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  Feb 19, 2025
 
2009-2010 Graduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy) 
  
2009-2010 Graduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy) [Archived Catalog]

The Graduate School


 

The Graduate School

James Buggy, Interim Dean
Nancy Zimmerman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Dale Moore, Director of Graduate Admissions
 
The Graduate Council
Andrea Adams, Graduate Students Association Representative
Cheryl Addy, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Nancy Brown, Social Work
James Buggy, Ex Officio, The Graduate School
Xiaomin Deng, Mechanical Engineering
John Grego, Statistics
Kristia Finnigan, Ex Officio, Office of the Provost Representative
JoAnne Herman, Nursing
Scott Huebner, Psychology
Richard Hunt, Medicine
Satish Jayachandran, Marketing
Rhonda Jeffries, Instruction and Teacher Education
Michelle Maher, Educational Leadership and Policies
Murray Mitchell, Physical Education
Srihari Nelakuditi, Computer Science and Engineering
Francisco Sanchez, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Donna Shannon, Library and Information Science
Andrew Shifflett, Chair, English
Shirley Staples Carter, Journalism and Mass Communications
Nic Ularu, Theater
George Voulgaris, Geological Sciences
Mike Wyatt, Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences
Nancy Zimmerman, Ex Officio,The Graduate School
 

Overview Dual Degree Programs
Degree Programs  

The Graduate Studies Bulletin is the official manual of regulations and guidelines for graduate study at the University of South Carolina. Its contents are approved by the Graduate Council and supersede any conflicting information that may appear in a publication of an individual program at the University. Graduate students are expected to read and adhere to the regulations of this publication throughout their matriculation at the University. Students are bound by the Graduate Studied Bulletin in effect at the time they begin or renew their enrollment in The Graduate School. Change to a later Graduate Studies Bulletin requires permission of the program and The Graduate School.


Overview

The mission of The Graduate School of the University of South Carolina is to set high academic standards, promote best practices, provide administrative support for graduate programs throughout the University, embrace new and emerging technologies, and assess effectiveness to ensure excellence in graduate education for students and faculty. The Graduate School is committed to honoring the diversity of communities at the University of South Carolina, to fostering best practices for graduate education for faculty and students based on complementary ethical responsibilities and behavior, and to setting clear expectations for academic and professional excellence.


Degree Programs

The Graduate School oversees postbaccalaureate degree programs designed to give qualified individuals professional competence in specialized disciplines and trains scholars, research specialists, teachers at all levels, and experts in various professions. The term “degree program” includes programs leading to a graduate certificate, specialist, master’s, or doctoral degree. Emphasis is placed on methodology as well as on mastery of defined areas of subject matter. Graduate work brings together a group of scholars actively engaged in research and thus provides a close association between students and mature investigators with a wide range of interests. While emphasizing specialization as basic to graduate work, The Graduate School encourages interdisciplinary study as a response to the complex problems of a rapidly changing world.

The degree of Doctor of Philosophy is offered in more than 50 academic areas, while professional doctorates are offered in education, music, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, and public health. The University’s School of Medicine offers the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and the School of Law offers the degree of Juris Doctor.

The University offers the Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Media Arts, Master of Science, and the Master of Arts in Teaching in several disciplines. It offers professional master’s degrees (e.g., Master of Business Administration, Master of Library and Information Science, Professional Science Master, and Master of Education) in many academic units, including arts and sciences; hospitality, retail, and sport management; business; education; engineering and information technology; mass communications and library and information studies; medicine; music; pharmacy; public health; and social work. Education Specialist degrees are available in library and information science as well as education (teaching, educational administration, and counselor education).

In addition, certificates of graduate study are offered in advanced practice nursing, biomedical studies, career development facilitator, criminal justice leadership, drug and addictions studies, applied statistics, gerontology, higher education leadership, historical archeology and cultural resource management, library and information science, museum management, music performance, nursing administration, psychiatric rehabilitation, school health education, health communication, teaching English as a foreign language, and women’s studies.

For a list of graduate programs offered on the Columbia Campus visit one of the following links:


Dual Degree Programs

Through special arrangement, the University offers dual degree programs in certain areas to permit a student to work on two degrees concurrently by combining credits, resulting in the student’s taking fewer courses than the total required if each degree were pursued independently.

For a list of dual degree programs offered on the Columbia Campus visit the following link: