2007-2008 Academic Catalog
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SCRIPPS COLLEGE ACADEMIC CATALOG 2007-2008 CONTENTS 3 SCRIPPS COLLEGE The Mission, The College, The Founder, The Setting, The Curriculum, La Semeuse, The Principles of Community 8 THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES Pomona College, The Claremont Graduate University, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Keck Graduate Institute, Cross-Registration 10 COURSES OF STUDY 159 COMBINED DEGREE PROGRAMS Guidelines for Programs, Business Administration, Politics and Economics, Engineering, Philosophy, Religious Studies 162 SPECIAL PROGRAMS Off-Campus Study, The European Union Center, Money Wise Women, Physical Education, Military Science, Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Certificate Program 168 STUDENT LIFE Residence Halls, Co-Curricular Opportunities, Rules and Guidelines, Services 176 REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE General Requirements, Enrollment, Discussion of Requirements, The Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Writing: Critical Analysis, Breadth of Study, Race and Ethnic Studies Requirement, Gender and Women’s Studies Requirement, Foreign Language, Mathematics, Requirements for the Major and Minor, Honors 185 ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Class Level, Course Numbering and Credit, Grading Policy, Changes in Registration, Academic Advisers, Writing Haven, Academic Freedom, Independent Study: Reading and Research, Internships, Transfer Credit, Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate, College-Level Examination Program, Class Attendance, Reading Days, Examinations, Cross-Registration, Audit of Courses, Petitioning Process, Repeating Courses, Leaves of Absence, Withdrawal from the College, Policies on Disputed Grades, Academic Dishonesty, Probation/Dismissal 195 ADMISSION First-Year Applicants, Transfer Applicants, Reentry Scholars, International Students, Mid-Year Admission, Credit by Examination, Readmission, Visiting Students, Visiting the College/Directions, Contact Information, Geographical Distribution 200 EXPENSES Comprehensive Fees, Payment Schedules, Miscellaneous Expenses and Fees, Installment Payment Plan, Refunds, Delinquent Accounts, Off-Campus Study 203 FINANCIAL AID Family Contribution, Financial Aid Package, Grants/Scholarships, Loans, Student Employment, Other Forms of Assistance, International Students, Off-Campus Study, How to Apply for Financial Aid, Financial Aid Regulations, Satisfactory Academic Progress, Financial Aid Awards, Financial Aid Disbursement, Installment Payment Plan, Revision of Award, Refunds and Repayments, Appeals, Renewal of Financial Aid Awards, Listing of Scholarships 220 RECOGNITION OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT Honors, Awards, National and International Fellowships and Awards 225 THE FACULTY 232 ADMINISTRATION 234 BOARD OF TRUSTEES 236 ALUMNAE COUNCIL 237 CAMPUS FACILITIES 239 ACADEMIC CALENDAR 241 GENERAL INFORMATION 243 INDEX 2 SCRIPPS COLLEGE The Mission “The paramount obligation of a college is to develop in its students the ability to think clearly and independently, and the ability to live confidently, courageously, and hopefully.” Ellen Browning Scripps The mission of Scripps College is to educate women to develop their intellects and talents through active participation in a community of scholars, so that as graduates they may contribute to society through public and private lives of leadership, service, integrity, and creativity. The College Scripps emphasizes a challenging core curriculum based on interdisciplinary studies in the humanities, combined with rigorous training in the disciplines, as the best possible foundation for any goals a woman may pursue. The interdisciplinary emphasis of the curriculum has always been a hallmark of a Scripps education. Because Scripps women learn to see the connections not only among academic subjects, but also among the major areas of their own lives, alumnae often remark that Scripps “prepared me for life.” From its founding in 1926 as one of the few institutions in the West dedicated to educating women for professional careers as well as personal growth, Scripps College has championed the qualities of mind and spirit described by its founder, newspaper entrepreneur and philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps. Scripps College remains a women’s college because it believes that having women at the core of its concerns provides the best environment for intellectually ambitious women to learn from a distinguished teaching faculty and from each other. Scripps aspires to be a diverse community committed to the principles of free inquiry and free expression based on mutual respect. The College chooses to remain a largely residential college of fewer than one thousand students, a scale that encourages women to participate actively in their community and to develop a sense of both personal ethics and social responsibility. Scripps cherishes its campus of uncommon beauty, a tribute to the founder’s vision that the College’s architecture and landscape should reflect and influence taste and judgment. As one of the founders of The Claremont Colleges Group Plan, Scripps is a principal contributor to the university community, which offers expanded intellectual, curricular, athletic, and social opportunities for students and faculty at each college. Scripps emphasizes high aspirations, high achievement, and personal integrity in all pursuits, and it expects students, faculty, staff, and alumnae to contribute to Scripps and to their own communities throughout their professional, social, and civic lives. Scripps believes that this form of challenging and individualized education will best prepare women for lives of confidence, courage, and hope. Adopted by the Scripps College Board of Trustees in 1996. The Founder One of the most remarkable “Scripps women” never attended Scripps—she founded it. Born in 1836 and raised on a farm in Illinois, Ellen Browning Scripps was one of the first female graduates of Knox College, Illinois, and one of the first women college students in the United States. She began her professional life in the traditional role of a schoolteacher. At the age of 37, Miss Scripps became a path-breaking journalist and publisher, joining her brothers in Detroit, where they founded the Detroit Evening News. A shrewd investor, she helped her brothers develop the business into the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain and United Press International. Miss Scripps celebrated her success with philanthropy, giving to improve the quality of life in her community and in support of education. Already in her nineties when Scripps and the undergraduate Claremont Colleges were being planned, her financial generosity laid the bricks and mortar for the first buildings of Scripps College and secured the land on which the three newest of the undergraduate Claremont Colleges would be built—Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, and Pitzer. The spiritual framework of Scripps was also established by Miss Scripps and, like the buildings, it has become the supporting framework of generations of Scripps women. As the Scripps Mission states, Ellen Browning Scripps believed that the primary obligation of a college is to educate students to be clear and independent thinkers and to live their lives with confidence, 3 courage, and hope. The Setting Modeled after the Oxford University plan of small, coordinating residential colleges with central, university-level services and graduate schools, Scripps and the four other undergraduate Claremont Colleges— Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Pomona—are the finest assembly of small, liberal arts colleges in the United States. Graduate education in Claremont is represented by the Claremont Graduate University and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences. Located at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in the city of Claremont, California (population 36,500), 35 miles east of Los Angeles, the colleges are across the street from one another and enroll nearly 5,200 undergraduates and about 2,100 graduate students. The original Scripps campus was designed by architect Gordon Kaufmann, one of the pioneers of Mediterranean Revival or “California Style” and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Scripps campus and adjoining facilities provide the intimate scale of a small women’s college with the resources of a large, coeducational university, including four libraries, three art galleries, two museums, nine performance spaces, a national model of undergraduate science facilities, a Chicano/Latino Student Affairs Center, an Office of Black Student Affairs, an Asian American Student Union, a center for international students, a full-service health and counseling center, two gymnasiums, 17 tennis courts, five swimming pools, two outdoor tracks, squash courts, an exercise room, nine newspapers, a radio station, video cameras and editing facilities, a film production studio, and multiple computer labs. The Curriculum The objective of a fine liberal education is the acquisition of skills and knowledge instrumental to one’s intellectual and emotional fulfillment and to success in whatever career one chooses. A liberal education does not teach professional or vocational knowledge so much as a comprehensive, connected understanding that can guide the use of such knowledge. Scripps develops skills—analytical, quantitative, and verbal—that are critical to any endeavor and encourages opportunities for artistic expression and aesthetic response. The College seeks to foster a passion for inquiry in each student, expecting her to reflect upon and, when appropriate, challenge