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2008–2009 Catalog 2001 Alford Park Drive Kenosha, Wisconsin 53140-1994 2 0 0 8 – 2 0 0 9 C ATA LO G Catalog08-09cover.indd 1 8/14/08 11:56:08 AM Carthage College 2008–2009 Catalog This catalog is an educational guidebook for students at Carthage and describes the requirements for all academic programs and for graduation. It also provides information about financial aid and scholarships. The catalog sets forth regulations and faculty policies that govern academic life and acquaints students with Carthage faculty and staff. It is important that every student become familiar with the contents of the catalog. If any portion of it needs further explanation, faculty advisors and staff members are available to answer your questions. Carthage reserves the right herewith to make changes in its curriculum, regulations, tuition charges, and fees. It is the policy of Carthage and the responsibility of its administration and faculty to provide equal opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, or sexual orientation. As part of this policy, the College strongly disapproves of any or all forms of sexual harassment in the workplace, classroom, or dormitories. This policy applies to all phases of the operation of the College. Further, the College will not discriminate against any employee, applicant for employment, Carthage student, or applicant for admission because of physical or mental disability in regard to any 2001 Alford Park Drive position or activity for which the individual is qualified. The College will undertake appropriate Kenosha, Wis. 53140 activities to treat qualified disabled individuals without discrimination. (262) 551-8500 The College has been accredited continuously since 1916 by the Higher Learning Commission, Carthage Bulletin Vol. 87 North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, 30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago 2008-2009 60602-2504, 800-621-7440. pgs_i-2.indd 1 8/14/08 12:27:49 PM Campus Map Sheridan Road 1 Leonard Entranceway 16 A. F. Siebert Chapel 2 Smeds Tennis Center 17 H. F. Johnson Center for the Fine Arts 3 Women’s Varsity Softball Diamond 18 Pat Tarble Residence Hall 4 Swenson Residence Hall 19 Henry Denhart Residence Hall 5 Campus Home 20 Todd Wehr Center 6 Trinity House (Home of the President) 21 Joseph Johnson Residence Hall 7 A. W. Clausen Center for World Business 22 South Residence Hall 8 Sesquicentennial Plaza 23 The Oaks 9 David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the 24 Joan C. Potente Chapel Natural and Social Sciences 25 Art Keller Field 10 Visitor Parking 26 W. A. Seidemann Natatorium 11 Lentz Hall 27 N. E. Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center 12 Walter Fritsch Meditation Chapel 28 Tarble Arena Directions 13 Men’s Varsity Baseball diamond Take I-94 to Kenosha, exit 339 (Highway E) east to the lake. Turn right onto Highway 32 (Sheridan 14 Hedberg Library Campus Parking: Road). Drive south to campus (approx. 1 mile). 15 Kissing Rock/Evergreen Walk A, C, D, E, H, I, J, N, V ii Carthage 2008-2009 Catalog pgs_i-2.indd 2 8/14/08 12:27:53 PM Carthage College 2008–2009 Catalog CONTENTS College Overview . 2 Academic Information . .7 Academic Divisions . .15 All-College Programs . 19 Academic Departments and Programs of Study . .23 Admissions . .112 Tuition and Fees . .115 Student Financial Planning . .117 Student Affairs . 123 Faculty and Staff . 128 Adjunct / Part-Time Faculty . 155 Administration . 158 Board of Trustees . .160 Campus Buildings . .162 Registration Summary . .164 Academic Calendar . .165 Index . .166 Carthage 2008-2009 Catalog pgs_i-2.indd 3 8/20/08 12:54:39 PM College Overview College Overview Mission and Goals Religious Life The College is committed to providing a The College provides opportunities for About Carthage strong foundation in the liberal arts for all its students and faculty to explore and share Mission and Goals students, whatever their academic majors or faith perspectives. While the Christian faith career objectives. This foundation is a basis is essential to the identity and heritage of Religious Life for cultivating free men and women. With Carthage, our Lutheran tradition also grants this commitment and conviction, the College the freedom to examine other spiritual values Academic Information offers select, high-quality majors in career- and practices and to understand the wide Services oriented fields, in the disciplines of the arts, diversity of religious choices available to humanities, and sciences. students today. Accreditation The Undergraduate Degree As a college of the Christian tradition Worship services are led by the dean of affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Siebert Chapel and take place on Wednesday The Graduate Degree Church in America (ELCA), Carthage seeks mornings and Sunday evenings. These to provide opportunities for men and women services often include guest speakers and Special Programs to serve others in the world and in the student music ensembles. Catholic mass is church. led by area priests on Sunday evenings as Intercollegiate Athletics coordinated by the Catholic campus ROTC Programs The College also encourages and supports minister. Other weekly chapel programs expressions of diversity across the campus are scheduled on Monday and Friday community. Working together, students, mornings, and special events are presented at faculty, and staff create an inclusive learning various times during the school year. About Carthage environment in both curriculum and co- Carthage is a four-year, liberal arts college curricular activities. Only by experiencing The CMC (Christian Ministry Council) helps affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran and valuing diverse perspectives can students coordinate the various religious life groups Church in America. Located in Kenosha, be prepared to live in an increasingly on campus which include: Carthage Wis., a thriving city of 95,000, strategically multicultural society and global community. Undergrads Making Big Youth Activities situated midway between Chicago and (CUMBYA), the Gospel Messengers Choir, Milwaukee, the College offers the bachelor Carthage seeks to: Catholic Fellowship, Habitat For Humanity, of arts and master of education degrees. 1. Transmit the human heritage in the arts, and Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. While Carthage classes meet on the four-one-four humanities, and sciences. each group has its own specific emphasis and academic calendar. mission, they often work together in 2. Offer programs of study that permit sponsoring campus-wide events and special Founded in 1847 in Hillsboro, Ill., the mastery of a significant body of projects that reach out to our community. College later moved to the state capital, knowledge and acquisition of Springfield, and moved again in 1870, at this appropriate research techniques. The Dean of Siebert Chapel and the Catholic time to the rural, west-central city of 3. Develop the communication skills of its campus minister are here to serve the Carthage, where the College acquired its students and provide a facility for spiritual needs of the Carthage community, present name. In 1962, Carthage relocated to critical and constructive thinking. and they are available to all students and faculty regardless of denominational Kenosha, and launched an era of exciting 4. Foster a love of learning, an openness to backgrounds or faith perspectives. growth. In the decades since that move, the diverse ideas, and a commitment to College has progressed from a small school education as a lifelong process. with fewer than 500 students and financial Chapel assets of less than $3 million, to an 5. 5. Provide opportunities for worship and The Carthage community sets aside 25 institution with an enrollment exceeding proclamation of the Gospel. minutes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and 2,200 full-time students and total assets 6. 6. Enhance awareness of the need to Fridays, beginning at 10:30 a.m., for exceeding $168 million. Similar examine values in a Christian context worship, dialogue, and meditation in the A. achievements in curriculum development and and develop a personal philosophy and F. Siebert Chapel. This Chapel Series has faculty recruitment continue to advance the sense of vocation. three distinct themes. On Mondays, the academic stature of the College. 7. Prepare students for careers that offer students, faculty and staff are invited to lead opportunities for personal satisfaction discussions called Bridges To Peace. These Since moving to its new campus, Carthage and service to society. conversations explore various concepts and blended the old with the new - distinguished visions of peace from the perspectives of academic heritage with modern educational 8. Prepare students to be licensed as faith, culture, academic discipline, and facilities. Carthage offers the traditional teachers in Wisconsin and other states. personal experience. On Wednesdays, the aspects of a college experience and adds the 9. Encourage active participation as Dean of Siebert Chapel leads Morning benefits of a beautiful lakeside setting within informed and responsive citizens in Prayer, a celebration of Christ through an hour's travel time of two great seeking solutions to problems in the preaching, liturgy, prayer, and song. On metropolitan centers. The Kenosha location community, the nation, and the world. Fridays, the chapel offers an Invitation to not only makes Carthage easily accessible, Meditation and provides a safe space for 10. Serve as an intellectual, aesthetic, and but also enables students to take advantage introspection and prayer.