Virginia Commonwealth University VCU Scholars Compass VCU Bulletins VCU University Archives 2012 Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate and Professional Programs Bulletin Virginia Commonwealth University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarscompass.edu/vcubulletins © Virginia Commonwealth University Downloaded from http://scholarscompass.edu/vcubulletins/44 This Bulletin is brought to you for free and open access by the VCU University Archives at VCU Scholars Compass. It has been accepted for inclusion in VCU Bulletins by an authorized administrator of VCU Scholars Compass. For more information, please contact libcompass@vcu. V i r g i n i a C o m m o n w e a l t h U n i v e r s i t y 2012-13 Graduate and Professional Programs Bulletin Table of Contents Virginia Commonwealth University.2 College of Humanities and Sciences.
Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs School of Mass Communications School of World Studies School of Allied Health Professions.46 School of the Arts.83 School of Business.103 School of Dentistry. 121 School of Education.128 School of Engineering.158 School of Medicine.175 School of Nursing.213 School of Pharmacy.223 School of Social Work.238 VCU Life Sciences.248 Graduate School and graduate study.282 Division of Community Engagement.291 Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Services.294 Global Education Office.301 Office of Research.304 da Vinci Center for Innovation.309 This bulletin is archived in PDF format, with functioning links, at www. Graduate and Professional Bulletins 2012-13 Located in the heart of Richmond, the capital of Virginia since 1779, Virginia Commonwealth University serves an integral role in the economic health of the Specialized program accreditation or certification city and the state, educating the current and future work force, reaching out to the Campus Police community, advancing research and enhancing patient care. Police Academy VCU was founded in 1838 as the medical department of Hampden-Sydney Certified by the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services College, becoming the Medical College of Virginia in 1854.
In 1968, the General Assembly merged MCV with the Richmond Professional Institute, founded in Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Services 1917, to create Virginia Commonwealth University. University Counseling Services Today, VCU offers comprehensive undergraduate, master’s, doctoral and American Psychological Association professional programs and encompasses one of the largest academic health centers in the nation. With a record $256 million in sponsored research funding last fiscal Student Health Services year, VCU became one of only 28 public universities in the country with an Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations academic medical center to be designated as a research university with very high research activity as well as a Community Engaged Institution, both by the Hospital accreditation Carnegie Foundation. Its centers and institutes of excellence support the VCU Health System university’s research mission and involve faculty from multiple disciplines in the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations arts, public policy, biotechnology and health care discoveries.
VCU enrolls more than 31,000 students in 222 degree and certificate programs in Mission statement the arts, sciences and humanities. Sixty-six of the programs are unique in Virginia, As the premier urban, public research university in Virginia, VCU’s mission is to many of them crossing the disciplines of VCU’s 13 schools and one college. VCU advance knowledge and student success through its commitments to: has a full-time instructional faculty of more than 2,000 who are nationally and internationally recognized for excellence in the arts, business, education, • An engaged, learner-centered environment that fosters inquiry, discovery and engineering, the humanities, the life sciences, social work and all the health care innovation in a global setting professions. With more than 19,000 employees, VCU and the VCU Health System • Research that expands the boundaries of new knowledge and creative also have a significant impact on Central Virginia’s economy.
expression and promotes translational applications to improve human health Building on the foundation of VCU’s nationally ranked academic programs and • Interdisciplinary collaborations that bring new perspectives to complex academic medical center, research and scholarly productivity, and engagement problems and mobilize creative energies that advance innovation and solve with the communities it serves, the university’s strategic plan, Quest for global challenges Distinction, launches a new vision for VCU: to elevate its stature and become the nation’s top urban, public research university. This focused plan capitalizes on the • Health care that strives to preserve and restore health for all people, to seek outstanding assets of the VCU experience and truly distinguishes VCU as a major the cause and cure of diseases through groundbreaking research, and to research university committed to academic quality and student success at all educate those who serve humanity levels. • Diversity that provides a climate of inclusion, a dedication to addressing Quest for Distinction also embodies VCU’s commitment to human health through disparities wherever they exist, and an opportunity to explore and create in an the VCU Medical Center, which includes the university’s health sciences schools environment of trust and offers state-of-the-art care in more than 200 specialty areas, many of national • Sustainable, university-community partnerships that enhance the educational, and international note, including organ transplantation, head and spinal cord economic and cultural vitality of the communities VCU serves in Virginia trauma, burn healing and cancer treatment. and around the world VCU and the VCU Health System have been honored with prestigious national and international recognition for top-quality graduate, professional and medical- Vision statement care programs, reflecting a commitment to be among America’s top research VCU will be a premier urban, public research university distinguished by its universities focused on student learning.
commitment to: • The intellectual and academic success of a diverse student body Administration • Research and discovery that advances knowledge, inspires creativity and VCU administration provides leadership and organizational structure for the improves human health university, overseeing its goals and mission. Refer to each unit’s Web site for a current listing of administrators. • The global engagement of students, faculty and staff that transforms lives and communities Deans Core values Deans provide leadership for their respective school or college. Refer to each unit’s Web site for a current listing of its deans, departmental chairs and program 1.
Accountability – committing to the efficient and transparent stewardship of heads. our resources to achieve institutional excellence 2. Achievement – ensuring distinction in learning, research and scholarly Accreditation pursuits, service, and patient care Virginia Commonwealth University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges 3. Collaboration – fostering collegiality and cooperation to advance learning, of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, entrepreneurship and inquiry master’s, doctoral and first professional degrees.
Contact the Commission on 4. Freedom – striving for intellectual truth with responsibility and civility, Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097; telephone: (404) respecting the dignity of all individuals 679-4500. Note: The Commission is to be contacted only if there is evidence that appears to support an institution’s significant noncompliance with a requirement 5. Innovation – cultivating discovery, creativity, originality, inventiveness and or standard.
Service – engaging in the application of learning and discovery to improve Academic program accreditation the human condition and support the public good at home and abroad See the college/schools for detailed information about program accreditation. Diversity – ensuring a climate of trust, honesty and integrity where all people are valued and differences are recognized as an asset 8. Integrity – adhering to the highest standards of honesty, respect and professional and scholarly ethics 2 Graduate and Professional Bulletins Bulletins 2012-13 consideration. In accordance with the Code of Virginia, applications received after Oak Ridge Associated Universities Consortium the start of the semester must be considered for the next semester.
Submit Since 1963, students and faculty have benefited from VCU’s membership in Oak completed applications with documentation to the university residency appeals Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), a consortium of 87 colleges and officer. Processing may require four to six weeks; therefore it is strongly universities and a contractor for the U. Department of Energy. ORAU works recommended that applications be submitted earlier than the stated deadline.
with its member institutions to help students and faculty gain access to federal Our service to students is limited to assuring that they understand the procedures research facilities, to keep its members informed about opportunities for for appealing and that they have access to information about the relevant sections scholarship and research appointments and to organize research alliances among of the Code of Virginia. We provide information about the steps of our process and its members. access to the applicable sections of the statute and the associated guidelines. We Faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students may access a wide range of provide qualified staff to review the appeals and make decisions based on the opportunities for study and research, including the Lindau-Nobel Laureates and information students provide.
What we cannot do is provide advisement to Powe Junior Faculty programs. Many of these programs are designed to increase students as to how to present their case for review; we cannot become the the numbers of underrepresented minority students pursuing degrees in science- student’s advocate since we must make the decision. and engineering-related disciplines. Students approved for a change to in-state status for tuition purposes are notified For more information about ORAU and its programs, contact: by mail with copies of their approval letters sent to the Office of Financial Aid and the Office of Student Accounting.
Students denied this status are also notified by Dr. Macrina, ORAU Councilor for VCU mail. The denial letter informs the student of procedures for appeal of this (804) 827-2262 decision, to include filing an appeal with the University Residency Appeals Committee. Students who submit fraudulent applications, falsify documentation or Ms.
Champion, ORAU Corporate Secretary conceal information will be subject to reclassification, payment of all nonresident (865) 576-2206 fees owed and university discipline. Please note that a student with in-state status for tuition purposes who exceeds 125 Or you may visit the ORAU Web site at www. percent of the credit hours needed to complete his program will be assessed a tuition surcharge. VCU Health System Authority In April 1996, Gov.
George Allen signed legislation that established the Medical Rights of students under the Family Educational College of Virginia Hospitals Authority. Effective July 1, 1997, the operations, Rights and Privacy Act employees and obligations of MCV Hospitals (formerly a division of VCU) were transferred to the Authority. Three years later, in connection with legislation Pursuant to a federal statute enacted to protect the privacy rights of students signed by Gov. James Gilmore, the MCV Hospitals Authority became the Virginia (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 [FERPA], as amended, Commonwealth University Health System Authority.
The clinical activities of enacted as Section 438 of the General Education Provisions Act), eligible students MCV Hospitals, MCV Physicians and the VCU School of Medicine are now of Virginia Commonwealth University are permitted to inspect and review coordinated and integrated by and through the VCU Health System. education records of which the student is the subject. A statement of university policy concerning inspection and disclosure of education records has been The VCU Health System Authority is charged by statute with the missions of formulated in compliance with the federal statute. Copies of the policy also are operating MCV Hospitals as teaching hospitals for the benefit of the schools of the available from the Office of Records and Registration or on the Web at Health Sciences Division of VCU, providing high quality patient care and www.edu/rar/registration/ferpa.
providing a site for medical and biomedical research, all of which missions are required to be performed in close affiliation with the Health Sciences Division. Generally, the act provides that no personally identifiable information will be The VCU Vice President for Health Sciences also serves as the Chief Executive disclosed without the student’s consent, except for directory information and Officer of the VCU Health System Authority, and five VCU faculty physicians information to other school officials with a legitimate educational interest. When serve as members of the Health System Board of Directors.