Graduate Catalog 2009–2011

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Contents

Mission of the University

About the Catalog

Officers of Administration

Board of Regents

Directory of Offices

1. Graduate Study

• Statement on Equal Educational Opportunity
• Title IX/ADA/504 Coordinators
  • Disability (Section 504/ADA)
  • Gender (Title IX)
• Accreditation
• The Nature and Purpose of Graduate Work
• Graduate Degrees
• Fields of Study
• Ad Hoc Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program
• Dual Degree Programs
• Combined JD/PhD Programs
• Graduate Portfolio Programs
• Libraries and Other Academic Resources
  • The University Libraries
  • Other Libraries in Austin
  • Research Facilities
  • Information Technology Services
• Cooperative Consortium Program
• Cooperative Degree Programs
• Financial Aid
  • Fellowships
  • Assistantships
  • Additional Financial Aid
• Student Services
  • Graduate Student Assembly
• Student Responsibility

2. Admission and Registration

• Admission
  • Admission Requirements
  • Admission Tests
  • Graduate School Select Admission Program
  • Admission with Conditions
  • Admission as a Nondegree Student
  • Applying for Admission
  • International Students
• Enrollment Deposit
• Readmission
• Exchange Students
• Registration
  • Registration for New Graduate Students
  • Late Registration
  • Registration for Continuing Graduate Students
  • Registration Following Graduation
  • Course Load
• In Absentia Registration
• Adding and Dropping Courses
• Evaluation
• Withdrawal from the University

3. Degree Requirements

• Limitation for Faculty
• Grade Point Average
• Graduate Credit
  • Courses Taken in Residence
  • Transfer of Credit
  • Extension Credit
  • Correspondence Credit
  • Credit by Examination
  • Enrollment of Undergraduates in Graduate Courses
  • Use of the Course 398T on the Program of Work
  • Courses Counted toward Another Degree
• Continuous Registration
• Leave of Absence
• Application to Another Graduate Major (Change of Major)
• Warning Status, Academic Dismissal, and Termination
• Time Limits
• The Master's Degree
  • Prerequisites
  • Supervising Committee
  • Options
• The Doctor of Philosophy
  • Course Requirements
  • Foreign Language Requirement
  • Graduate Studies Committee Requirements
  • Admission to Candidacy
  • The Dissertation Committee
  • The Dissertation
  • Review of Progress
  • Final Oral Examination (Defense of Dissertation)
  • Submission and Publication of the Dissertation
  • Approval of the Degree
• The Doctor of Education
  • Admission
  • Admission to Candidacy
• The Doctor of Audiology
• The Doctor of Musical Arts
• Graduation
  • Graduation under a Particular Catalog
  • Procedures of Graduation
• Other Components of the University of Texas System

4. Fields of Study

School of Architecture

• Architecture program | courses
• Community and Regional Planning program | courses
• Landscape Architecture program | courses

Red McCombs School of Business

• Business Administration program | courses
• Accounting program | courses
• Finance program | courses
  • Real Estate courses
• Information, Risk, and Operations Management program
  • Legal Environment of Business courses
  • Management Information Systems courses
  • Operations Management courses
  • Risk Management courses
  • Statistics courses
• Management program | courses
• Marketing program | courses
  • International Business courses

College of Communication

• Communication program | courses
• Advertising program | courses
• Communication Sciences and Disorders program | courses
• Communication Studies program | courses
• Journalism program | courses
• Radio-Television-Film program | courses

College of Education

• Curriculum and Instruction program | courses
• Educational Administration program | courses
• Educational Psychology program | courses
• Foreign Language Education program | courses
• Kinesiology and Health Education program
  • Health Education courses
  • Kinesiology courses
• Science Education / Mathematics Education program | courses
• Special Education program | courses

Cockrell School of Engineering

• Aerospace Engineering program | courses
• Architectural Engineering program | courses
• Biomedical Engineering program | courses
• Chemical Engineering program | courses
• Civil Engineering program | courses
  • Environmental and Water Resources Engineering program
• Electrical and Computer Engineering program | courses
  • Software Engineering program
• Engineering Management program | courses
• Engineering Mechanics program | courses
• Materials Science and Engineering program | courses
• Mechanical Engineering program | courses
• Operations Research and Industrial Engineering program | courses
• Petroleum Engineering program | courses

College of Fine Arts

• Fine Arts program | courses
• Art Education program | courses
• Art History program | courses
• Design program | courses
• Music program | courses
  • Conducting courses
  • Performance courses
• Studio Art program | courses
• Theatre and Dance program | courses

John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences

• Energy and Earth Resources program | courses
• Geological Sciences program | courses

School of Information

• Information Studies program | courses

College of Liberal Arts

• American Studies program | courses
• Anthropology program | courses
• Asian Studies program
  • Asian Studies courses
  • Bengali courses
  • Chinese courses
  • Hindi courses
  • Japanese courses
  • Korean courses
  • Malayalam courses
  • Sanskrit courses
  • Tamil courses
  • Telugu courses
  • Urdu courses
• Classics program
  • Classical Civilization courses
  • Greek courses
  • Latin courses
• Cognitive Science courses
• Comparative Literature program | courses
• Economics program | courses
• English program | courses
• European Studies courses
• French and Italian program
  • French courses
  • Italian courses
• Geography program | courses
• Germanic Studies program | courses
• Government program | courses
• History program | courses
• Latin American Studies program | courses
• Linguistics program | courses
• Medieval Studies program | courses
• Mexican American Studies program | courses
• Middle Eastern Studies program
  • Arabic courses
  • Hebrew courses
  • Middle Eastern Studies courses
  • Persian courses
  • Turkish courses
• Philosophy program | courses
• Psychology program | courses
• Religious Studies program | courses
• Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies program | courses
• Science, Technology, and Society courses
• Slavic Languages and Literatures program
  • Czech courses
  • Polish courses
  • Russian courses
  • Serbian/Croatian courses
  • Slavic courses
• Sociology program | courses
• Spanish and Portuguese program
  • Portugese courses
  • Spanish courses
• Women's and Gender Studies program | courses
• Yoruba courses

College of Natural Sciences

• Astronomy program | courses
• Biochemistry program | courses
• Biological Sciences program | courses
  • Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior program
  • Microbiology program
  • Plant Biology program
• Cell and Molecular Biology program | courses
• Chemistry program | courses
• Computer Sciences program | courses
• Human Development and Family Sciences program | courses
• Human Ecology courses
• Marine Science program | courses
• Mathematics program | courses
• Neuroscience program | courses
• Nutritional Sciences program | courses
• Physics program | courses
• Statistics program | courses
• Statistics and Scientific Computation courses
• Textile and Apparel Technology program | courses

School of Nursing program | courses

College of Pharmacy program | courses

Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs program | courses

School of Social Work program | courses

Intercollegial Programs

• Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics program | courses
• Technology Commercialization program | courses
• Writing program | courses

English as a Second Language courses

5. Members of Graduate Studies Committees

Appendix: Course Abbreviations