Skidmore College Catalogue 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 Contents College Calendar ......................................................... 3 Honors............................................................ 112 History of Skidmore College ....................................... 4 Interdisciplinary .............................................. 112 Skidmore College Today ............................................. 6 International Affairs ....................................... 113 Academic Environment ............................................. 10 Law and Society ............................................. 114 Academic and Cocurricular Facilities ........................ 19 Liberal Studies ................................................ 115 Cocurricular Environment ......................................... 22 Mathematics ................................................... 123 Admission ................................................................ 29 Music .............................................................. 125 Fees and Expenses ..................................................... 34 Philosophy ...................................................... 128 Financial Aid ............................................................. 38 Physics ............................................................ 130 Academic Requirements and Regulations.................. 47 Psychology ...................................................... 131 Academic Standards and Review ............................... 51 Religious Studies ............................................ 133 Degree Programs ....................................................... 57 Social Work .................................................... 135 Sociology ........................................................ 136 Courses of Study Theater ........................................................... 139 American Studies ............................................. 58 Women’s Studies ............................................ 141 Anthropology ................................................... 61 Interdepartmental Majors ............................... 143 Art (Studio) ...................................................... 63 Self-Determined Major .................................. 146 Art History ....................................................... 66 Preparation for Professions and Affiliated ............ Programs ........................................................ 146 Asian Studies .................................................... 69 Study Abroad Programs ................................. 149 Biology ............................................................. 71 Higher Education Opportunity Program/ ............ Business.............................................................74 Economic Opportunity Program .................... 149 Chemistry ......................................................... 77 Classics ............................................................. 79 Enrollment Statistics................................................ 150 Computer Science ............................................ 80 Board of Trustees ..................................................... 151 Dance ............................................................... 82 Faculty .............................................................. 152 Economics ........................................................ 83 Administration ......................................................... 161 Education ......................................................... 85 Alumni Association.................................................. 161 English ............................................................. 88 Map of the Campus ................................................. 162 Environmental Studies ..................................... 92 Directory of Offices and Academic Departments .... 164 Exercise Science................................................ 93 Statements of Policies and Procedures ..................... 165 Foreign Languages and Literatures .................. 96 Geology .......................................................... 103 Index .............................................................. 167 Government ................................................... 105 History............................................................ 108 2 College Calendar 2000-2001 SUMMER SESSIONS 2000 May 30-June 30 ..................................................................................................................... Session I July 3-August 3 .....................................................................................................................Session II FALL SEMESTER 2000 September 3 ..................................................... Sunday...................................... New Students Arrive September 4 .................................................... Monday .............................. Returning students arrive September 6 ..................................................Wednesday .............................................. Classes begin October 9 ........................................................ Monday ............................... Yom Kippur (no classes) October 13-15 ........................................... Friday-Sunday ...................................... Family Weekend October 20 ........................................................ Friday ...................................................... Study Day November 22-26 .................................... Wednesday-Sunday............................. Thanksgiving Break December 13 ................................................Wednesday ................................................. Classes end December 14-17 ...................................... Thursday-Sunday ............................................ Study Days December 18-21 ..................................... Monday-Thursday ......................................... Final Exams December 22 .................................................... Friday ..........................................Fall Semester ends SPRING SEMESTER 2001 January 18 ...................................................... Thursday ...................................... New students arrive January 20 ....................................................... Saturday.............................. Returning students arrive January 22 ....................................................... Monday ................................................. Classes begin March 10-18 ............................................ Saturday-Sunday ......................................Spring Vacation May 1.............................................................. Tuesday .................................................... Classes end May 2-6 ................................................. Wednesday-Sunday........................................... Study Days May 7-11 .................................................. Monday-Friday ............................................ Final Exams May 12............................................................ Saturday.................................... Spring Semester ends May 12-18 ................................................ Saturday-Friday............................................Senior Week May 19............................................................ Saturday............................................ Commencement SUMMER SESSIONS 2001 May 29-June 29 ..................................................................................................................... Session I July 2-August 2 .....................................................................................................................Session II 3 History of Skidmore College An independent, liberal-arts institution with an Henry T. Moore, Skidmore’s second president, arrived enrollment of approximately 2,100 men and women, in 1925 from the chairmanship of the Dartmouth Skidmore was founded by Lucy Skidmore Scribner. College psychology department, ready to take on the challenge of developing the young college both In 1903 Mrs. Scribner, responding to what she saw as an academically and physically. His thirty-two-year absence of practical educational opportunity for women presidency brought the College to a position of in Saratoga Springs, opened the Young Women’s leadership in women’s education. Under his tenure, Industrial Club of Saratoga. With a few teachers and a academic programs were developed and refined, and an handful of promising students, she initiated classes in excellent faculty recruited. A library, infirmary, residence the fine and practical arts, which were designed to give halls, and dining halls were built, and further property young women the means to make a living while learning acquisitions allowed for enrollment growth, as old to appreciate the more aesthetic experiences in life. homes became student dormitories, and carriage houses Mrs. Scribner, who had been widowed only four years became classrooms, studios, and laboratories. Even more after her 1875 marriage to J. Blair Scribner (the eldest significant than his administrative and financial abilities son of Charles Scribner, founder of the publishing was his influence on a generation of Skidmore students company bearing his name), had arrived in Saratoga in whom he inspired to intellectual and creative achieve- 1900 from New York City hoping to improve her failing ment. The young college had grown to an enrollment