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THE ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2010-2011 FIRST SEMESTER August 21-24 Orientation and Registration: New and Transfer Students August 25 Classes Begin at 8:00 A.M. August 31 Last Day to Register and Adjust Class Schedules October 11-15 Fall Break for Lakeland Day Program October 22 Mid-Term Grades Due in Registrar’s Office November 12 Final Day to Drop Courses Without an Academic Penalty November 24-26 Thanksgiving Recess for Lakeland Day Program December 10 Classes End December 13-15 Final Examinations December 18 Mid-Year Commencement December 18 Christmas Holidays Begin SECOND SEMESTER January 9 Orientation and Registration: New and Transfer Students January 10 Classes Begin at 8:00 A.M. January 14 Last Day to Register and Adjust Class Schedules January 17 Martin Luther King Day; No Classes February 25 Mid-Term Grades Due in Registrar’s Office Feb. 28 - Mar. 4 Spring Holidays for Lakeland Day Program March 24 Final Day to Drop Courses Without an Academic Penalty April 21 Classes End April 22 Good Friday Holiday April 25-27 Final Examinations April 29 Baccalaureate April 30 Commencement MAY OPTION May 2 – 30 Dates may differ depending on the particular study abroad option MAY TERM May 2 – 20 Summer Session I – a variety of engaged learning activities SUMMER SESSIONS May 2 - May 27 Summer Session II (May 13 – No Classes) May 31 - June 24 Summer Session III (May 30 – Memorial Day; No Classes) June 27 - July 22 Summer Session IV (July 4 – Independence Day; No Classes) Florida Southern College CATALOG 2010-2011 Message from the Provost For over 120 years, Florida Southern College has been educating young men and women who have gone on to serve as leaders in business, government, academia, and the arts. Today, the FSC ranks among the best private colleges in the southeastern United States. Florida Southern has always been committed to a vision of education that stresses the whole person. We seek to provide the opportunity for all of our students to grow and thrive academically, socially, morally, and spiritually. Florida Southern has recently concluded the transition to a curriculum that will continue to transform this vision into a reality fit for the demands of the 21st century. Our creative curriculum is based on a commitment to engaged learning as the key to education and is designed to provide a real-world education for success in all aspects of life. This catalog is your key to open the door to a wonderful educational experience. Our faculty are researchers, scholars, and authors, but more importantly, teachers, advisors, and mentors. All members of the Florida Southern community are here to help you develop your full potential through your college experience. World-class architecture creating a unique environment in which to learn, a talented faculty committed to teaching and mentoring, a dedicated and efficient staff – all of these assets place Florida Southern College at the forefront of higher education. On behalf of Florida Southern, I extend you our warmest welcome. – Russell G. Warren, Ph.D. Table of Contents General Information ........................................................................................ 4 Undergraduate Programs................................................................................ 9 Admissions ................................................................................................. 9 Financial Information ............................................................................... 18 Student Life .............................................................................................. 23 Academics ....................................................................................................... 27 Academic Policies .................................................................................... 28 Undergraduate Programs and Concentrations .......................................... 47 Programs of Study .................................................................................... 49 Undergraduate Degree Requirements ...................................................... 53 Undergraduate Evening Programs .......................................................... 227 Undergraduate Program Requirements ...................................................... 71 Undergraduate Course Descriptions .......................................................... 139 Graduate Programs ..................................................................................... 255 Admissions ............................................................................................. 255 Financial Information ............................................................................. 257 Academic Policies .................................................................................. 258 MBA ....................................................................................................... 261 MEd and MAT ........................................................................................ 264 MSN ....................................................................................................... 267 Graduate Course Descriptions ................................................................... 272 College Personnel ......................................................................................... 279 Board of Trustees ................................................................................... 279 Administration and Staff ........................................................................ 281 Endowed Chairs and Professorships ...................................................... 284 Honorary Chancellors ............................................................................ 286 Faculty .................................................................................................... 287 Index .............................................................................................................. 298 Calendar ................................................................................ inside front cover 4 FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE GENERAL INFORMATION College Mission Florida Southern College is committed to educational excellence and is a selective, compre- hensive, private United Methodist-affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. The college enrolls a talented student body and includes an accomplished faculty who are dedicated to teaching excellence. Outstanding opportunities for engaged learning, student- faculty collaborative research and performance, service learning, study abroad, internships and honors study are distinctive features of the academic program at Florida Southern. The college offers exceptional student life programs, including a championship athletic program. Florida Southern History at a Glance Florida Southern College—the oldest private college in the state—traces its Florida roots to 1852, when the Methodist Conference founded Florida Seminary in Micanopy. The Conference established South Florida Seminary in Orlando in 1883. In 1885, the school moved to Leesburg, the college degree was awarded, and Florida Conference College was officially chartered and opened to both male and female students. In 1901, the growing college moved to Sutherland (now Palm Harbor) on the Gulf Coast and in 1906 was renamed Southern College. The College remained at Sutherland until fires in the early 1920s forced the school temporarily to move to Clearwater Beach. In 1922, the College moved to the shores of Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland. In 1935, the Trustees adopted Florida Southern College as the corporate title. Florida Southern College Today The campus comprises some 70 buildings on 100 acres of land. Twelve of the College’s struc- tures were designed by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1940s and 1950s. Mr. Wright said his design was to have all the buildings “flow from the ground in harmony with the natural landscape.” In that functional, yet exquisite environment, they exhibit the traits that Mr. Wright intended: organic union among the earth, sunlight, and local flora. The Wright buildings include the Annie Pfeiffer Chapel, which has become an iconic symbol of the College; the Thad Buckner Adminis- tration Building; the Emile Watson Administration Building; the Benjamin Fine Administration Building; the Seminar Building (which in its original construction comprised three separate build- ings known as the Carter, Walbridge, and Hawkins Seminar Rooms); the Lucius Pond Ordway Building; the Danforth Chapel; and the Polk County Science Building, which is capped by a white-domed planetarium. The 10 Wright buildings are complemented by two other significant Wright-designed structures: the Water Dome in front of the Roux Library and the Esplanades, 1.5 miles of covered walkways that connect most of the Wright buildings. The 12 structures make up the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. The Wright campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The more traditional buildings on campus include the Allan Spivey and Joseph-Reynolds resi- dence halls for first-year women and Edge Memorial Hall, which houses classrooms and faculty offices. These date to the 1920s and are built in a conventional, brick collegiate style. Other prom- inent buildings on campus include the John Branscomb Memorial Auditorium, which seats more than 2,000; the Ludd M. Spivey Humanities and Fine Arts Center, which comprises the thrust- FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE