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Southern Wesleyan University (SWU) is a Christ-centered, student-focused 学习 community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for Christ.
Since its founding by The Wesleyan Church in 1906, SWU has been a Christian community of learners that recognizes God as the source of all truth and wisdom. The university seeks to create an atmosphere in which members of the community work together toward wholeness by seeking to integrate faith, 学习, 和日常生活.
位于中环, 南卡罗来纳, SWU is a half-way point between Charlotte, 北卡罗莱纳, 和亚特兰大, 乔治亚州. It is thirty minutes from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and ten minutes from Clemson University, with whom it shares some cooperative programs. SWU welcomes persons with a wide variety of backgrounds and abilities. 年轻人和老年人, undergraduate and graduate, residential and commuting, and traditional and non-traditional students work and interact with a faculty guided by a Christian understanding of the liberal arts.
The university evolved from a small Bible institute and its first charter as Wesleyan Methodist College in 1909 into a four-year, 私人, 文理学院, regionally accredited in 1973. 从历史上看, the founders of the college understood linguistic, 定量, and analytical skills to be the foundation of a liberal arts 教育. 进一步, they believed that the cultivation of this curriculum within the context of faith, 敬拜, 宗教研究, and service to others created a fertile soil for intellectual and spiritual growth. 因此, the college ensured that every student would be well grounded in these areas by developing a general 教育 curriculum of liberal arts studies. That tradition is alive today. All undergraduate programs—traditional and non-traditional—contain a core curriculum in the liberal arts.
As a ministry of The Wesleyan Church and in service to the global Church, SWU prepares students for graduate study and leadership in such fields as religion, 教育, 音乐, 业务, 医学, 法律, and a variety of civic and social service professions. Graduate programs are offered in fields in which the university has demonstrated particular strengths—religion, 教育 and 业务. Although the university serves the Southeast, the student population is a wholesome blending of cultural, ethnic and regional diversity drawn from the entire United States and the international community encouraging broader understanding and development of Christian values.
Ideal graduates of SWU have a healthy respect for themselves and others as bearers of God’s image. Their respect encourages care for personal and social health—mentally, physically, and spiritually. They seek a biblical social awareness that cares for people and their environment. Through the completion of courses in world history, 文化, and the arts (in traditional and non-traditional classes and in international settings), they are prepared to serve society with respect for the past and a vision for the future. SWU graduates are prepared to confront a rapidly changing world with skills in communication, information processing, 分析, 合成, 和解决问题.