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Division of Arts and Science
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Chair: Dr. Sally Malone-Hawkins

HISTORY AND GENERAL INFORMATION

The Division of Arts and Sciences was created in 2001 under the leadership of Dr. Haywood L. Strickland, President and CEO of Wiley College. The division is administratively made up of three academic areas: Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Communications and Performing Arts.

The Division of Arts and Sciences offers the Associate of Arts degree in Criminal Justice, Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice, English, History, Mass Communications, Music, Sociology, and the Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Students are encouraged to follow the curriculum guides included in this Catalog and are expected to understand that completing a degree program successfully may take more than four years.

MISSION

The mission of the Division of Arts and Sciences is to assist students in acquiring proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing, developing competency in a chosen area of study, cultivating an appreciation for cultural differences, and to provide training in an area of their choice.

GOALS

The goals of the Division of Arts and Sciences are:

To integrate the offerings of the division with the overall objectives of the institution in an effort to effect sound intellectual, moral, and physical development of its students; and to promote within them a spirit of service to their community and to the broader society in which they live;
To help students develop sound, critical and analytical reasoning skills;
To help students acquire, understand, and develop a global appreciation by engaging them in analytical study of the cultural records of human life;
To develop essential skills in students that give rise to effective communication and expressions;
To aid students in understanding other cultures in order to appreciate their own, and to help students recognize the need for global understanding;
To provide the academic prerequisites needed by students in the arts and sciences to prepare them for entry in the allied health sciences such a dentistry, medicine, nursing, biomedical engineering, biochemistry, and pharmacy.
To cultivate a mode of graphic and musical communication through which society may better understand and accept that which is naturally beautiful; and
To prepare the students for advanced work in their chosen field.

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