Department

The department is equipped with classrooms, auditoria, research laboratories, and professional quality video and film production facilities to support the graduate program.

RTF GRADUATE OFFICE

The Graduate Office is composed of the Graduate Advisor and Graduate Coordinator.

The Graduate Advisors are faculty members who are the overall directors of the Graduate Program within the department. Within the RTF Department, Mary Kearney currently holds this position for Media Studies, and Stuart Kelban holds this position for Media Production. These Advisors handle all formal documents and petitions for graduate students, and are available to advise students on their planned programs of study. Each semester, prior to registration, each student meets with the appropriate Graduate Advisor to review her/his program of work and plan coursework for the following semester.

The RTF Graduate Coordinator is Char Burke. She assists with questions concerning admissions, registration, degree progress and requirement checks, grade changes, fellowship and scholarship applications, travel grants, and committee changes. The Graduate Coordinator's office should be your first stop if you have any questions, and she may then direct you to the Graduate Advisor if necessary.

The Cage (Student Production Resource Center)

The Cage is the student film and video production resource center for the Department. Run by students for students, the Cage offers assistance and counseling for film and video projects. The Cage provides students with the necessary information and understanding to get their film and video projects off the ground and seen by others.

Starting with information on equipment, film and video stock and actor/actress headshots, the Cage also has lab information, industry magazines, crew lists, bulletin message boards, a website with updated information, special field trips to local labs and resource centers, guest speakers and screenings, updated festival and scholarship information, and more.

Tel: (512) 471-6657 | Fax: (512) 471-4077 | Email | Website

FlowTV

FlowTV is a critical forum on television and media culture. Flow's mission is to provide a space where researchers, teachers, students, and the public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media at the speed that media moves.

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The Velvet Light Trap

The Velvet Light Trap is a journal of film and television history and criticism. This publication has a long tradition of examining American cinema and provoking debate about central critical, theoretical and historical topics. Issues are edited by advanced graduate students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Texas at Austin, with the support of a collective editorial board of faculty members from both institutions and a national editorial advisory board. Recent and current UT issues are on "Television Histories," "Making Histories," "New Masculinities," and "Stars."

Tel: (512) 471-4531 | Fax: (512) 232-7178 | Email | Website

College of Communications

Technology Services

The Center for Telecommunication Services operates one of the largest of the nation's public radio stations, KUT-FM, and is a major national center for the production and distribution of public service radio programming through the Longhorn Radio Network. The Center also operates an extensive campus cable system providing availability of video programming, data and other informational services throughout campus.

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The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

As a leading history research center, we collect, preserve, and make available documentary and material culture evidence encompassing key themes in Texas and U.S. history. Researchers, students, and the public mine our collections for a wide range of academic, professional, and personal uses. Our collections also inspire our own projects, including books, exhibits, programs, films, and educational materials. The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History is an organized research unit and public service component of The University of Texas at Austin.

Tel: (512) 495-4692 | Fax: (512) 475-4542 Email

Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Today, the Middle Eastern Studies programs bring together more than 150 scholars in 22 departments throughout the University, who offer nearly 300 Middle East language and area studies courses each year. The core of the program lies in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, promoting specialized knowledge and public understanding of this crucial part of the world, which includes the Arab states, Iran, Israel, and Turkey.

Department: Tel: (512) 471-3881 | Fax: (512) 471-7834 | Email

Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES)

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, within the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, provides instruction in a wide range of social science disciplines and professional fields, as well as in Russian, the languages of Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Presently there are some 50 faculty members associated with the Center, representing 15 different departments at the University. The Center offers programs leading to both the BA and MA degrees.

Tel: (512) 471-7782 | Fax: (512) 471-3368 | Email

Center for Women's Studies (WGS)

The Center for Women's Studies at The University of Texas at Austin is one of more than 600 such academic programs nationwide. Its program draws on the talents of over 200 distinguished faculty from numerous departments and 14 colleges and schools. WGS at UT Austin is special among universities and colleges in its vision as a university-wide interdisciplinary program.

The core purposes and values of Women's and Gender Studies are:

To foster and inspire multi-disciplinary research and teaching that focuses on women, gender, sexuality, and feminist issues;
To support the intersections of the above with age, class, race, ethnicity, and nationality; and
To build feminist communities and publics inside and outside the university.

Undergraduate students at UT Austin may minor or concentrate in Women's and Gender Studies. Graduate students may enroll in our Master's degree program in Women's and Gender Studies or develop a WGS graduate portfolio in a specialization area of choice. Additionally, the Center sponsors numerous conferences and programs through the academic year.

Professor Janet Staiger of the Department of Radio-Television-Film is the Director of the Center and its programs.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC) is the principal rare books and manuscripts library of The University of Texas at Austin. Recognized as one of the great libraries of the world, the Ransom Center has major collections of modern British, American, and French literature and strong holdings in photography, art, music, film and theater arts. It houses approximately one million books, thirty million manuscripts, five million photographs, and over 100,000 works of art.

Tel: (512) 471-8944 | Fax: (512) 471-9646 | Email

Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS)

ILAS is the largest and oldest of the University's interdisciplinary programs. The Institute coordinates an extensive instructional program dealing with Latin American civilization and development, at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The Benson Latin American Collection houses books and documents pertaining to Latin America. Additionally, ILAS houses the Mexican Center and the Brazilian Studies office.

Tel: (512) 471-5551 | Fax: (512) 471-3090 | Email

The James A. Michener Center for Writers

Begun in September 1989, the Center (MCW) is supported by an endowment from James Michener. The Center offers events, courses and fellowships that supplement the RTF writing program, and offers an interdisciplinary MFA degree in writing (areas include: poetry, fiction, screenwriting, and playwriting). Professors, distinguished speakers, visiting writers and professionals in the fields of fiction, poetry, theatre, film and book publishing participate regularly in its academic and literary events. MCW fellowships are available to RTF graduate students in the Screenwriting Sequence. Applicants interested in the interdisciplinary MFA program in writing should contact the Center directly.

Tel: (512) 471-1601 | Fax: (512) 471-9997 | Email

Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP)

The Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) serves as the coordinating office for externally funded research projects submitted by The University of Texas at Austin. The goal of the OSP is to assist faculty and professional research staff in their efforts to secure and ensure proper stewardship of external funding.

Tel: (512) 471-6424 | Fax: (512) 471-6564 | Email

South Asia Institute

The South Asia Institute was established as part of a university initiative to promote South Asian programs, especially those pertaining to contemporary issues, across the entire university and in the larger community. As a National Resource Center for South Asia funded by A Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the institute sponsors major conferences, scholarly symposia and a weekly South Asia Seminar. The institute also provides Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships to students pursuing graduate degrees relating to South Asia in any department or school of the University.

Tel: (512) 471-3550 - Fax: (512) 471-3336 -- Email

Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute (TIPI)

The Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute was established in 1996 to provide a research-based program and forum for digital information policy initiatives. It undertakes research that has bearing on state, federal and international communication policies. Faculty from across campus are affiliated with TIPI; the Institute also maintains boards of advisors from public agencies and private telecommunications-related companies.

The Institute can be a source of research funds and research projects for graduate students in many disciplines. The interdisciplinary nature of telecommunications means that students from several different departments may work together on projects. Contact with industries and the policy community is a routine part of Institute undertakings. Current projects include a study on children's privacy issues associated with their Internet use; a comparative study of international Information Policy initiatives among industrialized countries; and a study of telecommunications infrastructure issues in Texas.

Dr. Sharon Strover currently directs the Institute. Dr. Joseph Straubhaar (RTF), Dr. Phil Doty (GSLIS), Gary Chapman (LBJ School of Public Affairs) are Associate Directors.

Tel: (512) 471-5826 | Fax: (512) 471-8500 | Email