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1976-1977 Wellesley Catalogue Issue Bulletin of College October 1976 1976-1977 Wellesley Catalogue Issue Bulletin of College October 1976 Volume 66, Number 2 Catalogue Issue The College reserves the right in its discretion to make fronn time to time changes affecting policies, fees, curricula, or other matters announced in this Bulletin. Bulletin published eight times a year by Wellesley College, Green Hall, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181. September, one; October, one; November, \\no; January, one; March, one; April, one; May, one. Contents Academic Calendar 1 976-77 3 The College 9 Admission 13 Financial Information 17 Student Life 25 The Campus 31 Academic Program 35 Courses of Instruction 43 Officers of Instruction 157 Administration 173 Alumnae Organization 179 Index 182 Credits: Photographs by: Foster-Bush Studio, Bradford Herzog, Lillian Kemp, Elaine Lampert, and Julie O'Neil. Printer: Rapid Service Press, Boston September 1976 30M Academic Calendar 1976-1977 First Semester 4 CORRESPONDENCE/VISITORS Correspondence Visitors President Wellesley welcomes visitors to the College. General interests of the College The administrative offices in Green Hall are open Monday through Friday, 8: 30 a.m. to Dean of the College 4: 30 p.m., and by appointment on Saturday Academic policies and programs mornings during term time. Special arrange- ments for greeting prospective students can Class Deans also be made during vacation periods. Rooms Individual students for alumnae and for parents of students or Study abroad; students from abroad prospective students are available on the campus in the Wellesley College Club and Director of Admission may be reserved by writing to the club Admission of students manager. A prospective student who wishes to arrange Financial Aid Officer an interview with a member of the profession- Financial aid; student employment; al staff of the Board of Admission should fellowships make an appointment well in advance. Student Services Student guides provide tours for visitors with- Residence; health services; counseling out previous appointment. Visitors to the College may call the Board of Admission prior Bursar to their visit to arrange a mutually convenient College fees time for the tour. Registrar Transcripts of records Director of Continuing Education Continuing education Dean of Academic Programs MIT cross-registration Exchange programs Director of Career Services Employment of graduating seniors and alumnae Vice President for Business Affairs Business matters Vice President for College Relations Internal and external publics Vice President for Resources Gifts and bequests Executive Director, Alumnae Association Alumnae interests Address Wellesley College Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181 (617)235-0320 Board of Trustees 6 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Nelson J. Darling, Jr., LL.B. Carol G. Johnson Johns, M.D. Chairman of the Board Baltimore, Maryland Swampscott, Massachusetts Howard Wesley Johnson, MA. Betty Freyhof Johnson, MA. Cambridge, Massachusetts Vice Chairman Cincinnati, Ohio Mary Gardiner Jones, LL.B. Washington, D.C. John Kenneth Spring, MBA. Treasurer Hilda Rosenbaum Kahne, Ph.D. Concord, Massachusetts Lexington, Massachusetts Betsy Ancker-Johnson, Ph.D. Mildred Lane Kemper, B.A. Washington, D.C. Kansas City, Missouri Florence Van Dyke Anderson, B.A. George Howell Kidder, LL.B. Golden, Colorado Concord, Massachusetts William M. Boyd II, Ph.D. Robert Lawrence, B.A. Concord, Massachusetts Westwood, Massachusetts Frances Clausen Chapman, B.A. Suzanne Carreau Mueller, B.A. St. Louis, Missouri New York, New York Harriet Segal Cohn, B.A. Samuel H. Proger, M.D. Brookline, Massachusetts Brookline, Massachusetts Dorothy Dann Collins, B.A. George Putnam, MBA. Dallas, Texas Manchester, Massachusetts Ann Rockefeller Coste, B.A. Rose Clymer Rumford, B.A. New York, New York Baltimore, Maryland Camilla Chandler Frost, B.A. Mary Ann Dilley Staub, B.A. Pasadena, California Winnetka, Illinois Harvey H. Guthrie, Jr., Th.D. Nancy Angell Streeter, B.A. Cambridge, Massachusetts New York, New York William E. Hartmann, B.Arch. Leah Rose Werthan, B.A. Chicago, Illinois Nashville, Tennessee Barbara Barnes Hauptfuhrer, B.A. Kathie Ann Whipple, B.A. Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania Brooklyn, New York Anne Cohen Heller, M.D. Barbara W. Newell, Ph.D., ex officio New York, New York President of Wellesley College Wellesley, Massachusetts James T. Hill, Jr., LL.B. New York, New York Nardi Reeder Campion, B.A., ex officio President of the Wellesley College Walter Hunnewell, MBA. Alumnae Association Wellesley, Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts David O. Ives, MB. A. Lincoln, Massachusetts Clerk of the Board of Trustees Doris E. Drescher, B.S. Barbara Loomis Jackson, Ed.D. Needham, Massachusetts Atlanta, Georgia BOARD OF TRUSTEES 7 Trustees Emeriti Eleanor Wallace Allen '25 Boston. Massachusetts O. Kelley Anderson Boston, Massachusetts Charles C. Cabot Dover, Massachusetts Sirarpie Der Nersessian Paris. France Byron Kauffman Elliott Boston, Massachusetts Alexander Cochrane Forbes South Dartnnouth, Massachusetts Mary Cooper Gaiser '23 Spokane, Washington Elisabeth Luce Moore '24 New York, New York Elizabeth King Morey '19 Tucson, Arizona John R. Quarles Wellesley, Massachusetts Robert Gregg Stone Dedham, Massachusetts Edward A. Weeks, Jr. Boston, Massachusetts Mary Sime West '26 Katonah, New York Henry Austin Wood Newport. Rhode Island Katharine Timberman Wright '18 Columbus, Ohio 8 PRESIDENTS Presidents Ada Howard 1875-1881 Alice Freeman Palmer 1881-1887 Helen Shafer 1887-1894 Julia Irvine 1894-1899 Caroline Hazard 1899-1910 Ellen Fitz Pendleton 1911-1936 Mildred McAfee Horton 1936-1949 Margaret Clapp 1 949-1 966 Ruth M. Adams 1966-1972 Barbara W. Newell 1972- The College J ,ii>'-w«^W"' 10 THE COLLEGE A student's years at Wellesley College are the Wellesley's faculty— of whom 58 percent are beginning — not the end— of an education. It women — bring to the College diverse aca- is an education characterized by sensitivity demic and professional interests. They are and knowledge, and by the mastery of intel- scholars as well as poets, novelists, artists, lectual skills and the growth of a discerning musicians, scientists, political and economic nnind. Above all, its aim is the wisdom to use analysts. A number live on or near the cam- knowledge to enhance one's own life and to pus, and they take part in many aspects of participate more effectively in the larger College life. community. Intellectual development at Wellesley is but- Wellesley offers this education in an environ- tressed by outstanding resources and facili- ment which takes women seriously as indi- ties. The Margaret Clapp Library has an exten- viduals, as scholars, and as leaders. sive general collection containing original source material from special collections. In Although education at Wellesley was 100 addition to the facilities of the main library, years old in 1 975, it continues to reflect the many departments have their own libraries. In goals of its founder, Henry Fowie Durant. He the sciences, facilities include laboratories, was an impassioned believer in equality for greenhouses, an observatory, and special women, who saw education as the way wom- equipment such as controlled environment en could prepare themselves for "great con- chambers, an electron microscope, and a flicts" and "vast reforms in social life." laser beam spectrophotometer. Wellesley's Wellesley College reaffirmed these early vi- physics laboratory was the second such sions in 1971 when, after seriously consider- laboratory in the country (the first was at the ing coeducation, it elected to remain a college Massachusetts Institute of Technology). A for women only. new Science Center, completed in 1976, will Throughout the years, Wellesley has encour- bring together all of the science departments, aged women to make unconventional choic- including mathematics and computer sci- es, and it continues to encourage students to ence, in a contemporary setting where inter- seek for themselves a range of options. As a disciplinary studies can be fostered. result, many Wellesley women choose to Students in the arts find excellent facilities in major in such areas as economics, mathe- the Jewett Arts Center which has a teaching matics, and the sciences and subsequently museum, libraries, practice rooms, studios, enter careers in business, law, and medicine and an auditorium. Each year the Museum —all fields which have been long dominated has several exhibitions of students' work, and by men. Jewett is also used for students' concerts and This conscious effort to provide women with a recitals. full range of career and life choices is an inte- The Wellesley curriculum is extended through gral part of Wellesley's rigorous and demand- opportunities for cross-registration with the ing academic experience. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ex- High academic standards at Wellesley are change programs, and study abroad. combined with considerable flexibility of MIT men and women come to Wellesley for choice for the individual student. There are such courses as psychology, economics, and opportunities for independent study, indi- art history. Wellesley women travel to MIT for vidually designed majors, and research. such classes as urban planning, political sci- A primary concern in the Wellesley classroom ence, and photography. Buses shuttle hourly is skills the development of analytical and along the 1 2 mile route between the two clarity of expression; to this end, most in- campuses. structors emphasize writing