1968-1969 Undergraduate Catalogue

FOUNDED 1791 • BURLINGTON, VERMONT Bulletin of THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT THE CATALOGUE • 19 6 8- 1 96 9 ANNOUNCEMENTS • 19 6 9- 1 9 7 0 Cover photo: The Guy W. Bailey Library. Photo by Eidred. Inside back cover: Entrance to Bailey Library. Photo by Eidred. Cover design by John MacLeod. Bulletin of the University of Vermont VOLUME 66 APRIL 15, 1969 NUMBER 21 Published by the University of Vermont, 85 South Prospect Street, Burlington, Vermont 05401, 24 times a year: once each in August and June; twice in October, November, December, January, and May; and three times in September, February, March, and April. Second Class postage paid at Burling ton, Vermont 05401. The University of Vermont The University is located at Burlington, Vermont, overlooking an at tractive tree-shaded city situated on the shores of Lake Champlain. J Burlington, the largest city in the State, with a population of 40,000, 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 points. J Chartered in 1791, the University is the twentieth oldest institution of higher learning in the United States authorized to grant degrees and the second institution founded by state legislative action to offer instruction at the university level. 5 Although its legal title is The University of Vermont and State Agri cultural College, the University is known to its students and alumni as UVM. This popular abbreviation is derived from the Latin Universitas Viridis Montis. J Within the ten divisions of the University, instruction is offered in more than twenty programs leading to one hundred thirty different degrees. J 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 National Association of Schools of Music The American Medical Association The American Dental Association National League for Nursing The Engineers Council for Professional Development The American Chemical Society iii The Philosophy and Objectives of \ The University of Vermont1 Today, more than ever before, higher education is in * need of a basic philosophy—one which will clarify its purposes and goals, and which, at the same time, will protect it from any loss of its essential characteristics. It is important to note well that a university, the home of higher education, is not a barometer of public opinion, and that it cannot conceivably bend to meet every demand of society if it is to carry out effectively its major responsibilities to scholar ship and learning. A university must be committed to scholarship, it must be dedicated to education in the very highest branches of learning, and it must aspire to the supreme level of excellence. If, in the constantly changing environment of modern civilization, a university finds itself in the role of a service agency, ready to meet every demand that society may make upon it, then there is real danger that the vital purposes and goals of higher education may be lost. If the danger is recognized and guarded against, however, the integrity of our educational program will not be jeopardized. What, then, is the basic purpose of the University of Vermont—what is its philosophy of education? Basically, the University is an institution dedicated to pure learning in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. Our re sponsibility is that of creating a community of scholars, both old and young; of providing an atmosphere for the discovery, exchange, and trans mission of ideas; and of furnishing continuing generations with the intel lectual means for leading full and purposeful lives. Institutional Goals Quite naturally there is a diversity of goals among American insti tutions of higher education, and inevitably there are differences in the goals of public and private institutions. As a publicly supported insti tution, the University has accepted the responsibility of providing an educational opportunity for all qualified men and women residing in the State of Vermont. 1. Cited from the President's Report, 1960. iv The University continues to meet this responsibility at the same time that it is able to enhance the educational opportunity afforded Vermonters by the admission of students coming from many large and small communi ties outside Vermont's borders. This tradition, not enjoyed by many state universities, not only provides a heterogeneity of background and experi ence for all students, but also makes possible a breadth and depth of academic offerings which the University of Vermont otherwise might not be able to provide for Vermonters alone. Thus our institutional goals are ... ... to provide a liberal education through individual capacity for the making of intelligent decisions. Such an education becomes meaningful with a knowledge of our historical heritage; it becomes operational through the use of all disciplines, including mathematics and science; and it be comes influential through the art of effective communication ... to extend an opportunity for the development of a cultural life by virtue of the arts and the formulation of philosophical and moral values ...to provide skill training in preparation for specific professions and careers ...to create an atmosphere conducive to research and scholarship through the development of programs which will implement both undergraduate and graduate education ...to develop graduate programs leading to the master's and doctor's degree in areas supported by faculty, laboratory, and library facilities as a means of specialization and of complementing desired research and study in selected fields ... tocarry on aprogram of adulteducation through the Evening Division, off-campus activities, cooperative extension, and modern communication media .. to provide services to state and local government where University personnel, data, or organization are particularly adaptable to a public need which otherwise may not be filled. Institutional Means Clearly, our institutional goals cannot be achieved without a faculty of distinction aided by an administration which recognizes that its obligation is both to provide the facilities and to help create the conditions in which the faculty and students can pursue their educational responsibilities. v One of the most important of the University's means to the desired end is the development of an undergraduate curriculum which provides a liberal education in every professional program. This is not to say that every student should matriculate in the College of Arts and Sciences. It does mean that the professional and vocational must not crowd out a liberal education simply because the subject matter of each professional field is increasing. It is impossible today to teach everything there is to know in the professions, whether in medicine, law, engineering, business, or agriculture. For this reason it is important that we continually review the curriculum to reevaluate, modify, and consolidate the fundamentals of professional education so that the teaching of effective communication— mathematics, history, science, and the arts—retains its central importance. Facilitating this is the emphasis placed upon individual excellence, wherein the gifted student may advance more rapidly through small semi nars, conferences, individual research assignments, the use of original sources, and student advisory services. Further means include a constant reviewing of admissions requirements to insure an educational opportunity to those applicants who will receive the greatest benefit from a college education; a fostering of research projects which are related to the teaching program and to our established institutional goals, providing opportunity for research in the social sciences and the humanities as well as in the natural sciences; the development of a full graduate program as rapidly as resources permit; and finally, a sus tained plan of university self study to provide a continuing evaluation of achievement and a basis for the consideration of new techniques and methods. Basic to these means, of course, and a resource without which the insti tution ceases to be a university, is the library. To make our philosophy of education meaningful, to make our goals realizable, and to make our other means workable, a truly fine library is indispensable. The University's philosophy of education, then, is to create a community of scholars and provide facilities and an environment for full educational development. Our goals are to ensure the undergraduate a well-rounded academic background, regardless of the field of concentration; to offer sound graduate programs at the master's and doctor's levels; to pursue a program of continuing adult education; and to provide the State and com munity with professional and cultural services. vi CORRESPONDENCE Admissions Requests for a catalogue, or information concerning admission policies and procedures, rooms and tuition Director of Admissions Undergraduate Colleges Dean of the College College of Medicine Dean of the College of Medicine Graduate College Dean of the Graduate College Evening Division Director of the Evening Division Summer Session Dean of the Summer Session Conferences and Institutes Director of Conferences and Institutes Transcripts of Records Registrar Student Personnel Dean of Students Scholarships and Loans Director of Financial Aid Employment of Seniors and Alumni Director of Placement Matters of Alumni Interest

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