KALAMAZOO COLLEGE 2020-2021 ACADEMIC CATALOG CONTENTS Overview College Mission Directions for Correspondence General Information Policies Honor System Academic Freedom Student Records Admissions Policies Expenses, Refund Policy, Fees Financial Aid Programs Academic Policies Study Abroad/Study Away Policies Student Life Policies Title IX Kalamazoo Curriculum The Kalamazoo Curriculum Degree Requirements List of Programs Experiential Programs Student Support and Services Academic Programs African Studies American Studies Anthropology and Sociology Arabic Art and Art History Biology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biological Physics Chemistry Chinese Classics Computer Science Community and Global Health Critical Ethnic Studies Critical Theory Concentration KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ACADEMIC CATALOG 2020-2021 October 19, 2020 East Asian Studies Economics and Business 3/2 Engineering Program English Environmental Studies Film and Media Studies French and Francophone Studies German Studies History Independent Interdisciplinary Programs Interdisciplinary Courses International and Area Studies Japanese Jewish Studies Language Courses Mathematics Music Neuroscience Philosophy Physical Education Physics Political Science Psychology Public Policy and Urban Affairs Religion Shared Passages Spanish Language and Literature Theatre Arts Women, Gender, and Sexuality Directories Board of Trustees Faculty Administration Alumni Leadership KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ACADEMIC CATALOG 2020-2021 October 19, 2020 Academic Catalog Overview College Mission The mission of Kalamazoo College is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live successfully within and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. Directions for Correspondence Requests for specific information on the following topics should be directed to the individuals named below at the following address: 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49006. The general information telephone number for the College is (269) 337-7000. For admission information, call (800) 253-3602 or (269) 337-7166. President Jorge Gonzalez Academic Affairs Danette Ifert Johnson, Provost Admission of Students Suzanne Lepley, Interim Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Advancement Karen T. Isble, Vice President for Advancement Alumni Relations Kim Aldrich, Director of Alumni Relations Business Matters Catherine Bonnes, Interim Vice President for Business and Finance Career and Professional Valerie Miller, Interim Director, Center for Career and Professional Development Development Financial Aid Becca Murphy, Interim Dean of Financial Aid Registration, Records, Nicole Kragt, Registrar and Transcripts Sarah Westfall, Vice President for Student Development and Dean of Students Student Affairs Study Abroad Margaret Wiedenhoeft, Director of the Center for International Programs General Information Kalamazoo College is fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. It is an institutional member of the American Council on Education, the College Entrance Examination Board and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The College is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA), the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA), and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. An equal opportunity employer, Kalamazoo College is committed to equal rights, equal opportunities, and equal protection under the law. The College administers its programs, activities, and services without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, height, weight, marital status, familial status, physical disability as protected by law, or sexual orientation. The College's definition of sexual orientation proscribes discrimination based on a person's heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, or gender identity, actual or presumed. Inquiries should be addressed to the Director of Human Resources, Renee Boelcke. KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ACADEMIC CATALOG 2020-2021 October 19, 2020 The Academic Catalog (http://www.kzoo.edu/catalog/) contains the most accurate information available at the time of publication. Statements contained herein are not contractual obligations, and verbal or other representations that are inconsistent with or not contained within the catalog's offerings or policies are not binding. Kalamazoo College reserves the right to change, without specific notice, offerings, policies, procedures, qualifications, fees, and other conditions. Policies Honor System The mission of Kalamazoo College is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live successfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. Members of the Kalamazoo College community come to teach, study, and work here because the College's mission and community statements correspond to their values. This community of individuals holds these values in common, despite our diversity. However, we recognize that this community is a fragile balance of cooperation, goodwill, and dependence, ever in need of renewal as new members enter it. The Honor System is a set of mutually held principles freeing us to create an environment of living and learning that will foster understanding, mutual respect, intellectual curiosity, and social commitment. We ask the members of the Kalamazoo College community to pledge themselves to creating and protecting a sense of honor in their lives, and we call upon them to act when they observe actions that are in conflict with these principles. Taking Responsibility for Personal Behavior To develop academic and social growth, we commit ourselves to free inquiry, openness to different points of view, and honesty in speech and conduct. In our attitudes and actions, we aim beyond selfishness and parochialism. Respecting Others To enhance our community, we accept responsibility for its social well-being. We commit ourselves to treat with respect those with whom we differ, to recognize the rights held by others, and to resolve conflicts. Expressions of prejudgment and prejudice are contrary to this mutual respect and prevent the fostering of community. Nurturing Independent Thought To safeguard the integrity of academic work and research, we accept responsibility for our own scholarly performance. We regard false representation of our scholarly work as unacceptable because it undermines our integrity and that of the community. We commit ourselves to knowing under what conditions scholarly research is to be conducted, the degree of collaboration allowed, and the resources to be consulted. Accepting Environmental Responsibility To maintain and improve the condition of our physical environment, we commit ourselves to the respectful and prudent stewardship of our community’s material and natural resources. Academic Freedom For its highest effectiveness, liberal learning requires an environment of free inquiry in which the whole range of human aspiration and achievement, knowledge, and culture can be subjected to searching scrutiny. Liberal learning believes that people should be free to construct and criticize without restraint of official dogmatism. Liberal learning specifically denies that if an idea is unpopular it is therefore suspect, or that if an idea is popular it is therefore true, and trusts instead in those canons of discrimination that are given in the Western tradition of historical scholarship and ethics. Standing self-consciously within this tradition of liberal learning, Kalamazoo College claims for its teachers and students the freedom to engage in the careful and critical examination of the history of ideas; the freedom to create, to hold, to advocate, and to act on behalf of ideas that express their own convictions and integrity; the freedom to engage in the controversy that an unfettered examination and expression of ideas generates; and the freedom to invite to campus representatives of points of view that are important to an informed understanding of the conflict of ideas in our own time. KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ACADEMIC CATALOG 2020-2021 October 19, 2020 Since freedom of any kind always exists within certain clearly understood boundaries, these freedoms are subject to the following limitations: 1. The freedom of individual members of the College to hold, advocate, and act on behalf of ideas does not entail the right to receive endorsement or support of those ideas from the College as a corporate body. It is understood that no one may act as a spokesman for the corporate institution who has not been expressly authorized to do so. 2. Ideas held, whether by members of the College or by its guests, may be advocated openly in order that the processes of learning and of advocacy may be served by open criticism and by counter-advocacy. 3. It is understood that both advocacy and action will avoid destruction of property and injury to the personal or intellectual rights of others. 4. It is understood that the commonly accepted prohibitions against plagiarism, slander, libel, and incitement to force or violence are in effect in the exercise of these freedoms. 5. It is understood that freedom of advocacy and action does not entail the right to violate the regulations of the College with impunity. The Board of Trustees affirms its belief in upholding academic freedom on the campus. It is convinced that the maximum educational opportunity occurs when the College preserves for all its members the right to question, to debate, to criticize, and to dissent. On the other hand, it is equally convinced that freedom is