Coker College
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Former names
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Coker College for Women |
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| Type | private, co-educational, baccalaureate degree |
| Established | 1908 |
| Founder | Major James Lide Coker |
| President | Dr. Robert L. Wyatt |
| Dean | Dr. Tracy Parkinson |
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Academic staff
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68 full-time 70 adjunct |
| Students | approx. 1,200 (Fall 2012) |
| Location |
Hartsville, South Carolina, United States 34°22′36.4″N 80°04′10″W / 34.376778°N 80.06944°W |
| Colors | Navy and Gold |
| Sports | Baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, softball, cross country, tennis, golf, wrestling, lacrosse |
| Nickname | Cobras |
| Affiliations | South Atlantic Conference |
| Website | Official website |
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Coker College is a private, co-ed four-year liberal arts college located in Hartsville, South Carolina. Coker offers a four-year program that emphasizes a practical application of the liberal arts as well as hands-on and discussion-based learning within and beyond the classroom. Coker is ranked among the "Best Colleges" in the South by U.S. News & World Report as well as The Princeton Review. Located in Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina, Coker is within two hours of the cultural, financial and recreational resources of Charlotte, Columbia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach.
Coker College was founded in 1908, and is fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Coker's sports teams, nicknamed the Cobras, compete in NCAA Division II.
As a Liberal Arts institution, Coker strives to provide every student with an academic curriculum based upon a liberal arts core, known as the Liberal Arts Studies Program (LASP).
The LASP is divided into different baskets of knowledge, and the student chooses the available classes from each basket that most interest them. The baskets are Core Skills (21 semester hours), Knowledge of the Arts (6 hours), Knowledge of the Behavioral Sciences (6 hours), Knowledge of the Humanities (6 hours), Knowledge of the Natural Sciences (7 hours), Knowledge of the United States (3 hours) and Knowledge of the Wider World (3 hours). As the students progresses through school, they may select classes to fulfill basket requirements that are in tune with their interests. For example, in the Knowledge of the Wider World baskets, students could choose a class on Latin-American Literature, World Religions, International Politics, Musics of the World, Modernization and Social Change or African Geography, among others. The classes offered under each basket allow for a host of different options, with no two students ever really taking all the same classes.
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