NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY ALVA, OKLAHOMA 73717 UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG 2014-2015 "Learn Today - Lead Tomorrow" Page | 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Section Page I General Information .................................................................................... 3 II Costs and Financial Aid .............................................................................. 13 III Student Personnel Services ......................................................................... 18 IV General Academic Regulations ................................................................... 27 V Advanced Standing ..................................................................................... 39 VI Pre-Professional Training ............................................................................ 42 VII Teacher Education ...................................................................................... 46 VIII Nursing Program Admission ....................................................................... 50 IX Social Work Admission .............................................................................. 53 X Business Program Admission ..................................................................... 55 XI Online Majors ............................................................................................. 57 XII Certificates .................................................................................................. 58 XIII Degree Curricula and Course Descriptions ................................................. 60 XIV Degree Curricula B.A.A.S. Degree ............................................................. 122 XV Degree Curricula B.S. in Organizational Leadership (Adult Degree Completion Program) ........................................................ 126 NOTE TO STUDENTS The catalog provides general information about Northwestern Oklahoma State University, and it summarizes important information about the university’s policies, requirements for graduation, regulations, and procedures. It is not intended to establish, nor does it establish, a contractual relationship with students. Rather, the catalog is published to provide students with information that will be helpful to them during their university careers. It is necessary in the general administration of the university to establish requirements and regulations governing the granting of degrees. Academic advisers, department chairpersons, and academic staff members are available to aid students in understanding the requirements and regulations. Students, however, are responsible for reading and understanding academic policies and procedures as well as academic course requirements. It is also the students’ ultimate responsibility to meet them. Students are encouraged to keep this catalog as a reference should questions arise. CURRICULA CHANGES Changes in curricular requirements may occur between catalog publications. Students will be informed of such changes. When this occurs, students may follow the requirements in effect at the time they entered or they may follow the changed requirements. Students must choose to follow one catalog or the other; they may not pick and choose from the various requirements outlined in two or more catalogs. Reasonable substitutions will be made for discontinued and changed courses. Announcements in the catalog concerning regulations, fees, curricula, or other matters are subject to change without notice. This catalog is current at the date of printing (summer 2014). AFFIRMATIVE ACTION COMPLIANCE STATEMENT This institution, in compliance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, and other applicable federal laws and regulations, and to the extent required by law, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, genetic information, physical or mental disability, or status as a veteran in any of its policies, practices, or procedures. This includes, but is not limited to, admissions, employment, financial aid, and educational services. Inquiries concerning the application of these programs should be made to the Dean of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, 709 Oklahoma Boulevard, Alva, OK 73717, (580) 327-8415. COST STATEMENT This publication, printed by Northwestern Oklahoma State University, is issued by the University as authorized by the Regional University System of Oklahoma. A total of 925 copies have been prepared and distributed at a cost to the taxpayers of the State of Oklahoma of $2650.72. Page | 2 SECTION I GENERAL INFORMATION HISTORY Northwestern Oklahoma State University has progressed In 1895, only two years after the opening of the Cherokee from a normal school to an institution offering advanced Outlet, the first bill to establish a normal school at Alva was levels of education for work in innumerable vocational and introduced in the territorial legislature. This first effort was professional pursuits. defeated. However, the next legislature passed Council Bill THE OKLAHOMA STATE REGIONAL (C.B.) 45 of the Fourth Regular Session of the Territorial UNIVERSITIES AND PRESIDENTS Legislative Assembly of Oklahoma, establishing the Northwest Territorial Normal School at Alva, the second Northwestern OK State Univ. ......... Dr. Janet Cunningham normal school in Oklahoma Territory. East Central University ..................... Dr. John R. Hargrave In a meeting August 28, 1897, a newly formed Board of Northeastern State University .................. Dr. Steve Turner Regents for Normal Schools named Dr. James E. Ament of Southeastern Oklahoma State Univ. ......... Dr. Larry Minks Illinois as Northwestern's first president. He and two Southwestern Oklahoma State University ... Randy Beutler teachers comprised the first faculty. Original enrollment was University of Central Oklahoma .................... Dr. Don Betz 68, but the number had reached 166 by the end of the first year. PRESIDENTS OF NORTHWESTERN From its normal school beginning, Northwestern was James E. Ament ................................................. 1897-1902 expanded into a four-year teachers college in 1919 and was T. W. Conway .................................................... 1902-1908 renamed Northwestern State Teachers College. A further major change in the nature and function of the institution Walter Lee Ross ................................................. 1908-1910 came in 1939 when the college was authorized to grant Grant B. Grumbine ............................................ 1910-1916 degrees in liberal arts as well as education. The name was J. W. Graves ...................................................... 1916-1917 changed to Northwestern State College. In 1941, a A. S. Faulkner .................................................... 1917-1919 constitutional amendment established the present Oklahoma James P. Battenberg ........................................... 1919-1928 State System of Higher Education. All state-supported colleges and universities were brought under the authority of Walter W. Parker ............................................... 1928-1933 the board in matters regarding functions, programs of study, O. E. Hatcher ..................................................... 1933-1935 standards of education, and finances. Within the framework Sabin C. Percefull (Acting President) ................ 1935-1936 of the system, the six regional state colleges, including Ernest E. Brown ................................................. 1936-1939 Northwestern, were placed directly under a Board of Chester O. Newlun ............................................. 1939-1942 Regents of Oklahoma Colleges, created by constitutional Sabin C. Percefull .............................................. 1943-1954 amendment to govern the state college segment of the educational system. A fifth-year program in teacher Luther D. Brown ................................................ 1955-1956 education leading to the degree of Master of Teaching was Jesse W. Martin ................................................. 1956-1972 begun in the summer term of 1954. The program now R. William Wygle .............................................. 1972-1975 culminates in the Master of Education degree. A Master of Joe J. Struckle .................................................... 1975-2000 Behavioral Science degree was approved in the fall of 1978. Tom J. McDaniel ............................................... 2000-2001 Effective August 16, 1974, the name Northwestern State Paul B. Beran ..................................................... 2001-2006 College was changed to Northwestern Oklahoma State Janet Cunningham ...................................................... 2006- University. In 1996, the Oklahoma State Legislature, with the approval GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and the Honorable Mary Fallin ........................................ Governor Board of Regents of Oklahoma colleges, passed legislation that created two new campuses for NWOSU, one at Enid THE OKLAHOMA STATE REGENTS FOR HIGHER and the other at Woodward. With three campuses, NWOSU EDUCATION expanded its role in the delivery of higher education to the citizens of northwest Oklahoma. NWOSU now was Dr. Glen D. Johnson, Jr., Chancellor .......... Oklahoma City authorized