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, 2002. 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.

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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.