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General Information 4 FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE GENERAL INFORMATION College Mission Florida Southern College is committed to educational excellence and is a selective, compre- hensive, private United Methodist-affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. The college enrolls a talented student body and includes an accomplished faculty who are dedicated to teaching excellence. Outstanding opportunities for engaged learning, student- faculty collaborative research and performance, service learning, study abroad, internships and honors study are distinctive features of the academic program at Florida Southern. The college offers exceptional student life programs, including a championship athletic program. Florida Southern History at a Glance Florida Southern College—the oldest private college in the state—traces its Florida roots to 1852, when the Methodist Conference founded Florida Seminary in Micanopy. The Conference established South Florida Seminary in Orlando in 1883. In 1885, the school moved to Leesburg, the college degree was awarded, and Florida Conference College was officially chartered and opened to both male and female students. In 1901, the growing college moved to Sutherland (now Palm Harbor) on the Gulf Coast and in 1906 was renamed Southern College. The College remained at Sutherland until fires in the early 1920s forced the school temporarily to move to Clearwater Beach. In 1922, the College moved to the shores of Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland. In 1935, the Trustees adopted Florida Southern College as the corporate title. Florida Southern College Today The campus comprises some 70 buildings on 100 acres of land. Twelve of the College’s struc- tures were designed by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1940s and 1950s. Mr. Wright said his design was to have all the buildings “flow from the ground in harmony with the natural landscape.” In that functional, yet exquisite environment, they exhibit the traits that Mr. Wright intended: organic union among the earth, sunlight, and local flora. The Wright buildings include the Annie Pfeiffer Chapel, which has become an iconic symbol of the College; the Thad Buckner Adminis- tration Building; the Emile Watson Administration Building; the Benjamin Fine Administration Building; the Seminar Building (which in its original construction comprised three separate build- ings known as the Carter, Walbridge, and Hawkins Seminar Rooms); the Lucius Pond Ordway Building; the Danforth Chapel; and the Polk County Science Building, which is capped by a white-domed planetarium. The 10 Wright buildings are complemented by two other significant Wright-designed structures: the Water Dome in front of the Roux Library and the Esplanades, 1.5 miles of covered walkways that connect most of the Wright buildings. The 12 structures make up the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. The Wright campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The more traditional buildings on campus include the Allan Spivey and Joseph-Reynolds resi- dence halls for first-year women and Edge Memorial Hall, which houses classrooms and faculty offices. These date to the 1920s and are built in a conventional, brick collegiate style. Other prom- inent buildings on campus include the John Branscomb Memorial Auditorium, which seats more than 2,000; the Ludd M. Spivey Humanities and Fine Arts Center, which comprises the thrust- FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE 5 stage Buckner Theatre, music and art studios, and the Melvin Art Gallery; the Robert A. Davis Performing Arts Center; the William F. Chatlos Communication Building, which is equipped with broadcasting facilities; the Carlisle Rogers Business and Economics Building; and the Jack M. Berry Citrus Building. Completed in 1968, the Roux Library was designed by Nils Schweizer to replace Frank Lloyd Wright’s E.T. Roux Library (now the Thad Buckner Administration Building) with a larger li- brary facility. Mr. Schweizer, Mr. Wright’s on-site supervisor for several Florida Southern Col- lege buildings and a student of Mr. Wright’s, integrated many Frank Lloyd Wright themes with his own unique style. The adjacent Sarah D. and L. Kirk McKay, Jr., Archives Center, opened in 2009, houses records from the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church; Frank Lloyd Wright drawings and documents; the Lawton M. Chiles Center for Florida History; and the Florida Citrus Archives. Tûtû's Cyber Café in the Roux Library opened in 2007 and contributes to the educational and social fabric of the campus. During the 2009-10 academic year, the College opened the new Marshall and Vera Lea Rinker Technology Center, which is staffed seven days a week, and the state-of-the-art Joe K. and Al- berta Blanton Nursing Building, home to the College’s growing School of Nursing. Last year the College opened the Dr. Marcene H. and Robert E. Christoverson Humanities Building, which features contemporary classrooms, a modern language lab, film studies center, and art gallery. Student housing facilities include the architecturally revolutionary Wesley Hall and Nicholas Hall, designed by Robert A.M. Stern, a world-renowned Frank Lloyd Wright scholar and dean of the Yale School of Architecture. Other contemporary residence halls include Miller Hall, Hollis Hall, Charles Jenkins Residence Hall, Dell Residence Hall, and the Publix Charities Commons. Housing options include single, double, and suite-style occupancy. In addition, students enjoy the recently renovated dining hall – Wynee's Bistro; the Charles T. Thrift Alumni Center; the Nina B. Hollis Wellness Center; the Jackson Religion Building; and the George Jenkins Field House. Athletic fields, intramural fields, and orange trees span the campus, as do numerous outdoor gathering spaces, including the Badcock Garden, an outdoor “living room;” the more formal Glover Garden; Lynn’s Garden, an environmentally sustainable garden overlooking Lake Hollingsworth; the newly restored Willis Garden of Meditation; and the Rodda Family Plaza for outdoor classes. The Dr. Marcene H. and Robert E. Christoverson Humanities Building 6 FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE Accreditation Florida Southern College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern As- sociation of Colleges and Schools (www.sacscoc.org) to award bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097, or call 404.679.4500 for questions about the accreditation of Florida Southern College. FSC also is accredited by the University Senate of the United Methodist Church and has a State of Florida-approved program at the undergraduate level for the certification of teachers. The baccalaureate in nursing at Florida Southern College is accredited by the Commission on Col- legiate Nursing Education (www.aacn.nche.edu), and the bachelor of science degree in athletic training is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (www. caate.net). The 2011-2012 Catalog In regard to academic information, this edition of the Florida Southern Academic Catalog supersedes all others. The faculty and trustees of Florida Southern College reserve the right to change, modify, revoke, or add to the College’s academic, financial, or student requirements or regulations at any time and without prior notice. All such changes are effective at such times as the proper authorities determine and may apply not only to prospective students but also to those who already are enrolled in the College. Provisions of this Catalog do not constitute an irrevo- cable contract between any student and the College. FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE 7 Psychological Testing/Student Disability Services Psychological Testing The Psychological Testing Office evaluates the documentation sent in support of requested ac- commodations for students with protected disabilities, requests reasonable accommodations, and coordinates related services. The Psychological Testing Office also offers Interest, Personality, and Ability Tests at no additional costs to FSC students. Student Disability Services Florida Southern College adheres to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) as amended by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) in prohibiting discrimination against any “otherwise qualified” student with a disability. Although the college does not have an “Individualized” or “Special Program” for stu- dents with disabilities, appropriate case-by-case accommodations, such as extended time for tests, may be provided for students with documentation of a learning disability. It is the responsibility of the student to make his or her condition known to the College, to take the initiative in requesting desired appropriate accommodations, and to have the pertinent diagnostic tests and other profes- sional evaluations to verify the need for accommodations. Unless a student is requesting accom- modations, the student is not required to reveal the disability. Requests for disability accommodations must be made each semester, and the student must meet with their instructors to determine which of the requested accommodations can be made in each class. Documentation for the initial accommodations must have been obtained in the three years immediately prior to the request and must describe the functional limitations resulting from the disability and how the limitation impacts the ability of the student to function in the College setting. The College does not provide
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