Florida Southern College CATALOG 2005-2006 Message from the Vice President for Academic Affairs: Florida Southern College ranks among the best private institutions in the South. For over 120 years, the college has educated the nation’s lawyers, doctors, teachers, military officers, business leaders, and researchers. The college takes its charge very seriously. Florida Southern is a vibrant academic community. At FSC, students and faculty are committed to educational excellence, collaborative research, creative endeavors, and active learning. Whether you are in class, in the cafeteria, in your residence hall, or in the corridors of one of the classroom buildings, you will feel the energy that makes Florida Southern what it is. You will also understand our relationship with the greater Lakeland community through volunteerism and service learning. This summer, students researched crystal engineering, poinsettia cultivation, computer applications for pre-school youngsters, and environmental issues. Students and their faculty advisors have presented at regional and national conferences, and their results have been widely disseminated. Individually, faculty members publish books and articles, serve as expert witnesses at the state and national level, serve on panels to create and grade CLEP and AP tests, exhibit in galleries throughout the country, compose works of music, fiction, and poetry, and record them as well. At Florida Southern College, we live in a wonderfully literate age; we live in a world of images, sounds, texts, and experiences. We believe in discovering cultures that are not ours and ideas that push our limits. Author Anne Fadiman may have said it best when she wrote: “I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where the edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.”1 We will lead you to discover and to learn. Connect, achieve, succeed at Florida Southern College. --Susan P. Conner, Ph.D. _____________ 1 Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (New York, 1997), viii2. 2 Table of Contents Introducing Florida Southern College . 4 General Information ..................................................................................... 4 Accreditation and Policies…………………………………………….......... 6 The Undergraduate Program . 7 Admissions………………………………………………………………..... 8 Expenses……………………………………………………………….….... 15 Financial Aid…………………………………………………………..…..... 19 Student Life………………………………………………………….……... 20 The Educational Program. .. 25 List of Undergraduate Programs and Majors…………….......…………….. 25 Academic Regulations...……………………………………....…....………. 26 Academic Performance Requirements….……………………......…………. 31 Academic Integrity....………………………………………......…………… 34 Programs of Study (majors, minors, pre-professional)................................. 35 Honors Program……………………………………………………..……… 38 Study Abroad…….……………………………………………….….……... 39 General Education and Degree Requirements…………………….......……. 42 The Evening Program. 46 Lakeland, Orlando, Ocala………………………………………....………… 46 . The Graduate Program. .. 47 Admissions………………………………………………………………..... 47 Expenses…………………………………………………………….….…… 49 Academic Policies and Performance Requirements…………………........… 51 MBA………………………………………………………………….…….. 53 MEd and MAT……………………………………………………..………. 57 MS in Nursing………………………………………………………..…….. 61 Undergraduate Program and Course Descriptions . 66 Graduate Course Descriptions. .. 149 Directory. 157 Board of Trustees……………………………………...…………………… 157 Administration and Staff………………………………....………………… 159 The Faculty.................................................................................................. 164 Index . 174 Calendar. .inside front cover 3 Florida Southern College College mission Florida Southern College is committed to educational excellence and is a selective, comprehensive, private United Methodist college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. The college enrolls a talented student body and includes an accomplished faculty who are dedicated to teaching excellence. Outstanding opportunities for interdisciplinary learning, student-faculty collaborative research and performance, service learning, study abroad, and honors study are distinctive features of the academic program at Florida Southern. The college offers exceptional student life programs, including a championship athletic program. Florida Southern history at a glance Florida Southern--the oldest private college in Florida--has been affiliated with the Meth- odist Church since it started in 1883 in Orlando as South Florida Institute (SFI). Soon after- ward, SFI moved to Leesburg under the sponsorship of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. A college curriculum was added in 1885, and the college was opened to both male and female students, highly unusual in that era. In 1901, the growing college moved to Sutherland (now Palm Harbor) on the Gulf coast and in 1906 was renamed Southern College. The college remained at Sutherland until fires in the early 1920s forced the school temporarily to move to Clearwater Beach. Then in 1922, the college moved from Clearwater Beach to the shores of Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland. In 1935, the Trustees adopted Florida Southern College as the corporate title. For over 120 years, Florida United Methodists have assisted enthusiastically in support- ing Florida Southern, as well as other educational institutions. Florida Southern College today The present campus is composed of some 50 buildings on 100 acres of land. The highlights of the campus are the twelve structures designed by master architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. In the 1940s and 1950s, Wright said his design was to have all the buildings "flow from the ground in harmony with the natural landscape." In that functional, yet exquisite, environment they exhibit the traits that Wright intended: organic union among the earth, sunlight, and local flora. The Wright buildings include the Annie Pfeiffer Chapel--which has become the ‘trademark’ of Florida Southern; the Thad Buckner Administration Building; the Emile Watson Administration Building; the Benjamin Fine Ad- ministration Building; the Seminar Building (which in its original construction was comprised of three separate buildings known as the Carter, Walbridge, and Hawkins Seminar Rooms); the Lucius Pond Ordway Building; the Danforth Chapel; and the Polk County Science Building capped by the white-domed planetarium. The ten Wright buildings are complemented by two other significant Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structures: the Wall Plaza and Water Dome in front of the Roux Library and the esplanades that connect most of the Wright buildings. The twelve Frank Lloyd Wright structures make up the largest Frank Lloyd Wright collec- tion in the world. The group--as a whole--has been admitted to the National Register of Historic Places, allowing Florida Southern to preserve forever what Wright described as “the first uniquely American campus.” 4 The more traditional buildings include Allan Spivey and Joseph Reynolds residence halls for first-year women and Edge Memorial Hall, housing classrooms and offices for the Religion/ Philosophy and Education Departments. These date back to the 1920s and are in conventional, brick collegiate style. The newer buildings on campus include the John Branscomb Memorial Auditorium, seating over 1800; the Ludd M. Spivey Humanities and Fine Arts Center with the 356-seat, thrust-stage Buckner Theatre as well as art and music studios; the William F. Chatlos Communication Building equipped with broadcasting facilities; the Carlisle Rogers Business and Economics Building; and the Jack M. Berry Citrus Building. Completed in 1968, the Roux Library was designed by Nils Schweizer to replace Frank Lloyd Wright’s E.T. Roux Library, presently the Thad Buckner Administration Building, with a larger library facility. Schweizer, Frank Lloyd Wright’s on-site supervisor for several Florida Southern College buildings and a student of Wright at Taliesin, integrated many Frank Lloyd Wright themes with his own unique style. The Roux Library was remodeled in 1998 and continues to play a central role in supporting the college’s educational programs. A newer addition to the campus is the Robert A. Davis Performing Arts Center. The Polk Science Building has undergone major renovations in the past decade, and at the Planetarium a new Spitz instrument brightens the skies for FSC students and the community. In fall 2001, the Honeyman Pavilion opened as an enclosed entrance to Branscomb Auditorium and a location for selected special events. Student housing facilities, including Miller Hall which opened in February 2004, Hollis Hall, the Charles Jenkins Residence Hall, the Dell Residence Hall, the Joseph Reynolds Residence Hall, the Allan Spivey Residence Hall, Panhellenic, and the Publix Charities Com- mons, allow for a population of approximately 1,360 students in residence. Housing options include single, double, and suite style occupancy. In addition, students use the Herbert E. Wolfe Cafeteria Building, the Charles T. Thrift Alumni Center, the Nina B. Hollis Wellness Center, the Jackson Religion Building, and the George Jenkins Field House. Athletic fields, intramural fields, and orange groves span the campus. 5 Accreditation Florida Southern College is accredited