Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin of Yale University
 
Introduction
Departments and Programs
Research Institutes
Policies and Regulations
Financing Graduate School
General Information
 
Yale President and Fellows
Yale Officers
Graduate School Administration
Calendar
A Message From the Dean
Graduate School Information

The President and Fellows of Yale University

President
Richard Charles Levin, B.A., B.LITT., PH.D.

Fellows
His Excellency the Governor of Connecticut, ex officio.
 Her Honor the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, ex officio.
 George Leonard Baker, Jr., B.A., M.B.A., Palo Alto, California.
 Roland Whitney Betts, B.A., J.D., New York, New York (June 2005).
 Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr., B.A., M.D., West Friendship, Maryland (June 2003).
 Gerhard Casper, LL.M., PH.D., Atherton, California.
 Susan Crown, B.A., M.A., Chicago, Illinois.
 Charles Daniel Ellis, B.A., M.B.A., PH.D., Greenwich, Connecticut.
 David Richmond Gergen, B.A., LL.B., McLean, Virginia (June 2002).
 Holcombe Turner Green, Jr., B.A., LL.B., Atlanta, Georgia.
 Linda Anne Mason, B.A., M.B.A., Belmont, Massachusetts (June 2004).
 The Rt. Rev. Victoria Matthews, B.A., M.DIV., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
 Barrington Daniel Parker, Jr., B.A., LL.B., Stamford, Connecticut.
 John Ennis Pepper, Jr., B.A., M.A., Cincinnati, Ohio.
 Kurt Lidell Schmoke, B.A., J.D., Baltimore, Maryland.
 Theodore Ping Shen, B.A., M.B.A., Brooklyn, New York (June 2007).
 Janet Louise Yellen, B.A., PH.D., Berkeley, California (June 2006).


The Officers of Yale University

President
Richard Charles Levin, B.A., B.LITT., PH.D.

Provost
Alison Fettes Richard, M.A., PH.D.

Vice President and Secretary
Linda Koch Lorimer, B.A., J.D.

Vice President and General Counsel
Dorothy Kathryn Robinson, B.A., J.D.

Vice President for Development
Charles James Pagnam, B.A.

Vice President and Director of New Haven and State Affairs
Bruce Donald Alexander, B.A., J.D.

Vice President for Finance and Administration
Robert Loren Culver, B.A., M.A., M.P.A.


The Administration of the Graduate School

Susan Hockfield, PH.D., Dean of the Graduate School
 Pamela Schirmeister, PH.D., Associate Dean of the Graduate School
 Richard Sleight, PH.D., Associate Dean of the Graduate School
 Diana Cordova, PH.D., Assistant Dean of the Graduate School
 Thomas Burns, PH.D., Assistant Dean of the Graduate School
 Liza Cariaga-Lo, ED.D., Assistant Dean of the Graduate School and Director, Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity
 Jennifer Brinley, B.S., Associate Director, Finance and Financial Aid
 Judith Dozier Hackman, PH.D., Director, Teaching Fellow Program
 Mary Johnson, PH.D., Director, Graduate Career Services, McDougal Center
 Barry S. Kane, M.S.W., Registrar, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
 TBA, Deputy Registrar, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
 Alice Oliver, Director, Finance and Administration
 William C. Rando, PH.D., Director, Teaching Fellow Preparation and Development
 Jamie Mowat Young, M.A.R., Director of Admissions


Calendar

Fall 2001
August 27 Monday New student orientation week begins
August 28 Tuesday Orientation for new international students begins
August 29 Wednesday Matriculation ceremony
August 31 Friday Registration and orientation in departments for all new students begins
September 4 Tuesday Registration and fall ID validation for returning students begins
September 5 Wednesday Fall-term classes begin, 8.30 A.M.
September 19 Wednesday Registration ends, 4.30 p.m.
October 26 Friday Midterm
November 17 Saturday Fall recess begins, 9.00 p.m.
November 26 Monday Classes resume, 8.30 a.m.
December 22 Saturday Fall term ends
Winter recess begins, 5.20 p.m.

Spring 2002
January 14 Monday Spring-term registration begins
Spring-term classes begin, 8.30 A.M.
March 8 Friday Midterm
Spring recess begins, 5.20 p.m.
March 25 Monday Classes resume, 8.30 a.m.
May 14 Tuesday Spring term ends
May 26 Sunday Graduate School Convocation
May 27 Monday University Commencement

 

A Message from the Dean

Graduate education offers challenges and rewards that differ from those of undergraduate study. The goal of graduate education is to prepare a scholar to contribute to the advancement of human knowledge. A graduate student will explore one field in depth, will gain mastery of a specialized subject matter, and will learn to communicate knowledge in the classroom.To study a subject in depth in the free and open environment of a great university is an exhilarating opportunity. Each department and graduate program at Yale has its own community of scholars-distinguished faculty and talented students-who share a common interest in learning about a particular discipline. These discipline-based communities are enriched by the range of scholarly activity throughout the University. Our students gain immeasurably from working with the faculty and from interacting with their fellow students. Their education is facilitated by Yale's laboratories and the rich resources of its library and museum collections.

Graduate study at Yale University prepares students for careers in teaching and research, and for a wide variety of leadership positions. The contours of graduate education at Yale have changed over the years as intellectual inquiry has evolved. New disciplines have formed, traditional disciplines have taken on new life, and the knowledge base in all fields has grown rapidly. In recent years, new departments and programs have been established, and the Graduate School has continued to refine and improve degree programs in all areas.

This book, Programs and Policies, describes all the graduate programs currently available at Yale. It also contains practical information about registration and financial aid, and the full range of services available to our students. I encourage you to use this book as a guide to the activities of the Graduate School. Please never hesitate to contact the staff of the Graduate School with any questions you may have. All of us wish you fulfillment and success in your chosen programs of study.

-- Susan Hockfield


The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is one of twelve schools composing Yale University and the only one that awards the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Philosophy, Master of Arts, and Master of Science. The work of the Graduate School is carried on in the divisions of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Biological and Physical Sciences. The divisions encompass seventy-three departments and programs, fifty-seven of which offer courses of study leading to the Ph.D. degree. There are currently twenty-two programs that terminate with the master's degree.

Yale began to offer graduate education in 1847, and in 1861 it conferred the first Ph.D. degrees in North America. In 1876 Yale became the first American university to award the Ph.D. to an African American. The Graduate School was formally established in 1892, when the first dean was appointed. It was in that same year that women were first admitted as candidates for the doctorate.

The Graduate School community has grown vigorously since the early twentieth century; today it comprises 2,300 graduate students and a faculty of 900 who are among the world's most distinguished teachers and scholars. Admission to the Graduate School is highly competitive; currently each entering class is made up of about 550 students.

The Graduate School prepares students for careers in research, scholarship, and teaching in the arts and sciences. Under the guidance of the faculty, graduate students engage in advanced study of a discipline and then proceed to generate new knowledge and ideas through research. They learn to disseminate this knowledge in scholarly publications and teaching. Yale's graduate students have built careers in colleges and universities, research laboratories, government, the nonprofit sector, and private industry. Their education equips them for leadership roles in all these callings.

Yale's standing as a great international research university is based on the strength and attractiveness of its graduate programs. The pursuit of advanced learning and new knowledge takes place in the departments and programs of the Graduate School. Thus it is the Graduate School that makes Yale a university. Furthermore, graduate students as scholars in training and apprentice teachers provide the link between undergraduates and the faculty. It is this shared sense of common purpose that makes Yale a community of scholars, and a place in which an unusually intimate exchange of ideas takes place.

Resources for Research and Study
Yale's outstanding facilities for research and study include a university library system of more than ten million volumes, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, the Office of Information Technology Services, departmental libraries and collections, and the extensive resources of the other professional schools. The collections and services of the Research Libraries Group, which consists of Columbia, Harvard, and Yale universities and the New York Public Library, are also available to students.

Special research facilities for the sciences include the Bass Center for Molecular and Structural Biology, Josiah Willard Gibbs Research Laboratories, the Kline Geology Laboratory, the Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, the fourteen-story Kline Biology Tower, the Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the Arthur W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Arthur K. Watson Hall for computer science, the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, and the many other biomedical science laboratories in the Sterling Hall of Medicine.

The Dean
Susan Hockfield, 112 HGS, 432.2733, susan.hockfield@yale.edu

The dean of the Graduate School is appointed by the president of the University and is responsible for the educational mission of the Graduate School, its faculty, the quality of its programs, and the welfare of graduate students.

The Associate Deans
The associate deans of the Graduate School are responsible for the administration of graduate programs, normally in consultation with the directors of graduate studies, and for the academic and personal well-being of students. They participate in decisions regarding admissions, financial aid, academic performance, and the application of the regulations and policies of the Graduate School. Their current responsibilities are as follows:

Pamela Schirmeister, 2681 HGS, 432.7598, pamela.schirmeister@yale.edu

Ph.D. and terminal master's programs in African American Studies; African Studies; American Studies; Archaeological Studies; Classics; Comparative Literature; East Asian Languages and Literatures; East Asian Studies; Economics; English Language and Literature; French; Germanic Languages and Literatures; History; History of Art; History of Medicine and Science; International and Development Economics; International Relations; Italian Language and Literature; Management; Medieval Studies; Music; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Philosophy; Political Science; Religious Studies; Renaissance Studies; Russian and East European Studies; Slavic Languages and Literatures; Sociology; and Spanish and Portuguese

Richard G. Sleight, 2678 HGS, 432.2744, richard.sleight@yale.edu

Ph.D. and terminal master's programs in Anthropology; Applied Mathematics; Astronomy; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Biostatistics; Cell Biology; Cellular and Molecular Physiology; Chemistry; Computer Science; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Engineering and Applied Science (Applied Physics, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering); Epidemiology and Public Health; Experimental Pathology; Forestry & Environmental Studies; Genetics; Geology and Geophysics; Immunobiology; Investigative Medicine; Linguistics; Mathematics; M.D./Ph.D. Program; Microbiology; Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; Neurobiology; Neuroscience; Pathology; Pharmacology; Physics; Psychology; and Statistics

The Assistant Deans
The assistant deans help the associate deans fulfill all their duties and responsibilities.

Diana Cordova, Assistant Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2682 HGS, 436.2628, diana.cordova@yale.edu

Thomas Burns, Assistant Dean, Sciences, 2675 HGS, 432.1884, thomas.burns@yale.edu

Liza Cariaga-Lo, Assistant Dean, Director, Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity, 2678 HGS, 436.1301, liza.cariaga-lo@yale.edu

Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity
Liza Cariaga-Lo, Assistant Dean, Director, 2678 HGS, 436.1301, liza.cariaga-lo@yale.edu

The Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity works to expand the diversity within the student body and to enhance the intellectual experience of the entire scholarly community. The office focuses and coordinates efforts to recruit and retain minority students, women, and other underrepresented groups at Yale Graduate School. The assistant dean works collaboratively with departments and programs to support the needs of these students as they pursue graduate study. The assistant dean advises prospective and current minority graduate students, directs the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program, oversees Minority Recruitment Days, writes and administers grants, and provides reports on the Graduate School's progress in recruiting and retaining underrepresented students. Graduate Diversity Fellows within the office are also appointed annually to assist the office in the development and implementation of a wide array of programs, such as application seminars, mentoring programs, discussions and lectures presented by minority scholars, and social and cultural events. An Advisory Committee, appointed by the dean, meets regularly to discuss and review the office's programmatic efforts.

Directors of Graduate Studies (DGS)
A senior faculty member, appointed by the dean, serves as director of graduate studies (DGS) for each department or program. The directors of graduate studies are responsible for the satisfactory administration of the programs of graduate study and function as advisers and guides to all graduate students in their respective department and programs. They help graduate students to plan an appropriate course of study and research, and advise on and approve course schedules. The DGS acts as the liaison between each student in the department or program and the Office of the Dean.

Teaching

The Teaching Fellow Program
Judith Dozier Hackman, Director, 130 HGS, 432.2757, judith.hackman@yale.edu

The Teaching Fellow Program is the principal framework at Yale in which graduate students learn to become effective teachers. Learning to teach and to evaluate student work is fundamental to the education of graduate students. The Teaching Fellow Program provides opportunities for graduate students to develop teaching skills, under faculty guidance, through active participation in the teaching of Yale undergraduates. Teaching fellows who encounter problems or difficulties related to their teaching roles are encouraged to meet with the director of the Teaching Fellow Program or their associate dean.

The McDougal Graduate Student Center
Hall of Graduate Studies, 432.2583
www.yale.edu/graduateschool/mcdougal/

Facilities and Services
A generous gift from Mr. Alfred McDougal, a Yale alumnus, and his wife, Ms. Nancy Lauter, enabled Yale in 1997 to create the McDougal Graduate Student Center. The McDougal Center provides space and programs for building intellectual, cultural, and social community, as well as facilitating professional development activities across the departments of the Graduate School.

The facilities of the McDougal Center enhance student life in many ways. The restored Common Room has a lounge with comfortable furnishings and the student-run Blue Dog Cafe, which serves coffee and light foods. Other center facilities include a large program room, 119 HGS, meeting rooms, a recreation room, an ITS student computing cluster with printer and copier, telephones, information kiosks, lockers, and vending machines, and the Resource Library. The center also has offices for the McDougal Fellows and Working at Teaching graduate student staff, the Graduate Student Assembly, as well as the directors and staff of Student Life, Graduate Career Services, and Teaching Fellow Preparation and Development, described below.

The McDougal Center, which is open days, evenings, and weekends during the academic term, provides members of the Graduate School community with a place of their own on campus. The center also welcomes postdoctoral appointees, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae of the Graduate School, as well as members of the larger Yale graduate and professional school community. Graduate student groups and departments may request to reserve space by contacting the center office.

Office of Student Life
Lisa Brandes, Director
HGS 123, 432.2583
mcdougal.center@yale.edu
www.yale.edu/graduateschool/mcdougal/student_affairs/index.html

The Office of Student Life also coordinates general campus services for graduate students, serving as the student advocate and departmental liaison for graduate housing, dining services, health services, athletics, security, and parking and transit. The director and staff are available to answer questions or help with any problems that students may have, including speaking individually about issues concerning their life at Yale and other personal matters and concerns. This office maintains a Web site of information and links about graduate student services (www.yale.edu/graduateschool/services/). The Student Life office also organizes recruitment activities, new student orientation, dean's events, Commencement, and other events for the Graduate School community.

Office of Teaching Fellow Preparation and Development
William C. Rando, Director, 125 HGS, 432.2583, william.rando@yale.edu
www.yale.edu/graduateschool/mcdougal/tfpd/

The Office of Teaching Fellow Preparation and Development enhances the preparation of Yale graduate students for their current and future teaching responsibilities. The director collaborates with academic departments to expand the guidance and pedagogical training they provide to teaching fellows in their disciplines; organizes programs for graduate student teachers at the McDougal Center; advises Working at Teaching, a teacher preparation program led by graduate students; and provides one-on-one consultation and classroom observations for teaching fellows and other members of the Yale community.

Office of Graduate Career Services
Mary Johnson, Director, 124 HGS, 432.2583, graduate.career.services@yale.edu, www.yale.edu/graduatechool/mcdougal/gcs

Graduate Career Services (GCS) is a comprehensive career center for students and alumni/ae of the Graduate School and for postdoctoral fellows. Through individual counseling, a full schedule of programs each semester, videotaped mock interviews, and a library of print resources as well as career-related Web links, the office assists graduate students and alumni/ae with career decision making and planning. It helps them think about what they want to do, know what is out there, make career decisions, and know how to search for a job. For graduate students considering nonacademic careers, the director initiates programs and develops links with employers who seek graduate students' skills. The GCS director consults with directors of graduate studies to develop programs that supplement the department's role in the professional development of students pursuing an academic career. GCS encourages students to begin using the services of the office early in their graduate careers in order to increase their opportunities upon the completion of their degree.

Dossier Service
120 HGS, McDougal Center, 432.8850, fax 432.8356, graduate.career.services@yale.edu
www.yale.edu/graduateschool/mcdougal/dossier.html

Students and alumni/ae applying for academic or nonacademic positions may use the dossier service. The dossier contains students' letters of recommendation and an official transcript of Yale graduate work. On request, a dossier will be sent to employers, agencies, and schools considering a student or alumnus/a for permanent or short-term positions, and for grants and fellowships. The director of Graduate Career Services oversees the Dossier Service.

Resource Library
120A HGS, McDougal Center
www.yale.edu/graduateschool/mcdougal/resource.html

The Resource Library, a self-service facility, assists graduate students, postdoctoral appointees, and faculty in finding fellowships, research and travel funding, and information on teaching, careers, writing, and professional development. The Fellowship Collection of the library contains copies of the Graduate School Fellowship Guide, grant directories and fellowship announcements, and an online site of links, announcements, and searchable databases. Materials may be consulted in the library or checked out for use in the center.

Office of Finance and Administration
Alice Oliver, Director, 129 HGS, 432.2739, alice.oliver@yale.edu
www.yale.edu/graduateschool/financial/

The Office of Finance and Administration helps students with their financial questions and works with the dean to develop and manage the budgets of the Graduate School. The office oversees and maintains financial and data management systems. The office is a resource to students, departments, and outside organizations needing advice or assistance with statistical information, administration of external fellowships, student loan programs, and financial aid policies.

Office of Graduate Admissions
Jamie Young, Director, 105 HGS, 203.432.2773, jamie.young@yale.edu
www.yale.edu/graduateschool/admissions/

The Office of Graduate Admissions coordinates and oversees all aspects of application to the Graduate School for individuals seeking master's and doctoral degrees, as well as for nondegree study. The Office of Graduate Admissions also works with the associate deans and academic departments to provide relevant information and decisions to applicants.

Registrar's Office
TBA, Deputy Registrar, 141 HGS, 432.2743
www.yale.edu/graduateschool/academics/registrar.html

The Registrar's Office maintains the academic records of all students in the Graduate School. In addition, the Registrar's Office develops course and classroom schedules and oversees registration, tuition charges, academic holds, dissertation submission, final clearance at graduation, and release of diplomas for Commencement. Students should consult this office to report changes in name or address, to request transcripts, or to certify their enrollment in the Graduate School.

Committees
Currently five standing committees are concerned with the policies and procedures of the Graduate School; as with all standing committees, their deliberations are confidential. Student members of these committees are selected by the Graduate Student Assembly.

The Executive Committee: A committee of faculty members and graduate students, chaired by the dean, advises the dean on broad matters of policy and procedure, and makes recommendations to the faculty of the Graduate School.

The Degree Committees: There are three degree committees, serving respectively the divisions of humanities, social sciences, and biological and physical sciences. The degree committees, composed of members of the division's faculty and chaired by the dean, meet twice a year and are responsible to the faculty of the Graduate School for maintaining standards of graduate education in the School and for recommending candidates for degrees. They review special academic problems of individual students and, when appropriate, the educational programs of the departments.

Dean's Advisory Committee on Student Grievances: Composed of three students, three faculty members, normally one from each division, and one administrator of the Graduate School, the committee reviews complaints brought by graduate students against a member of the faculty or administration of the Graduate School (see description of grievance procedures).

The Grievance Board for Student Complaints of Sexual Harassment: Composed of two faculty members, two graduate student members, an administrator of the Graduate School, and a person with counseling experience, the board exists to support an atmosphere of mutual tolerance and respect in the Graduate School. It is responsible for addressing complaints of sexual harassment brought by graduate students against administrators, faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, other instructors of graduate students, postdoctoral appointees, or other graduate students (see description of grievance procedures).

The Committee on Regulations and Discipline: Composed of three graduate students, three faculty members, normally one from each division, and an associate dean, the committee reviews violations of the regulations governing academic and personal conduct.

Graduate Student Assembly
B43 HGS, 432.8893
graduate.student.assembly@yale.edu
www.yale.edu/assembly

Students in the Graduate School are represented collectively by the Graduate Student Assembly, which provides a forum for students to address issues across the Graduate School and University. It consults with the dean and other administrators on proposed changes in Graduate School policy, raises concerns expressed by the student body, and nominates the student members of all Graduate School standing committees. Representatives to the assembly are elected by students in individual departments and degree programs. Each department or program has at least one student representative, with additional representatives allotted proportionally by size of the student population.

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