Monmouth College Viewbook

Let’s face it—you don’t need a degree to figure out what you should do. Or what you should think.

The world’s been telling you that for years.

But for the next 40 pages, move past just the practical, and focus on the possible.

Possible can’t be dictated to you. And it doesn’t live on some list. Possible lives inside of you.

Pounding in your chest. Whispering in your ear.

Daring you. And growing louder with every day and every idea.

You’ll know it when you feel it.

You’ll know you’re at Monmouth when you see it.

Because here, where now and next meet, we’re setting possible free.

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THE PRACTICAL LIBERAL ARTS Monmouth College offers a high-quality liberal arts education with a professional focus. With a liberal arts core, you’ll learn to think, analyze, and problem-solve. You’ll learn to speak and write clearly, and work effectively with diverse groups.

You’ll acquire not just knowledge, but very practical, transferable skills, so as the world continues to evolve, you’ll be able to evolve, too.

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ACADEMICS

A CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE Every Monmouth student completes a senior capstone experience in their chosen major.

Depending on your discipline, your experience may take the form a research project, thesis, performance, exhibition, portfolio of work, or senior seminar. The capstone experience is a unique opportunity to explore an area of interest, showcasing the knowledge and skills you’ve gained during your Monmouth career.

Senior, Khaled Arnaout presenting his research project at Scholarship Day to the campus community.

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ACADEMICS

Why choose just one area of study? We have:

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MAJORS MINORS PRE-PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS

ACADEMICS

Monmouth’s $42 million Center for Science and Business provides a state-of-the-art environment for integrating these two traditionally separate disciplines, inspiring innovation through a unique collaboration under one roof.

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EXPRESS YOURSELF Through art, theatre, and music, Monmouth students find ample opportunities to explore and express their creativity. Whether your goal is to become a working artist, or to use the arts to stir creative juices in a different major, the fine arts will enhance your career, and every area of your life.

Pictured here are students and a professor conducting a pour in the Monmouth College Foundry, which has been in existence since 1967. Outside of the many art mediums we offer, at Monmouth College the foundry allows a unique art medium in the form of metal. An example shown is from a mold created and then poured of the Monmouth College cupola.

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FINE ARTS

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Our faculty members are the kind of people you’ll want to get to know. And they want to know you too. Here, you and your professors will be on more than a first-name basis—you’ll build lasting relationships that extend beyond the classroom.

FACULTY

Dr. Chris Fasano, Department of Physics peers out from the PlaneWave Instruments CDK20 Telescope, known on campus as the Trubek Telescope that sits atop the Center for Science and Business. The sky is the limit at Monmouth College!

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Old-school charm meets modern-day advantages at Monmouth. You’ll gather for classes in both new and historic buildings across campus, and take strolls on the picturesque quad in between.

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CAMPUS

LEAVE IT ALL OUT THERE On the field, in the pool, or on the court, the Fighting Scots give it everything they’ve got. Athletics are a big deal on campus—half of our students play on a varsity or intramural team, and even more show up to cheer them on.

Midwest Conference Championships 2016- 17 Football 2017 Men’s Indoor Track 2017 Men’s Outdoor Track 2017 2017- 18 Football 2016 Men’s Basketball 2017-18 Men’s Indoor Track 2018 Men’s Outdoor Track 2018 Baseball 2018 2018-19 Men’s Indoor Track 2019 Men’s Outdoor Track 2019 2019-20 Men’s Indoor Track 2019 Outdoor Men’s Track and Field: 2019 Women’s Basketball: 2019 Football 2019 Women’s Soccer 2019

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ATHLETICS

MEN’S SPORTS Baseball Basketball Cross Country Football Golf Lacrosse Soccer Swimming and Diving Tennis Track and Field Water Polo Our magnificent, 155,000-square-foot Huff Athletic Center, known as “The Huff,” features a state-of-the-art pool, indoor tennis courts, 200-meter indoor track, and our modern, fully equipped Trotter Fitness Complex.

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WOMEN’S SPORTS Basketball Cross Country Golf Lacrosse Soccer Softball Swimming and Diving Tennis Track and Field Volleyball Water Polo

The Fighting Scots compete in

Not ready for the big leagues?

Join one of our many intramural teams.

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NCAA DIVISION III VARSITY SPORTS

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TRADITION

We’re proud Scots—with the kilts and the traditional Scottish pipe band to prove it. You can find the band playing at home football games, parades, and celebrations, and even leading the procession at commencement.

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THIS IS HOW COLLEGE SHOULD BE Ideal Setting: ✔ Activities and Organizations: ✔ Awesome facilities: ✔ And because 92 percent of our students live on campus, you’re surrounded by a community that takes it all in together

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STUDENT LIFE

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STUDENT LIFE

Your voice deserves to be heard. That’s why our students create and broadcast their own programming on our radio station, WPFS, reaching ears across campus and in the surrounding community.

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STUDENT LIFE

The Trotter Fitness Center boasts 72 fitness stations, extensive free weights and weight training equipment, a climbing wall, and a dance studio, so you’ll never have to do the same workout twice (unless, of course, you want to).

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The first-ever women’s fraternity in the country was started right here on campus in 1867, and Greek life has been popular ever since. Today, one in four students is a member of Greek life at Monmouth.

Monmouth College sororities coming together for recruitment day, ready to reveal their new sisters!

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GREEK LIFE

Whether you’re looking to study abroad for a few weeks, a semester, or a year, we offer over

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GLOBAL STUDY OPPORTUNITIES.

Monmouth has offered Scots Term trips to:

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Brazil Costa Rica Mexico Italy Botswana

Japan Spain Greece England India

STUDY ABROAD

No passport? No problem.

We’ll help you get a passport for free, unlocking access to 198 countries around the world.

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Monmouth is the GOAT. It’s not all studying and finals. We bring the fun and beat the stress with events on campus from concerts to comedians and, yes, the spring favorite goat yoga on the quad. Every day is a great day to be a Scot.

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STUDENT LIFE

COMMENCEMENT — AN EXCITING BEGINNING Commencement does not mark an ending, but rather an exciting beginning for every Monmouth graduate. Commencement at Monmouth is a weekend-long event – honoring our accomplished graduates and celebrating their bright, limitless futures.

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COMMENCEMENT

SUCCESS AHEAD Ninety-eight percent of Monmouth graduates are employed or enrolled in graduate school within six months.

Knowledgeable, experienced, and supremely confident, Monmouth graduates are prepared to succeed, and to lead, in a challenging, ever-evolving 21st-century world.

HADLEY SMITHHISLER ’20 Participated in the highly selective Mount Vernon Summer Leadership Fellows Program. A History and French major and a cellist in the Chamber Orchestra. Hadley is now attending Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

BRANDON ALLEN ’19, Chemistry and Physics major, is pursuing his Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry at Yale University.

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KASHA APPLETON ’20 interned at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. and is now pursuing her Ph.D. at Indiana University.

Clark Gaden was exceptional on the football field as all-conference MVP, and just as exceptional in the classroom earning Cum Laude as a Business Administration and Accounting major.

Clark is currently employed with Ernst & Young in Washington D.C.

SCOT SUCCESS

KATE SAULCY ’19 and ALI GUSTAFSON ’19 Biochemistry majors are attending the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Rockford.

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SEE IT FOR YOURSELF. You’ll find us on an intimate, small-town campus within a diverse, connected community.

But you don’t have to take our word for it. We’re happy to show you.

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OLDEST RIVALRY IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL

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OF OUR FACULTY HOLD THE HIGHEST DEGREES IN THEIR FIELD

OF STUDENTS RECEIVE A SCHOLARSHIP OR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

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TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH PIPE BAND

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EMPLOYED OR IN GRADUATE SCHOOL

VI S I T Plan a personalized visit or join one of our online events.

You won’t be disappointed. monmouthcollege.edu/visit

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1853 THE YEAR WE WERE FOUNDED

Acco u nt i n g Art Biochemistry Biology B i o p syc h o l o g y B u s i n es s Ad m i ni st rat i o n Ch em i s t r y Cl a s s i c a l L a n g ua ge s Cl a s s i c s Co m m u n i c at i o n Co m p u te r S c i e n ce Dat a S c i e n ce Eco n o m i c s Ed u c at i o n a l St udi e s E l e m ent a r y Ed ucat i o n En g i n e er i n g En g l i s h Env i ro n m ent a l St u di e s a n d S u s t a i n a bi li t y E xe rc i s e S c i e n ce Fre n c h H i s to r y I nte r n at i o n a l B usi ne ss I nte r n at i o n a l Stu di e s L at i n Mat h em at i c s Music M u s i c Ed u c at i on Neu ro s c i e n ce Needs new P h i l o s o p hy P hys i c a l Ed u c ati o n P hys i c s Po l i t i c a l S c i e n ce Psyc h o l o g y P u b l i c Rel at i o n s Re l i g i o u s St u d ie s S o c i o l o g y a n d Ant hro po lo gy S o c i o l o g y a n d Ant hro po lo gy w i t h H u m a n S e rvi ce s Spanish T h eat re T h eat re Ed u c ati o n Te a c h e r L i ce n su re D r a m a / T h eat re A rt s 9 -1 2 E l e m ent a r y Ed ucat i o n 1-6 En g l i s h 9 - 1 2 Fre n c h K- 1 2 Mat h em at i c s 9 -1 2 M u s i c K- 1 2 P hys i c a l Ed u c ati o n K-1 2 S o c i a l S c i e n ce – Hi sto ry 9 -1 2 S p a n i s h K- 1 2

M I N OR S Acco u nt i ng A nt hro po logy A rt A rt s Ma nagement Asi a n St u dies B i o lo gy B u si ne ss Ad min istr ation C he m i st ry C lassi cs C o m m u ni cation C o m pu te r Scien ce Dat a S ci e n ce Eco no m i cs Edu cat i o nal Stud ies Engli sh Envi ro nm ental Stud ies and S u stain ab ility Fre nch Glo ba l Fo od Secur ity Stud ies Glo ba l Pu blic Health Stud ies Gre e k Hi sto ry Hu m an S e rv ices Inte rnat i o nal Stud ies Inve st i gat ive Foren sics Jo u rnali sm Lat i n Lat i n A m e rican Stud ies Le afrom de rshiTravel p Stud ies copy Cards Mat he m at ics Me di a M u si c Pe a ce , Et hics an d S o ci al Justice Phi lo so phy Phi lo so phy an d Re li gi o u s Stud ies Physi c s Po li t i ca l S cien ce Psyc ho lo g y Re li gi o u s Stud ies S o c i o lo gy S o c i o lo gy an d Anth rop ology S pani sh T he at re Wo m e n’s Stud ies

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