1959-1960 Undergraduate Catalogue

FOUNDED 1791 • BURLINGTON, VERMONT Bulletin of THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT THE CATALOGUE • 1 9 5 9 - 196 0 ANNOUNCEMENTS • 1 9 6 0 - 196 1 CORRESPONDENCE Admissions For all matters pertaining to the admission of undergraduate stu dents, including requisitions for the catalogue, and information con cerning rooms, tuition, and scholarships Director of Admissions Evening Division Director of Evening Division College of Medicine Dean of the College of Medicine Graduate College Dean of the Graduate College Summer Session Director of the Summer Session Transcripts of Records Office of Admissions and Records Employment of Seniors and Alumni Director of Placement Matters of Alumni Interest Alumni Secretary Matters of General University Interest The President Bulletin of The University of Vermont VOLUME 57 APRIL, I960 NUMBER 14 Published by the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, sixteen times a year—twice each in September, November, December, February, and May; once in January and April; and four times in March. Second-class postage paid at Burlington, Vermont. THE CONTENTS EDUCATION AT VERMONT I STUDENT LIFE 12 THE ADMISSION OF STUDENTS 21 STUDENT EXPENSES 24 GENERAL INFORMATION 29 THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 34 THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 48 THE SCHOOL OF DENTAL HYGIENE 53 THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND NURSING 55 THE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY 63 THE GRADUATE COLLEGE u 72 THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE 81 THE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION 83 COURSES OF INSTRUCTION 86 PERSONNEL 161 THE ALUMNI COUNCIL 181 ENROLLMENT STATISTICS 183 DEGREES AND PRIZES 186 LOAN FUNDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND PRIZES 197 GENERAL INDEX 204 ACADEMIC CALENDAR 208 THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT § The University is located at Burlington, Vermont, overlooking an attractive tree-shaded city situated on the shores of Lake Champlain. § Burlington, the largest city in the State, with a population of 35,000, is 95 miles from Montreal, 230 miles from Boston, and 300 miles from New York City. The city has daily plane and bus service to these urban points. § Chartered in 1791, the University is the twenty-fifth oldest institu tion of higher learning in the United States authorized to grant de grees and the second institution founded by state legislative action to offer instruction at the university level. § Although its legal title is the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, the University is known to its students and alumni as UVM. This popular abbreviation is derived from the Latin Universitas Viridis Montis—the University of the Green Moun tain. § Within the nine divisions of the University, instruction is offered in more than fifty programs leading to twenty-five different degrees. § The University is accredited by the following associations: The New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education The American Medical Association The American Dental Association National League for Nursing The Engineers Council for Professional Development The American Chemical Society 1 Education at Vermont The motto "Studiis et rebus honestis," Integrity in Theoretical and Practical Pursuits, selected before the University's first graduation in 1804, reflects the spirit of the University throughout its century and a half of educational service to Vermont and the nation. The university would have been out of step with the state whose name it bears had it not served as a training ground for men and women who were to be come leaders in many parts of a constantly expanding America. From the granting of a charter by the Vermont General Assembly in 1791, the university's development has been closely identified with that of the state. Immediately the Assembly set aside about 29,000 acres throughout the state for the support of the university; it provided that the governor and speaker of the house should be ex-officio mem bers of the university's corporation; and it required that the by-laws of the university should give no preference to any religious sect or denomination. Thus the University of Vermont took its place among the handful of colleges founded in this country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for the higher education of young colonials and Americans of the first post-revolutionary generation. The University was the fifth college to be chartered in New England, the third to be chartered by a state, after the formation of the United States, for the higher education of all its youth, and the second institution of this type to confer the bachelor's degree. After a half century of life guided by a self-perpetuating corpora tion, made possible by much private as well as public support, another step in the direction of public education was taken when the State of Vermont chartered the Vermont Agricultural College in 1864. This college was established under the provisions of the Land-Grant Act of 1862, which had been sponsored by Hon. Justin S. Morrill, member of Congress from Vermont, to make possible higher education for "sons of farmers and those in the mechanic arts," and to provide education in agriculture and the mechanic arts as well as the so-called liberal and scientific courses. In 1865 the new agricultural college was merged with the university, to form the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. Under later federal laws the services of the university were expanded by the addition of the Agricultural Experi 1 2 COLLEGES AND CURRICULA ment Station and the Agricultural Extension Service. In 1955 the Vermont legislature formally recognized the entire University as an instrumentality of the State and thus reestablished it as The Univer sity of Vermont. Colleges and Curricula The University now consists of six colleges, a school of dental hy giene, a summer session, and an evening division. In common with the practice at most of the early universities, the original curriculum was based on languages, rhetoric, mathematics, theology, and moral philosophy. Today, the College of Arts and Sci ences, often considered the direct descendant of the original Univer sity, provides a general four-year curriculum leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, with opportunity for concentration in one or more of the following studies: botany, chemistry, economics, English, French, geology, German, Greek, history, Latin, mathematics, music, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, sociology, Spanish, speech, and zoology. Students interested in continuing their studies beyond the Bachelor's degree may, by making a proper selection of courses, meet all require ments for admission to graduate schools, and to such professional schools and colleges as those of medicine, dentistry, law, theology, and social work. Those who have completed three years of premedical study at the University may qualify for the degree of Bachelor of Science after successfully completing one year of study in an approved college of medicine. With the passage of the Morrill Act of 1862, the way was prepared for the establishment of studies in agriculture. Today the College of Agriculture and Home Economics offers four-year curricula in agri culture, agricultural engineering, and home economics. It also offers two-year programs in preforestry and preveterinary sciences which prepare students for admission to other institutions for professional training in these fields. The curriculum in agriculture leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture provides options in general agriculture, agri cultural economics, agricultural education, agronomy, animal and dairy production, botany, dairy industry, foreign agricultural service, horticulture, and poultry husbandry. The curriculum in agricultural engineering leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering. The curriculum in home economics, leading to the degree of Bache COLLEGES AND CURRICULA 3 lor of Science in Home Economics, provides options in the fields of food and nutrition, related arts, clothing and textiles, and home eco nomics education. The department also offers an option in general home economics for students who wish a liberal education in addition to instruction in those areas related to the home and family. The University of Vermont was probably the first nonmilitary in stitution in America to offer instruction in engineering, and was cer tainly the first of the present land-grant colleges to give any instruc tion in this area, which was later incorporated into the Morrill Act. Engineering was taught in a separate department until 1911, when a College of Engineering was established. In 1946 the College of Tech nology was formed to include the curricula in civil, electrical, mechan ical, and management engineering; professional chemistry; commerce and economics; and, later, medical technology. Majors in the Department of Commerce and Economics may select from many options in which to specialize, including accounting, bank ing, finance and insurance, business administration, industrial man agement, and secretarial studies. The education and preparation of teachers has always been a major objective of the University; although the techniques have varied over the years, the primary concern has been to graduate qualified teachers who have a broad background in academic subject matter and a mod ern professional training in the methods of teaching. The College of Education and Nursing, established in 1946, offers four-year curricula leading to the Bachelor of Science degree in the fields of elementary, junior high, secondary, business, and music education. The college also offers a four calendar-year curriculum leading to the degree of Bach elor of Science in Nursing. Under a program established by the State in 1949, the University offers a two-year curriculum in the School of Dental Hygiene leading to a Certificate in Dental Hygiene. Recipients of this certificate are eligible to take all state board examinations for licensing as dental hygienists. Enrollment in this school is limited to women. The College of Medicine is historically almost as old as the Univer sity itself. Medical lectures became part of the offerings in 1804 and degrees were granted in medicine in 1822.

Load more