The University of Texas at El Paso .. ,. ,, '., ',. The University of Texas at El Paso Graduate Studies Catalog 1993-1 995 General Information 3-31 Programs of Study 33-96 The Graduate Faculty 97-107 Index 108-109 Campus Map 11 0-111 November, 1992 1 Published by the unlverslty of Texas at €1 Paso. mce of the Graduate school and Oflice of the Reglstrnr, El Paso, Texas 799660599 ognizes its obligation to serve as a vital source of academic, social University History and financial support to the community. Through grant-assisted aca- demic outreach programs. UTEP provides technical expertise to I The University of Texas at El Paso, known as UTEP. is the second reg~onalindustry, social assistance to the region's poor and cultural oldest academic component of the University of Texas System. It was enlightenment to the community at large. founded by the Texas Legislature in 1913 as the State School of As a majority-Hispanic university in the world's largest binational Mines and Metallurgy, a name that gives testament to the scope of metropolitan center. UTEP is extraordinarily well-positioned to I education offered at the early West Texas school. The first campus, provide statewide higher education leadership as Texas' increasingly located on land that is now part of the Fort Bliss Army post, was diverse population moves toward the 21st century. UTEP has destroyed by fire a few years after the college's inception, and the learned to capitalize on the strengths of the bicultural region it serves school moved in 1916 to the present campus on the western foothills by offering unique binational and bilingual educational opportunities of the Franklin Mountains, just a stone's throw from the Rio Grande. and developing programs that address the social and academic In the move to the present 366-acre site. UTEP acquired what has needs of students who orow UD on the U.S.-Mexico border. UTEP is become one of its most distinctive non-academic trademarks - the recognized as one of The naiion's most successful educators of Bhutanese-style architecture that makes the campus's buildings look Hispanic students, and the University produces more Hispanic grad- more like exotic Oriental castles than stacks of classrooms and uates who seek doctoral degrees than any other university in the I offices. The motif, characterized by thick, sloped outer walls topped country. In 1992. the National Science Foundation honored UTEP with elaborate brickwork, was inspired by Kathleen Worrell, the wife with its prestigious Institutional Achievement Award for excellence in of the college's first dean, and designed by noted El Paso architect the education of minority students and faculty in science. engineer- Henry Trost. Mrs. Worrell. an avid arm-chair traveler, had seen pho- ing and math. 1 tographs of Bhutanese buildings in the Himalayan Mountains and decided that sim~lararchitecture would complement the rugged desert terrain at the college's new site. Architects have continued the DEGREES AND PROGRAMS theme through nearly 80 years of campus expansion. After the move to the new campus. Ihe school grew steadily. In UTEP's six academic colleges - Business Administration. I 1919, the institution became a branch of the University of Texas Education. Engineering. Liberal Arts. Nursing and Allied Health, and System and was renamed the Texas College of Mines and Science - offer a wide range of degree options encompassing a Metallurgy. In 1927, liberal arts courses were added to the curricu- comprehensive series of academic concentrations and selected lum, and the first master of arts degree program was established in areas of professional study. Bachelor's degrees are awarded in 67 I 1940. By 1949 enrollment approached 2,400. and the institution was disciplines, and 54 master's degrees are offered. renamed Texas Western College. Texas Western College became Expanding on its roots in the fields of science and engineering, the. University of Texas at El Paso in 1967 and boasted a student UTEP added its first doctoral program in geological sciences in 1974 population of more than 9.000. and developed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1990. Using more than $20 million in grants lrom the National Science Foundation and I Since then. the size of the student body has nearly doubled. reaching an all-time high of 17.213 in 1992. UTEP has continued to other agencies. UTEP has concentrated in recent years on develop- grow both physically and academically to meet the needs of the ing state-of-the-art science laboratories. Its reward was approval increasingly industrialized West Texas region. The UTEP campus from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in 1993 for a now consists of 76 buildings, including the 52.000-seat Sun Bowl doctoral program in materials science and engineering. I Stadium. a 12.222 seat Special Events Center: a modern fine arts UTEP also continues to develop its liberal arts and social sciences complex with galleries and recital halls and a museum of natural and offerings in response to the needs of the bilingual and bicultural com- cultural history. munih, in which the universihr is situated. The most recent addition to I As JTEP moves nlo lne 21% centdry. 11s nnovat vo c-rr~c~lumand the liberal arts curriculum ica master of fine arts degree in creative sens.1 v ty lo tne needs ol El Paso s preoom nanlly H span c comm,. writing in which students study and write in English. Spanish or both n ry s earn ng JTEP a rep,tat on as a nattona~research center of languages. excellence for the education of minorities and turning the university The university is accredited by the Southern Association of into a national model for urban higher education. Schools and Colleges. Accreditation information for the university's six colleges is shown in the sections about those colleges. I PURPOSES AND GOALS STUDENT BODY I As a comprehensive public urban institution ol higher learning. Students who attend UTEP come from a unique mix of social, cul- UTEP has a varied mission. Its goals include providing residents of tural and economic backgrounds that closely mirrors the population the West Texas region access to a wide range of baccalaureate and of the El Paso community. Sixty percent of UTEP's students are graduate degree programs as well as opportunities for continuing Hispanic and 3 percent are African-American. Nearly 8 percent education and professional development. UTEP also seeks to come from abroad, including 5 percent from Mexico. S~xty-nine I promote faculty creativity. discovery and publication through percent of UTEP's students work either full-time or part-time while in research programs and artistic presentations. And the university rec- school, and 50 percent are first-generation college students. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PAS0 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS15 I Board of Reg nts Administrative Officers DIANA S. NATALICIO. President, 1971' OFFICERS B.S.. St Louis Unlversity: M.A., PhD. The Unlversity of Texas at I BERNARD RAPOWRT. Chairman Austin ELLEN C. TEMPLE. Vice-Chalrman LOWELL H. LEBERMANN, JR., Vice-Chairman JOHN G. BRUHN, Vice President for Academic Affairs. 1991 ARTHUR H. DILLY, Executive Secretary B.A., MA., Universityof Nebraska: PhD. Yale University JUAN R. SANDOVAL. Interim Vice Presidenl for Finance and Administration. 1933 MEMBERS BA., MBA .The University of Texas at El Paso t Terms Expire February 1. 1995: ROBERT J. CRUIKSHANK, Houston ARTURO PACHECO. Vice Presesident for Sludenf Affairs. 1991 TOM LOEFFLER, San Antonio A.A., San Jose College: B.A., San Jose State University: MA.. San 1 MARIO E. RAMIREZ, M.D., Roma Francisco State University: Ph.D., Stanford Unlversity Terms Expire February I, 1997: REV. ZAN W. HOLMES, JR., Dallas BERNARD RAPOWRT, Waco CHARLES J. FEY. Dean of Students. 1992 I'ELLEN c. TEMPLE, ,n B.A.. M.Ed. Pennsylvania State University: Ed.D.. Texas ABM University Terms Expire February I, 1999: PMRR. CONEWAY, Houston PATRICIA T. CASTIGLIA. R.N.. Dean. The College of Nursing and LOWELL H. LEBERMANN. JR., Austin ANied Health. 1990 MARTHA E. SMILEY, Austin 0,s.. Unlvers~tyof Buflalo: MS., PhD., State University of New York at ,, Buflalo OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR REYNALW S. EUZONW. Dean. The College of Science, 1987 B.S., Texas A&M University: Ph.D., Tulane School of Medicine WILLIAM H. CUNNINGHAM, Chancellor I JAMES P. DUNCAN, Executive Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs FRANK HOY. Dean. The College of Business Administration, 1991 CHARLES 6. MULLINS, M.D.. Executive Vice-chancellor for Health B.B.A.. The University of Texas at El Paso: M.B.A., University of North Aflairs Texas; Ph D., Texas ABM University THOMAS G. RICKS. Executive Vice-Chancellor for Asset Management I CARL T. JACKSON. Dean, The CoNege of Liberal Arts, 1962 A.B., University of New Mexico: PhD, University of California at Los Angeles ARTURO PACHEW. Dean. Colleae of Education. 1991 A A. San Jose College. B A . ian ,ose Stale Un,vers~v MA San Francisco Slate Jn vers ry PI- D . Slanloro Lnlvers ry STEPHEN RTTER, P.E.. Dean. The College of Engineering, 1980 B.A., B.S.E.E., Rice University: MS.. Ph.D., Universityof Houston JULIE P. SANFORD. Associale Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies. 1988 B.S., MA., Texas ABI Kingsvllle University: PhD.. The University of Texas at Austin GRADUATE STUDIES 1993-1995 THE GRADUATE SCHOOL DIANE DOSER (1993) Associate Professor of Gwlogical Sclences Since the awarding of the flrst master's degree in history in 1942. the graduate program has experienced significant growth. In 1967 a Member at Large Graduate School was organized, and in 1974, the first doctoral-level PETER GOLDING (1993) degree program, the Doctor of Geological Sciences.