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Ave Maria University Catalogue 2021-2022 5050 Ave Maria Blvd. Ave Maria, FL 34142 Telephone: (239) 280-2500 www.avemaria.edu July 2021 Ave Maria University All Rights Reserved Volume XIX, Number I 2021-2022 AMU Academic Catalogue / 2 2021-2022 AMU Academic Catalogue / 3 GREETINGS FROM AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY! ARE YOU READY FOR THE CHALLENGE? Ave Maria University is a nationally and internationally renowned Catholic, liberal arts University located in a unique community in Southwest Florida. The 2021-2022 academic year is one of new heights for the University. We have record enrollment this year as we welcome the largest incoming class ever. This group of new students also has the highest academic profile of any class in recent years. We offer exceptional career paths for our students, including many graduate school partnerships and internship programs with elite industry leaders. These opportunities, and the education our students receive, have consistently afforded our alumni a competitive advantage to obtain the best jobs or gain entry into competitive medical schools, law schools, and Ph.D. programs around the world. It is not uncommon for people to ask what makes Ave Maria University such an outstanding institution of higher learning. This letter is too short to catalogue all of the benefits of an Ave Maria University education. However, one brief response that goes to the heart of the question is this: inspired by St. John Paul II’s vision for the renewal of Catholic higher education, students at Ave Maria University are not asked to choose between the pursuit of academic and professional excellence or deepening their faith. In his great apostolic constitution on Catholic Universities, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, St. John Paul II issues a challenge to students at authentic Catholic universities: “…to pursue an education that combines excellence in humanistic and cultural development with specialized professional training… This enables them to acquire or, if they have already done so, to deepen a Christian way of life that is authentic. They should realize the responsibility of their professional life, the enthusiasm of being the trained ‘leaders’ of tomorrow, of being witnesses to Christ in whatever place they may exercise their profession” (#23). Every aspect of the university—all 31 majors, 29 minors and graduate degrees, the curriculum, faculty, student life, campus ministry, athletics—the entire campus and all of its activities are ordered towards the formation of students who will rise to meet this challenge. As AMU’s founding mission statement asserts, “…the University recognizes the importance of creating and maintaining an environment in which faith informs the life of the community and takes expression in all its programs.” How many colleges and universities can say their students are challenged—not only academically, but in so many other ways—to become the trained leaders of tomorrow by pursuing both Christian and academic excellence? This is the very core of Ave Maria University’s mission and identity: we form the leaders of tomorrow to be persons of deep faith who reach exceptional heights in their careers and fields of study. In a world that so often lacks truth, The Church, our communities, our families, and our places of work desperately need the next generation to meet this challenge. In just under two decades, Ave Maria University has become one of the finest Catholic institutions of higher learning in the world. We hope you will consider responding to the late Holy Father’s challenge by joining our vibrant, faith-filled, academic community named after the Blessed Virgin Mary and inspired by St. John Paul II. Sincerely yours in Christ, Roger Nutt, S.T.D. Interim President and Provost 2021-2022 AMU Academic Catalogue / 4 2021-2022 AMU Academic Catalogue / 5 Table of Contents Academic Calendar 2021-2022 7 I. INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INFORMATION 9 Mission Statement, History and Catholic Identity 9 Library and Technological Learning Services 11 II. ADMISSION TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 14 III. FINANCIAL INFORMATION 21 Financial Aid 22 IV. STUDENT AFFAIRS 35 V. PHILOSOPHY OF THE CURRICULUM 49 VI. UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS AND COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 52 Core Curriculum, Student Learning Goals and Outcomes, and Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science Degree, and Bachelor of Science in Nursing Requirements 52 Additional Academic Policies 57 Honors Program 71 Academic Honor Code 73 Undergraduate Majors, Minors, and Course Descriptions 78 VII. GRADUATE PROGRAMS AND COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 261 M.A. in Theology 264 Ph.D. in Theology 268 M.B.A. in Business Administration 280 VIII. DIRECTORIES 287 2021-2022 AMU Academic Catalogue / 6 Electronic Publication The electronic version of this Catalogue is the official publication. Catalogue Disclaimer Information included in this Catalogue describes as accurately as possible the course offerings, policies, procedures, regulations, and requirements of Ave Maria University. The University reserves the right to alter or change any statement contained herein without prior notice. The provisions of this Catalogue are not to be regarded as an irrevocable contract between the University and the student. Students are expected to know regulations and policies found in the current Academic Catalogue and Student Handbook. It is the student’s responsibility to inform himself or herself of degree requirements, the school calendar, critical deadlines, and the contents of all University communications received electronically, via the U.S. Postal Service, or through one’s own University mailbox. 2021-2022 AMU Academic Catalogue / 7 Academic Calendar 2021-2022 Fall Term 2021 August 18-22 Wednesday-Sunday New Undergraduate Student Orientation August 19 Thursday New incoming students may begin check-in after 9:00 a.m. August 21-22 Saturday-Sunday Returning students may begin check-in after 9:00 a.m. August 23 Monday Academic Year Begins – First Day of Classes August 27 Friday Fall Formal Academic Convocation, 5:00 p.m. August 30 Monday Last Day to Add Courses September 1 Wednesday Last Day to Drop Course September 17 Friday Constitution Day Observed – Classes in Session October 4 Monday Provisional Grade Reports Due October 7-10 Thursday-Sunday Fall Term Break-No Classes October 18-29 Monday-Friday Advising Period November 1 Monday All Saints Day-Classes in Session November 2-5 Tuesday-Friday Registration Period November 8 Monday Last Day to Withdraw from Courses with a “W” November 24-28 Wednesday-Sunday Thanksgiving Break – No Classes December 3 Friday Last Day of Classes December 4 Saturday Examination Reading Day – No Classes December 6-10 Monday-Friday Final Examinations December 8 Wednesday Immaculate Conception December 11 Saturday Grade Reports Due; All students must check-out before 12:00 p.m. (noon) Spring Term 2022 January 8 Saturday Students may check-in after 9:00 a.m. January 10 Monday First Day of Classes January 17 Monday Last Day to Add Courses January 18 Monday Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Observed – Classes in Session January 19 Wednesday Last Day to Drop Courses January 29 Saturday March for Life – Classes in Session February 21 Monday Provisional Grade Reports Due Feb. 26-Mar. 6 Saturday-Sunday Spring Break – No Classes March 14-25 Monday-Friday Advising Period March 25 Friday Feast of the Annunciation – No Classes March 28-April 1 Monday-Friday Registration Period April 6 Wednesday Last Day to Withdraw from Courses with a “W” April 14-18 Thursday-Monday Easter Break – No Classes April 18 Monday Classes resume at 5:30 p.m. on Easter Monday April 28 Thursday Last Day of Classes April 29 Friday Examination Reading Day – No Classes April 30-May 5 Saturday-Thursday Final Examinations May 2 Monday Final Grades for Seniors Due May 6 Friday Grade Reports Due; Baccalaureate Mass May 6 Friday All non-graduating students must check-out before 12:00 p.m. (noon) May 7 Saturday Commencement May 8 Sunday Graduating students must check-out by 12:00 p.m. (noon) Summer Session I, 2022 (on campus and online) May 9-10 Monday-Tuesday Introductory Days May 11 Wednesday First Day of Classes May 12 Thursday Last Day to Add Courses May 16 Monday Last Day to Drop Courses June 1 Wednesday Provisional Grades Due June 16 Thursday Last Day to Withdraw from Courses with a “W” June 25 Saturday Added Class Day June 27 Monday Last Day of Classes June 28 Tuesday Final Examinations June 29 Wednesday Grade Reports Due Summer Session II, 2022 (online) June 30 Thursday First Day of Classes July 1 Friday Last Day to Add Courses July 2 Saturday Added Class Day July 5 Tuesday Last Day to Drop Courses July 20 Wednesday Provisional Grades Due August 4 Thursday Last Day to Withdraw from Courses with a “W” August 16 Tuesday Last Day of Classes August 17 Wednesday Reading Day August 18 Thursday Final Examinations August 19 Friday Grade Reports Due 2021-2022 AMU Academic Catalogue / 8 2021-2022 AMU Academic Catalogue / 9 I. Introduction and General Information The University is a place of concourse, whither students come from every quarter for every kind of knowledge. [...] It is a place where inquiry is pushed forward, and discoveries verified and perfected, and rashness rendered innocuous, and error exposed, by the collision of mind with mind, and knowledge with knowledge. —John Henry Cardinal Newman, The Idea of a University Ave Maria University Mission Statement Founded in fidelity to Christ and His Church in response to the call of Vatican II for greater lay witness in contemporary society, Ave Maria University exists to further teaching, research, and learning at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the abiding tradition of Catholic thought in both national and international settings. The University takes as its mission the sponsorship of a liberal arts education curriculum dedicated, as articulated in the apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae, to the advancement of human culture, the promotion of dialogue between faith and reason, the formation of men and women in the intellectual and moral virtues of the Catholic faith, and to the development of professional and pre-professional programs in response to local and societal needs.