UWM Undergraduate Bulletin 2008-2009

ABOUT UWM

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offers a world of intellectual, social, and personal possibilities. Whether you study at UWM for one semester or all the way through to an undergraduate degree, this catalog can help you make the most of those possibilities. UWM features:

More than 120 undergraduate majors and submajors, 49 master's programs, one specialist degree, and 24 doctoral programs.
12 schools and colleges.
More than 3,000 different courses, including evening and off-campus classes.
Faculty members who are nationally recognized for research and publication and are active citizens of the metropolitan community.
A community of about 30,000 students, 1,599 faculty and instructional staff, and more than 2,100 staff members.
Accreditation as a comprehensive doctoral and research campus by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Ranked by the Carnegie Foundation in the top group of U.S. colleges and universities called Doctoral/Research Universities–Extensive. UWM also is one of two UW System institutions that grants the doctoral degree.

UWM was established 50 years ago, in 1956, with the merger of Wisconsin State College, Milwaukee, and the University of Wisconsin Extension Center in Milwaukee. (Wisconsin State College traces its origin to the Milwaukee State Normal School, founded in 1885.) Since then, UWM has become a major part of the intellectual, cultural, and economic life of Southeastern Wisconsin.

Academic Worlds

The academic worlds at UWM include:
School of Architecture and Urban Planning
Peck School of the Arts
Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business
School of Education
College of Engineering and Applied Science
College of Health Sciences
College of Letters and Science
School of Information Studies
College of Nursing
Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
Graduate School
School of Continuing Education

As a UWM student, you're likely to spend many hours in the Golda Meir Library, which houses more than 5 million cataloged items. Computer technology hooks you up to a number of important databases. The library also is the second largest academic library system in Wisconsin.

The Student Community

With increasing regularity, the world's students are making UWM a first-choice destination. Its globally diverse student body includes nearly 700 students from other countries who are attracted by UWM's academic excellence and its urban setting, convenient to the professional, cultural and recreational advantages only a large metropolitan area can offer.

There's a lot for students to do at UWM. In the Peck School of the Arts complex and elsewhere on campus you can enjoy concerts, art exhibitions, dance performances, and films by student and faculty artists and by distinguished visitors from the broader art world. You can cheer for UWM athletic teams, work off your tensions in organized or pickup sports, or keep in shape at the Klotsche Center. The center, and the campus in general, are accessible to disabled students. As a student, you're also eligible for medical services at the Student Health Center.

At UWM, social life centers on the UWM Union, with its bookstore, craft center, movie theater, art gallery, recreation center, food outlets, credit union, coffeehouse, offices for student organizations, multicultural centers, and frequent concerts and other performances. At the high-rise Sandburg Residence Halls, you'll find dining areas, a grocery store, movie theater, fitness center, and computer lab.

You can share a suite at the residence halls, rent one of many rooms or apartments near campus or commute to the University, using express bus service provided through the UBUS program. The UPOOL/CARPOOL and UPARK services offer carpooling and off-campus parking and shuttle bus service.

The Student Association and hundreds of other campus groups give students a voice in University life and opportunities to explore interests ranging from politics to sailing. Students are represented on University committees, publish newspapers, and are involved in radio station WUWM-FM 89.7.

The Milwaukee Community

As a student at Wisconsin's major urban university, you have access to the employment, social, cultural, and recreational opportunities of a large city, while enjoying the closeness of the UWM community.

UWM's 93-acre campus is located on Milwaukee's upper East Side, one of the city's most attractive residential areas and home to many faculty, staff, and students. UWM also is just a short walk from historic Lake Park and the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline. The campus, an attractive combination of historic buildings and modern architecture, is a short drive or bus ride from a wealth of cultural and recreational resources. They include the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee County Zoo, theaters, concert halls, stores, restaurants, parks, professional sports events, and ethnic festivals. All of these make big cities and Milwaukee in particular stimulating places to live, work, and go to school.

UWM reaches into the Milwaukee area in many ways, particularly through the School of Continuing Education, which offers 1,500 noncredit, select credit and certificate programs. The School extends the resources of UWM to the people, agencies, businesses and governments of our local and global communities through education, partnerships and applied research.

In return, people from the community give guest lectures, participate in conferences, and give students contacts in the professional world. Milwaukee itself is a dynamic laboratory for independent study and field work, and offers many job possibilities for students while in school or after graduation.

Student Right to Know

The University has created a website to notify prospective and current students and their parents about their rights and responsibilities, as well as the services and programs offered at UWM. The items available include information about campus safety, academics, financial aid, and graduation rates. To access this website, go to www.right2know.uwm.edu. If you require paper copies, feel free to print the information directly off the Web or contact the department that provides that information, and a copy will be sent to you.

Last update: Jan. 7, 2008 May 22, 2008 --- URL: http://www.uwm.edu/ugbulletin/UWM.html
Copyright 2008 by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, all rights reserved.
If you have questions or comments about this page please send e-mail to: www@uwm.edu