Marywood University: Courses, Admission, Cost

Marywood University is a Catholic liberal arts university in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Set up in 1915 by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the first batch of students graduated in 1919 with a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, or Bachelor of Letters. By the 1930s, the college had widened its educational plan, offering subjects extending from the social sciences to pre-medical. Marywood at present admits more than 3,000 students in a wide variety of undergrad, graduate, and doctoral programs. The school has a national arboretum with more than 100 varieties of trees and bushes.

Marywood's programs are directed through four degree-allowing colleges, with around 40 bachelor's degrees, 21 master's degrees, two doctoral degrees, two-terminal degrees by programs (MFA, Ed.S). All students are required to finish a core curriculum in the liberal arts in addition to the courses in their majors. Students may join with double majors, honors, and independent study programs, practicums, internships, and study abroad, as well as Army and Air Force ROTC programs.

The university is structured into three colleges: College of Arts and Sciences and the departments include Art, Communication Arts, English, and Foreign Languages, Music, Theatre, and Dance, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science, Social Sciences and others. College of Health and Human Services includes Communication Sciences & Disorders, Nutrition, Athletic Training, and Exercise Science, Nursing, Physician Assistant, Psychology and Counseling, and others. College of Professional Studies includes Architecture, Business, and Global Innovation, Education, Ph.D. Strategic Communication and Administrative Studies, and MPA Program.

Marywood University is home to around 20 distinct buildings on its campus. Completed in 2001, Insalaco Center for Studio Arts houses the Kresge Gallery and features drawing and painting studios showing naturally-lit rooms with fine views of the campus. There are studios and equipment for carpentry, fiber arts, jewelry-making, ceramics, sculpture, photography, printmaking, a computer Mac lab, and private and semi-private studios for upper-level BFA, MA, and MFA students. The Liberal Arts Center houses numerous academic departments, including Religious Studies, Philosophy, Social Sciences, English, and Foreign Languages. The Shields Center for Visual Arts serves Marywood's art students. It has classroom space for the graphic design, illustration, art history, and art therapy programs and a 24-hour drop-in Mac lab. It additionally houses three art galleries, which are Mahady Gallery, Suraci Gallery, and Maslow Study Gallery. The McGowan Center for Graduate and Professional Studies, remodeled in 1998, was recently known as the Center for Human Services. It houses the College of Professional Studies and the Counseling/Student Development Center.

Some of the alumni are:

• Sister Adrian Barrett, a Roman Catholic nun, educator, and social worker
• Colette Cassidy, primetime newsbreak presenter for MSNBC
• Jean Kerr, playwright, and author of Please Don't Eat the Daisies
• Michele Knotz, the voice actress for anime such as Pokemon