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This Catalog
This catalog provides extensive information on the University's academic
offerings. Liberal use of the index is suggested, as this catalog is alphabetically
arranged within specific schools, colleges, and other categories,
rather than as a whole. Attention is also directed to the explanatory
text beginning the Courses section.
This catalog is primarily for entering undergraduate
students, to whom it is made available without charge. Students already
enrolled at the University may purchase copies of the catalog for a small
fee in the University Bookstore and may consult copies of the catalog
in the library, University Advising Center and the various other undergraduate
advising offices across campus. It is intended to help them become familiar
with current academic offerings in all areas, so they may make preliminary
decisions concerning their own programs of study. Secondly, this catalog
is for prospective students, to give them an initial acquaintance with
the academic side of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and it is
for the use of the University's own faculty and staff, to serve as an
informational link between the multitude of instructional parts that make
up a great state university.
This catalog provides the most specific and timely
information possible, to the extent that information was available nine
months before the fall semester.
No attempt is made in this catalog to provide information
on specific instructors, times and places of class meetings, etc. This
information is to be found each semester in the official Pre-Registration
Guide issued by the Scheduling Office. This catalog can serve a student
or prospective student well in general planning of a program of study
in one or more disciplines, but it cannot be the basis for final course
selection. A student might select several courses from this catalog, only
to discover on consulting the Pre-Registration Guide that they
all have the same meeting times.
It is intended that this catalog focus on fall semester,
2000. The catalog is published annually.
Important. Intentionally omitted from
this catalog are many courses in individual departments and programs offered by arrangement when the
need arises under the following headings and course numbers: Seminars
(191-195, 291-295, 391-395, 491-495, 591-595); Independent Study (196,
296, 396, 496); Special Topics (197, 297, 397, 497, 597); Practicum or
Field Experience (298, 398), and Departmental/Senior Honors (498, 499).
These special courses should be investigated through the department concerned.
Courses with these numbers have been included in this catalog in those
instances in which specific information of student interest was provided.
Courses numbered above 599 (graduate level courses)
are included only in instances in which the submitting department specifically
states that undergraduates may enroll.
PLEASE BOOKMARK THIS CATALOG FOR USE IN THE FALL.
ALL COURSES CARRY THREE CREDITS UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.
NOTE: All telephone numbers provided in this catalog for units at the
University's Amherst campus are Area Code 413.
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