Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/graduatecatalogu2002mere MEREDITH COLLEGE THE JOHN WEEMS GRADUATE SCHOOL E. CATALO'-^<^a«W!lGw;w'uuiU.ij''<i»r- E ATE G R A D U 2002-2005^ TheJohn E.Weems Graduate School at Meredith College MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MASTER OF EDUCATION MASTER OF MUSIC MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NUTRITION DIETETIC INTERNSHIP \blume 10 2002-2003 TheJohn E. Weems Graduate School intends to adhereto therules, regulations, policies, andrelatedstatements includ- edherein, butreserves therightto modify, alter, orvaryallpartsofthisdocumentwithappropriatenoticeandefifortsto communicatesuchchanges. Meredith College does notdiscriminate in theadministration ofits educational andadmissions policies, scholarship and loanprograms, athleticandotherschool-administeredprogram, orin access to its programsand activities on thebasisof race, creed, nationalorethnicorigin, gender, age,ordisability. — 4 ) PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Maureen Hartford, Ed.D. WEARE GLAD THAT YOU HAVE SELECTED MEREDITH COLLEGEAs yourgraduateschool;weknowthattherearemanygraduateprogramsthatyoucould havechosen. OneofMeredith'sgoals is tohelpyouintegrateyoureducation intoyour workandhomelife,andtohelpmakeyoureducationpartofyourefforttowardslife-long learning. Partofthatisto offeryou theflexibilityto takeoneclass ata timeormany, and toscheduleyourclassesaroundtheotherdemandsinyourlife. Youknowfromyourownexperiencethatitwouldbeimpossibletolearnallthenewmaterial thatemergeseven in asinglefieldin anygivenyear. In thepastfewdecadeswehaveevolved from an educational system that taught facts by rote, to one that teaches how to learn, becausethefactsbecomeoutdatedso quickly. Buttheimportantthingistokeeplearning wehopethatyourMereditheducationalexperienceencouragesyoutokeeplearning. There is a Chinese proverb that says, "Learning which does not advance each daywill daily decrease." Ifwe don't continue to learn throughout our lives, we will indeed find ourselves backsliding. Your decision to come to graduate school at Meredith will give you a boost in — this learning process. Think ofthis degree that you are working on whether it takes you two years or six to earn it as the beginning ofyour perpetual quest for knowledge and understanding. And then we challenge you to apply what you learn to making the world a better placetolive.