The University of Dallas is a co-educational Roman Catholic university which, despite its name, is located in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. ...

It is situated across from Texas Stadium on highways 114 and Loop 12. Undergraduate students are enrolled in the Constantin College of Liberal Arts or the College of Business. Masters and doctoral degrees are offered through Braniff Graduate School, Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies and Graduate School of Management. Texas Stadium is the home field of the National Football Leagues Dallas Cowboys. ...

The University of Dallas offers thirty-one Bachelor's of Arts majors and five Bachelor's of Science majors. Thirty three minors (which the University of Dallas refers to as Concentrations) are also available to undergraduates.

Among a number of graduate degrees the University of Dallas offers four doctorate degrees in English, Literature, Philosophy, and Politics. An array of mastoral degrees are offered: MA, MS, MM, MBA, MTS, MPM and MFA.

History

The University of Dallas (founded in 1956) is a private, Roman Catholic Diocesan university. The University was started with the assistance of the Sisters of Mary Namur and the Cistercian fathers at Our Lady of Dallas Monastery. The University of Dallas is has the Dominican fathers at St. Albert the Great Dominican Priory, Holy Trinity Seminary of the Dallas Dioceses, and the Cistercian fathers at Our Lady of Dallas. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... The Order of Cistercians (OCist) (Latin Cistercenses), otherwise Gimey or White Monks (from the colour of the habit, over which is worn a black scapular or apron) are a Catholic order of monks. ... The Order of Cistercians (OCist) (Latin Cistercenses), otherwise Gimey or White Monks (from the colour of the habit, over which is worn a black scapular or apron) are a Catholic order of monks. ...

The school is located on a 744 acre (3 km²) suburban campus in Irving, Texas, 12 miles (19 km) from downtown Dallas, and across highway 114 and Loop 12 from Texas Stadium. The slogan of the university is The Catholic University for Independent Thinkers and their mascot is "The Crusader". Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. ...      Nickname: Big D Location in the state of Texas Country United States State Texas Counties Dallas, Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall Mayor Laura Miller Area    - City 997. ... Texas Stadium is the home field of the National Football Leagues Dallas Cowboys. ...

Presidents of the University of Dallas
F. Kenneth Brasted (1956-1959)
Robert Morris (1960-1962)
Dr. Donald A. Cowan (1962-1977)
Dr. John R. Sommerfeldt (1978-1980)
Dr. Svetozar Pejovich, acting president (1980-1981)
Dr. Robert Sasseen (July 1981-December 1995)
Monsignor Milam J. Joseph (October 1996-December of 2003)
Robert Galecke, interim president (December 2003-July 2004)
Dr. Francis (Frank) Lazarus (July 2004-present)

Students

Statistics

The school is attended by 1,200 undergraduate students and 1,950 graduate students from 49 states and 18 countries; 71% of undergraduate students are Catholic. 56% of undergraduates are female. On campus residency is required of all students under 21 years of age who are not married, not a veteran of the military or who do not live with their parents in the DFW area. Tuition and fees for the 2006-07 academic year are $20,780 plus room and board of $7,332. In 2006 the University provided its students with $9 million in institutionally-funded scholarships and need-based grants.

Approximately 80% attend graduate school; over 85% of pre-med and over 90% of pre-law graduates are accepted by their first-choice professional school. There are over 40 clubs and organizations; varsity, club and intramural sports; lectures, films, exhibitions, concerts, plays; campus-wide annual celebrations.

Official Campus Life

Popular weekly events include:

• TGIT (Thank God It's Thursday) concerts in the "Rat" (Rathskellar)
• Music on the Mall (Friday afternoons, recorded music is amplified onto the mall, and students congregate)
• Rugby games (and after-game celebrations)

Yearly events that attract large numbers of current students (and alumni) include:

• Octoberfest, an outdoor festival that includes a live polka band, German food, a Beer Garden, and much polka-ing and chicken dancing
• Charity Week, 7 days of wild events organized by the current junior class (returning from their respective fall and spring sememsters in Rome). All proceeds from this student-run event (generally around $20,000) go to charities chosen by the students.
• Groundhog Day, when students and alumni drink beer all day, then head off to a concert/picnic/keg party in the woods. Formerly, the event was "undergroundhog" and was not sponsored by the college. To insure student safety, the event has come "above-ground" and it is now policed by student life, and the Irving PD.
• Mallapalooza, a play on lollapalooza, is a day in April when bands play continously while students listen, dance, buy commemorative tee shirts, and play on the inflatable games rented by the Office of Student Life.

Academics

All undergraduate students at the University of Dallas study a Core Curriculum, a series of specific courses that emphasizes the great ideas, deeds, and works of Western civilization from classical to modern times. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Great Books. ... For alternative meanings for The West in the United States, see the U.S. West and American West. ...

The core curriculum includes four class in literary tradition (Epic Poetry, Lyrical Poetry, The Play (comedy and tragedy), and The Novel); four classes in history (two American and two Western Civilization); four philosophy (Philosophy and the Ethical Life, Philosophy of Man, Philosophy of Being and a Philosophy elective); two of the same foreign language in the intermediate level or higher (modern or classical; German, French, Spanish, Italian; Latin and Greek); two theology classes (Understanding the Bible and Western Theological Tradition); two fine arts and one math, or one fine art and two maths; one course in American politics and one course in economics.

After the core curriculum, students then go on to pursue their chosen major.

Graduate studies are available in the Braniff College of Liberal Arts, the Graduate School of Management and the Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies. Students in Braniff can pursue Master of Arts degrees in English, Philosophy, Theology, Politics, American Studies and Humanities. English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics... The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David (1787) depicts the philosopher Socrates carrying out his own execution. ... Theology (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason) means reasoned discourse concerning religion, spirituality and God. ... Italic text For other uses, see Politics (disambiguation). ... American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of the United States. ... The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view. ...

The Graduate School of Management offers MBA degrees with 21 available concentrations. The Institute for Philosophical Studies offers PhD programs in Literature, Philosophy and Politics. Students in the Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies can take ministry-oriented masters degrees in Theological Studies, Religious Education, Catholic School Leadership, Catholic School Teaching, Pastoral Ministry and Theological Studies with a concentration in Biblical Theology. Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ...

Core Curriculum

The core includes reading many of the Great Books in their entirety, which include: It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Core Curriculum. ...

• The Bible
• Homer: Iliad, The Odyssey
• Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides
• Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
• Euripides: Bacchae
• Aristophanes: Frogs
• Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
• Plato: Republic, Symposium
• Aristotle: Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On the Soul, Poetics
• Virgil: Aeneid
• Livy: The History of Rome (selections)
• St. Clement: Letter to the Corinthians
• St. Ignatius: Letters to the Ephesians, Letters to the Romans
• St. Athanasius: On the Incarnation
• St. Irenaeus: Against Heresies
• St. Augustine: Confessions
• Boethius: On the Consolation of Philosophy
• Beowulf
• Einhard, Life of Charlemagne
• St. Thomas Aquinas: On Essence and Existence, Summa Theologiae (selections)
• Dante Aligheri: The Divine Comedy
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Thomas More: Utopia
• Martin Luther: The Freedom of a Christian
• John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
• William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Merchant of Venice, The Tempest
• Council of Trent (selections)
• René Descartes: Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy
• John Milton: Paradise Lost
• Immanuel Kant: Perpetual Peace
• Denis Diderot: Encyclopedie (selections)
• Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (selections)
• Thomas Jefferson: A Summary View of the Rights of British America and The Declaration of Independence
• United States Constitution
• Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison: The Federalist Papers
• Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography
• Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France
• Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
• Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
• Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches
• Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto
• Vatican I (selections)
• Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum
• Herman Melville: Moby Dick
• Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History
• Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
• Friedrich Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals, The Use and Abuse of History for Life
• Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams
• Heidegger: Introduction to Metaphysics
• George F. Kennan: American Diplomacy
• William Faulkner: Go Down, Moses
• Eli Wiesel: Night
• Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
• Vatican II: Lumen Gentium
• Pope John Paul II: Centesimus Annus

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Rome Program

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The University's 12-acre Due Santi campus, just south of Rome along the Via Appia, includes classrooms, housing, tennis courts, a swimming pool, library, amphitheatre, working vineyards and olive groves.

About 80% of students spend a semester (either the Fall or Spring, generally of the Sophomore year) studying in Rome. The program includes University-sponsored side-trips to Southern European historical locations such as Florence, Assisi, Venice, Sicily, Athens, Corinth, and Olympia. The Rome semester curriculum is carefully integrated with on-site experiences and focuses upon the history, art, and architecture of the Roman Empire, the Early Church, and Renaissance Italy.

Collegium Cantorum

Collegium Cantorum is the Latin Liturgical Choir of the University. Collegium, as the group is called, sings at Masses in Irving (in the Cistercian Abbey which borders the campus), in Dallas, and around the world. Directed by Marilyn Walker, the choir has a broad repertoire of polyphonic Mass ordinaries and motets. The Gregorian Chant Schola, a subset of the group specializing in gregorian chant, is directed by Father Ralph March, a well-known chant scholar. First Friday Masses, a Requiem Mass on November 2, and the Easter Triduum are Collegium traditions that draw in alumni from around the country to sing, and that overfill the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Dallas with listeners. Although membership ranges from 35-50 students a term, hundreds of students attend the Masses sung by Collegium in Irving and Dallas. The University does not have a music major; however, the department offers a "concentration" in music.

College of Business

B.A. Business Leadership (undergraduate business)

Graduate School of Management

The Graduate School of Management (GSM) at the University of Dallas enrolls approximately 1,600 students in its programs, which are offered in the classroom (at the Irving, Tarrant County, and Plano campuses), onsite at corporate partner locations, and online. It hosts the largest MBA program in the D/FW metroplex, and was founded in 1966 to provide practical graduate management education to working adults.

The University of Dallas and its College of Business are accredited by:

• The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)
• The International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE)
• The Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)

Degrees granted by the Graduate School of Management include:

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) (21 concentrations)
• Master of Science (MS) (4 options)
• Master of Management (MM) (post-MBA) (19 options)
• Graduate Certificates (34 options)

Concentrations available in the MBA Program are:

• Accounting
• Business Management
• Corporate Finance
• Engineering Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Financial Services
• Global Business
• Health Services Management
• Human Resource Management
• Information Assurance
• Information Technology
• IT Service Management
• Interdisciplinary
• Marketing Management
• Not-for-Profit Management
• Organization Development
• Project Management
• Sports & Entertainment Management
• Strategic Leadership
• Supply Chain Management
• Telecommunications Management

GSM Student Profile

• Female students 41%
• Male students 59%
• Average age 34
• 80% employed full-time
• Average 7-10 years of experience
• International students 20%
• 65 countries represented
• Undergraduate degrees 40% business/economics and 60% engineering/arts/sciences

Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies

The Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies (IRPS) began in 1987, offering masters degrees in theological studies (MTS) and religious education (MRE). The founders of IRPS envisaged an institute dedicated to training ministers who could respond to pastoral needs in their local Church communities. As such, IRPS has adopted a “practitioner” model program so as to integrate preparation for practical ministry with study of the more abstract elements of theology.

Graduate Programs

The Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies offers a variety of Masters degrees and graduate certificates. Graduate students can pursue Masters degrees in:

• Theological Studies (MTS)
• Religious Education (MRE)
• Catholic School Leadership (MCSL)
• Catholic School Teaching (MCST)
• Pastoral Ministry (MPM)

Graduate Certificates are also available in the same fields.

Masters classes are offered onsite at the University of Dallas main campus at Irving (Texas), and at Plano (Texas), Shreveport (Louisiana) as well as online. Onsite Classes are offered weekdays, weeknights and weekends. Online classes can be taken at any time during the week.

Biblical School

The Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies Catholic Biblical School is a four-year program of intensive study covering the entire Bible. It is Catholic in that it follows the directives of Scripture study as given in the Vatican II document, Dei Verbum (1965), and in more recent documents by the Pontifical Biblical Commission such as The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church (1993), and The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible (2002). The Biblical School is offered in both English and Spanish language. The Biblical School is taught onsite in a variety of Dallas-Fort Worth locations and online.

Online Education

Students can pursue a Masters degree or the Biblical School online. The Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies is a leading innovator in online theological education. The advanced technologies used by the Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies mean it is one of the very few Catholic masters degrees in theology that can be done entirely online, with no residential or on-site requirements.

Deacon Formation

The Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies provides the academic component of deacon formation for the dioceses of Tyler and Dallas. Deacon formation is offered in both English and Spanish language.

Adult Faith Formation

This comprehensive program is offered over four years by the Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies at the University of Dallas. The program offers college level classes for adults wanting to learn more about their faith. The program is open to people of all ages and backgrounds.

IRPS Student Body

The Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies has about 125 graduate students, 620 Biblical School students and 130 students in Adult Faith Formation and Deacon Formation programs. Most students are part-time students. On-site students come from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, surrounding parts of Texas. Online students come from all over the United States and around the world.

IRPS Faculty

The Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies has nine full-time faculty and a number of part-time faculty. All full-time faculty teaching in the IRPS Graduate program hold a PhD.

Off-Campus Education

Students can do MBA degrees on-campus or online through the Graduate School of Management (GSM). The Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies (IRPS) offers Masters degrees on-site and online. Both GSM and IRPS conduct classes in satellite campuses including Plano and Fort Worth. Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ...

Faculty

The University of Dallas has 121 full-time faculty members and 35 part-time faculty members. 90% of the faculty hold a Ph.D. or highest degree in their field. The University has a student/faculty ratio of 12:1. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Vision

The University of Dallas aspires to be recognized regionally and nationally as a premier Catholic, liberal arts school and a first-choice institution for practice-oriented, professional business education.

Mission

The University of Dallas is a Catholic institution that seeks to educate its students to develop the intellectual and moral virtues, to prepare themselves for life and work, and to become leaders in the community. Through intensive teaching, interactive discourse, and critical analysis, the university pursues truth, virtue, and wisdom in the liberal arts and professional studies.

Core Values

1. The University of Dallas is committed to the study and development of the western tradition of liberal education, and the Catholic intellectual tradition.
2. The University of Dallas understands human nature to be spiritual and physical, rational and free. It is guided by principles of learning that acknowledge transcendent standards of truth and excellence that are themselves objects of inquiry and research.
3. The University of Dallas is open to faculty and students of all faiths, and it supports their academic and religious freedom without discrimination.
4. The University of Dallas seeks to maintain the dialogue of faith and reason, while assuring the proper autonomy of each of the arts, sciences, and professions.
5. The University of Dallas promotes professional and graduate education that shares a common spirit with the liberal arts: reflecting critically on the ends governing the profession, fostering principled moral judgment, and providing the knowledge and skills requisite for professional excellence.

Additional University of Dallas Facts

• Youngest university in the 20th century to be granted a Phi Beta Kappa chapter
• Top 10 Colleges for American Values based on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s (ISI) Choosing the Right College
• The Harvard Business Review in May 2005 in an article titled, “How Business Schools Lost Their Way”, recognized the university as one of four business schools in the nation that had retained its professional focus and was an example of best practices
• The undergraduate class of 2005 contained nine Fulbright Scholars
• One percent of all MBAs in the world received their degree from UD
• Recognized by the Princeton Review for being “one of the best private school bargains in the nation” and in the top 20 for having outstanding professors
• Recognized by the Princeton Review for being one of the top 10 universities in the nation where students pray on a regular basis and students are most nostalgic for Ronald Reagan
• UD has maintained a campus in Rome, Italy for over 35 years where virtually all of its undergraduate students attend for a semester
• UD alumni are represented in over 150 countries around the world
• Third highest SAT scores in Texas for incoming freshmen behind Rice and Trinity
• First university in America to be accredited by the American Academy of Liberal Education
• The only Ph.D. program in the United States with a core curriculum in the great books
• The Fiske Guide to Colleges states that the University of Dallas is without a doubt the best Catholic-affiliated school south of Washington, D.C.
• Recognized by the Dallas Business Journal as being the number one choice for graduate management education for working adults in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex
• The National Review ranks the University of Dallas as one of the top 50 liberal arts schools in the nation
• UD is “the best Catholic College in America” with “the most demanding and rewarding…core curriculum in the country.” George Weigel, Official Biographer of John Paul II
• “Few institutions in America perform these tasks better than the Univ. of Dallas. Here the mind runs broad, deep, and high. Here truth is a high calling.” Leon Kass, Former Chair, Council on Bioethics
• Despite having an excellent academic track record for its students, the University of Dallas has had continuous financial problems for many years.
• One of the only Universities to offer a bachelor's degree in Political-philosophy and a Masters of Politics degree.
• Religious life is served by the Chapel of the Incarnation. Dedicated in 1985 the Church serves as an on campus parish that ministers to staff, faculty, administration, students and residents of Irving and surrounding communities.

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External links

• University of Dallas
• "The Dallas MBA" at the University of Dallas College of Business
• Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies, University of Dallas
• Independent Student/Alumni Forum for the University of Dallas
• The School at a glance, from USNews.com
• Info from collegeprofiles.com
• Handbook of Texas brief history
• Princeton Review