A^nes Scott College SSSwK mm • • • • • • • • • • • • • •JM •j&Ul' • . • • • • rmyOurmzmZm^ r>:«>X'X':«: • •••%••••) rf««.j »_•»•-•*•-•-,•. :4:::::::aSm c'X'X'X'M'IC'X'JfM •-•lOCOC*.::;£ •-•-••.•»3 BBK'X'I* ;^!^&X!X*X!>fe5 ••.vMvI'ft'SSSK'X-; •.•.•.v.vMvXv.*.V( '-•-•-•-•-•^•-•-.•-•. f ::!:!:!S!^:!:!:!:!:!:v •.V. .'.'.'.v.v.y ue Number/ CORRESPONDENCE Information regarding the following matters may be obtained by writing the appropriate officer at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia 30030: of Academic work students Dean of the Faculty |; Admissions Director of Admissions :^ Alumnae affairs Director of Alumnae Affairs\ Career planning Director of Career Planning Catalogues Director of Admissions t Employment referrals Director of Career Planningl Financial aid (new students] Director of Admissions i i Financial aid '' (returning students] Director of Financial Aid t Gifts and bequests Vice President for Developmen Payment of accounts Treasurer \ Public relations Director of Public Relations ? Residence and student welfare Dean of Students ] Transcripts of record Registrar \ TELEPHONE " k Area Code 404; 373-2571 (college switchboard]. 1 VISITS TO CAMPUS \ The College is located in the metropolitan Adanta area and is easill accessible to the city's airport and railway and bus terminals. It is served by several interstate highways (1-75 or 85 for most north-south traffic, an| 1-20 for east-west]. Visitors are welcome. The admissions office is located in Buttrick Ha (see map on inside back cover] and is open for appointments, except orj holidays, on Monday through Friday and on Saturday until noon. Saturday hours during June, July, and August are by appointment only. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE BULLETIN DECATUR, GEORGIA 30030 SERIES 72 APRIL 1975 NUMBER 2 Published quarterly by Agnes Scott College, Decatur. Georgia 30030. Second-class postage paid at Decatur, Georgia 30030. Agnes Scott College Bulletin Catalogue Number /1974-1975 Announcements for 1975-1976 „ , ^ 1 1 1 1 3 \ f- J \ .1** ..J', . Contents lege Calendar 5 rieral Information 7 gnes Scott College: History and Purpose he College Community uildings and Grounds mission 15 ancial information 21 ees and Expenses inancial Aid e Academic Program 29 urriculum: Organization and Administration ourses of Instruction 1975-1976 ectory 109 loard of Trustees acuity administration and Staff Register of Students lonors and Prizes lachelor of Arts Degree 1974 ilumnae Association 1975 1976 JANUARY JULY JANUARY ; S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F ; 12 3 4 12 3 4 5 1 2 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16| 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 30 31 27 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30; FEBRUARY AUGUST FEBRUARY , S M T VV T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T Fl 1 1 2 12 3 4 5 6: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 9 10 11 12 13 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 19 20; 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 23 24 25 26 27' 23 24 25 26 27 28 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 29 31 MARCH SEPTEMBER MARCH I S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 5 M T W T F 1 12 3 4 5 6 12 3 4 5 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 7 8 9 10 11 121 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 14 15 16 17 18 19 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 21 22 23 24 25 26' 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28 29 30 28 29 30 31 30 31 OCTOBER APRIL APRIL S M T W T F S s M T w T f; S M T W T F S 12 3 4 1 ZJ 12 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 4 5 6 7 8 c'J 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 11 12 13 14 15 U'l 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 18 19 20 21 22 2c;' 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 26 27 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 Sc! 27 28 29 30 NOVEMBER MAY MAY S M T W T F S S M T W T F5 S T T F S M W 1 1 12 3 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2 3 4 5 6 :i 5 6 7 8 9 4 10 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 9 10 11 12 13 l^.i 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 16 17 18 19 20 2]^. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 23 24 25 26 27 2{2 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 30 30 31 JUNE DECEMBER JUNE S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T FS 12 3 4 5 6 7 12 3 4 5 6 12 3 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 6 7 8 9 10 1:1 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 13 14 15 16 17 111! 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 21 22 23 24 2:21 29 30 28 29 30 31 27 28 29 30 College Calendar 1975 September 4 Meeting of new^ students, 7:30 p.m. September 5 Registration of new students, 9 a.m. September 8 Registration of returning students, 9 a.m. September 9 Classes begin, 8:30 a.m. Opening Convocation, 11:30 a.m. November 19 Reading Day; no classes scheduled November 20 Fall quarter examinations begin, 9 a.m. November 25 Christmas vacation begins, 4:30 p.m. 1976 January 5 Winter quarter registration January 6 Classes resumed, 8:30 a.m. March 13 Winter quarter examinations begin, 9 a.m. March 19 Spring vacation begins, 4:30 p.m. March 29 Spring quarter opens, 8:30 a.m. May 29 Spring quarter examinations begin, 9 a.m. June 2 Senior examinations end, 11:30 a.m. June 4 Spring quarter examinations end, 4:30 p.m. June 6 Baccalaureate service, 11 a.m. Eighty-seventh Commencement, 6:30 p.m. '%.~~ •lEPP^ J 4 General Information Agnes Scott College Agnes Scott is an independent liberal arts college for women and ffers courses leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree. Faculty and tudents are selected without regard to race or religious preference. The College is located in Decatur, Georgia, a part of the greater letropolitan Atlanta area. Permanent assets of the College amount 3 more than $52,000,000 of which more than $40,000,000 [book value] 5 in endowment. Proximity to Atlanta makes available to students and faculty the conomic, cultural, social, intellectual, and recreational advantages f a large and progressive metropolitan center. Founded in 1889 as Decatur Female Seminary, the College first History ffered work of grammar school level. In 1890 it was renamed Agnes cott Institute in honor of the mother of the founder. Colonel George /. Scott, and within ten years was accredited as a secondary school. 1 1906, the Institute was chartered as Agnes Scott College, and .gnes Scott Academy [discontinued in 1913) was organized to offer reparatory work. The first degrees of the College were conferred 1 lune of 1906. In 1907 Agnes Scott became the first college in Georgia to hold lembership in the regional accrediting agency, the Southern Asso- lation of Colleges and Schools, and in 1920 it was placed on the pproved list of the Association of American Universities. In 1926 it ecame the second institution in Georgia to be granted a charter by le United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. The College is also a charter lember of the American Association of University Women and of le Southern University Conference. Agnes Scott was founded by Presbyterians and has an affiliate dationship with the Presbyterian Church in the United States, but as never been controlled or supported by it. The College is con- oiled by a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees. The four presidents of the College have been Frank Henry Gaines 889-1923); James Ross McCain [1923-1951]; Wallace McPherson Al- on [1951-1973); and Marvin Banks Perry, Jr. [1973- ]. In a rapidly changing world of increasing mechanization and Purpose )mplexity, Agnes Scott College continues to put its faith in the life the : mind and the spirit and in the liberating power of knowledge. Agnes Scott College As a liberal arts college for undergraduate women, the purpose! the College is: (1.) to help the student gain a basic acquaintance with each of thi' broad areas of knowledge— the humanities, natural sciences a mathematics, and social sciences— and competence in some pi ticular phase of one area; i (2.] to develop through such study those qualities of mind— ai.