Undergraduate Studies 1982-83

Undergraduate Studies 1982-83

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 1982-83 OFFICIAL BULLETIN '. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 1982-83 COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE · COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE SCHOOL OF NURSING GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Official Bulletin, University of Rochester, USPS 403440, Series 77, Number 3, August 12, 1982. Published by the University of Rochester, 107 Administration Building, Rochester. New York 14627, five times a year-in April, July, August (two). and September. Second-class postage paid at Rochester, New York 14692. Postmaster: Send change of address notice to the University of Rochester, Office of Admissions. Morey Hall, River Station, Rochester, New York 14627. This bulletin was prepared in the spring of 1982. and the information is subject to change without notice. The University of Rochester provides equal opportunity in admissions and student aid regard less of sex, race, handicap. color. and national or ethnic origin. 2 3 HOW TO FIND WHAT YOU NEED BOOK IN TBIS 1982-83 Academic Calendar ................... 6 General Information about the University Useful for Prospective Students. .. .. .. 9 Special Academic Opportunities for Undergraduates .................... ....... 15 Degrees Offered by the University. .. .. .. ... 21 Thumbnail Sketches of Colleges and Facilities . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 25 Programs of Study Offered to Undergraduates College of Arts and Science (including courses in the School of Medicine and Dentistry open to undergrad uates). .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 31 College of Engineering and Applied Science .... 141 College of Nursing.......................... 165 Graduate School of Management . .. ... 171 Graduate School of Education and Human Development .............. .. .. .. ... 177 Sports and Recreation ........................ 181 Admissions .................................. 183 Financing an Education ....................... 189 Academic Services and Information ............. 20 I Career and Counseling Services . .. .. .. ... 209 Student Life . .. .. .. .. .. ... 215 General Regulations . .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 225 Board of Trustees ............................ 228 Administration . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 228 Index ....................................... 230 Facilities . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 236 Campus Map . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 238 4 5 A SPECIAL WORD TO PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS welcome your interest in Rochester. We think it is a fine institution, Wunique in some ways, among the best of its kind in many others. It may be just the right college for you. One of the purposes of this bulletin is to help you reach that decision, because we want to make sure that the students who should come to Rochester are those that do come to Rochester. This bulletin is also a rule book. It serves as a "book of understandings" between you and the University while you are an undergraduate, spelling out what you can expect from the University while you are here and what the University in turn will expect from you. Should Rochester become your college, we look forward to welcoming you to the invigorating community of seekers after knowledge that is the University of Rochester. 6 ACADEMIC CALENDAR Undergraduate-River Campus November 3-5 Registration materials distributed to undergraduates. Colleges and School of Nursing November 10 (Wednesday) Undergraduate program advising session. November 15-19 1982 Fall Semester Undergraduate Program Approval Forms filed August 13 (Friday) with Registrar. Last date for undergraduates to pay tuition and fees November 15 (Monday) without penalty. Date after which enrollment deposit is forfeited by September 8 (Wednesday) undergraduates who do not notify the appropriate Classes begin at River Campus colleges and dean's office of their plans for withdrawal from the School of Nursing. University effective at the end of the fall semester. September 28 (Tuesday) November 24 (Wednesday) Last date for students in the College of Arts and Thanksgiving recess begins at noon. Science to have courses deleted from current November 29 (Monday) program and to declare the SI F option, except Classes resume. first-semester freshmen and transfer students. (See December 13.) December 13 (Monday) Classes end. Last date for students in the College of October 5 (Tuesday) Arts and Science to drop courses without penalty. Last date for students in the College of Arts and Last date for first-semester freshmen and transfer Science and the Graduate School of Education and students in their first semester in the College of Arts Human Development to add courses. Last date to and Science to have courses deleted from current add independent study courses. program or declare the SI F option. October 6 (Wednesday) December 14 (Tuesday) Wilson Day activities. Reading period begins (optional by college offering October 8 (Friday) course). Fall term break begins at end of day. December 16 (Thursday) October 13 (Wednesday) Reading period ends. Classes resume. December 17-23 October 22-28 Final examinations. Week for SI F selection in the College of Engineer­ December 23 (Thursday) ing and Applied Science. Winter recess begins at end of day. October 28 (Thursday) Last date to drop courses in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development and to make program changes in the College of Engineer­ ing and Applied Science. Academic Calendar 7 1983 Spring Semester April 22 (Friday) Classes end. Last date for students in the College of January 3 (Monday) Arts and Science to drop courses without penalty. Last date for undergraduates to pay tuition and fees without penalty. April 23 (Saturday) Reading period begins (optional by college offering January 12 (Wednesday) course). Classes begin at River Campus colleges and School of Nursing. April 26 (Tuesday) Reading period ends. February I (Tuesday) Last date for students in the College of Arts and April 27-May 3 Science to have courses deleted from current Final examinations. program and to declare the Sf F option, except May 8 (Sunday) first-semester freshmen and transfer students. (See All-University Commencement. April 19.) May 9 (Monday) February 8 (Tuesday) " X " Period begins, River Campus colleges. Last date for students in the College of Arts and Science and the Graduate School of Education and June 15 (Wednesday) Human Development to add courses. Last date to Date after which enrollment deposit is forfeited by add independent study courses. undergraduates who do not notify the appropriate dean's office of their plans for withdrawal from the February 23-March I University effective the end of the spring semester. Week for Sf F selection in the College of Engineer­ ing and Applied Science. June 27 (Monday) "X" Period begins, School of Nursing. March I (Tuesday) Last day to drop courses in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development and to make program changes in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. March 5 (Saturday) Spring recess begins at end of day. March 14 (Monday) Classes resume. March 16-18 Registration materials distributed to undergraduates. March 23 (Wednesday) Undergraduate program advising session. March 28-April I Undergraduate Program Approval Forms filed with Registrar. April 19 (Tuesday) Last date for first-semester freshmen and transfe r students in their first semester in the College of Arts and Science to have courses deleted from current program or declare the Sf F option. 8 9 SOME NOTES ABOUT TBE UNIVERSITY he University of Rochester is one of the Rochester alumni have a fine track record in finding smallest of this country's distinguished uni­ placement in excellent graduate schools (some 50 per­ versities. Grounded in a tradition that goes cent have in recent years gone on to graduate study) and back 130 years, it is independent, nonsectar­ in establishing themselves in careers of their choice. ian, and coeducational. As one student summed it up recently, "Rochester Rochester is the right place for the highly opens doors." Tmotivated student who is looking for a fine university education and success in career or professional school and who will enjoy the university's small scale and special quality of life. Rochester undergraduates number just over 4,000 Noteworthy Features of Academic men and women. Their faculty is also the faculty that Programs teaches the graduate students; there is no distinction between the two. Special qualities justify Rochester's reputation for Because a university's business is constantly to extend sustained academic excellence. One is the caliber of the the limits of human understanding, its faculty members faculty. The latest (1971) survey by the American Coun­ are engaged in original scholarship on many levels and in cil on Education gave the University's faculties the high­ many fields. At Rochester, undergraduates as well as est ranking in 12 fields in which Ph. D. degrees were graduate students are invited, and in fact encouraged, awarded. The fields were divided among the humanities, to participate in these investigations. The faculty-to­ the social sciences, and the natural sciences. student ratio is high, about I to 13. Rochester's place in American higher education may There is more than one way to acquire a sound, useful, perhaps be indicated in another way: Among the 3,000 durable education that persists and enriches throughout colleges and universities in this country, only 25 private one's life. At Rochester, this fact is well recognized. Stu­ institutions are members of the prestigious Association

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