Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University Bridgewater State College Catalogs, 1960-2009 Catalogs 1974 Bridgewater State College 1974-1975 Undergraduate Catalogue Bridgewater State College Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College. (1974). Bridgewater State College 1974-1975 Undergraduate Catalogue. Retrieved from: http://vc.bridgew.edu/bsc_catalogs/23 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. I BRIDGEWATER STATE COLLEGE 1974-1975 UNDERGRADUATE CATALOGUE Behavioral Sciences Creative Arts Humanities Natural Sciences and Mathematics Professional Education Social Sciences Interdepartmental Programs Graduate and Continuing Education programs consult the Graduate Catalogi or Division of Continuing Education List of Courses. CONTENTS MAP OF THE CAMPUS Inside Front Cover ACADEMIC CALENDAR, 1974-1975 4-5 THE COLLEGE 7 ADMISSIONS 15 FINANCIAL INFORMATION 20 STUDENT SERVICES 23 STUDENT LIFE POLICIES 26 ACADEMIC POLICIES 29 ACADEMIC PROGRAMS 33 DIVISION OF BEHAVORIAL SCIENCES 41 Department of Anthropology 42 Department of Psychology 45 Department of Sociology 48 DIVISION OF CREATIVE ARTS 53 Department of Art 54 Department of Music 58 Department of Speech and Theatre 61 DIVISION OF HUMANITIES 69 Department of English 70 Department of Modern Foreign Languages 77 Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies 82 2 CONTENTS DIVISION OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS 87 Department of Biological Sciences 88 Department of Chemical Sciences 93 Department of Earth Sciences and Geography 96 Department of Mathematics 102 Department of Physics 106 DIVISION OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION Ill Department of Educational Services 113 Department of Elementary Education 116 Departments of Health and Physical Education 119 Department of Instructional Media 126 Department of Library Science 128 Department of Secondary Education 130 DIVISION OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 133 Department of Economics 134 Department of History 135 Department of Political Science 139 INTERDEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMS 141 BOARD OF TRUSTEES 144 ADMINISTRATION 145 FACULTY 148 Bridgewater State College is accredited by tiie New England Asso- ciation of Schools and Colleges, Inc. and the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and is on the Approved list of the American Chemical Society. 3 FIRST SEMESTER — 1974 SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 3 Tuesday General Faculty Meeting 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 4 Wednesday Classes Begin at 8 A.M. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 5 Thursday Late Registration — 1:00-3:00 P.M. 29 30 10 Tuesday All College Committee Meetings, 11 A.M. 17 Tuesday Fall Convocation, 11 A.M. 24 Tuesday Last Day of Drop-Add for OCTOBER Semester Courses 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 OCTOBER 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 14 Monday Columbus Day — No Classes 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 15 Tuesday Monday Class Schedule 27 28 29 30 31 25 Friday First Quarter Ends 28 Monday Veteran's Day — No Classes 29 Tuesday Second Quarter Begins NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 Friday Last day for filing 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Degree Application" — February graduates 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 14 Thursday Advanced Registration for 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Second Semester, Spring 1975, Begins 26 Tuesday Thanksgiving Recess Begins at Close of Classes DECEMBER 2 Monday Last day for filing "Degree Application" — May graduates 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2 Monday Classes Resume at 8 A.M. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 Thursday First Semester Examinations Begin 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 Thursday First Semester Examinations End 29 30 31 20 Friday Snow Day — Christmas and Intersemester Recess Begins Graduate Record Examinations, October 26 and December 14 (Lecture Hall, Conant Science Building) 4 JANUARY SECOND SEMESTER — 1975 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 JANUARY 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 Monday Classes Begin at 8 A.M. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 14 Tuesday Late Registration — 1:00-3:00 P.M. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 31 Friday Last Day of Drop-Add for 26 27 28 29 30 31 Semester Courses FEBRUARY 1 FEBRUARY I J ,? ,5 ,5 17" Monday Washington's Birthday — No Classes 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 MARCH MARCH 7 Friday Third Quarter Ends 1 10 Monday Fourth Quarter Begins 2345678 21 Friday Spring Recess Begins at 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Close of Classes 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 APRIL APRIL 1 Tuesday Last day for filing ' ~ ~ ~ 7 "Degree Application" — August graduates ^ Classes at A.M. a 1 I Q ^^ ^0 Monday Resume 8 Patriot's Classes 1? ic ic 17 iQ 10 21 Monday Day — No in i; io is i? ic 28 Monday Advanced Registration for 07 oi OQ on First Semester, Fall 1975, Begins c./ lo zy 6\} 1 9 q Wednesday Reading Day A c c 1 Q Q m ""^ Thursday Second Semester 11 19 n u 1? ifi 17 iQ iQ in ii 00 iS oa Examinations Begin 22 Thursday Second Semester ot ol 97 9fi 90 ii qT lb lb 2/ 28 29 30 31 Examinations End 24-25 Saturday-Sunday Commencement Weekend Graduate Record Examinations, April 26 (Lecture Hall, Conant Science Building) 5 THE COLLEGE Bridgewater State College, entering its 135th academic year in September of 1974, has grown into a fully accredited, internationally recognized multi-purpose institution, sharing the national tradition of providing high quality education sup- ported in large part by the state. The College today has experienced over a decade of growth unprecedented in its long history. The undergraduate student body has grown from 1,000 to 3,850 in less than a dozen years, and the academic programs now available to Bridgewater students include twenty major fields of study in the areas of Behavioral Sciences, Creative Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Professional Edu- cation, and Social Sciences. The College's faculty currently numbers 246, and the physical plant consists of eighteen major buildings, six of which were constructed within the past ten years, to provide the resources to support the increased demand. With that growth has come the College's vigorous reaffirmation of dedication to academic excellence and commitment to encouraging the broad educational pre- paration which is equally essential for making a maximum contribution to profession, community, and nation, and for developing a sound personal life. THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY The individual and distinguishing spirit that has marked Bridgewater State College's transition from a small teacher training institution to its present status is the philosophy of College Community, evolved on this campus in the early 1960's and continuously developing today. In the words of Dr. Adrian Rondileau, president of the College since 1962, College Community is explained in this manner: "Although Bridgewater State College is a rapidly growing institution in number of students, number of faculty and the extending of our buildings and grounds, it strives to be first-rate academically, rather than to be large. It also strives to retain that all-important sense of the personal touch and genuine humanness. "We of the College are not only proud of our academic excellence, but are equally proud of the sense of College Community in which students, faculty, admin- istrators, alumni, staff and parents have a feeling of belonging, and of working together for great common objectives. This is indeed unusual in this day and age, but it is much more important than it ever has been, if each student is to achieve his full educational potential. "We welcome students who are interested in these twin goals of academic excellence and a truly cooperative College Community." THE BRIDGEWATER PURPOSE Bridgewater State College is an institution dedicated to the education of students for responsible citizenship and for leadership in business, the professions, and other vocations; an education that encourages the qualities that exemplify a moral, ethical, and humane person. The educational environment is designed to stimulate Bridge- water students to explore and develop their talents most fully and to create an atmosphere that is conducive to general personal growth as well as intellectual development. It is to these purposes and objectives that the College is committed and which have inspired its graduates to make outstanding achievements and lasting contri- butions in many fields of human endeavor both in this country and abroad. THE HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE The Bridgewater story begins on a September morning in 1840 when the school opened its doors for the first time and greeted a student body that consisted of 7 THE COLLEGE twenty-one women and seven men. Regarded at best as an experiment in educa- tion, the school was one of three founded in Massachusetts to enter into what was then a new enterprise: the formal training of teachers for service in the public schools, an idea that had little widespread support at that time. As a "Normal School" Bridgewater owed its existence to the vision and per- sistence of a distinguished Boston lawyer named Horace Mann who in 1837 became the first Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. With the able assistance of such educational leaders as James G. Carter of Lancaster, the Reverend Charles Brooks of Hingham, and the Honorable Edward Dwight of Boston, Mann launched a campaign to convince the General Court of the Commonwealth to establish three normal schools for the training of teachers on a three-year trial basis.