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Anderson College Catalog Published by Anderson Collcf^e, 316 Boulevard, Anderson,SC 29621; Telephone: 864-231-2000 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/andersoncatalog1996 1 CONTENTS PresentingAndersonCollege/ 7-10 OverviewofAcademicPrograms/ 13-2 StudentLife/23-29 Admissions Information/31-35 Financial Information/37-42 FinancialAid/45-50 Programs of Study/53-101 Academic Policies/ 103-122 Courses of Study/ 125-174 CollegeDirectory/ 177-188 Calendar 1996-97/191-192 General Information/ 193-194 Campus Map/ 195 Index/ 196-197 A Message from the President DearProspective Student, I wish I couldpersonallyconvey to you a small measureofthe excitement andeven anticipation1 feel as 1 entermysecondyearas PresidentofAndersonCollege. As 1 lookoverthisgracious, historic, tree- linedcampus, I amremindedofthe thousandsofmen andwomen throughout thiscentury whohave walked throughthesehalls. Coming fromfarandnear, they sought the best in liberal arts education. Christian truth, highstandardsofethics andpersonal morality, andopportunitiesfor life-long learning andvocational success. They still come forsuchreasons, and theyencountertheAndersonCollege experience, anexperience ofa living, teaching, learningcommunityoffaithwhichpresents the teachings ofJesus Christwhileseeking todevelop the highest andbest ineachofits students. 1 invite you to this campus andto acommunitycommitted to academic excellence. Christianwitness, and life-longservice. Engagewith ourfine faculty insmall classes, enjoy the many opportunities affordedbyourfirst class, state-of-the-art, RaineyFine Arts Center, explore the technology in the newVandiver Hall computercenter, exercise on the many lighted tennis courts, orjust stroll through the tree-linedpark. Like so many Anderson College men andwomenwhohave gone before you, let this — specialplace be yourgateway to the future afuture bright with opportunities and the promise andpresence ofGod. BestWishes, Lee Royce President Presenting Anderson College . PRESENTINGANDERSONCOLLEGE 7 ANDERSON COLLEGE Value: QualityLiberalArts MISSION Education Goals: Nature, Scope, andAffiliation 4. Toprovide abroad liberal arts education as a meansoffostering AndersonCollege, aprivate, coed- a pursuitofa life ofpurpose and ucational, four-year. Christianlib- freedom, truth andwisdom, tol- eral arts institution affiliatedwith erancefordifferent ideas, and a the South Carolina Baptist Con- spiritofgenerositytowardoth- vention, offers degree programs at ers. the undergraduate level. 5. To assiststudents in acquiring anunderstanding ofthe various Purpose modesofinquiry and expression in the broad areasofknowledge The purpose ofAndersonCollege — and experience humanities, so- is to provide, within aChristian cial sciences, mathematics, natu- community, a quality liberal arts ral sciences, history, religion, educationfor adiverse student body thatwill prepare graduatesfor andfine arts. both a livelihood and a rewarding 6. To provide opportunitiesforstu- dents to achieve competence in life. the skills oforal and written In its effort to fulfill this purpose, communication, mathematics, the College is committed to the following values and goals: critical thinking, problem solv- ing, and the use ofcomputer Value: Christian Community technology. Goals: 7. To recruitqualified Christian 1 To be a community ofteachers faculty andstaffcommitted to and learners that actively affirms the challenge ofintegratingfaith and proclaims the teachingsof and discipline and to meeting Jesus Christ as the ultimate the individual and collective guide for living. needs ofstudents, support their 2. To maintain a Christian envi- personal and professional ronment by creatinga commu- growth, and reward excellence in nity characterized by respect, re- performance and service. spcjnsibility, discipline, service, and grace. Value: Diverse Student Body 3. To assist students in developing Goals: an understanding ofethics and 8. To recruit students who are sup- Chri.stian values and truths and portive ofthe mission ofthe ofthe ways in which this under- College as a Christian liberal arts standing applies to all humrm ac- C(}llcge and who can benefit — tivity public, private, individ- from the academic programs and ual, and corporate. student services offered. 8 PRESENTINGANDERSONCOLLEGE 9. To recruit astudentbody 16. Toprovide eachmemberofthe broadly representativeofthe cul- College communityopportuni- tural and ethnic diversitythat ties for intellectual, physical, so- characterizesthe society in cial, moral and spiritual growth. whichgraduateswill live and work. COLLEGE HISTORY 10. To recruitstudents who are well prepared academically and so- AndersonCollege traces its origin cially but also toprovide oppor- to one ofthe first institutionsof tunities for a limitednumberof higher learningforwomen in the students who maybe underpre- United States. TheJohnsonFemale paredforcollege but demon- Seminaryopened in the village of strate some promise forsuccess. Anderson in 1848. The founder 11. To offerprograms appropriatefor was the ReverendWilliam B. John- resident students, commuting son, a Baptist ministerwhowas the students, traditionalcollege age firstpresident ofthe Southern Bap- students, and adult students. tist Convention. The school the ReverendMr. Value: Preparationfora Livelihood Johnsonfoundedwasforced to Goals: close duringthe CivilWar anddid 12. To offer an academicallychal- not reopen; but in time anewgen- lenging education in a varietyof erationcarriedon whathad been A professional andpreprofessional begun at that institution. group areasbased upon the intellectual ofpublic-spiritedcitizens, desirous breadthofferedby a liberal arts ofhaving an institutionofhigher education. learning inAnderson, offered32 13. To stress the relevance ofliberal acres ofland and$100,000 to the learning as well as professional South CarolinaBaptistConven- knowledge to successfulperform- tion at its meeting in 1910. The ance in avarietyofcareers and conventionnominateda group of to the solutionofcontemporary trustees, andAndersonCollege was problems. granted a charter in 1911 by the 14. To provide careereducation as South CarolinaGeneralAssembly. both acurricularand a student In 1912, the College opened its service. doors andoperated as afour-year Value: Preparationfor a college forwomen until 1930. In RewardingLife 1929, the South Carolina Baptist Goals: Convention approved the institu- 15. To emphasize the rewardsofa tion's transition to ajuniorcollege, life characterizedby balance, dis- the first in the state. The College cipline, service to others, and became acoeducational institution Christiandiscipleship. in 1930.