Wesleyan College 2021-2022 Catalogue

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Catalogue
Undergraduate and Graduate Programs
2021-2022

Wesleyan College
4760 Forsyth Road
Macon, Georgia 31210–4462
[phone] • fax [phone]
www.wesleyancollege.edu

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Institutional Statement
Wesleyan College complies with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended.
The Registrar should be consulted for details and procedures.
Every effort is made to insure the accuracy of information presented in this catalogue. The contents
should be considered advisory only and not regarded as an irrevocable contract. The College reserves
the right to alter or change requirements, fees, course offerings, or other specified policies at any time.
Faculty advisors are available to assist the student in the arrangement of her program, but responsibility
for acquainting herself with regulations and fulfilling all requirements for degrees rests with the individual
student.
Statement on Non-Discrimination
Wesleyan College is committed to maintaining a diverse, academically talented, and well-rounded
community of learners in an atmosphere of mutual respect and appreciation of differences.
Wesleyan College admits qualified students regardless of race, color, national and ethnic origin, sexual
orientation, age, religion, creed, disability, marital status, pregnancy, status with regard to public
assistance, veteran status and sex* to all rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded to
or made available to students at the college.
Wesleyan College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, sexual
orientation, age, religion, creed, disability, marital status, pregnancy, status with regard to public
assistance, veteran status, sex, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other
category protected by applicable federal and state laws in its educational policies, programs, activities
and employment.
Additional information regarding compliance with this statement can be found in Wesleyan’s Policy for
Resolving Complaints of Discrimination and Harassment and Wesleyan’s Title IX Policy against Sexual
Assault and Harassment. Individuals who have questions, concerns and reports regarding discrimination
should contact:
Tonya Parker, Assistant Dean of Students for Equity & Inclusion
Olive Swann Porter
[phone] [email protected]
*Wesleyan College does not admit men to its baccalaureate programs, in compliance with Title IX.
Wesleyan College Gender-specific Language Policy. As the first women's college in the world, Wesleyan
College will maintain its use of women-centered language to reflect both our heritage and our mission.
Accreditations and Memberships
Wesleyan College is accredited by the Southern Association of College and Schools Commission on
Colleges to award the baccalaureate degree and the masters degree. Questions about the accreditation
of Wesleyan College may be directed in writing to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097, by calling [phone], or
by using information available on SACSCOC’s website (www.sacscoc.org).
Wesleyan is also accredited by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission.
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The Wesleyan College Bachelor of Science in Nursing program has Full Approval from the Georgia Board
of Nursing. The baccalaureate degree in nursing program at Wesleyan College is accredited by
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (www.ccneaccreditation.org).
If you would like to review any accreditation documents, please contact that Provost Office. Wesleyan
College holds active membership in the following organizations:
• American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
• American Association of University Women
• The Council of Independent Colleges
• Georgia Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
• Georgia Association of Independent Colleges of Teacher Education
• Georgia Association of Teacher Education
• Georgia Collegiate Honors Council
• Georgia Independent Colleges Association
• National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
• National Association of Schools and Colleges of the United Methodist Church
• National Collegiate Athletic Association
• Southern Regional Honors Council
• Tuition Exchange Program of the Council of Independent Colleges
• University Senate of the United Methodist Church
• USA South Athletic Conference
• Women's College Coalition

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Table of Contents
Wesleyan College Mission Statement and History ....................................................................................... 7
Undergraduate College Calendar ................................................................................................................. 9
Undergraduate Admission........................................................................................................................... 11
Academic Procedures and Regulations ...................................................................................................... 18
Academic Credit Options ............................................................................................................................ 33
Programs for Academic Enrichment ........................................................................................................... 45
Undergraduate Academic Programs ........................................................................................................... 56
Bachelor of Arts ........................................................................................................................................... 57
Bachelor of Fine Arts ................................................................................................................................... 68
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) ........................................................................................................ 70
Dual Degree Programs ............................................................................................................................... 84
Online Degree Program .............................................................................................................................. 85
Pre-Professional Concentrations ................................................................................................................ 86
Graduate Academic Programs .................................................................................................................... 91
Graduate Admission .................................................................................................................................... 92
Graduate Calendar ...................................................................................................................................... 96
Graduate Policies ........................................................................................................................................ 98
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Industrial-Organizational Psychology ................................................................. 110
Master of Arts in Music .............................................................................................................................. 116
Master of Business Administration (MBA) ................................................................................................ 120
Master of Education (M.Ed.) ..................................................................................................................... 124
Master of Science in Healthcare Administration ....................................................................................... 134
Master of Science in Nonprofit Management ............................................................................................ 138
Accounting................................................................................................................................................. 140
Advertising & Marketing Communication .................................................................................................. 147
American Studies ...................................................................................................................................... 150
Applied Data Analysis ............................................................................................................................... 151
Applied Mathematical Science .................................................................................................................. 154
Applied Psychology ................................................................................................................................... 156
Art, Studio.................................................................................................................................................. 159
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) - Art .......................................................................................................... 159
Bachelor of Arts (AB) - Studio Art ......................................................................................................... 161
Art History.................................................................................................................................................. 171
Arts Management ...................................................................................................................................... 173
Asian Studies ............................................................................................................................................ 176
Biology ....................................................................................................................................................... 179
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Business Administration ............................................................................................................................ 190
Chemistry .................................................................................................................................................. 203
Chinese ..................................................................................................................................................... 207
Communication ......................................................................................................................................... 208
Computer Science ..................................................................................................................................... 212
Digital Marketing ....................................................................................................................................... 214
Economics ................................................................................................................................................. 215
Education .................................................................................................................................................. 219
English ....................................................................................................................................................... 243
Environmental Studies .............................................................................................................................. 251
Equine Assisted Therapy .......................................................................................................................... 256
Finance ...................................................................................................................................................... 258
Forensic Science ....................................................................................................................................... 259
French ....................................................................................................................................................... 261
German ..................................................................................................................................................... 264
Health and Physical Education ................................................................................................................. 265
Healthcare Administration ......................................................................................................................... 270
History ....................................................................................................................................................... 272
History, Politics and Global Affairs ............................................................................................................ 280
Human Resource Management ................................................................................................................ 285
Humanities ................................................................................................................................................ 286
International Business ............................................................................................................................... 287
Japanese ................................................................................................................................................... 289
Leadership and Social Change ................................................................................................................. 290
Mathematics .............................................................................................................................................. 292
Music ......................................................................................................................................................... 299
Neuroscience ............................................................................................................................................ 311
Nursing ...................................................................................................................................................... 317
Organizational Behavior ............................................................................................................................ 323
Philosophy ................................................................................................................................................. 324
Physics ...................................................................................................................................................... 328
Political Science ........................................................................................................................................ 331
Pre-Law ..................................................................................................................................................... 338
Professional Development Experience ..................................................................................................... 340
Psychology ................................................................................................................................................ 342
Public Health ............................................................................................................................................. 353
Religion, Philosophy, and Social Change ................................................................................................. 358
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Religious Studies ...................................................................................................................................... 362
Self-Designed Interdisciplinary Major ....................................................................................................... 367
Spanish ..................................................................................................................................................... 368
Sport Management .................................................................................................................................... 375
Strategic Management .............................................................................................................................. 377
Theatre ...................................................................................................................................................... 378
Travel-Study .............................................................................................................................................. 384
Visual Studies Minor ................................................................................................................................. 385
Wesleyan Integrative Seminar Experiences (WISe) ................................................................................. 387
Women, Gender, & Sexuality .................................................................................................................... 389
Writing ....................................................................................................................................................... 396
Tuition and Fees ....................................................................................................................................... 397
Financial Aid .............................................................................................................................................. 405
Errata ......................................................................................................................................................... 413

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Wesleyan College Mission Statement and History

Mission. Wesleyan College is committed to women's education and helping every student find a unique
voice and purpose. As the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women and shaped by
Methodist values, Wesleyan provides students an academically challenging and relevant liberal arts
education. Our diverse, inclusive community encourages creativity, innovation, and leadership so all
graduates are prepared to thrive in a complex world.
Guiding Principles. Wesleyan's community is:
• Academically challenging: We believe students succeed when they are challenged
academically. Wesleyan's dedicated faculty and staff offer individualized support to motivate
students to achieve their potential.
• Purposeful: We believe students thrive when they have a purpose and a clear vision of their
goals. Wesleyan helps students define these goals and strategically plan for the future.
• Inclusive: We believe all student voices are important. Wesleyan is diverse and inclusive,
gaining strength from and celebrating the many ways we can learn from each other.
• Connected: We believe we gain strength from our connections to each other. Wesleyan
encourages students to find their own places within a community and to contribute in meaningful
ways.
A Wesleyan Education. At Wesleyan, we believe that a liberal arts education is the best education for
life. A Wesleyan education offers students exposure to the full range of human knowledge, assists them
in developing skills in critical thinking and analysis, encourages them to question and explore the issues
that affect their lives and futures, and challenges them to discover who they are in light of the rapidly
changing world around them. In a world where career changes have become the norm rather than the
exception, a liberal arts education provides a broad basis that will apply to any career decision. As a
result, students are prepared both for life-long learning and for the career shifts that inevitably attend their
progress toward success.
A Wesleyan education is structured to ensure that students have personal interaction with the faculty both
inside and outside the classroom. Wesleyan's faculty, an impressive percent of whom have earned the
highest degree in their field, remain current in their fields by publishing books and articles and presenting
papers at professional meetings. An undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10:1 ensures that students
are known by more than a grade or a number. Faculty and students know each other as individuals and
make up a genuine learning community. Faculty members also serve as academic advisors and work
carefully with individual students to plan their academic programs.
Wesleyan is taking the lead nationally in integrating the curricular and extracurricular life of the campus.
Programming in the residence halls often extends the classroom, expanding on issues raised in courses.
Model community service programs such as Aunt Maggie's Kitchen Table extend the classroom into the
community. Wesleyan is committed, in the curriculum and in student life, to fulfilling its special mission as
a women's college.
Another innovation that Wesleyan has pioneered to assist students in combining a liberal arts education
with preparation for a career is the internship program. The internship program, a partnership of the
College and the local business community, enables students to begin to explore the world of work as
early as second semester of their first year. Students can pursue internships in different fields, and many
go directly into jobs with their sponsoring organizations after graduation.
History of the College. Founded in 1836 as the Georgia Female College, Wesleyan was at first a joint
effort of a group of Macon citizens and members of the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. In 1843, the Georgia Conference assumed responsibility for the College. The College was
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renamed Wesleyan Female College in 1844 and Wesleyan continues its affiliation with the United
Methodist Church today.
When Wesleyan was founded, the idea of educating women was very new. It had taken almost two
hundred years from the time that Harvard granted the first baccalaureate degrees to men in this country
for any institution to offer the same privilege to women. Wesleyan's original program was a rigorous four-
year classical curriculum, very similar to the curriculum being offered by the men's colleges of those
times. In addition, however, it stressed, from the beginning, the exercise of judgment, discrimination, and
analytical thinking. And most innovatively of all, it emphasized the importance of scientific as well as
classical learning.
Over the years, Wesleyan has continued to lead the way in women's education. In 1840, we awarded the
first baccalaureate degrees given to women anywhere in the world. We are also home of the world's first
alumnae association. Wesleyan is the birthplace of two national sororities, Alpha Delta Pi in 1851, and
Phi Mu in 1852. In the late nineteenth century, we added a strong emphasis in the fine arts to our
classical and scientific curriculum. We are continuing to strengthen our preparation for careers in
biological and physical sciences.
Looking to the Future. For decades, Wesleyan has been a pioneer in developing innovative academic
programs such as the academic First-Year Seminar and the Senior Integrative Experience. These are but
two facets of a student-centered, process-oriented general education curriculum with integrative
components of the curriculum connected to each academic major. Wesleyan is taking the lead in
interdisciplinary education, designing courses and faculty positions that bridge the various fields of
knowledge. Wesleyan faculty and staff continue to develop infrastructure and pedagogy to enhance
teaching and learning through technology. From their creative use of well-equipped classrooms and state-
of-the-art laboratories to the Canvas Learning Management System for online teaching and learning,
faculty design learning experiences that are engaging, meaningful, and relevant for lifelong learning.
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Undergraduate College Calendar

2021-2022*
Fall 2021, Regular Semester ~ August 16 - December 14
July 5 Registration Deadline for returning students ($25 fee assessed thereafter)
August 16 Classes begin; drop/take begins
August 20 Drop/take ends
September 6 Labor Day (offices are closed; in person classes not in session)
October 8 Mid-semester grades due
October 11-12 Fall Holiday (in person classes not in session, offices are closed 11)
October 29 Last day to withdraw from a class; CR/NC grade option ends
November 22-26 Thanksgiving holidays (offices are closed 24-26; in person classes not in session)
December 8 Last day of classes
December 9 Reading Day (in person classes not in session)
December 10-14 Final examinations
December 11 Grades due
Fall 2021, Split Term A ~ August 16 - October 8
July 5 Registration Deadline for returning students ($25 fee assessed thereafter)
August 16 Classes begin; drop/take period begins
August 18 Drop/take period ends
September 6 Labor Day (offices are closed; in person classes not in session)
September 10 Mid-semester grades due
September 20 Last day to withdraw from a class; CR/NC grade option ends
October 8 Last class day
Fall 2021, Split Term B ~ October 18 - December 17
September 6 Registration Deadline for returning students ($25 fee assessed thereafter)
October 18 Classes begin; drop/take period begins
October 20 Drop/take period ends
November 12 Mid-semester grades due
November 22-26 Thanksgiving holidays (offices are closed 24-26; classes not in session)
December 3 Last day to withdraw from a class; CR/NC grade option ends
December 17 Last class day
December 24 - December 31 - Winter break (offices are closed)
Spring 2022, Regular Semester ~ January 10 - May 10
November 29 Registration Deadline for returning students ($25 fee assessed thereafter)
January 10 Classes begin; drop/take begins
January 14 Drop/take ends
January 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day (in person classes not in session, offices are closed)
March 4 Mid-semester grades due
March 7-11 Spring Holiday (in person classes not in session, offices are closed 11)
March 25 Last day to withdraw from a class; CR/NC grade option ends
April 15 Good Friday (offices are closed; in person classes not in session)
May 4 Last class day
May 5 Reading day (in person classes not in session)
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May 6-10 Final examinations
May 14 Commencement
Spring 2022, Split Term A ~ January 10 - March 4
November 29 Registration Deadline for returning students ($25 fee assessed thereafter)
January 10 Classes begin; drop/take begins
January 12 Drop/take ends
January 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day (in person classes not in session, offices are closed)
February 4 Mid-semester grades due
February 14 Last day to withdraw from a class; CR/NC grade option ends
March 4 Last class day
Spring 2022, Split Term B ~ March 14 - May 6
January 31 Registration Deadline for returning students ($25 fee assessed thereafter)
March 14 Classes begin; drop/take begins
March 16 Drop/take ends
April 9 Mid-semester grades due
April 15 Good Friday (offices are closed; in person classes not in session)
April 18 Last day to withdraw from a class; CR/NC grade option ends
May 6 Last class day
*Some academic programs of the College observe a different calendar. Direct questions about the
calendar to the Registrar's Office. Calendars are subject to change. See graduate program pages in
catalogue for graduate calendars.

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