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Texas Wesleyan University is a small liberal arts university whose focus is on the students' education and their personal development. Since the university is mostly a commuter campus with older and younger students as well as students from thirty different nations, the diverse student body enriches the multi-cultural focus of the curriculum and the global perspective of students. The university serves the development of each individual student by providing a nurturing environment to facilitate personal growth and a healthy formation of lasting relationships. The university also offers a strong supportive network to assist students with a variety of learning styles. Graduates are prepared to meet the world with a broad knowledge base from the liberal arts curriculum and confidence in knowing themselves and their strengths. The Office of International Programs is especially proud of the success our students have had at Texas Wesleyan, and we are always looking for new ways to integrate international students into the life of the campus and community. From our standpoint, not only does Wesleyan have a great amount to offer you, but also you have a great many things to offer our university, our students and our community. We hope, therefore, that you take our word that Texas Wesleyan is truly a great place to receive your education. Texas Wesleyan University is found in an established residential neighborhood with quick and easy access to the big city amenities of Fort Worth. The university is also located conveniently near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). Everyone knows of Dallas, but most people overlook the “most livable city” in north Texas, Fort Worth. Together with Dallas and surrounding cities, Fort Worth is part of the Metroplex, an urban area spanning 25,000 sq. km. and home to more than 6 million people. With a population of 625,000, Fort Worth is a large city, but it retains its Western history and its comfortable small-town atmosphere. Like Dallas, the economy is based on cattle and oil, but Fort Worth is the real deal and provides a friendlier, easier lifestyle for residents. Fort Worth is also ranked second-most affordable college town in the U.S. Fort Worth is a model of urban planning; you can visit different sections of town and find a variety of activities in their own distinctive settings. Historic Downtown provides interesting architecture and wonderful entertainment for locals and visitors. Friendly police patrol regularly on horseback, bicycle or segway and greet the visitors. Charming, unassuming, and remarkably unhurried, downtown's centerpiece, Sundance Square is 14 blocks of redbrick streets and late-19th-century buildings and has attractions that include the magnificent Bass Performance Hall (the permanent home to major performing arts organizations of Fort Worth including the symphony, ballet, opera, and live theater), a couple of cowboy museums, and a pair of Art Deco movie theaters. After lunch, you can relax and cool down in the sculptural Water Gardens, an oasis in the center of town. Downtown is visitor-friendly with sidewalks that invite strolling on the streets which are lit up like a Christmas tree at night. Sundance Square's restaurants and pubs are the heart of downtown nightlife and visitors can mingle with the out-going locals. Fort Worth is considered the cultural capital of the Southwest, with a thriving performing arts scene and three of the most impressive small art museums in the country. Wealthy patrons (mostly from oil money) and an enthusiastic city welcomed some of the world's most celebrated architects to create the Kimbell Art Museum, Amon Carter Art Museum, and Museum of Modern Art which have made Fort Worth as perhaps the top art and architecture city between the two coasts. In the park-like Cultural District, along with the three art museums are the spacious and beautiful Botanical Gardens with its Japanese Gardens, Casa Manana (a theater-in-the-round under a geodesic dome), the Museum of Science and Natural History and its Omni Theater, the Will Rogers Center and Coliseum (home of national rodeos), the Log Cabin Village from pioneer days, and the Fort Worth Zoo, ranked top in the country. Fort Worth hosts the second largest park land space of any U.S. city. The scenic, green-belted Trinity River Trails provide runners and families 35 miles of natural-surfaced and paved paths linking the various parts of town with the several parks dotted along the way, like the Heritage Park downtown and the wooded Trinity Park in the Cultural District. Three kilometers north of downtown Fort Worth is the heart of Fort Worth's Old West heritage. The Stockyards National Historic District is part theme park and part living history museum with historical walking tours of landmark buildings, restaurants, saloons, and shopping. It is a place where you can shop for cowboy boots and hats and watch the twice daily Texas longhorn cattle drive of authentically dressed cowboys going down the street. Fort Worth is famous for its longhorn cattle which were rounded up on the famous Chisholm Trail drives over a century ago. The livestock industry's 1880s roots are here. The country’s two largest meat packing plants were in the Stockyards (the end of the cattle drives for most), and the area became the biggest and busiest cattle, horse, mule, hog, and sheep marketing center in the Southwest (and quite a pocket of wealth). The animals were either processed and sent across the US or sold in cattle auctions in the Livestock Exchange Building, where animals are still bought and sold – only electronically today. The Stockyards also encompasses the Cowtown Coliseum, the world's first indoor rodeo arena; Stockyards Station, with more than 30 unique Western shops and restaurants in renovated hog-and-sheep pens, and also the depot to the Grapevine Vintage Railroad's 1896 Steam Train; Billy Bob's Texas, known as the world's largest honky-tonk; Western shops and authentic saloons, where bar stools are topped by saddles and visitors can experience a taste of the real cowboy’s Old West.
Fort Worth -- the most typically Texan of all Texas cities -- began as a tiny outpost on a lonely frontier in Indian land. Today, this metropolitan area of vast plains and loose neighborhoods blends its cattle and oil heritage seamlessly with an ever-growing, diverse array of new businesses and industries (from computer companies to aircraft plants). Throughout the city, you’ll also find museums devoted to Western heritage and Fort Worth’s colorful past while keeping an eye on the future and the finer things in life that this diversely cultural city provides. The fertile banks of the Trinity River run through the city and helped give Fort Worth its slogan, “Where the West Begins.” International students at Texas Wesleyan enjoy outings to the many diversions that Fort Worth offers. We look forward to hearing from you soon! For More Information, Contact Betsy Johnson, Director of International Programs (817) 531-4965 ejohnson@txwes.edu
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