CURRICULUM CATALOG 2011 – 2012 CONTACT THE COLLEGE Office of Admission Kristen L. Pett phone: 937-319-6082 e-mail: [email protected] www.antiochcollege.org/admission Deadlines Early Decision Applications January 1 Office of Cooperative Education and Work Susan Eklund-Leen, Director Notification of College Decision February 1 phone: 937-319-6028 e-mail: [email protected] Acceptance of Admission February 15 fax: 937-319-6029 Regular Decision Applications February 15 Notification of College Decision April 1 Acceptance of Admission and Enrollment Deposit Due May 1 This document is current as of January 17, 2011 Photos courtesy of Antiochiana, Dennie Eagleson, Itinerant Studios, Jonathan Zimerman, Julian Sharp and Gariot Louima CURRICULUM CATALOG 2011 – 2012 © 2011 Antioch College One Morgan Place, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 www.antiochcollege.org 4 CONTENTS Introduction to Antioch College 7 History 7 Achieving Independence 9 Engagement 9 Shared Governance 9 Interdisciplinary Education 9 Mission 9 Vision 9 Honor Code 9 Academic and Work Program 10 Expected Liberal Arts Learning Outcomes 10 Individualized Learning 11 Senior Thesis/Project 11 Calendar 11 Admission and Finances 13 Qualifications 13 Application 14 Tuition and Fees 14 An Antioch Education: Guiding Principles 16 Required Course Distribution 17 Areas of Concentration and Work 19 Arts 19 Humanities 19 Sciences 21 Social Sciences 22 Language and Culture 22 Experiential Education: Work at Antioch College 27 Course Descriptions 33 Institutional Requirements 33 Global Seminars 33 Language & Culture 35 Work Portfolios 36 5 Colloquies 37 Senior Thesis/Project 39 Arts 40 Humanities 45 Sciences 52 Social Sciences 56 Glen Helen Ecology Institute 59 Academic Regulations and Information 61 Residency 61 Study and Work Sequence 61 Academic Credit, Grades and Evaluation 62 Registration 63 Satisfactory Progress toward Degree Completion 64 Transfer Credit 65 Non-Degree Seeking Students 65 International Students 65 Leaves and Withdrawals 65 Graduation 66 Student Records Policy & Directory Information 66 Organizational Chart 68 Academic Honesty Policy 69 Academic Complaint Policy 70 The Antioch College Community 73 College Governance 73 College Leadership & Curriculum Development 74 The College Presidency 74 Board Pro Tempore 74 Curriculum Development Team 75 Curriculum Consultants 76 Curriculum Advisory Councils 78 Senior College Administration 79 Appendices Campus Map 81 Academic Calendar 82 7 INTRODUCTION TO ANTIOCH COLLEGE rom a rich 160-year history, Antioch College begins again as a private, indepen- dent nonprofit liberal arts college. The College has embarked on a strategic path to become a pre-eminent liberal arts institution with a local, national and global work program. Its new curriculum will link study of the arts, humanities, sci- Fences and social sciences with problem solving and a focus on five critical human issues: energy, food, governance, health and water. Antioch College is reinventing itself at a time of ex- lege was among the first nonsectarian educational institu- ponential social, economic and technological change. tions in the United States, the first coeducational college Our enterprise is exclusively liberal arts and experiential un- in the nation to offer the same educational opportunities dergraduate education. Our objective is to prepare scholars to both men and women, and the first to appoint a wom- and adaptable critical thinkers with the creative capacity an to its faculty and to its Board of Trustees. The College and ethical bearing needed to invent solutions to the prob- was also among the first to offer African Americans equal lems facing humankind now and in the future. educational opportunities. Throughout the generations, The Antioch College curricular program will allow Antioch College faculty, students, staff and alumni have students to complete the bachelor’s degree in 15 consecu- committed themselves to important causes toward im- tive quarters, nine of which are devoted to study and six provement of the human condition. Consistent with its are devoted to work. Both four-year and three-year degree curriculum of study and work, the College has always completion plans will also be available. This first edition given equal weight to understanding theory, to engaging of the Curriculum Catalog has been written for the Col- in practice and to taking action. lege’s application to the Higher Learning Commission of In the twentieth century, Antioch College redefined the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools for liberal arts education by initiating an entrepreneurial and candidacy for accreditation as well as the Ohio Board of experiential curriculum through the development of its Regents for degree-granting authority. Antioch College ex- hallmark cooperative education program. Many of the pects to be successful with these applications. now-common elements of today’s liberal arts education – self-designed majors, study-abroad programs, interdis- HISTORY ciplinary study and portfolio evaluation – had an early A healthy democratic society requires institutions start at Antioch College. The College was also among the that act as catalysts for change and laboratories for in- first to make a commitment to community governance vention. This is a role that Antioch College has played and the authentic participation of students in institu- throughout its history; the effort to restore it is among tional decision-making. the most significant and compelling opportunities in Antioch College is perhaps as well known for its higher education today. hardships as for its contributions to the landscape of Antioch College has been a pioneering and values- higher education in America. Established at Marion, driven institution since it was founded in 1850. The Col- New York in October 1850 by the Christian Con- 8 The Class of 1857: Antioch was the first co-educational and nonsectarian college in the United States. The first graduating class included three women, who completed the same rigorous coursework as their male classmates. nexion (which is today part of the United Church of international prominence as the first liberal arts college Christ), the College was the first of its kind in American in America to apply cooperative education across its cur- history. In 1852, William Mills donated land in Yellow riculum. Morgan’s Antioch College fostered an inventive Springs to the fledgling institution. It opened its doors and entrepreneurial spirit, providing space for fledgling in the fall of 1853, and it’s twin founding principles at- industries to grow into significant, local employers. Under tracted public education pioneer Horace Mann as its Morgan’s leadership, the College also created partnerships first president. With the closing words of his 1859 com- to form far-reaching research projects in such diverse en- mencement address, Mann bestowed upon the College deavors as human development, photosynthesis and agri- a sense of mission and purpose that has carried through cultural development. its entire history: “Be ashamed to die until you have won In 1929 alumnus Hugh Taylor Birch gave the college some victory for humanity.” an 800-acre nature preserve called Glen Helen; today it en- The College has previously suffered four separate clo- compasses 1,000 acres accessible from a 25-mile network of sures in its history and even an auction of all its assets in footpaths. Its oft-emulated model of outdoor education was 1858. Although it remained quite small into the twen- established in 1955. tieth century, never graduating a class larger than 32, it Under President Algo Henderson (1936-1948) the turned out many prominent graduates. The College re- College became a laboratory for democracy, instituting organized around a plan of alternating work and study in broad-based systems of campus governance. And in 1941, 1920 under noted engineer Arthur E. Morgan, gaining The Antioch Review began publication as a political tract; 9 today it is among the more distinguished literary journals ENGAGEMENT produced in the United States. The mission statement points to “authentic social and The second half of the twentieth century saw Antioch community engagement” as essential for that vision. The College enjoy its greatest period of intellectual ferment, en- mission’s emphasis on enabling “engagement” leads to our dure some of its most significant challenges, and undergo unique and extensive program of alternating study and its most momentous changes. Beginning in 1963, the Col- work, so that every student becomes adept at both apply- lege embarked on an expansion that would see it grow to a ing theory to his or her situation and using experience in network of more than 35 campuses by 1975. With funding the community and the workplace to critique, modify and from the Rockefeller Foundation, the 1965 Antioch Pro- adapt theory as necessary. The goal closely parallels Aris- gram for Interracial Education and its student-led successor, totle’s view of practical wisdom as being achieved through New Directions, attempted the College’s most radical admis- continual applications of principles that must be adapted sions efforts to increase its cultural pluralism. Students shut and shaped to a particular context. down the campus in Yellow Springs for six weeks during the spring of 1973 when cuts in federal financial aid threatened SHARED GOVERNANCE to terminate their educations. In 1978, having developed or The mission also leads the College to provide opportu-