2003-2005 GRADUATE STUDIES CATALOG The information below refers to the printed publication 2003-2005 UW-Green Bay Graduate Studies Catalog.

Programs and Degrees The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay offers two types of programs leading to master’s degrees. The first consists of degrees awarded by UW-Green Bay. These are in four distinct areas of study: • Master of Science in Applied Leadership for Teaching and Learning • Master of Science in Environmental Science and Policy • Master of Science in Management • Master of Social Work The second group is comprised of cooperative programs with the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Course work in these programs normally is completed on the UW-Green Bay campus, but degrees are awarded by the sponsoring institution. Cooperative programs are: • Master of Science in Administrative Leadership—Educational Administration and Supervision Emphasis (UW-Milwaukee) • Master of Science in Educational Psychology — Counseling (UW-Milwaukee) • Master of Science in Education — Reading (UW-Oshkosh) Philosophy and History Graduate programs at UW-Green Bay are offered in areas reflecting particular strengths of the University’s academic array. Graduate programs also reflect the larger, campuswide commitment to serving the needs of the region and connecting learning to life. UW-Green Bay is one of 13 degree-granting institutions in the highly respected, tradition-rich University of Wisconsin System. The institution was founded in 1965 on an academic philosophy emphasizing hands-on problem solving and the ability to make connections – to examine things from many perspectives, and to work effectively with those from other fields. With more than 5,000 undergraduate students and nearly 300 graduate students, including approximately 100 students in the cooperative programs, the University is large enough to offer a diversity of programs and small enough to offer an individualized educational experience. The diverse student body includes students from most of Wisconsin’s counties, half of the states, and about 30 foreign countries. The University has nearly 180 full-time faculty, 96 percent of whom have earned a doctorate or its equivalent. Accreditation UW-Green Bay is fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools for the bachelor’s degree and for the master’s degree. Accreditation is granted after a thorough examination of all aspects of a college or university by a team of faculty and administrators from other established institutions. Campus UW-Green Bay, situated on a beautifully landscaped 700-acre site overlooking the bay on the northeast side of Green Bay, offers extras few campuses can match. Learning facilities are first-rate. The David A. Cofrin Library is regarded among the finest in the state, Mary Ann Cofrin Hall and the Laboratory Sciences Building (new in 2004) boast state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories, and the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts is elegant and well equipped. Student housing is high in amenities, with every room having a private bath. Outdoor attractions include a bayshore park, arboretum, a nine-hole golf course, and hiking and biking trails criss-crossing the campus. Noteworthy, also, is the eight-story library’s strategic location at the center of campus, connected to the University Union and every academic building via enclosed concourses. The concourses, ramps and elevators in every building make UW-Green Bay particularly accessible to students and visitors with disabilities. Mary Ann Cofrin Hall, opened for classes in September 2001, houses nearly 40 percent of all classes on campus. The building was designed to make use of advanced instructional technology and has gained national attention as a demonstration project for energy efficiency and solar electricity. With the expansion and complete renovation of the Laboratory Sciences Building, the University has the equivalent of two brand-new academic buildings. Facilities Facilities used by the graduate programs, in addition to general classroom and office space, include laboratories, the library, computer center, and a number of ancillary program or research centers. Each of these is described below. Area Research Center The Area Research Center of the Cofrin Library is a repository for archives and manuscripts of the Wisconsin Historical Society for 11 Northeastern Wisconsin counties. These records provide a rich source of organizational information for students of history, genealogy, and local culture. This center is one of the most active units in the network established by the Wisconsin Historical Society. Center for Biodiversity The Cofrin Center for Biodiversity promotes education, research and community services that help conserve native plants and animals of the western Great Lakes region. The center incorporates resources listed in this section including the arboretum, herbarium and Richter collections, along with the University greenhouse and the archives of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. Cofrin Arboretum and Natural Areas The 290-acre Cofrin Arboretum encircling the campus is a significant resource for field trips, class projects and individual research. The arboretum has mature upland forests, a cedar swamp, several types of restored prairie communities, old fields, several ponds and wetlands, a stream, an extensive dolomite outcrop of the Niagara Escarpment, and more than a half mile of shoreline on Green Bay. Off-campus holdings include two large natural areas on Lake Michigan, rare wetlands along the lower bay, and an upland tract in the interior of the Door County peninsula. These natural areas expand the range of landforms, vegetation communities, and animal habitats available for study. Within this diversity are opportunities to study sites that are preserved, areas undergoing restoration and development, and formerly cultivated sites in various stages of colonization by woody plants. A large number of the plant and animal species of northeastern Wisconsin can be documented on these sites. UW-Green Bay supports a program of grants for individual student research within the arboretum and natural areas. Students whose proposals gain support may receive up to $1,000 to carry out their projects. Students present results of completed projects in an annual symposium. Computing Facilities UW-Green Bay has state-of-the-art computer facilities with general access labs, high-tech classrooms and high-speed Internet access across campus and in the residence halls. All registered students have access to the University’s computing facilities for their classroom work, writing, data analysis and research. All students receive personal accounts with access to a wide range of applications, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Outlook email and calendar, Web browsers, and others. The Wisconsin Integrated Software Catalog (WISC) offers these popular software packages for students’ home use at significant discounts. Students may also enroll in free, noncredit workshops offered by the University on how to use various computer tools. The University has computer laboratories throughout the campus. The General Access Labs contain more than 250 computers and are open 100 hours per week. Specialty labs include more than 300 additional computers with software for specific academic programs such as computer science, graphic arts, music, photography, psychology, geography, and ecology. The Cofrin Library also has computer workstations to provide students access to UW-Green Bay resources as well as to other UW campus libraries. Students may take free classes to learn all computer applications for both PC and Macintosh computers. Workshop schedules are published on the Web prior to the first of each month. Individual help is available through the Help Desk, which takes questions via telephone, email, or in person. The Computer Center offers employment for students interested in getting practical technology experience. Herbarium The UW-Green Bay Herbarium houses a collection of over 25,000 specimens of vascular plants and provides many opportunities for student research, collection, and cataloging projects. Students have collected and prepared a large number of specimens from Northeastern Wisconsin, including endangered and threatened species. They continue to catalog specimens from the Cofrin Arboretum, Toft Point, and other UW-Green Bay natural areas. Through computer-supported study, students are able to map the distribution of plants and their responses to environmental changes. Specimens from the Herbarium are used for classroom demonstrations and laboratories. Researchers from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, other University of Wisconsin campuses, and universities in other states frequently make use of the Herbarium collection. Institute for Learning Partnership The Institute for Learning Partnership is designed to engage UW-Green Bay in support of learning along with the 37 school districts and businesses, civic leaders and parents of Northeast Wisconsin. The partnership was forged to help these organizations and groups work collaboratively to improve learning. Among its goals is developing leadership to support innovative school cultures and structures that integrate teaching, learning and technology for the benefit of student performance and achievement. Under the aegis of the Institute, the University offers undergraduate, graduate and professional development programs designed to bring continuity to the discrete stages of a teacher’s career. Institute for Research The Institute for Research assists faculty members in obtaining support for research. Graduate students working with faculty can learn to develop proposals for funding from federal agencies, private foundations and industry. The Institute has access to the latest information on funding sources through the Sponsored Program Information Network of New York as well as the Grants Information Office of the University of Wisconsin System. Laboratories The University has devoted a significant portion of its resources to developing laboratory facilities to support the natural and social sciences. The renovated and expanded Laboratory Sciences Building includes biology and ecology, chemistry, earth science, nuclear chemistry, and physical systems research laboratories. Available equipment includes gas and liquid chromato- graphs, GC-MS, spectrophotometers (UV, IR, visible), atomic absorption spectrometer, ICP-AES, liquid scintillation counter, growth chambers, microscopes and other equipment. Microcomputers are available in research labs and most classrooms. Other spaces available for research use include a herbarium and greenhouse. The University also has boats, a trailer-mounted soil sampler, and a variety of other equipment for field studies. Library The Cofrin Library supports the academic program with a collection of more than one million items and computer access to the accumulated knowledge of a worldwide network of libraries. Library holdings include approximately 313,000 books and bound periodicals; subscriptions to 1,060 print journal titles and 400 electronic journal titles; 40 databases providing electronic access to 6,000 fulltext journal titles; 35 non-fulltext databases; and 32,527 rolls of microfilm backfiles. As a depository for the U.S. government and the state of Wisconsin, the library has acquired extensive holdings of and electronic access to government documents. It also has select Canadian and United Nations publications. Other specialized collections include 57,500 maps, 5,000 sound recordings, 2,160 musical scores, and 8,200 volumes in an instructional materials collection for teachers. The Special Collections Department contains historical records of Northeast Wisconsin, genealogical records, fine print books, rare materials including old maps and manuscripts, and the University archives. A recent acquisition is the business-archive collection of the locally owned and internationally known Fort Howard Corp. Facilities for student use are varied: quiet study areas, individual and group study rooms, a general access lab/library instruction room, and general reading and study areas. Students can conduct their research at computer workstations that provide access to the Cofrin Library’s online catalog and reserve systems, as well as full-text electronic journals and newspapers, databases, census data and other resources. These computers give library access to all the UW System libraries and a database of 49 million titles held by libraries throughout the world. Students can access Internet resources directly or through selected links available on the Cofrin Library Web site and the library catalog. Librarians are available to assist students in their research during most of the open access hours. The library catalog and databases are available from remote sites even when the library is not open. Center for Public Affairs The Center for Public Affairs at UW-Green Bay provides an opportunity for students to participate in team research, internships, and technical assistance experiences in public policy, politics, government and public management. Students work with state and local government officials, legislators, public managers and other public professionals in such diverse areas as hazardous materials assessment, recycling and other environmental policies, health care administration, seismic risk assessment, community design and development, zoning analysis, cultural diversity, public opinion surveys and government/business relations. Some of these projects have been funded by agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; others have been inspired and supported by local hospitals and citizen groups. The center works closely with UW-Extension to develop outreach programs in government affairs; students have opportunities to participate in some of these activities. The goal of the center is to provide quality experiences for students and faculty and to serve the need for research, policy analysis, and training for the local community and Northeastern Wisconsin. Richter Natural History Collections The Richter Natural History Collections are a gem among such campus-held collections in the United States. Students from a variety of majors and professionals from across the country make use of the unique resource. The collections began with a large collection of bird eggs, nests, and study skins gathered by the late Carl H. Richter, who was one of North America’s foremost amateur oologists. It includes more than 10,500 egg sets, some of which are dated as early as 1884. The collection includes a large series of vertebrate specimens, Indian artifacts, mollusks and butterflies, geological specimens, historical documents, and photographs. The holdings also preserve Richter’s extensive field notes and papers. The Richter Collections include more than 90 percent of the North American avian species and subspecies, including endangered species such as whooping crane, snail kite, and Kirkland’s warbler, and several extinct species. The egg collection is North America’s 13th largest. In addition to fluid preserved specimens, study skins, and skeletons, the museum has a library of related books, journals, and reprints. Holdings represent nearly 100 percent of the locally breeding bird species, 95 percent of the mammals, 80 percent of the reptiles, amphibians and fishes. Specimen collections continue to grow through contributions from students, faculty and other researchers. Sea Grant Program UW-Green Bay faculty members participate in the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant College Program. The Green Bay program involves public education and research projects dealing with water quality, fisheries, coastal marshes, and human impact on the Bay of Green Bay and the Great Lakes. Several University boats are available for research. Campus Safety The following information about safety, security, crime and crime prevention is on the campus Web site at http://www.uwgb.edu/publicsafety/annualsecrep.htm. • Acohol and substance abuse information, prevention, and education programs • Crime prevention tips and safety programs • Crime reporting policies and procedures • Crime statistics from the past three years • Laws and campus policies governing alochol and controlled substances • Sexual assault prevention, response, reporting and victim assistance services A copy of the report can be obtained by contacting the Office of Public Safety, Instructional Services Building, Room 1024 or by accessing the Web site.

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