Berry College
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Berry College is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 accredited, private, four-year liberal arts college
Liberal arts colleges in the United States
Liberal arts colleges in the United States are certain undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers a definition of the liberal arts as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general...

 located in Mount Berry
Mount Berry, Georgia
Mount Berry is an unincorporated community contiguous with the main campus of Berry College in Floyd County, Georgia, United States, bordering the city of Rome. Mount Berry was named after Berry College founder Martha Berry...

, unincorporated
Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 Floyd County
Floyd County, Georgia
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, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
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, north of Rome
Rome, Georgia
Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Rome is the largest city and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States. It is the principal city of the Rome, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Floyd County...

. It was founded in 1902 by Martha Berry.

Location

Berry College is located on U.S. Highway 27 (Martha Berry Highway) in Northwest Georgia, 72 miles (115.9 km) northwest of Atlanta and 75 miles (120.7 km) south of Chattanooga.

Spanning more than 26000 acres (105.2 km²), Berry College is the largest contiguous college campus in the world. The Berry campus consists of fields, forests, and Lavender Mountain. Designated portions are open to the public for hiking, cycling, horseback riding, and other outdoor activities. The campus is also home to a large population of deer (estimates range between 1,500 and 2,500). The Georgia Department of Natural Resources oversees a large area (almost 16,000 acres) and conducts managed hunts in an attempt to control the deer population and provide recreational opportunities within department regulations. There is also a wildlife refuge encompassing campus buildings and other public spaces where no hunting is allowed.

History

Berry was founded in 1902 by Martha McChesney Berry as a school for rural boys. Seven years later, a girls school was added. A junior college was established in 1926, and a four-year college followed in 1930. Graduate programs outside the liberal arts were added in 1972. Funds for campus facilities and other programs have been provided by such notable contributors as Henry Ford
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry...

 and Truett Cathy.

Academics

Berry College offers Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

, Bachelor of Music
Bachelor of Music
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, Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Science
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, Master of Business Administration
Master of Business Administration
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, Master of Education
Master of Education
The Master of Education is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in a large number of countries. This degree in education often includes the following majors: curriculum and instruction, counseling, and administration. It is often conferred for educators advancing in...

, and Education Specialist degrees from the four schools making up the academic program. It is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the National Council for Teacher Education (NCATE), the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), and the American Chemical Society (ACS). Berry is also a member of the Annapolis Group
Annapolis Group
The Annapolis Group is an American organization that describes itself as "a nonprofit alliance of the nation’s leading independent liberal arts colleges." It represents approximately 130 liberal arts colleges in the United States...

, an organization of more than 120 liberal arts colleges nationwide. According to U.S. News and World Report Berry is currently ranked 112th among the "Top Liberal Arts
Liberal arts
The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...

 colleges."

Undergraduate programs

The Campbell School of Business offers bachelor's degrees in accounting, economics
Economics
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, finance
Finance
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, management
Management
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, and marketing
Marketing
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. It also fields an MBA program.

The Charter School of Education and Human Sciences offers bachelor's degrees in early childhood education
Early childhood education
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, psychology
Psychology
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, health and physical education
Physical education
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, exercise science, and middle grades education
Middle school
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. Upper-level programs include a Master of Education, Education Specialist, ESOL endorsement, master's level reading endorsement, and certifications in early childhood education, middle grades education, and secondary education.

The Evans School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences offers bachelor's degrees in art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

, communication
Communication
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, English
English studies
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, French
French language
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, German
German language
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, government
Government
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, history
History
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, international studies
International studies
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, music
Music
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, music education, music with elective studies in business, religion and philosophy, sociology and anthropology, Spanish
Spanish language
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, and theatre. Pre-law is also available as a pre-professional program. This department is also home to the all of the school's student publications including the Campus Carrier (campus newspaper), the Cabin Log (yearbook), Ramifications (art magazine), and Viking Fusion
Viking Fusion
Viking Fusion is a student media website for Berry College that seeks to serve the department of communication courses as a platform for student productions, and to inform and entertain both the Berry student community and the larger public, even beyond Berry College. Content on the site is...

 (multimedia news and entertainment website).

The School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences offers bachelor's degrees in animal science
Animal science
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, biochemistry, biology
Biology
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, chemistry
Chemistry
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, environmental sciences, mathematics
Mathematics
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, and physics
Physics
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. Dual-degree programs are available in engineering
Engineering
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 (with the Georgia Institute of Technology) and nursing
Nursing
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 (with the Emory University School of Nursing). Pre-professional programs in pre-dentistry, pre-medicine, pre-pharmacy, and pre-veterinary medicine are also available.

Minors can be obtained in 36 different courses of study throughout the four schools.

Berry also offers an undergraduate degree in interdisciplinary studies, as well as a certification in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Religion

Berry was built upon Christian ethics and beliefs. Though mandatory religious adherence was abandoned decades ago in the college as a whole, it remains for those students with the WinShape
WinShape
The WinShape Foundation is an American charitable endeavor of the fast-food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A and its founder Truett Cathy and his family...

 grant
. Additionally, the school's mission statement espouses "values based on Christian principles." The campus has a chaplain, a non-denominational church, four chapels, and an active religion-in-life program spanning all Christian denominations. An interfaith council and an interfaith center were set up in 2004 to address the needs of other faiths among students, faculty, and staff. This has since been expanded to include an SAIC (Student Association for an Inter-Religious Community) and other non-Christian groups.

Athletics

The Berry College mascot is the Viking
Viking
The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...

. Berry fields competitive teams in 18 intercollegiate sports including men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, tennis, running, lacrosse, swimming and diving and golf, as well as men’s baseball and women’s volleyball, softball and equestrian.

Berry is a founding member of the Southern Athletic Association, Division III of the NCAA. Other members include Birmingham-Southern College, Centre College, Hendrix College, Oglethorpe University, Millsaps College, Sewanee: The University of the South and Rhodes College. The SAA was formed in 2011 and will begin league play in 2012.

Films

Berry College has been used for the filming of several movies, along with music videos by bands such as Casting Crowns
Casting Crowns
Casting Crowns is a Grammy Award and Dove Award winning Contemporary Christian/Christian Rock band. Casting Crowns was started in 1999 by youth pastor Mark Hall at First Baptist Church in Downtown Daytona Beach, Florida as part of a youth group. He now serves as a lead vocalist...

. The most notable films are Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans is a 2000 American sports film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. Inspired by real events, the plot was conceived from a screenplay written by Gregory Allen Howard. The film starts as a new coach of the Titans, a football team previously coached by the...

and Sweet Home Alabama
Sweet Home Alabama (film)
Sweet Home Alabama is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Andy Tennant and stars Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, and Patrick Dempsey. The film was released on September 27, 2002.-Plot:...

. Disney's movie Perfect Harmony
Perfect Harmony
Perfect Harmony is a Disney movie that is set in the US Civil Rights era. The story highlights the racial tensions of the Black and White populations within a South Carolina town and its private school. The production was filmed at Berry College, and is noted for its soundtrack which featured...

was filmed at buildings including Old Mill. A short scene from Dutch
Dutch (film)
Dutch is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Faiman and written by John Hughes. The original music score was composed by Alan Silvestri...

was filmed on the Berry campus.

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