Extending Opportunities: EVENING COURSES AND EVENING DEGREE AND CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS

For many students, responsibilities at work or at home make late afternoon or evening classes particularly convenient. The university serves these students by offering a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses from 4:00 to 10:00pm, with most scheduled to start at 6:00.

UMass Boston now has one of the largest selections of evening courses in the greater Boston area. What makes these courses unique is that they are not a separate division, but an integral part of the university. Students taking evening classes are students of UMass Boston, full members of the academic community; and evening courses are taught largely by the university’s regular, full-time faculty. The credits and degrees that evening students earn are in no way different than those earned by students attending classes during the day. All UMass Boston students have the opportunity to register for day courses, evening courses, or to combine daytime and evening study during any semester.

All the university’s colleges—Liberal Arts, Science and Mathematics, Management, Nursing and Health Sciences, Public and Community Service, and the Graduate College of Education—are represented by evening course offerings. In the programs listed below, students can complete all degree requirements through evening study alone. Most classes start after 5:00pm. Degree requirements for programs marked with an asterisk can be completed through study in courses scheduled after 4:00 pm. Certain upper level components, such as practica, student teaching, or clinical experience—required by the RN/BSN program of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences and by the Graduate College of Education’s MEd programs—must be completed during the day.

Undergraduate Degree Programs

Community Planning
Computer Science
Criminal Justice
Economics
English
Gerontology
Human Services*
Labor Studies
Legal Education Services
Management
Nursing for RNs
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology

Undergraduate Certificate Programs

Alcohol and Substance Abuse Studies*
Geographic Information Technologies
Labor Studies
Law

Graduate Degree Programs

American Studies
Business Administration
Chemistry
Computer Science
Counseling
Critical and Creative Thinking*
Dispute Resolution
Education *
Education: Adapting Curriculum Frameworks for All Learners
Educational Administration (with the exception of four required courses offered during the day in the summer)
English*
English (Composition) *
History*
History/Historical Archaeology *
Instructional Design
Leadership in Urban Schools (EdD)
Applied Linguistics
Nursing, RN to MS Accelerated Pathway
Nursing and Management
Applied Physics*
Public Affairs
Applied Sociology
School Psychology
Special Education

Graduate Certificate Programs

Critical and Creative Thinking
Dispute Resolution
Women in Politics and Public Policy

Class Schedules

Most evening classes meet once a week for two and a half hours; the rest meet twice a week for one hour and fifteen minutes. Classes take place from Monday to Thursday evening. The semester calendar for evening courses is the same as for the rest of the university.

While the majority of those attending evening classes are matriculated students or certificate students, many people enroll in one or more courses as non-degree students. Their reasons for taking courses include professional advancement, personal enrichment, or simply the desire to experience university life before applying for admission. Non-degree students are welcome at UMass Boston: they may take any course, daytime or evening, in which space is available and for which they meet program and/or course prerequisites. In addition, all the certificate programs listed here are open to non-degree students. Whatever the reasons are for enrolling in the evening courses, evening students can take full advantage of the university’s facilities for learning, research, and relaxation. For their convenience, the Offices of Admissions, Financial Aid Services, Registration and Records, as well as University Health Services, the Healey Library, the Clark Athletic Center, the Beacon Fitness Center, and UMass Boston’s cafeterias are open in the evening.

UMass Boston offers Saturday courses on campus and additional evening courses at off-campus locations through the Division of Corporate, Continuing, and Distance Education. More information about these courses can be found in the “Corporate, Continuing, and Distance Education” section of this publication, which follows.