2010-2011 Undergraduate Catalog Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois http://www.archive.org/details/southernillinois512sout Southern University Illinois Carbondale 2010-2011 Undergraduate Catalog Visit our catalog website at http://www.registrar.siu.edu Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USPS 506-080) Volume 51, Number 2 September 2010 Periodicals postage paid at Carbondale, Illiniois 62901. Published by Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, Illiniois 62901, four times per year, in August, September, October and November. Subscription price: $4 per issue. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Registrar's Office, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL 62901-4701. This Affirmative Catalog Action Policy This publication provides information about the University. It is the policy of Southern Illinois University Carbondale to Primary attention is given to its academic programs, rules, provide equal employment and educational opportunities for regulations, and procedures. Students starting their collegiate all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, training (first graded course from an accredited institution) national origin, age, disability, status as a disabled veteran or a during the period oftime covered by this catalog (summer 2010 veteran ofthe Vietnam era, sexual orientation, or marital sta- through spring 2011) are subject to the curricular requirements tus. The University is committed to the principles ofequal em- as specified herein. The requirements herein will extend for ployment opportunity and affirmative action and will continue a seven calendar year period from the date of entry for bac- to conduct all personnel actions in accordance with the letter calaureate programs and three years for associate programs. and spirit of applicable state and federal statutes and regula- If the students have not met their undergraduate educational tions, including Executive Order 11246 as amended. Personnel objectives by that time, they will then become subject to cur- actions include, but are not limited to, recruitment, hiring, po- rent curricular requirements. Should the University change the sition assignments, compensation, training, promotion, tenure course requirements contained herein subsequently, students consideration and award, retention, lay-off, termination, and are assured that necessary adjustments will be made so that benefits. no additional time is required ofthem. Where programs include The University recognizes that the barriers of race, color, reli- requirements established by agencies external to the Universi- gion, sex, national origin, age, disability, status as a disabled ty, every effort will be made to follow this same principle so far veteran or a veteran ofthe Vietnam era, sexual orientation, or as possible. Should subsequent curricular requirement changes marital status ofsome individuals have resulted in their denial work to the students' advantage, they may elect to meet the of full participation in all societal functions and is, therefore, new requirements rather than those contained herein. Should commit-ted to taking affirmative steps aimed at overcoming the University find it necessary to discontinue an academic pro- such historical patterns of discrimination in our society. The gram, the effective date, unless otherwise dictated, will be such University's affirmative action program identifies special ac- that the last regularly admitted class would be able to com- tions intended to bring such groups into full participation in plete the program in regular time sequence. This means four all aspects of University life. Through its affirmative action years for baccalaureate and two years for associate programs. A student who has withdrawn from the University may not be program. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is commit- ted to: (1) increased numbers of minorities and females in all readmitted to a discontinued program. aspects of SIUC employment practices with special procedures The University reserves the right to change information con- applicable to those positions determined to be underutilized for tained herein on matters other than curricular requirements minorities and fe-males; (2) cultural and educational diversity without notice when circumstances warrant such action. in the curricula and environment ofthe University; (3) removal The Undergraduate Catalog covers in detail questions concern- of barriers to the disabled; and (4) encouraged support of the principles ofequal opportunity and affirmative action in an ef- ing the undergraduate program ofSouthern Illinois University fort to redress the consequences ofpast societal discrimination Carbondale for the period from summer 2010 through spring and to maintain a positive non-discriminatory educational en- 2011. It supersedes Volume 50, Number 2. vironment. The responsibility for coordinating and monitoring compliance with the University's Equal Employment Opportunity/Affir- mative Action policies is assigned to the Associate Chancellor (Diversity). Implementing and assuring compliance with this policy is the responsibility of all academic and administrative units. The University's ADA, §504, Title IX and Sexual Harassment coordinator is Linda MeCabe Smith, Associate Chancellor (Di- versity), 110 Anthony Hall, Mail Code 4341, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1265 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901 Phone: (618) 453-1186. . ii Table of Contents Catalog and Catalog Year ii 4/College and Academic Programs 71 Affirmative Action Policy ii Agricultural Sciences 73 University Calendar 2010-2011 iv Applied Sciences and Arts 74 Board of Trustees and Officers of Administration iv Business 75 Chapter Reference Guide v Education and Human Services 76 1/General Information 7 Engineering 77 Liberal Arts 80 The University 8 Mass Communication and Media Arts 82 Campus Living 16 Science 82 Parking on Campus 16 Graduate School 83 Financial Aid 17 Library Affairs 83 2/ Admission, Tuition and Academic School of Law 84 Information 21 School of Medicine 85 Academic Programs 85 Admission Policies 22 Advisement, Registration 28 5/Undergraduate Curricula and Faculty 89 Tuition and Fees 30 6/ Student Services 457 Grading and Scholastic Regulations 34 Program Flexibility 37 Enrollment Management 459 Degrees Offered 42 Student Affairs 459 Degree Requirements 42 Campus Services 466 Recognition of High Scholastic Achievement 43 7/University Policies 469 Graduation Procedures 44 Issuance ofTranscripts 44 Residency Status 471 Release ofStudent Information 472 3/University Core Curriculum 47 Religious Observances 476 University Core Goals 49 8/Index 479 University Core Curriculum Requirements 49 University Core Courses 52 Multicultural Applied Option 60 Capstone Option 61 University Core Transfer Students 63 Illinois Articulation Initiative 63 in Board of Trustees and Approved 2010 - 2011 Officers of Administration University Calendar Board ofTrustees of Summer Session 2010 Southern Illinois University Term Expires Eight-Week Session Begins Monday, June 14, 7:30 A.M Independence Day Holiday Friday, July 3 Roger Tedrick, Chair, Mt. Vernon 2009 Final Examinations Thursday, August 5 and Ed Hightower, Vice Chair, Edwardsville 2013 Friday, August 6 John Simmons, Secretary, East Alton 2013 Commencement TBA Keith R. Sanders, Spring Grove 2013 Stephen Wigginton, Belleville 2011 Fall Semester 2010 Marquita Wiley, Belleville 2009 Amber Suggs (Student Trustee), Edwardsville 2009 Semester Classes Begin Monday, August 23 Nate Brown (Student Trustee), Carbondale 2009 Labor Day Holiday Monday, September 6 Misty Whittington, Executive Secretary Veterans Day Holiday Thursday, November 11 ofthe Board ofTrustees Thanksgiving Vacation Saturday, November 20, Jerry Blakemore, General Counsel 12:00 Noon through Duane Stucky, Board Treasurer Sunday, November 28 Final Examinations Monday, December 13 Officers ofAdministration, Southern Illinois University through Friday, Glenn W. Poshard, President December 17 Paul Sarvela, Vice President forAcademic Affairs Commencement 2010 Saturday, December 18, Duane Stucky, Senior Vice President for Financial andAdministrative Affairs Spring Semester 2011 David Gross, Executive Directorfor Governmental Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Monday, January 17 and PublicAffairs Semester Classes Begin Tuesday, January 18 Officers ofAdministration, Southern Illinois University Spring Vacation Saturday, March 12, Carbondale 12:00 Noon through Sunday, March 20 Samuel Goldman, Chancellor Honors Day Sunday, April 17 Don S. Rice, Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor Final Examinations Monday, May 9 through Larry Dietz, Vice Chancellorfor StudentAffairs Friday, May 13 Ricky McCurry, Vice-Chancellorfor Institutional Advancement Commencement 2011 Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14, All breaks begin officially at 10:00 p.m. the night before and end at 7:30 a.m. the morning after the respective beginning and end- ing dates listed, unless otherwise noted. Accommodating Religious Observances ofStudents Southern Illinois University Carbondale will make reasonable accommodation for individual student religious observances. The Policy Accommodating Religious Observances of Students appears in its entirety in Chapter 7. IV Chapter Chapter 1 General Reference Guide Information Chapter 2 Admission, Tuition and Academic Information Chapter 3 University Core Curriculum Chapter 4 Colleges and Academic Programs Chapter 5 Undergraduate Curricula and Faculty Chapter 6 Student Services Chapter 7 General Information For information or concerns pertaining to this catalog, contact the Registrar's Office, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Car- bondale, IL 62901. For access to the Undergraduate Catalog on the World Wide Web, visit: <http://www.registrar.siu.edu>. Published Chapter 8 by the Registrar's Office, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Photography: University Photo Communications General Information VI General Information 8 / Undergraduate Catalog 2010-2011 Chapter 1 The University Morris Library, a major resource for students and faculty, contains more than 2,600,000 volumes, more than 3,600,000 Southern Illinois University units ofmicroform, and more than 36,000 current serials. These Southern Illinois University is a multi-campus university com- materials are in open stacks, available to every student. There prisingtwoinstitutions,SouthernIllinoisUniversityCarbondale are also important collections of original research materials, (SIUC) with a School ofMedicine at Springfield, and Southern as well as support services such as a map library, records and Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) with a School ofDental tapes, and a self-instruction center. Many disciplines require Medicine at Alton and a center in East St. Louis. Southern Illi- laboratories; some are the traditional variety and some are nois University, with an annual operating budget ofmore than in orchards, barns, hangars, machine shops, sound chambers $560 million, en-rolls more than 33,000 students in programs computer labs, archaeological digs, sewing rooms, kindergar- from two-year technical curriculums to doctoral programs in 29 tens, and clinics. fields along with law and medicine. SIU was chartered in 1869 The University offers a great variety of services to students. as Southern Illinois Normal University, a teachers' college. In The Registrar's Office audits students' progress and maintains 1947, the name was changed to Southern Illinois University, re- records from entrance to graduation. Financial experts, wise flecting the institution's academic expansion. Southern Illinois in the field of money for education, work tirelessly to find the University also expanded geographically. As early as 1949, SIU right combination of loans, grants, and on- and off-campus em- began offering off-campus academic courses in the metropoli- ployment to keep each student in school. Residence halls are tan East St. Louis area, which led to the eventual development available on campus as are furnished and unfurnished apart- ofa separate institution in Edwardsville. ments for families. The counseling services are ready to help A modern and comprehensive post-secondary educational in- students deal with scholastic, family, emotional, medical, legal, stitution, Southern Illinois University offers a broad range of or financial problems. academic programs that lead to associate, baccalaureate, mas- The University provides an aggressive placement program on ters, specialists, doctoral, and professional degrees. a number oflevels. University Career Services presents career The instructional, research, and service missions of the two fairs and regular visits by recruiters from large employers. Ca- institutions reflect the needs of the geographic areas in which reer counselors are ready to work with students from the time they are located. Southern Illinois University also is committed of their enrollment. Seminars and workshops are conducted to serving statewide, national, and international needs. This regularly and a career library is maintained. Some schools and commitment is reflected in the educational activities located off departments have highly successful recruitment programs of — the main campuses in communities throughout the state and their own. Placement services do not stop at graduation the in the 38 programs offered on 30 military bases in 16 states. It University keeps a current placement file for every interested is also realized through research and training exchanges, and graduate, and Alumni Services offers referral assistance. worldwide student exchange programs. Carbondale, an economic centerofsouthern Illinois, has been A nine-member Board of Trustees governs Southern Illinois cited in a recent study as one of the 50 most desirable places University and sets policy that enables it to carry out its estab- to live in the United States. Only a few hours from Chicago, lished missions and goals. The president of Southern Illinois St. Louis, and Memphis, the University sits amid rolling hills, University is its chiefexecutive officer and reports to the Board farmlands, and orchards just 60 miles above the confluence of ofTrustees. The chancellors report directly to the president and the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Glacial deposits of rock have are responsible for the internal operations ofSIUE and SIUC. left the area from Carbondale south ruggedly scenic and popu- Southern Illinois University Carbondale lar among students and area residents alike for a wide range Southern Illinois University Carbondale has taken pride in the of outdoor activities. Four large recreational lakes are within quality ofits services since its doors were first opened in 1869. minutes of the campus; the two great rivers, the spectacular Outstanding departments, distinguished faculty, thorough and 240,000-acre Shawnee National Forest, and a large number of inspired teaching, and a thoughtful approach to the blending smaller lakes, state parks, and recreational areas are within ofold wisdom with new knowledge, as well as student services easy driving distance. The Mid-South climate is ideal for year- from admission to placement, combine with the University's en- around outdoor activities - even a little cross-country skiing. viable location to provide a rewarding educational experience. The campus itself is a marvel of landscaping, planted with na- Every member of the University faculty is a student as well tive trees, shrubs and blooming flora. as a teacher bringing the products of research and scholarship Activities on campus are equall—y inviting. There are more into the classroom. The University has many distinguished than 400 student organ—izations special interest, political, scholars on its faculty honored by their peers for important Greek, religious, service intramurals from baseball to ulti- contributions to the fields they study. Contact with these hard- mate frisbee, a recreational lake on campus, nine intercolle- working educators offers students the best possible entry into giate sports programs for women and nine for men, and great the world of today where ideas and technology mesh. As stu- varieties of diverting entertainment. A large indoor recreation dents progress in their studies they will work along with faculty center contains an Olympic-sized pool, weight rooms, game members and may eventually be able to participate in ongoing courts ofall kinds, diet and exercise programs, instruction, and re-search projects or set up projects oftheir own. Other courses equipment that can be checked out for outdoor recreation. may lead to intern-ships or practicum work on campus or in the At this modern university in a rural setting, one can ben- area around the University. efit from the best ofboth worlds -the scenic wonders, the small- town friendliness, the easy access to all the area has to offer.