University of Texas at Dallas academic programs


The University of Texas at Dallas is a public research university in the University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Dallas main campus is located in Richardson, Texas.
The University of Texas at Dallas offers over 145 academic programs across its eight schools including, 53 baccalaureate programs, 62 masters programs and 30 doctoral programs and hosts more than 50 research centers and institutes. The school also offers 30 undergraduate and graduate certificates. With a number of interdisciplinary degree programs, its curriculum is designed to allow study that crosses traditional disciplinary lines and to enable students to participate in collaborative research labs.
The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science launched the first accredited telecommunications engineering degree in the U.S. and is one of only a handful of institutions offering a degree in software engineering. The Bioengineering department offers MS and PhD degrees in biomedical engineering in conjunction with programs at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the University of Texas at Arlington. Dual degrees offered at UTD include M.S. Electrical Engineering degree in combination with an MBA in management, Molecular Biology and Business Administration B.S., and Molecular Biology and Criminology B.S.. Geospatial Information Sciences is jointly offered with the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and with the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, which administers the degree. UT Dallas is the fourth university in the nation to have received an accreditation for a Geospatial Intelligence certificate. The Geospatial Intelligence Certificate is backed by the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. The university is designated a National Center of Academic Excellence and a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research for the academic years 2008–2013 by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security.

School of Arts and Humanities

The School of Arts and Humanities was established in 1975. Courses are offered in literature, foreign languages, history, philosophy, music, dance, drama, film, and visual arts. With the integration of the arts and humanities and interdisciplinary education the school has no conventional departments. Its curriculum allows study that crosses traditional disciplinary lines.

Centers and institutes

The newest of UT Dallas’ schools, the , authorized by the UT System Board of Regents in . The school originated as a joint venture between the School of Arts and Humanities and the Computer Science program in the Erik Jonnson School of Engineering. Embraced by students and faculty alike, the dynamic growth of led to the creation of the new school, making it the first comprehensive academic program designed to merge computer science and engineering with creative arts and humanities.
Housed in the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology building, ATEC fosters connections that encourage students to try, learn, and grow. The 155,000-square-foot building was designed by STUDIOS Architecture – the same firm that designed Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
The footprint of the building is designed around cluster concepts allowing thinkers to gather and work. ATEC classrooms, research labs, and makerspace studios support new ways of collaboration for a community immersed in innovative practices.
ATEC appointed the inaugural dean in . Balsamo is a scholar, educator, entrepreneur, and designer of new media whose research and interactive projects explore the cultural possibilities of emergent technologies. Under Balsamo’s leadership, ATEC is a multidisciplinary academic research school that inspires students, faculty, staff, colleagues, and the public to think critically and creatively about the relationship between technology and culture. ATEC’s leading-edge draw inspiration from the creative disciplines of science, technology, art, engineering, and management. ATEC faculty and students in their imagination, research, and creative practice.

Academics

At the undergraduate level, ATEC students choose an of study in one of the following areas: Animation, Design and Creative Production, Game Design, and Critical Media Studies. At the graduate level ATEC offers a program, a program, and a program.

Rankings

ATEC continues to rank among the nation’s top programs for both at the graduate and undergraduate level. ATEC at UT Dallas ranked 18th in the 2020 ' Top 50 Game Design Schools and Colleges in the US. ATEC’s graduate program in Game Design was ranked 13th and the undergraduate program in Game Design ranked 19th in ' 2020 list of Top Game Design Schools in the US. The ATEC program ranked No. 2 in Texas, No. 3 in the Southwest, and No. 12 among US public schools for animation by the in 2020.

Research Labs and Creative Practice Studios

ATEC’s foster collaboration across disciplines. Faculty and students are encouraged to identify new horizons of research and creativity.
The School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences opened in 1963 and is housed in Green Hall on the main campus of the University of Texas at Dallas and in the Callier Center for Communication Disorders. The 2012 US News & World Report ranked the university's graduate audiology program 3rd in the nation and its graduate speech-pathology program 11th in the nation.

Centers and institutes

The School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences offers courses and programs in criminology, economics, geography and geospatial sciences, political science, public affairs, public policy and political economy, and sociology. UTD became the first university in Texas to implement a PhD Criminology program on October 26, 2006, when its program was approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The EPPS program was the first from Texas admitted to the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and offered the first master of science in geospatial information sciences in Texas. UTD is one of four universities offering the Geospatial Information Sciences certificate. The Geospatial Intelligence Certificate is backed by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, a collection of many organizations including Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and GeoEye. UT Dallas’ Geography and Geospatial Sciences program ranked 16th nationally and first in Texas by Academic Analytics of Stony Brook, N.Y. In a 2012 study, assessing the academic impact of publications, the UT Dallas criminology program was ranked fifth best in the world. The findings were published in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

Centers and institutes

The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science opened in 1986 and houses the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments as well as UTD's Computer Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Software Engineering, and Telecommunications Engineering programs. In 2002 the UTD Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science was the first in the United States to offer an ABET-accredited B.S. degree in telecommunications engineering and is one of only a handful of institutions offering a degree in software engineering. The Bioengineering department offers MS and PhD degrees in biomedical engineering in conjunction with programs at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the University of Texas at Arlington. UT Dallas undergraduate programs in engineering have emerged in U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings placing 60th among the nation’s public schools of engineering. The school’s graduate program U.S. News ranked 46th among public graduate schools of engineering and third among publicly funded schools in Texas. The school’s electrical engineering graduate program ranked 38th among comparable programs at other public universities and the graduate program in computer science is among the top 50 such programs at public universities. The school is developing new programs in bioengineering, chemical engineering, and systems engineering. The school is designated a National Center of Academic Excellence and a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research for the academic years 2008–2013 by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security.

Centers and institutes

The School of Interdisciplinary Studies, formerly The School of General Studies, provides interdisciplinary programs encouraging students to understand and integrate the liberal arts and sciences. The school offers a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies, Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Studies and Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Naveen Jindal School of Management

opened in 1975 and was renamed to the Naveen Jindal School of Management on October 7, 2011, after alumnus Naveen Jindal donated $15 million to the business school. The school is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. UTD's undergraduate business programs ranked 81st overall and 39th among public university business schools in the U.S. according to BusinessWeek's 2010 rankings and ranked 30th in overall student satisfaction The Bloomberg BusinessWeek public universities rankings of undergraduate programs by specialty placed the UTD school of management 10th in both accounting and business law, 1st in teaching of quantitative methods, 3rd in teaching of calculus and sustainability concepts, 6th in financial management, 7th in ethics and 9th in corporate strategy course work. The 2010 U.S. News and World Report ranks the Full-Time MBA program among the top 50 in the nation, 24th among the nation’s public universities and 3rd for public school programs in the state of Texas. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2009, ranked the UTD Executive MBA program "top ranked" at 22 globally and the Professional Part-Time MBA program in the top 25 nationally. The Wall Street Journal ranked UTD's Executive MBA program 6th in the nation by ROI and the 2009 Financial Times rankings placed UTD's Executive MBA program 1st for public universities in Texas and 51 globally. In 2015 the Full-Time MBA and Professional MBA programs at the UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management have been ranked at number 42 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek. In the 2018 Best B-School by Bloomberg, The Jindal School sits at number 43

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The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics offers both graduate and undergraduate programs in Biology and Molecular Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Geosciences, Mathematical Sciences, and Physics, and a graduate program in Science Education. Undergraduate and post-baccalaureate programs in teacher certification are administratively housed in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics but serve other schools as well.

Centers and institutes

Modeled after UT Austin's teacher preparatory program, UTeach Dallas, in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, addresses the current national deficit of qualified math, science, and computer science teachers, as well as K-12 students' lack of interest in the STEM fields.

GEMS Center

Gateways to Excellence in Math and Science Center is part of the Office of Student Success and Assessment and portal to educational enhancement and educational success.

Honors

Collegium V is the selective honors and enrichment program of the University of Texas at Dallas.

CentralTrak: The UT Dallas Artist Residency (Closed)

CentralTrak closed in June 2017 due to a lease cancellation. A new permanent home for the Artist Residency has not been announced.
The CentralTrak residency program for artists in the city of Dallas was founded in 2002, by former McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art and current University of Texas at Dallas faculty member Dr. Richard Brettell. Originally the South Side Artist Residency, co-founded by developer Jack Matthews, CentralTrak is now a program connected to and supported by the University of Texas at Dallas Arts and Humanities department.
CentralTrak is located in Exposition Park in the old Fair Park post office building in Dallas, Texas near the historical Dallas arts and music neighborhood, Deep Ellum. It offers living work spaces for eight artists and contains a gallery which regularly hosts solo and group exhibitions, lectures, and performances. CentralTrak is known for showcasing contemporary visual art, but also is used as a space for experimental music and other art forms. It was recently listed as one of the best contemporary art galleries in Dallas by Glasstire. It will be host for the Texas Biennial in the fall of 2013.
Past directors have been Karen Weiner, Charissa Terranova, and Kate Sheerin. Heyd Fontenot is the current director, taking over for Kate Sheerin in 2011.
Before becoming the current Director of CentralTrak, Heyd Fontenot co-curated the Gun and Knife Show in 2011. This exhibition focused on violence in America and the fetishization of weapons.
On January 18, 2013, CentralTrak opened the two-person exhibition "Painting of All Excuses", featuring Cuban artists Raul Cordero and Michael "El Pollo" Pérez. Both artists were represented in the 2012 Havana Bienniale.

History

As the precursor to CentralTrak, the SouthSide Artist Residency began as an experiment located in the middle of a burgeoning arts scene; with ten loft-studios reserved for artists in a former Sears distribution center, Jack Matthews transformed the building into a center for creative living and working. His collaboration with the University of Texas at Dallas' School of Arts and Humanities provided national and international artists with a residency fellowship funded by small grants, as well as the participation of the artists themselves, most of whom transported themselves to Texas from Argentina, France, and Austria, among others. With inspiration from critically acclaimed programs such as the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas and the CORE Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the residency lasted for a little over two years, ending over a disagreement between Matthews and the university. However, the residency reimagined itself as CentralTrak in early 2008 with support from the university and Dr. Terranova as its inaugural director.

Notable exhibits