1985-1986 Undergraduate Catalogue
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CATALOGUE 1985- The Contents Academic Calendar 1 Introduction 3 Admission to the University 7 Student Expenses and Financial Aid 13 Student Life 19 General Information 27 Academic Options 37 The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 43 The College of Arts and Sciences 55 The College of Education and Social Services 69 The Division of Engineering, Mathematics, and Business Administration 79 The Division of Health Sciences 91 The School of Natural Resources 99 Courses of Instruction 105 Trustees, Faculty, Administration 179 Index . 211 Correspondence 215 The University of Vermont reserves the right to make changes in the course offerings, degree requirements, charges, and regulations, and procedures contained herein as educational and financial considerations require, subject to and consistent with established procedures and authorizations for making such changes. 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, University of the Green Mountains. The colors of the University are green and gold. The mascot is the catamount. POLICY STATEMENT ON NON-DISCRIMINATION It is the policy of the University of Vermont to provide equal opportunity in admissions, programs, and activities in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975. As such, all University sponsored programs and activities shall be open to all students without regard to race, sex, handicap, color, religion, age, or national origin. In addition, it is the policy of the University that any and all forms of sexual harassment are unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Inquiries regarding compliance with the foregoing, or the affirmative action policies of the University, should be directed to: The Associate Vice President for Human Resource Development. The University has an on-going program to provide accessible facilities and to respond to special needs of disabled per sons. Questions should be referred to the Office of Administrative Support Services. In addition, students with physical or learning disabilities may contact the Office of Specialized Student Services in the Counseling and Testing Center. Academic Calendar FALL 1985 Labor Day holiday September 2 Monday Registration September 3 Tuesday Classes begin September 4 Wednesday Fall recess October 18 Friday Preregistration November 20-22 Wednesday-Friday Thanksgiving recess November 27-29 Wednesday-Friday Classes end December 13 Friday Exams begin December 16 Monday Exams end December 20 Friday SPRING 1986 Martin Luther King holiday January 20 Monday Registration January 21 Tuesday Classes begin January 22 Wednesday Washington's Birthday holiday February 17 Monday Town Meeting recess March 4 Tuesday Spring recess March 17-21 Monday-Friday Preregistration April 16-18 Wednesday-Friday Honors Day April 28 Monday (no classes after 3 p.m.) Classes end May 9 Friday Exams begin May 12 Monday Exams end May 16 Friday Commencement May 24 Saturday For informational purposes, the major Jewish holidays which occur during the academic year are listed below. Classes will meet as scheduled. Rosh Hashanah (New Year) September 16-17 Monday-Tuesday Yom Kippur (Atonement) September 25 Wednesday Succot (Tabernacles, Beginning) September 30- Monday-Tuesday Sh'mini Atzeret (Tabernacles, Concluding) October 7 Monday Simchat Torah October 8 Tuesday Pesach (Passover) April 24-25 Thursday-Friday Pesach, Concluding April 30-May1 Wednesday-Thursday r , J, $y <- .. :• -J VT" -.•*.±rr- *•', i 'J * .w .U-f* /V Jn >' i i r Vk •' •»- A.-*' V^ Introduction hartered in 1791, the same year that Vermont became From the beginning, the University has relied on both Cthe fourteenth state in the union, the University of public and private funding. Today, the University's appro Vermont was established as the fifth college in New priation from the State of Vermont is about 16 percent of England. Much of the initial funding and planning for the the total operating budget of $137 million. The largest University was undertaken by Ira Allen who is honored as single share (about 31 percent) is obtained from student tui UVM's founder. tion. Grants and contracts account for about 20 percent of the budget and the remainder comes from alumni and other The University of Vermont was the first college or universi private philanthropy, endowment, sales, services, and aux ty in the country to have it plainly declared in its charter iliary enterprises. that the "rules, regulations, and by-laws shall not tend to give preference to any religious sect or denomination what During 1984-85, 7,818 students were enrolled in the eight soever" — a clear assertion of Vermont's commitment to undergraduate colleges and schools — the Colleges of Agri equality and enlightment. culture and Life Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Education and Social Services, and Engineering and Mathematics, and the Nine more years passed before, in 1800, the University was Schools of Allied Health Sciences, Business Administration, finally set in motion with a president-professor and a hand Natural Resources, and Nursing — and 1,088 were enrolled ful of students. in the Graduate College and 376 in the College of Medicine. UVM was founded in a day when U.S. colleges and univer The campus of the University of Vermont is located in Bur sities existed primarily to educate men for the professions, lington, the State's largest city. Within a greater Burlington expecially for the ministry. Yet, in studying University area of 100,000 people, the city with its population of history, Professor Emeritus Betty Bandel discovered that 38,000 enjoys magnificent views of Lake Champlain and "this small institution located in a frontier community of the Adirondack Mountains to the west and Vermont's New England became a pioneer in the kind of practical edu Green Mountains to the east. Burlington is located approx cation which later became the basis for the establishment of imately 200 miles northwest of Boston, 300 miles north of the Land Grant universities — those institutions which New York City, and 100 miles south of Montreal. made it possible for the sons and daughters of average citizens to aspire to a college education." For example, she THE UNIVERSITY MISSION noted that the University is believed to be the first non- military institution to have offered engineering courses. Combining the heritage of a private university with that of a land-grant institution, the University of Vermont and The University pioneered in yet another area of society, State Agricultural College embraces a broad range of in that of giving women equal status with men in higher edu structional and research programs in the liberal disciplines cation. In 1871, the University defied custom and admitted and in the professions, and, as well, focuses a significant two women as students and four years later was the first in portion of its resources on serving the practical concerns of stitution in the country to admit women to full membership the citizens of the state. The blend of these characteristics is in the scholarly society, Phi Beta Kappa. reflected in the student body, drawn from Vermont and throughout the nation. The University is at once a local and Tucked in the northwest corner of the Ira Allen Chapel a national resource and, because of its moderate size, is ac grounds is a memorial to a late nineteenth century graduate curately characterized as a comprehensive university with of this University, philosopher John Dewey, whose ideas the teaching environment of a college. about practical education are still debated with passionate vigor. The University of Vermont is dedicated to the advance ment, transmission, and application of knowledge through The first building was subscribed by citizens of Burlington teaching, research and scholarly pursuits, and public ser and when fire destroyed that edifice in 1824, its successor, vice. Its faculty and students participate in enhancing the for which General Lafayette laid the cornerstone, was again understanding of self and of environment. Exposed to the made possible by the citizens of Burlington. That building, range of human achievement, stimulated by a spirit of in the Old Mill, was only the first in a long line to be made quiry and intellectual rigor, faculty and students are possible by private philanthropy. The list includes all but enabled to develop and extend their knowledge. one of the buildings on University Row: Ira Allen Chapel, Billings, Williams, Old Mill, and the Royall Tyler Theatre. The curricula of the undergraduate, graduate, and profes Morrill Hall, the first UVM building to be provided by sional programs provide a balance between response to State funding, did not come until 1907. changing societal needs and the preservation and enhance ment of the foundations of liberal education. The Universi Nearly all state universities function as departments of ty offers a rich environment for research, scholarship, and government, and the faculty and staff are state employees. creative work in many realms of human inquiry, sharing In Vermont, the University is an "instrumentality" of the the excitement and fruits of investigation and creation with State and its Board of Trustees balances both the public and students and society. Through a variety of research, exten private sectors. The Board is composed of 25 members: sion, continuing education, and other programs, the Uni nine self-perpetuating, nine elected by the State Legislature, versity provides assistance, in its special partnership with three appointed by the Governor, and two members of the the state, in the solution of human, social, technological, student body. The President of the University and the Gov environmental, and educational problems of the citizens of ernor ofLthe State serve as ex officio members of-the-Board,— Vermont.