SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA OF MINNESOTA UNIVERSITY SAINT MARY’S WINONA CAMPUS 700 Terrace Heights #2 Winona, MN 55987-1399 USA 800-635-5987 • 507-452-4430 • www.smumn.edu/admission Undergraduate Catalog WINONA • UNDERGRADUATE l 2013-2015 Catalog 2013-2015 www.smumn.edu SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Undergraduate College Catalog Winona Campus 2013–2015 This catalog contains information relating to “the College,” which offers the Bachelor of Arts program and the co-curricular undergraduate experience at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. The program of study is based in the liberal arts and offered in a residential setting on the Winona campus. 700 Terrace Heights Winona, MN 55987-1399 (507) 457-1700 / Toll-free (800) 635-5987 [email protected] www.smumn.edu • • • • • • • • • • • • SCHOOLS OF GRADUATE & PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS For information on programs: (612) 728-5100 or (866) 437-2788, Ext. 1700 [email protected] For information on programs offered at the Rochester Center: (507) 285-1410 or (877) 768-4545, [email protected] Graduate Professional Development for Educators: (877) 218-4755, [email protected] Professional Development Initiatives: (877) 218-4755, [email protected] Best Practices Academy: (877) 218-4755, [email protected] COVER PHOTO Front cover photo: The Oscar and Mary Jane Straub Millennium Clock Tower overlooks the walkways at the center of Saint Mary’s Winona campus. Back cover photo: The Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota Winona campus is situated among the majestic bluffs of the Mississippi River Valley. 1 CONTENTS Mission ................................................................................................... 3 The University ........................................................................................ 4 Admission ............................................................................................... 7 Tuition and Fees ..................................................................................... 9 Financial Aid ......................................................................................... 11 Scholarships ......................................................................................... 13 Registration and Academic Records .................................................... 15 Academic Policies and Procedures ...................................................... 23 Learning in the Lasallian Tradition: Academic Curriculum .................... 29 Academic Resources ........................................................................... 33 Co-Curricular Learning in the Lasallian Tradition: Student Life ............ 37 Undergraduate Departments and Programs ........................................ 40 Institutes ............................................................................................. 169 Graduate and Professional Programs ................................................ 171 Roster ................................................................................................. 173 Calendar ............................................................................................. 186 Campus Map ....................................................................................... 188 Index ................................................................................................... 190 The university reserves the right to revise, supplement, and otherwise amend the policies and procedures contained in this catalog. The university further reserves the right to cancel programs and courses or change the schedule of courses, for any reason. The university also reserves the right to change the curriculum and may make such changes without advance notice to students. This catalog should not be read as a guarantee of the classes or courses set out herein. 2 Mission Mission Enriched by the Lasallian Catholic heritage, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota awakens, nurtures and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership. Vision Grounded in its Lasallian Catholic identity, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota is a nationally ranked transformational and innovative university with a global footprint. Saint Mary’s graduates gain the advanced knowledge, skills and critical-thinking abilities necessary to be lifelong learners, successful workers, good neighbors and ethical citizens that ensure Saint Mary’s standing as a well-known top-tier national university preparing tomorrow’s leaders. Approved by Board of Trustees, October 5, 2012 3 The University SAINT Mary’S UNIVERSITY OF Minnesota: Consequently, we function with a number of strong, A 21ST-Century UNIVERSITY innovative and complementary units. Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota is a dynamic and transformational learning community that provides a The residential undergraduate College unit—nestled person-centered educational experience grounded in in the extraordinarily beautiful natural environment of excellent teaching and engaged interactive student Winona and comprised of the schools of humanities and learning. At the heart of a Saint Mary’s education is the sciences, arts, education, business, and of a seminary for development of meaningful relationships that help the clergy formation—integrates a four-year undergraduate individual learner realize and achieve their potential in education rooted in the liberal arts and complemented by a trusting and respectful environment. In this way, we a dynamic residential community experience that allows prepare graduates with the advanced knowledge, skills and learners to cultivate and refine their intellectual, spiritual critical-thinking abilities necessary to be lifelong learners, and professional capacities for mature leadership. Our successful workers, good neighbors and ethical citizens. commitment to relevant liberal education encompasses knowledge of human cultures and the natural world; hones We are a comprehensive university that offers the skills of critical thinking, analytic reasoning, creativity an innovative combination of liberal education and and effective written and oral communication; and prepares professional preparation, such that our graduates prosper graduates for work, life, future scholarship and ethical lives in today’s knowledge economy and are prepared to meet of service. the challenges of the 21st century. We provide relevant, engaging personal and online learning experiences, and The undergraduate bachelor’s completion unit of the research opportunities supported by a community of Schools of Graduate and Professional Programs—in the educators in order to ignite the potential of each learner. greater Twin Cities area of Minnesota—recognizes and We prepare our graduates richly for the responsibilities and honors prior educational and life experience, assures an challenges they face as global citizens —citizens whose engaging, affordable and accessible learning delivery judgments, decisions and actions will profoundly affect the model, and opens for students successful pathways for decency, integrity and sustainability of the human family career advancement, career transition and graduate and our global environment. education. We are a Catholic university that prepares graduates The master’s and doctoral degrees unit of the Schools with a distinctive identity in fidelity to the Church’s mission of Graduate and Professional Programs—an established in service of the Good News of the Gospel and with a leader in flexible and adaptable scheduling and delivery world vision rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition: a models in each of its schools of business and technology, belief in the presence of the divine in all created reality; education, and health and human services—assures an appreciation of and thirst for truth and knowledge; accessible and affordable quality private graduate an understanding of the unity of faith and reason; a education in the Twin Cities and throughout Minnesota profound reverence for the self, the other and all of and Wisconsin; provides relevant, rigorous and relational creation; a respect for all human life and protection of the academic experiences for adult learners through an vulnerable; the celebration of community and sacrament; a integration of practical, professional and ethical education commitment to the issues of peace, justice, solidarity and offered in dynamic and caring environments; and utilizes human equality; and a desire to serve the common good. industry and community partnerships and a primarily part- time cadre of competent faculty practitioners to deliver We are a Lasallian Catholic university that is a living programs grounded in the principles of collaborative expression of the vision of John Baptist de La Salle, team-building, commitment to innovation, intercultural inspirational 17th-century educational innovator, patron competence and practical applied opportunities to integrate saint of teachers and founder of the De La Salle Christian scholarship in a real-world context. Brothers: excellent quality education; respect for the dignity of all individuals; inclusive and participatory community; The international academic initiatives unit makes interiority; accessibility; civility; innovation; belief in the operational—both in Kenya and in Jamaica—the presence of a benevolent God; an ecumenical and inter- university’s commitment to strategic global institutional religious openness; solidarity with the poor; and advocacy relationships that respond to the expressed educational for those suffering from injustices.