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Programs of Study for Liberal Arts Students PROGRAMS OF STUDY FOR LIBERAL ARTS STUDENTS Faculties Offering the Programs 2 Programs, Faculty, and Courses 3 1 Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Asela Leguna, Acting Religion Hiroshi Obayashi Faculties Offering Sociology Ellen Idler Spanish and Portuguese Thomas M. Stephens Statistics Arthur Cohen, Acting the Programs Women’s and Gender Studies Joanna Regulska MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS The Mason Gross School of the Arts offers both liberal Note: The faculties and programs of the degree-granting arts and professional undergraduate programs, as well as professional schools (Cook College, Mason Gross School professional graduate programs, in the arts. The school’s of the Arts, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers programs for liberal arts students appear in this section. Business School: Undergraduate–New Brunswick, School See the school’s separate section later in this catalog for of Communication, Information and Library Studies, School undergraduate professional program information. of Engineering, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning George B. Stauffer, Dean and Public Policy, and the School of Management and Dennis Benson, Associate Dean Labor Relations) appear in those colleges’ separate sections Scott Cagenello, Dean of Students later in this catalog. Andrianni Vollas Viscariello, Director of Development Department Chairperson The following faculties offer most of the programs of Dance Patricia Mayer study for liberal arts students outlined in this section. Music Rufus Hallmark Theater Arts Israel Hicks Visual Arts Gary Kuehn FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers undergraduate and SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK graduate programs in a wide variety of arts and sciences disciplines and in numerous interdisciplinary fields. It is The School of Social Work offers an undergraduate major the largest academic unit in the university, comprising program in social work in addition to its graduate offerings. more than one thousand faculty members. Mary Edna Davidson, Dean Raymond Sanchez Mayers, Associate Dean and Director, Baccalaureate Holly M. Smith, Executive Dean Social Work Program Douglas Blair, Executive Vice Dean DuWayne Battle, Assistant Director, Baccalaureate Social Work Program Allison Zippay, Associate Dean for Curriculum Area Deans Arlene Hunter, Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions and Student Services Michael Beals, Educational Initiatives Kenneth J. Breslauer, Life Sciences David Madigan, Physical and Mathematical Sciences Barry V. Qualls, Humanities GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Edward Rhodes, Social and Behavioral Sciences Seth A. Gopin, Associate Dean and Director of Global Programs The Graduate School of Education offers teacher certifica- Barbara A. Lemanski, Associate Dean for Policy and Personnel tion programs for undergraduates in New Brunswick/ Department Chairperson Piscataway in addition to its graduate offerings. Africana Studies Kim Butler American Studies Ann Fabian Richard De Lisi, Dean Anthropology Frances Mascia-Lees Warren Crown, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Art History Tod Marder Paul Elwood, Associate Dean for Administration and Finance Asian Languages and Cultures Ching-I Tu Amy Wollock, Director of Teacher Education and Certification Officer Cell Biology and Neuroscience Wise Young, Acting Chemistry and Chemical Biology Roger Jones Classics Corey Brennan Computer Science Haym Hirsh SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND Economics Barry Sopher LABOR RELATIONS English Richard E. Miller Exercise Science and Sport Studies David Feigley French Richard Lockwood The School of Management and Labor Relations offers Genetics Jay Tischfield undergraduate major and minor programs in labor Geography J. Kenneth Mitchell education. Geological Sciences Kenneth Miller Germanic, Russian, and East European Paula A. Voos, Chairperson of Department of Labor Studies and Employment Languages and Literatures William Donahue Relations History Ziva Galili David Bensman, Director of Undergraduate Major in Labor Studies and Italian Laura S. White Employment Relations Jewish Studies Gary Rendsburg Adrienne Eaton, Extension Director Linguistics Mark Baker Amy Marchitto, Assistant to the Director of Undergraduate Major in Labor Mathematics Richard S. Falk Studies and Employment Relations Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Vincent Pirrotta Philosophy Brian McLaughlin Physics and Astronomy Charles Glashausser Political Science Richard Wilson Psychology Louis Matzel 2 PROGRAMS, FACULTY, AND COURSES 04 School of Communication, Information and Library Programs, Faculty, Studies (undergraduate) 05 Graduate School of Education 06 Douglass College and Courses 07 Mason Gross School of the Arts (undergraduate) 09 School of Social Work (undergraduate) 10 Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy 11 Cook College 12 Rutgers College AVAILABILITY OF MAJORS 14 School of Engineering 16 Graduate School–New Brunswick The programs of study outlined in this section are, in 21 Newark College of Arts and Sciences general, available to undergraduate students enrolled in 30 Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy the four liberal arts colleges at the university in New 33 Rutgers Business School: Undergraduate– Brunswick/Piscataway: Douglass College, Livingston New Brunswick College, Rutgers College, and University College–New 37 School of Management and Labor Relations Brunswick. However, not all programs are offered at all col- 50 Camden College of Arts and Sciences leges. (In addition, a few of the major programs described 61 University College–New Brunswick here are open to Cook College students.) Therefore, it is important to consult the college sections of this catalog for Subject Codes lists of the majors available to students at each of these A subject code comprises the third through fifth digits in schools: all course numbers and indicates the subject matter of the course. Courses with the following subject codes are listed Douglass College: Page 215 in this section of the catalog. (This list does not constitute Livingston College: Page 227 a list of majors. See pages v–vi for a list of majors. This list Rutgers College: Page 243 also does not constitute a list of all subjects offered at the University College: Page 255 university. See the individual professional-school sections Cook College: Page 269 of this catalog for further subject and course listings.) Individual undergraduate courses offered at Rutgers in 013 African Languages and Literatures New Brunswick/Piscataway are, in general, open to stu- 014 Africana Studies dents at all the undergraduate colleges, subject to prerequi- 016 African Area Studies site restrictions and space limitations. 018 Aging 050 American Studies 070 Anthropology COURSE NOTATION INFORMATION 078 Armenian 080 Art, Visual Changes in Course Numbers and/or Titles 081 Art 082 Art History It is the student’s responsibility to read course descriptions 090 Arts and Science (college courses) carefully, and, when in doubt, to check with his or her 098 Asian Studies adviser or the appropriate department to avoid registering 105 Astrophysics for a course that the student already may have taken. 115 Biochemistry Credit will not be given twice for the same course, despite 119 Biological Sciences a change in number and/or title. 145 Catalan 146 Cell Biology and Neuroscience 160 Chemistry Cross-Listed Courses 165 Chinese Some courses are cross-listed in more than one department. 175 Cinema Studies 185 Cognitive Science Students should note that a cross-listed course is the same 190 Classics course listed under two or more subject indexes. 195 Comparative Literature 198 Computer Science Explanation of Three-Part Course Numbers 202 Criminal Justice 203 Dance The number preceding each course title is divided into 206 Dance three parts. The first two digits are the administrative code 214 East Asian Languages and Area Studies (standing for a faculty or a school), the next thee digits 220 Economics are the subject code, and the final three digits are the 300 Education course code. 350 English 351 English: Topics Administrative Codes 353 English: Literary Theory The following administrative codes are used in this 354 English: Film Studies catalog and are positioned as the first two digits in all 355 English: Composition and Writing course numbers. 360 European Studies 377 Exercise Science and Sport Studies 01 Faculty of Arts and Sciences 420 French 02 Livingston College 447 Genetics 03 Office of the Provost 3 PROGRAMS, FACULTY, AND COURSES 450 Geography 840 Religion 460 Geological Sciences 860 Russian 470 German 910 Social Work 489 Greek, Modern 920 Sociology 490 Greek, Ancient 925 South Asian Studies 505 Hindi 940 Spanish 506 History: General/Comparative 959 Study Abroad 508 History: African, Asian, and Latin American 960 Statistics 510 History: European 965 Theater Arts 512 History: American 966 Theater Arts 513 History/French 967 Ukrainian 514 History/Political Science 988 Women’s and Gender Studies 535 Hungarian 556 Interdisciplinary Studies, FAS Course Codes 560 Italian The course code comprises the sixth, seventh, and eighth 563 Jewish Studies digits in all course numbers. Course codes from 100 to 565 Japanese 299 indicate introductory and intermediate undergraduate 567 Journalism and Media Studies 574 Korean courses. Codes from 300 to 499 indicate advanced under- 575 Labor Studies graduate courses. Courses coded from 500 to 799 are gradu- 578 Labor Studies and Employment Relations ate courses and are described in the graduate catalogs of 580 Latin the university. 590
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