Graduate School-- New Brunswick Catalog 1999--2001 Contents Academic Calendars 2 About the University 3 Graduate Study at the University 4 Other Graduate Study at the University 5 About the Cover: Degree Programs Available 6 The antique map of Africa reflects the most current project Admission 8 of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA). Tuition and Fees 9 The RCHA brings together internationally distinguished scholars, the university community, and the New Jersey Financial Aid 11 public to engage in research, education, and public service Student Services 14 on historical topics of broad community relevance. The RCHA’s programs are designed to put current social trends Academic Policies and Procedures 21 and issues in historical perspective and to overcome the Degree Requirements 32 fragmentation of knowledge that keeps us from seeing the wider dimensions of problems. Programs, Faculty, and Courses 38 The RCHA’s project for the academic years 1997–1999 Research Centers, Bureaus, and Institutes 200 was “The Black Atlantic: Race, Nation, and Gender.” This project traced the globalization of African culture and the Administration 205 formation of the Black Atlantic since the beginning of the Governance of the University 206 modern slave trade. The forced migration of Africans during the modern slave trade marked the beginning of Divisions of the University 207 the globalization of African culture and the formation Maps 212 of the Black Atlantic. Since then, hundreds of thousands of African people have crossed and recrossed the Atlantic, Index 221 and migrated between Atlantic countries. This movement of Africans and their descendants has continually remade diasporic ethnicities and political cultures by allowing Important Notice: for the exchange of religion, aesthetic traditions, expressive Please note that only the printed version of this catalog culture, and strategies for resistance. is the official document of Rutgers, The State University Today in Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, of New Jersey. While Rutgers offers its catalogs on the Central and South America, and Europe, there are creole Internet as a convenience, the university’s online catalogs societies that have recognizably African roots. They are are unofficial, as is academic information offered at other linked by a legacy of Africanisms that made music, arts, and Rutgers’ web sites. religion primary expressions of the Black Atlantic’s cultural distinctiveness—a distinctiveness shaped by a common The university reserves the right for any reason to cancel history and memory of chattel slavery, peonage, exploitive or modify any course or program listed herein. In addition, wage labor, racism, and racial forms of class subordination. individual course offerings and programs may vary from This project interrogated the meaning of the Black Atlantic; year to year as circumstances dictate. not just the process of its formation, but the ways its people forged their identities, the ways they have both resisted and accommodated modern capitalism and conventional gender roles. The RCHA’s project for the academic years 1991– 2001 is “Utopia, Violence, Resistance: Remaking and Unmaking Humanity.” 1 Academic Calendars Dates are subject to change. 1999–2000 2000–2001 September September 1 Wednesday Fall term begins. 4 Monday Labor Day holiday. 6 Monday Labor Day holiday. 5 Tuesday Fall term begins. November November 24 Wednesday Friday classes meet. 21 Tuesday Thursday classes meet. 25 Thursday Thanksgiving recess begins. 22 Wednesday Friday classes meet. 28 Sunday Thanksgiving recess ends. 23 Thursday Thanksgiving recess begins. 26 Sunday Thanksgiving recess ends. December 10 Friday Reading period. December 13 Monday Regular classes end. 14 Thursday Reading period begins. 14 Tuesday Reading period. 15 Friday Fall exams begin. 15 Wednesday Fall exams begin. 22 Friday Fall exams end. 22 Wednesday Fall exams end. 23 Saturday Winter recess begins. 23 Thursday Winter recess begins. January January 15 Monday Winter recess ends. 17 Monday Winter recess ends. 16 Tuesday Spring term begins. 18 Tuesday Spring term begins. March March 11 Sunday Spring recess begins. 12 Sunday Spring recess begins. 18 Sunday Spring recess ends. 19 Sunday Spring recess ends. April May 30 Monday Regular classes end. 1 Monday Regular classes end. May 2 Tuesday Reading period. 1 Tuesday Reading period begins. 3 Wednesday Reading period. 3 Thursday Spring exams begin. 4 Thursday Spring exams begin. 9 Wednesday Spring exams end. 11 Thursday Spring exams end. 17 Thursday Commencement. 23 Tuesday Commencement. 29 Tuesday Summer Session begins. 30 Tuesday Summer Session begins. August August 15 Wednesday Summer Session ends. 16 Wednesday Summer Session ends. 2 several professional schools have been established in such About the University fields as management and labor relations, social work, criminal justice, planning and public policy, applied and professional psychology, the fine arts, and communication, information, and library studies. A number of these schools offer undergraduate programs as well. Livingston College was founded in 1969 to provide a diverse community of students the opportunity to pursue undergraduate degrees Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, with more in the liberal arts and professions. than 48,000 students on campuses in Camden, Newark, and Today, Rutgers continues to grow, both in its facilities New Brunswick, is one of the major state university systems and in the variety and depth of its educational and research in the nation. The university comprises twenty-nine degree- programs. The university’s goals for the future include the granting divisions: twelve undergraduate colleges, eleven continued provision of the highest quality undergraduate graduate schools, and six schools offering both undergrad- and graduate education, along with increased support for uate and graduate degrees. Five are located in Camden, outstanding research to meet the needs of society and fulfill eight in Newark, and sixteen in New Brunswick. Rutgers’ role as The State University of New Jersey. Rutgers has a unique history as a colonial college, a land- grant institution, and a state university. Chartered in 1766 Institutional and Specialized Accreditation as Queen’s College, the eighth institution of higher learning to be founded in the colonies, the school opened its doors Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is accredited in New Brunswick in 1771 with one instructor, one sopho- by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle more, and a handful of first-year students. During this States Association of Colleges and Schools, 3624 Market early period, the college developed as a classical liberal arts Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2680; 215/662-5606. The institution. In 1825, the name of the college was changed Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States to Rutgers to honor a former trustee and revolutionary war Association of Colleges and Schools is an institutional veteran, Colonel Henry Rutgers. accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Rutgers College became the land-grant college of New Education and the Council for Higher Education Accred- Jersey in 1864, resulting in the establishment of the Rutgers itation. That accreditation was renewed and endorsed in Scientific School with departments of agriculture, engineer- 1998 at the time of its last review. Documents describing the ing, and chemistry. Further expansion in the sciences came institution’s accreditation may be downloaded from the with the founding of the New Jersey Agricultural Experi- university’s web site at http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~oirap.msa/ ment Station in 1880, the College of Engineering in 1914 index.html or may be reviewed during regular office hours (now the School of Engineering), and the College of Agri- by contacting the Office of Institutional Research and culture (now Cook College) in 1921. The precursors to Academic Planning, Rutgers, The State University of New several other Rutgers divisions also were founded during this Jersey, 85 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1281; period: the College of Pharmacy in 1892, the New Jersey 732/932-7956. College for Women (now Douglass College) in 1918, and Certain undergraduate programs on the Camden, the School of Education (now a graduate school) in 1924. Newark, and New Brunswick campuses of Rutgers are Rutgers College assumed university status in 1924, and subject to specialized accreditation. For further information legislative acts in 1945 and 1956 designated all its divisions about specialized accreditation, including the names of as The State University of New Jersey. During these years, associations that accredit university programs, please contact the university expanded significantly with the founding the Office of Institutional Research and Academic Planning. of an evening division, University College, in 1934, and the addition of the University of Newark in 1946 and the College Licensure of South Jersey at Camden in 1950. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is duly Since the 1950s, Rutgers has continued to expand in licensed by the New Jersey Commission on Higher Edu- the area of graduate education. The Graduate School– cation. For more information, please contact its Office of New Brunswick, Graduate School–Newark, and Graduate Programs and Services at 609/292-2955. School–Camden serve their respective campuses. In addition, 3 The traditional goal of undergraduate instruction is a Graduate Study