Ten minutes from downtown Atlanta. Agnes Scott provides a small town feel with big city opportunities.
Symbolized by the black onyx ring, Agnes Scott students share a rich history and communal traditions that bind them together as students and alumnae.
Agnes Scott's 19th century architecture and Arcadian setting provide the perfect backdrop for your wedding, film shoot or next conference or meeting.
Women (and men) can take the next step at Agnes Scott to enter the healthcare field. College graduates can enroll in our post-baccalaureate pre-medical program for additional courses needed to enter a medical career.
Your professors will expect as much from you as the world expects from you. In other words, a lot.
After your first-year seminar, you will be prepared to pursue any one of the 34 majors and 31 minors available at Agnes Scott.
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American Book Award-winner Tananarive Due, Cosby Chair in the Humanities at Spelman College (2012-2013),will give a fiction reading as part of Agnes Scott’s Writers and Scholars Series on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. in The Dalton Gallery, Dana Fine Arts Building. A book signing will follow the reading.
The author of 12 novels and co-author of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, Due is also the recipient of the NAACP Image Award and the “New Voice in Literature Award” at the Yari Yari Pamberi conference co-sponsored by New York University's Institute of African-American Affairs and African Studies Program and the Organization of Women Writers of Africa. She and her husband, author Steven Barnes, collaborate on the Tennyson Hardwick mystery series in partnership with actor Blair Underwood.
Due holds a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University and an M.A. in English literature from the University of Leeds, England, where she specialized in Nigerian literature as a Rotary Foundation Scholar. A screenwriter and leading voice in black speculative fiction, she lives in the Atlanta area with Barnes and their son, Jason.
