Information:
College Office
228 Mrak Hall
916-752-0108; World Web Web: http://www.aes.ucdavis.edu
The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences offers a diverse program of majors and courses that focus on improving the quality of life in all of its facets. The college is committed to creative education that emphasizes a spirit of discovery, based on the premise that tomorrow's citizens will need to anticipate, understand and solve emerging societal problems and contribute to the discovery and application of new knowledge. Hence, education in the college aims to foster:
The college is proud of its rich agricultural history and is world-renowned today for its accomplishments. From this foundation, it has expanded its educational offerings to encompass programs that highlight interconnections among the environment, plant and animal biology, and human health and well-being. Through a wide array of major programs, the college prepares high-potential students for advanced studies in diverse disciplines and leadership in such arenas as public policy; research and development; managerial and natural resource economics; agricultural systems; environmental protection, safety and design; human nutrition, health and development; and the food, fiber, textile and apparel industries.
Students are brought into early contact with faculty advisers, graduate students and postgraduate researchers. A symbiotic relationship is developed in which undergraduate students bring new perspectives and join in the excitement of discovery. This enriches and broadens the educational experience of all.
Available to students are several levels of academic advising designed to enhance the student's undergraduate experience. Advisers assist students in course planning, meeting degree requirements and in taking maximum advantage of the resources available at the university. Students are encouraged to meet regularly with their assigned faculty adviser and with the Advising Associates and peer advisers housed in departmental offices. Through a shared commitment to education for service to society, college faculty, staff and students work together to improve the relationship between humanity and the natural world.
Information:
Dean's Office
1050 Engineering II
916-752-0557; World Wide Web: http://www.engr.ucdavis.edu
The College of Engineering has a tradition of excellence in instruction, in research and in public service. To its undergraduate enrollment of approximately 2,500 and graduate enrollment of 700, the college offers both a friendly atmosphere and the varied academic programs in basic sciences and engineering that have made UC Davis engineering graduates highly valued in private practice and research. The college has seven departments; each has outstanding programs of instruction.
Every effort has been made to provide students in engineering with the maximum flexibility consistent with rigorous professional education standards. The key to flexibility is academic advising. Incoming students are assigned to a faculty adviser during their first term on campus. Faculty advising is supplemented by a well-developed peer advising system and by staff advising in the dean's office and in departments.
Undergraduate education in engineering at Davis is intended to serve as a sound basis for beginning professional practice in engineering design and development, as a preparation for careers in corporate or governmental operations or as a foundation for graduate study. To these ends, the college emphasizes fundamental sciences to give the student the maximum postgraduate flexibility. Technological developments in recent years have made it clear that engineering education must be based on fundamentals or rapidly become obsolete.
Engineers will continue to face new challenges as society continues its demand for improvements in the quality of life, and as our state and nation demand greater participation by engineers in efforts toward competitiveness in a global market. As a unit in a land-grant institution, the UC Davis College of Engineering must help maintain the technological leadership long enjoyed by the United States, while advancing technology for the benefit of all.
Information:
Office of the Deans
200 Social Sciences and Humanities Building
916-752-0392; World Wide Web: http://www-lsdo.ucdavis.edu
The College of Letters and Science is the largest of the three undergraduate colleges at UC Davis. Through its nearly 500 faculty members, the college offers more than 50 major programs of study and thousands of courses per year across a broad range of subject matter areas. The faculty of the college reside in academic departments and programs organized into three Divisions--Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and Social Sciences--as well as in the affiliated intercollege Division of Biological Sciences. The college confers Bachelor of Arts (A.B.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and Bachelor of Arts and Science (B.A.S.) degrees.
The College of Letters and Science is a community of scholars and students sharing a commitment to liberal education rather than to specialized, vocationally oriented training. The college seeks to expose students to the worlds of human experience, of ideas, of artistic accomplishments and of matter and things. Although separate and distinct to the casual observer, these realms are interconnected and may be studied in a coherent curriculum. It is within this curriculum that students are able to explore a variety of academic fields, engage in the pursuit of fundamental knowledge, and gain the capacity for independent study and thought. By learning to think carefully and critically, students will be able to continue the ongoing process of education that begins in the classroom but continues over a lifetime. They will have learned how to learn--the ultimate objective of a liberal arts education.
The educational goals of the college are reflected in the three primary groups of requirements established by the faculty: the English Composition Requirement, the Foreign Language and Area Requirements and the Major Requirements.
The English Composition Requirement ensures that students are well versed in the skills of written communication.
The Foreign Language and Area Requirements provide students with a broad background of knowledge, guide them in an exploration of the interdependencies of knowledge and acquaint them with other cultures.
The Major Requirements provide students intellectual depth and competence in a selected area of study.
The College of Letters and Science recognizes and affirms the importance of perceptive and knowledgeable academic advising. The college has a well-developed system of faculty advisers, student peer advisers and professional staff advisers who are available for individual consultations with undergraduates in a variety of settings ranging from the deans' office to departmental offices to campus residence halls.
Woven throughout the tapestry of diversity that is the College of Letters and Science is a fundamental and unswerving commitment to excellence. The faculty of the college is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of human knowledge through research, artistic expression and other creative endeavors, and to the effective communication and application of that knowledge through teaching and public service. Together, faculty and students in the College of Letters and Science pursue these goals and ideals with enthusiasm and excitement.
UC Davis 1997-98 Online General Catalog. Posted August 1, 1997.
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Keitha Hunter and Barbara Anderson, Editors
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