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GOALS An education at the University of Maryland at College Park strives to cultivate intellect by teaching students to extend prin ciples and ideas to new situa tions and to new groups of peo ple. It aims to provide students with a sense of identity and pur pose, a concern for others, a sense of responsibility for the quality of life around them, a continuing eagerness for knowl edge and understanding and a foundation for a lifetime of per sonal enrichment. It enlivens stu dents to enlarge the common understanding, to develop humane values, to celebrate tol erance and fairness, to contribute to the social conscience, to moni tor and assess private and collec tive assumptions, and to recog nize the glory, tragedy, and humor of the human condition. Specifically, undergraduate edu cation at College Park seeks to enable students to develop and expand their use of basic acade mic and intellectual tools. Students are educated to be able to read with perception and plea sure, write and speak with clari ty and verve, handle numbers and computation proficiently, reason mathematically, generate clear questions and find probable arguments, reach substantiated conclusions, and accept ambigui ty. Students also study in depth and acquire a substantial compe tence in a coherent academic dis cipline. A College Park education helps students to become aware of the variety of ways of know ing, the complexity of being human, and to understand their place in history and in the con temporary world. Students learn to analyze and appreciate artistic creations, to identify and evalu ate moral questions, to synthe size and integrate knowledge, and to become intellectually flex ible, inventive, and creative. From: Promises to Keep: The College Park Plan for Undergraduate Education Approved by the Campus Senate March, 1988 HISTORY In 1859, on the site now occupied by Morrill Hall, Charles Benedict Calvert, a wealthy planter and later congressman from Riverdale, established the Maryland Agricultural College. Its purpose was to educate the sons of Maryland farmers and to cultivate the free flow of ideas. After the Civil War, the College became one of the nation's first land-grant colleges under the Morrill Act of 1867, and by 1900, had begun to bring prosperity to the state through its agricultural outreach programs. As it did so, it changed the state and was itself transformed. By the early 20th century, the College had expanded its offer ings into engineering, business, and the liberal arts. Women were admitted as students in 1912; by 1929, they numbered more than 300, had graduated from every college in what now was a uni versity, and had become active participants in all aspects of cam pus life. Shortly before World War I, graduate work began. In 1920, the college merged with the In 1888, the campus long-established professional consisted of an ad schools in Baltimore, and the Maryland Agricultural College ministration build changed its name to the ing, a classroom University of Maryland. Along with much of American building. and a labo society, the University was fur ratory. As the Mary ther transformed by World War II. The University revised its cur land Agricultural riculum to provide a strong College, it became foundation in the liberal arts and sciences and reshaped its offer one of the nation's ings in advanced studies to create first land-grant insti a series of "majors" that would serve the emerging needs of tutions in 1865. industry, government, and soci developed to accommodate stu ety for highly-educated citizens. dents who wanted to pursue cross However, like the state of which disciplinary studies; teacher evalua it was a part, the University of tions encouraged students to cri Maryland was segregated by tique the quality of classroom race, and barred African instruction, and periodic reviews of Americans from attending programs and administrators College Park. Beginning in the became standard. post-war period, Maryland's In 1988, the General Assembly of black citizens asserted their right Maryland designated the to attend the state's premier pub University of Maryland at College lic university with ever greater Park as the flagship institution for force and power. In 1950, a suc the newly-expanded University of cessful lawsuit required the Maryland System. As well as pur University to allow a young black suing a serious research mission man, Parrin Mitchell of and continuing its high level of ser ~ Baltimore, to attend graduate vice to the state, the University classes at College Park. In the . rededicated itself to providing the The university's following year, Hiram Whittle, highest quality graduate and close links to Balti another Baltimorean, became the undergraduate education. first African-American under Increased undergraduate opportu more, Annapolis, graduate student admitted to this nities for research and individual and Washington, institution. Still, it was not until study, the development of the D.C., provide excit the 1954landmark Supreme College Park Scholars Program and Court ruling in Brown v. Board the expansion of the University ing opportunities of Education that the University Honors Program, the creation of for internships, of Maryland Board of Regents CORE, the general studies pro agreed to accept all qualified stu gram, the establishment of the research, cultural dents without regard to race. The Center for Teaching Excellence, all activities, and once segregated college is now a affirmed the legislature's designa recreation. multicultural, international tion of flagship. university. After almost a century and a half, The evolution of College Park the University of Maryland at mirrored the pattern of social College Park seems to bear little change in other ways as well. In resemblance to the Maryland the 1960s, students here as else Agricultural College. Yet, at heart, where sought more opportunities it remains the same: an engine of for self-expression as they joined economic growth, to be sure; a in the movement to create an great research university, yes; a egalitarian society. Their con source of enlightenment for the citi cerns in part led to the expansion zens of the state and the world, of of curriculum offerings into new course. But, above all, this is a areas, such as Afro-American place where the life of the mind Studies, Women's Studies, and remains primary, and where noth Urban Studies. A wider choice of ing is more valued than the open electives encouraged students to and vigorous exploration and dis explore various disciplines; the semination of both new and old Individual Studies Program was ideas. RESEARCH Opportunities for conducting research abound at the University of Maryland at College Park and in the surrounding area, both for faculty to advance their own expertise and bring their insights with them into the classroom, and for students to begin their explo ration of their special interests with practical experience. On campus, special facilities and a number of organized research centers, bureaus, and institutes promote the acquisition and analysis of new knowledge in the arts, sciences, and applied fields. The University's enviable loca tion-just 10 miles from down town Washington, D.C., and approximately 30 miles from both Baltimore and Annapolis enhances the research of its facul ty and students by providing access to some of the finest libraries and research centers in the country including the Library of Congress, Folger Shakespeare Library, National Archives, National Library of Medicine, and National Agricultural Library. In the Baltimore area are the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Maryland Historical Association Library. The state capital at Annapolis is home to the Maryland Hall of Records. In recent years, several research opportunities have been created specifically for undergraduates. As early as the second semester of freshman year, students are eligi ble to participate in the Undergraduate Research Assistant Program. As research assistants, students develop close intellectual relationships with faculty mentors and collaborate on faculty research projects. Multidisciplinary Senior Sunu:ner Scholarship grants enable stu- • Undergraduate stu dents are encour aged to begin their own explorations through access to state of the art facili· IV ties and resources. I , dents to spend the summer between their junior and senior years working closely with faculty mentors on scholarly, research, or artistic projects while earning aca demic credit. Additional, discipline-specific research opportunities are avail able off-campus. UMCP is leading a cooperative excavation of the ruined city of Caesarea Maritima in Israel, where Pontius Pilate lived while serving as Roman governor of Judea. Elsewhere, A major research students participate in archeologi university attracts cal digs at Cape May, N.J., and in Historic Annapolis. Aided by the top faculty who bring Maryland Sea Grant, College Park their research inter· zoologists and microbiologists study the fisheries of the ests and insights to Chesapeake Bay. the classroom. Research internships are available through academic departments T and Experiential Learning Programs. The sites include fed eral agencies and private organi zations such as the National Zoological Park, Congressional Arts Caucus, Smithsonian Institution, Women's Legal Defense Fund, the National Institutes of Health, National Archives, and the U.S. ACCREDITATION Department of Agriculture. Students may work in Annapolis or on Capitol Hill through the The University of Maryland at College Park is accredit Maryland Legislative Internships. ed by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and is a member of the Association of American Universities. In addition, individual col leges, schools, and departments are accredited by such groups as the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, the American Chemical Society, the National Association of Schools of Music, the ,.....----··-- Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, the Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association, the American Psychological Association, the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (see College of Engineering for a listing of accredited engineering pro grams), the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, the National Architectural Accrediting Board, the American Dietetic Association, the Planning Accreditation Board of the American Planning Association, the Council on Rehabilitation Education, the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Program, the Institute of Food Technologists, the Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and the Educational Standards Board of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. v Microcomputer facilities, man LIBRARIES aged by the Computer Science Center, are available for use by students in Hornbake and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Library. Hornbake Library, the undergraduate library, provides reference, circ1 lation and reserve services in all subject areas to undergraduate ~tudents. A late-night study roo 1s open 24 hours during the fall and spring terms. Nonprint Media Services serves as the ce tral audio-visual department fOJ the UMCP libraries. The recent: renovated and expanded Theodore R. McKeldin Library i the main research library of the UMCP library system. M~Keld~'s reference works, pe1 od1cal~, Circulating books, speci collechons and other materials provide support for research a teaching throughout the University, with special emphas on the humanities, the social sc· ences, and the life sciences. The five branch libraries on campus offer extensive resources which provide essential support for sr. ~ cialized study, research, and Seven libraries and teaching. The branches are the Architecture Library, the Art numerous special col· Library, the Engineering and lections provide rich Physical Sciences Library, the Music Library, and the White material and technical The seven libraries which make Memorial (Chemistry) Library. up the University of Maryland support for teaching Among the outstanding special at College Park library system I and research. offer outstanding resources and holdings of the libraries are the International Piano Archives at services. The holdings of the Maryland, a world-renowned c libraries include over 2.4 million lection of piano performance volumes, more than 5 million materials in the music library; t microform units, almost 26,000 National Trust for Historic current periodical and newspa Preservation Library; the per subscriptions as well as over Maryland Room-a major center 843,000 government documents, for Maryland studies; the 205,000 maps, and extensive Katherine Anne Porter Collectio holdings of phono-records, films the Gordon W. Prange Col!ectio and filmstrips, slides, prints, and of Japanese-language publica music scores. The libraries also tions, 1945-49; the U.S. Patent feature a Technical Reports Depository Collection; the Center collection of some 2 mil Government Document and lion items-one of the most out Maps Room, featuring U.S. gor· standing collections of its kind in ernment publications as well as the nation. VICTOR, the publications of the United L~braries' online catalog, pro Nations, the League of Nations VIdes access to bibliographic and other international organiza records of most materials in the tions, maps from the U.S. ArrilY libraries of 11 institutions in the Map Service and the U.S. . University of Maryland System, Geological Survey; the East ASia as well as other libraries around Collection; and the National the country. In addition, the sys Public Broadcasting Archives tem offers information about arti located in Hornbake LibrarY· cles in over 100,000 journals. VI Desktop computers are part of a campus wide network of work station and micro computer laborato ries. COMPUTER Students at College Park are part of an academic community that SCIENCE enjoys free access to networked computer resources and facilities CENTER that are among the best in the country. The Computer Science Center maintains these resources and provides a vast array of aca demic computing services to stu dents, faculty and staff. Workstation laboratories called Open Labs feature IBM, Macintosh, and UNIX environ ments, and provide high-quality laser printing. Open Labs are found in academic buildings, dor mitories, libraries, and parking garages and are staffed with com puter-experienced students Effective July 5, 1989, any student, faculty, or staff member with a (called First-Aiders) who can help currently validated identification card at one of the following with problems operating the computers or the software on Maryland colleges and universities is entitled to direct borrowing them. Free computer accounts Privileges at any of them: the eleven institutions of the University enable users to store class work on a networked server, download of Maryland System; Morgan State University; St. Mary's College of classroom support materials and Maryland; and the UM Center for Environmental Estuarine Studies. other electronic information from For more information, please contract the library circulation desk at campus networked resources such as inforM, or send electronic Your home institution. mail to professors, peers, or friends at other universities. And, for additional help using the computers and software, non credit, short-term, "peer training" is available to students through out each semester. VII UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS OF STUDY Social Studies UNDERGRADUATE A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL Speech and English STUDIES OF ENGINEERING College Park Scholars Theatre and English Biological Resources Engineering Division of Letters and Sciences Chemical Engineering Special Education Individual Studies Program Civil Engineering Law and Health Professions Pre-Dental Hygiene Electrical Engineering COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND Pre-Dentistry§ Engineering HUMAN PERFORMANCE Pre-Law§ Fire Protection Engineering Family Studies Pre-Medical Technology Materials and Nuclear Engineering Health Education Pre-Medicine§ Mechanical Engineering Pre-Nursing Kinesiology Pre-Optometry§ Pre-Osteopathic Medicine§ COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE Pre-Pharmacy AND NATURAL RESOURCES COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM Pre-Physical Therapy Pre-Podiatric Medicine§ Agricultural Sciences University Honors Program§ Agriculture/Veterinary (combined) COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES §Advising Available Agricultural and Resource Economics Biochemistry Agronomy Biological Sciences Animal Sciences CAMPUS-WIDE Biological Resources Engineering Chemistry CERTIFICATES Horticulture Entomology Afro-American Studies Nutrition and Food Science Microbiology East Asian Studies Landscape Architecture Plant Biology Women's Studies Natural Resources Management Program COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND Zoology MANAGEMENT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Accounting Business/Law COLLEGE OF ARTS AND Finance HUMANITIES General Business and Management American Studies Logistics and Transportation Art Management and Organization Art History and Archeology Management Science and Statistics Asian and East European Languages and Marketing Cultures Personnel and Labor Relations Chinese Production Management Classics Transportation, Business and Public Dance Policy English Language and Literature French Language and Literature COLLEGE OF COMPUTER, Germanic Studies MATHEMATICAL, AND History PHYSICAL SCIENCES Japanese Astronomy I Jewish Studies Computer Science Linguistics Geology Music Mathematics Philosophy Physical Sciences Romance Languages Physics Russian Area Studies Russian Languages and Literature Spanish and Portuguese Languages COLLEGE OF EDUCATION and Literature Early Childhood Education Speech Communication Elementary Education Theatre Human Development Women's Studies Secondary Education Art English COLLEGE OF BEHAVIORAL AND Language Arts SOCIAL SCIENCES Foreign Language Afro-American Studies Mathematics Anthropology Music Criminal Justice and Criminology Science Economics Geography • Government and Politics Hearing and Speech Sciences Psychology Cultural and ethnic Sociology diversity are part of the educational tradi· tion at Maryland. 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