowship or financial assistance awarded by it. Space must be readily available, and the instructor or laboratory director of the proposed work must consent to the arrangement. Approval must be given by the graduate dean of each institution. A similar arrangement among component institutions of The University of Texas System has been authorized by the chancellor and the Board of Regents. The University has active arrangements with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Science Park in Bastrop County. A cooperative arrangement between the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas at El Paso allows doctoral students who focus their work on the United States-Mexico border to receive their degree from UT Austin after conducting a portion of their coursework and research at UT El Paso. Social science faculty members from both campuses serve as instructors and committee members. ACADEMIC COMMON MARKET Graduate students from fourteen southern states may register and pay tuition at the Texas "resident" rate rather than at the "nonresident" rate when they enroll at the University in certain degree programs not available in their home state. Under the Academic Common Market, a voluntary program of the Southern Regional Education Board, enrollment is available in degree programs that have been approved both (i) by the student's home state coordinator and (ii) by the University. The student may inquire of the Southern Regional Education Board (592 10th Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia, 30318. Telephone: 404/875-9211) for information concerning the home state coordinator and the degree programs approved by the home state. Further information is available in the University's Office of Graduate Studies, Main Building 101. FINANCIAL AID Fellowships University Fellowships, which are administered through the Graduate School, are awarded to both new and continuing graduate students in most academic areas. Graduate Opportunity Fellowships provide funding for master's and doctoral degree students from traditionally underrepresented populations. The assessment of underrepresentation is made by the University. Students must be nominated by their graduate advisers for all fellowships administered by the Graduate School. Many graduate programs award fellowships to students majoring in specific areas. As a general rule, fellowships require no service from the recipient. They may provide for payment of tuition and required fees in addition to the stipend. Assistantships Various teaching, research, and academic assistantships are awarded by the departments. These appointments require specific service. Nonresidents and international students who hold assistantships may, under certain conditions, pay tuition and fees at the rate charged to state residents. An applicant to the Graduate School may indicate an interest in being considered for a teaching assistantship or a research assistantship on the Application for Admission to Graduate Study, found in the Graduate Admission Bulletin. Enrolled students should apply directly to the department in which they would serve. Additional Financial Aid The University's Office of Student Financial Services administers several long-term loan programs, the College Work-Study Program, and a short-term loan program for registration and other emergency needs. These programs are described in General Information. For more information, write to the Office of Student Financial Services, The University of Texas at Austin, P O Box 7758, Austin, Texas 78713-7758. STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY While University faculty and staff members give students academic advice and assistance, each student is expected to take responsibility for his or her education and personal development. The student must know and abide by the academic and disciplinary policies given in this catalog and in General Information, including rules governing quantity of work, the standard of work required to continue in the University, warning status and scholastic dismissal, and enforced withdrawal. The student must also know and meet the requirements of his or her degree program; must enroll in courses appropriate to the program; must meet prerequisites and take courses in the proper sequence to ensure orderly and timely progress; and must seek advice about degree requirements and other University policies when necessary. The student must give correct local and permanent addresses and telephone numbers to the Office of the Registrar and must notify this office immediately of any changes in address or telephone number. Official correspondence is sent to the address last given to the registrar; if the student has moved and failed to correct this address, he or she will not be relieved of responsibility on the grounds that the correspondence was not delivered. The student must verify his or her schedule of classes each semester, must see that necessary corrections are made, and must keep documentation of all schedule changes and other transactions. Students should be familiar with the following sources of information: University catalogs. General Information gives important information about academic policies and procedures that apply to all students. It includes the official academic calendar, admission and residence requirements and procedures, information about tuition and fees, and policies on quantity of work, grades and the grade point average, adding and dropping courses and withdrawal from the University, and warning status and scholastic dismissal. This catalog also gives historical and current information about the University's organization and physical facilities. It describes the services of the Division of Student Affairs and the libraries and research facilities that support the University's academic programs. The Graduate Catalog gives information about degrees offered by the Graduate School. It describes academic policies and procedures that apply to graduate students and lists courses and members of Graduate Studies Committees. The Undergraduate Catalog and The Law School Catalog give similar information about undergraduate programs and the programs of the School of Law. Catalogs are available at campus-area bookstores and by mail from the Office of the Registrar. The Course Schedule. The Course Schedule is published by the Office of the Registrar and is available at campus-area bookstores before registration for each semester and summer session. It includes information about registration procedures; times, locations, instructors, prerequisites, and special fees of courses offered; and advising locations. The University directory. The University directory is published and distributed by Texas Student Publications each fall. It gives addresses and telephone numbers of University offices and of students and faculty and staff members. World Wide Web. The address for the University's home page on the World Wide Web is http://www.utexas.edu/. The home page includes links to the online editions of catalogs and course schedules, to directory information, and to sites maintained by departments, colleges, graduate programs, and student-service offices. The Student Services Division of the Office of Graduate Studies is the central source of information for graduate students. Doctoral and master's degree evaluators and their assistants provide information about procedures for submission of reports, theses, and dissertations, and the student records coordinator assists with registration. Graduate advisers, assistant graduate advisers, and graduate coordinators. The graduate adviser for each program is a faculty member designated to advise students and represent the Graduate School in matters pertaining to graduate study. He or she provides information about the program, including admission and degree requirements, and about fellowships, teaching assistantships, and research assistantships. The assistant graduate adviser, also a faculty member, serves in the absence of the graduate adviser. The graduate coordinator, a staff member who assists the graduate adviser and other faculty members in the administration of the program, also provides services to students.