Graduate Program
The department is equipped with classrooms, auditoria, research laboratories, and professional quality video and film production facilities to support the graduate program.
The ACTLab is a unique international and interdisciplinary program at the hotly contested intersections where technology, art, and culture collide. The uniqueness of the ACTLab stems from the special qualities of its community and participants, the guiding vision of its directors, visiting artists and lecturers, and its students' broad spectrum of interests and projects.
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 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.
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
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.
The Center is located in CMA 3.134. Newly revamped, the center serves multiple student needs and includes the following hardware: 4 Power Macintosh 8100s, 13 Power Macintosh 7200s, 12 Power Macintosh 7100s, 16 IBM 350s, scanners, Zip drives, and SyQuest drives. Software programs include: Microsoft Office, PhotoShop, QuarkXpress, PageMaker, Illustrator, SPSS and Internet Clients. CCC is open only to Communication students M-F, 8AM-5PM; CCC is open to all UT students M-TH, 5PM-2AM, SUN noon - 11PM.
The Office of Survey Research (OSR) is located in the College of Communication. It undertakes various research projects, primarily telephone and mail surveys, as well as conducts focus groups and offers sampling, statistical analysis and questionnaire design services. Clients have included various state agencies (Department of Health, Lottery Commission) as well as private companies (AT&T, Southwestern Bell, Texas Highways Magazine, Harte-Hanks, the Gannett Foundation), along with foundation or grant-supported endeavors directed by University professors. UT classes have undertaken research projects using OSR facilities and staff expertise, and graduate students from the College sometimes work at OSR as supervisors or statistical analysts. OSR endeavors to support student-initiated research whenever it can, and has awarded small grants and offered in-kind services to help such projects.
OSR's facilities include a Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing system running on a Sun workstation for state-of-the-art random digit dial samples. The Office is fully bilingual.
Tel: (512) 471-4980 | Fax: (512) 471-0569 | Email
The Asian Studies Network Information Center (ASNIC) is managed by the Center and Department of Asian Studies at UT, offering B.A. and M.A. degrees in Asian Studies and B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees in Asian cultures and languages. ASNIC's main objective is to assist UT students, faculty members, scholars, and other Asianists in finding information on the Internet regarding Asian and Asian Studies programs.
The Center for American History is a special collections library, archive, and museum that facilitates research and sponsors programs on the historical development of the US. The Development Communication Archive is a collection consisting of books, journals, commissioned monographs, state-of-the-art reviews, project profiles, special reports, development communication newsletters, and audio/visual tapes concerning the scholarship and practice of development communication.
Tel: (512) 495-4515 | Fax: (512) 495-4542
The Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures program offers language and civilization courses pertaining to Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and Persian. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies offers courses concentrating on the Middle East but drawing upon the disciplines of history, geography, sociology, literature, government, anthropology, economics and business. Both programs offer undergraduate and graduate degrees. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies houses its own library and audiovisual collection.
Center: Tel: (512) 471-3881 | Fax: (512) 471-7834 | Email
Department: Tel: (512) 471-1365 | Fax: (512) 471-4197 | Email
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
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.
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
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
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
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