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CATALOG FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2002-2003 DAVIDSON Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://www.archive.org/details/davidsoncollegec20022003 CATALOG OF ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2002-2003 RECORD OFFICIAL FOR THE YEAR 2001-2002 DAVIDSON PublishedbytheDavidsonCollege OfficeofCollegeCommunications EditedbytheOfficeofAcademicAffairs — 2 AcademicCalendar ACADEMICCALENDAR2002-2003 FallSemester2002 August22-25 Orientation August26 Classesbegin8:30a.m. October4-6 Homecoming October11 FallBreakbeginsafterlastclass October16 Classesresume8:30a.m. October25-27 FamilyWeekend October26 FallConvocation November26 ThanksgivingBreakbeginsafterlastclass December2 Classesresume8:30a.m. December11 FallSemesterclassesend December12 ReadingDay December13 Examsbegin December19 Examsend12:15p.m.andSemesterBreakbegins SpringSemester2003 January13 Classesbegin8:30a.m. January20 MartinLutherKingDay February28 SpringBreakbeginsafterlastclass March10 Classesresume8:30a.m. April16 SpringConvocation April18 EasterBreakbeginsafterlastclass April23 Classesresume8:30a.m. May7 SpringSemesterclassesend May8 ReadingDay May9 Examsbegin May14 Examsend12:15p.m. May18 Commencement IMPORTANTNOTE This catalog describes an academic calendar for Davidson College which consists oftwo 15- week semesters. The requirements in this catalog apply to students entering Davidson in the 2002-03academicyear. Informationinthiscatalogisaccurateasofthedateofpublication. DavidsonCollegereserves therighttomakechangesinpolicies, regulations, andfees, givingduenotice, inaccordancewith soundacademicandfiscalpractice. ACCREDITATION DavidsonCollegeisaccreditedby: CommissiononCollegesoftheSouthernAssociationofColleges andSchoolstoawardthebaccalaureatedegree TheNorthCarolinaDepartmentofPublicInstruction AmericanChemicalSociety NationalCouncilfortheAccreditationofTeacherEducation NONDISCRIMINATIONPOLICY DavidsonCollege admits qualified students and administers alleducational and employment activities regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or disability unless allowedby law and deemed necessary to the administration ofthe educational programs. In addition, the college complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governingnon-discrimination. — TableofContents 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS AcademicCalendar2002-2003 2 HISTORYANDSTATEMENTOFPURPOSE 5 ADMISSIONANDFFNANCIALINFORMATION 9 AdmissionInformationandProcedures 9 FinancialAid 13 Honors,Awards,andScholarships 14 TuitionandFees 19 CAMPUSLIFE 25 TheHonorCodeandtheCodeofResponsibility 25 ResidenceHalls 25 AthleticsandPhysicalEducation 29 ReligiousandSpiritualLife 31 SocialLife 31 CareerServices 36 HealthandSafety 37 ACADEMICPROGRAMANDPOLICIES 41 TheCurriculum 41 StandardsofProgress 42 RequirementsforGraduation 43 InternationalPerspectivesandStudyOpportunities 45 Pre-ProfessionalPrograms 51 AcademicSupport 57 GeneralInformationandRegulations 62 COURSESOFINSTRUCTION 67 OFFICIALRECORD 183 Trustees 183 FacultyandLibrariansEmeriti 185 ContinuingFaculty,2001-02 187 OtherInstructionalAppointments,2001-02 194 NewFacultyandInstructionalAppointments,2002-2003 197 NamedProfessorships 201 AdministrativeStaff 202 Scholarships 211 CurricularEnrichment 226 BookFunds 228 HonorSocieties 236 Awards 237 ScholarshipHolders 241 Classof2002 247 EnrollmentStatistics 251 GeographicalDistribution 252 AlumniAssociationChapters 253 Index 258 CapsuleInformation 261 AND HISTORY STATEMENT OF PURPOSE HISTORY "Whenthepeculiar circumstancesofacommunity demandit, and theirbenevolence willjustifyit, theestablishmentofaCollegehavingtheBibleforits firstcharter, and the prosperity ofthe Church and our country for its great design, ought to be regarded as anenterpriseofnocommongrandeur." — Davidson's first president, Robert Hall Morrison, in his inauguraladdress, August2, 1838 Founded by Concord Presbytery, Davidson College opened as a manual labor institute in 1837. The college's name memorializes General William Lee Davidson, who died at the nearby Revolutionary War battle of Cowan's Ford in 1781. General Davidson's son provided the initial acreageforthecampus. The college seal and the college motto, Alenda Lux Ubi Orta Libertas ("Let Learning Be Cherished Where Liberty Has Arisen"), recall the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence; both seal and motto resulted from the suggestion of Peter Stuart Ney, an elusive Frenchman believedbysometohavebeenNapoleon'sMarshalNey. Original academic subjects included moral and natural philosophy, evidences of Christianity, classical languages, logic, and mathematics. Three professors, including Morrison,taughtthiscurriculumtoDavidson'ssixty-fivestudents. Although Presbvterian-originated, the college maintained from the beginning its intent to educate students without regard to their denominational affiliation. Students came from a vareitv of religious and regional backgrounds. By I860, Davidson alumni livedintwelvestatesandtwoforeigncountries. A bequest in 1856 from Maxwell Chambers of Salisbury, North Carolina, provided the college withthe means to strengthen itsbase and expand its influence. The giftofa quarter of a million dollars made the institution, for a time, the richest college south of Princeton and helped the college survive through the Civil War years. It also provided for the construction of a central academic building that was named in honor of the college's first substantial benefactor. The present Chambers Building, which replaced theoneburnedin1921, alsobearshisname. — 6 HistoryandStatementofPurpose While in 1866 the college had a student body of only twenty-four men, during the post-war recovery period there was a gradual expansion of curriculum, faculty, and students. Newly added academic disciplines included chemistry, English, history, and physics. By 1890theteachingstaffincluded its firstPh.D.-holdingprofessors. Increasing growthinenrollmentgavethecollegeastudentbodyofover300by 1910. In 1911, the college offered the A.B. and the B.S. degrees, with the former requiring study ofGreek and Latin, the latter allowing substitution ofa modern foreignlanguage in place of Latin. There were fifteen departments, though majors were not a feature of the curriculum until the 1920s. A strengthened financial base was augmented by the generosity ofthe Rockefellers who provided funds for replacing the original Chambers buildingandbyannualsupportfromtheDukeEndowmentwhichcontinuestoday. The 1920s and 1930s saw courses in accounting, business, economics, and music added to the curriculum, as well as honors programs and seminars. In 1923, Davidson was selected as the third college in North Carolina to be chartered for a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Curricular revisions in the 1960s and 1980s altered the academic calendar and degree requirements, but retained Davidson's emphasis on breadth of education along with increasing opportunities for specialization, independent academic work, studyabroad, andinterdisciplinaryprograms. Firstadmittingwomenasdegreecandidatesin1973, thecollegehasgrowntoaround 1,600 students on campus, the limit established by the current strategic plan. The teaching faculty numbers approximately 150. Changes in physical plant begun during the 1990s have supported the college's growth with new and renovated facilities for athletics, the visual arts, the sciences, residential housing, student and community activities, andtheperformingarts. Recent academic program changes include the expansion of concentrations and the options for a second major or minor in many departments. Attention given to writing across the curriculum includes small classes designed to help first-year students make thetransitiontocollege-levelworkandwriting. Davidson's underlying philosophy appears in the college's official statement of purpose. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE Davidson College is an institution ofhigher learning established by Presbyterians of North Carolina in 1837. Since its founding, the ties which bind the college to the Presbyterian Churchhave remained close and strong. The college intends thatthis vital relationshipbecontinuedtothemutualbenefitofchurchandschool. Davidson commits itselfto a Christian tradition that recognizes God as the source of alltruth, and findsinJesusChristtherevelationofthatGod, aGodboundbynochurch orcreed. Theloyaltyofthecollege thusextendsbeyond the Christian community tothe whole human community and necessarily includes an openness to and respect for the world's various religious traditions. Davidson is dedicated to the quest for truth and encourages teachers and students to explore the whole of reality, whether physical or spiritual, with an unlimited employment of their intellectual powers. Faith and reason must work together in mutual respect if Davidson is to realize and maintain its particularvisionofacademicexcellence. TheprimarypurposeofDavidsonCollegeisto assiststudentsindevelopinghumane — HistoryandStatementofPurpose 7 instincts and disciplined and creative minds for lives of leadership and service. In implementing its purpose, Davidson has chosen tobe a liberal arts college, to maintain itselfas a residentialcommunity ofscholars, toemphasizethe teachingresponsibilityof all professors, and to ensure the opportunity for personal relationships between students and teachers. It is vital that all students in every class know and study under mature and scholarly teachers who are able and eager to provide for each of them stimulation, instruction, andguidance. Davidson seeks students of good character and high academic ability who share its valuesand showpromiseforusefulnesstosociety. Intheselectionoffaculty, thecollege seeks men and women who respect the purpose of the college, are outstanding intellectually, who have the best training available in their fields of study, and whose interest in students and teaching is unfeigned and profound. For its part, the college mustprovideadequatephysicalfacilities, increaseitsfinancialresources, andfurnishits faculty with the time and opportunity for creative scholarship fundamental to the best teaching. Asaliberalartscollege,Davidsonemphasizesthosestudies, disciplinesandactivities that are mentally, spiritually, and physically liberating. Thus, the college concentrates upon the study of history, literature and languages, philosophy and religion, music, drama and thevisualarts, thenatural andsocialsciences, andmathematics. Thecollege also requires physical education, provides for competitive athletics, and encourages a variety of social, cultural and service activities. While Davidson prepares many of its students for graduate and professional study, it intends to teach all students to think clearly, to make relevant and valid judgments, to discriminate among values, and to communicatefreelywithothersintherealmofideas. As a college that welcomes students, faculty and stafffrom a variety ofnationalities, ethnicgroupsandtraditions,Davidsonvaluesitsdiversityandseekstobeacommunity that recognizes the dignity and inherent worth of every person. As a college whose tradition commits it to nurture the life of the spirit, Davidson endeavors to provide opportunities for religious services and other activities appropriate for the various religioustraditionsrepresentedonthecampus. Davidson holds a priceless heritage bequeathed by those who have dedicated their livesandtheirpossessionsforitswelfare.Toitmuchhasbeenentrusted, andofitmuch isrequired. DAVIDSON'S PRESIDENTS Robert Hall Morrison (1836-1840); Samuel Williamson (1841-1854); Drury Lacy (1855-1860); John Lycan Kirkpatrick (1860-1866); George Wilson McPhail (1866-1871); John Rennie Blake, chair of the faculty (1871-1877); Andrew Dousa Hepburn (1877-1885); Luther McKinnon (1885-1888); William Joseph Martin, vice president and acting president (1887-1888); John Bunyan Shearer (1888-1901); Henrv Louis Smith (1901-1912); William Joseph Martin (1912-1929); Walter Lee Lingle (1929-1941); John Rood Cunningham (1941-1957); Clarence John Pietenpol, acting president (1957-1958); David Grier Martin (1958-1968); Frontis Withers Johnston, acting president (1968); Samuel Reid Spencer, Jr. (1968-1983); Frontis Withers Johnston, interim president (1983-1984);JohnWellsKuykendall(1984-1997);RobertFredrickVagt(1997-).

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