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Application: FCSILP Application Form
Registration appointments for Spring 2009 will be available April 6-17, 2009. Registration appoinments will also be available at the beginning of the Fall semester. Students who have experience with the language must contact the Center by April 17, 2009 in order to arrange for an appropriate placement interview. Late requests for placements may not be able to be accomodated.
The final deadline for FCSILP Applications is Thursday, September 10, 2009. The final deadline for admitted SILP students to complete registration paperwork is Tuesday, September 15, 2009.
Some sections will fill up before the deadline.
1. Read the general information page about the program.
2. Read the frequently asked questions page. Call or e-mail if you have additional questions. Students who have previous experience with the language they wish to study should contact the Center during the spring preregistration period to discuss placement options. Students studying abroad should e-mail the Center about regsistration and alternative placement arrangements.
3. Fill out an application form. Applications are also available in our office.
4. Make an appointment for a registration interview by e-mailing fcsilp@hfa.umass.edu or calling 413-545-3453. You can bring the application with you to the interview or e-mail the application to us ahead of time.
Students who have prior experience with a language need to contact the Center by April 17, 2009 to arrange a placement interview for Fall 2009. Placements must normally be completed during the semester prior to enrollment. Makeup placements at the beginning of the semester are not always possible. Students currently abroad should e-mail the Center to make alternative application and placement arrangements.
Students returning to the program only need to make an appointment to fill out the paperwork for the semester.
Applications from students who do not need placements will be accepted until Thursday, September 10, 2009 as long as there is space available in the program. In the 2008-2009 school year, some qualified students were turned away due to lack of space, so interested students should not put off applying.
Credit for these courses varies by college:
--at Amherst College these courses carry 1/2 credit each;
--at Hampshire College these courses carry credit;
--at Mount Holyoke College these courses carry 2 credits each and two semesters (or equivalent) must be completed to receive credit;
--at Smith College these courses carry 2 credits each and two semesters (or the equivalent) must be completed to receive credit;
--at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst these courses carry 1.5 credits each.
Arabic, see Mentored Arabic for courses in Modern Standard Arabic and in Colloquial Levantine, Egyptian, Moroccan, and Iraqi Arabic
Bosnian, see Serbo-Croatian
Bulgarian I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 197M, 197N, 197O, 197P)
Croatian, see Serbo-Croatian
Czech I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 111M, 112M, 121M, 122M)
Farsi/Persian (Iranian) I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 197L, 197W, 197J, 197BB - see Mentored Persian for the 2007-2008 academic year
Georgian I and V (197EA, 197EF)
Modern Greek I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 111A, 112A, 121A, 122A)
Hausa I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 197AL, 197AN)
Hindi, see Mentored Hindi
Hungarian I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 111L, 112L, 121L, 122L)
Indonesian I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 111B, 112B, 121B, 122B) not offered in Fall 2009
Norwegian I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 111K, 112K, 121K, 122K)
Persian/Farsi (Iranian) I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 197L, 197W, 197J, 197BB - see Mentored Persian for the 2008-2009 academic year
Romanian I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 197E, 197F, 197G, 197H)
Serbian, see Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian I, II, III, IV and IV (FORLANGC 111I, 112I, 121I, 122I, 197BM)
Slovak I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 197DD and 197AE)
Swahili, see Mentored Swahili
Thai I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 111N, 112N, 121N, 122N)
Turkish I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 111J, 112J, 121J, 122J), see Mentored Turkish for the 2008-2009 academic year
Turkmen I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC tba)
Twi I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 197A, 197B, 197C, 197D)
Urdu I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 111C, 112C, 121C, 122C), also see Mentored Hindi and Supervised Independent Urdu
Ukrainian I (FORLANGC tba)
Vietnamese I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 197Q, 197R, 197i, 197Y)
Wolof I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 197S, 197T, 197U, 197V)
Zulu I, II, III, and IV (FORLANGC 197AC and 197AO)
All regularly enrolled undergraduates at any of the Five Colleges are elgible to apply for the program.
Graduate students, UMass continuing education students, first-semester freshmen, and Five College staff are not eligible for this program. All courses must be taken for credit. Auditing is not an option.
First-semester/first-year students with exceptional language backgrounds or who have just returned from an exchange year abroad in a country where one of the FCSILP languages is spoken should consult with the class dean on their home campus and the Director of FCSILP about options for language study in FCSILP during their first semester.
1. How do I study a language on my own?
2. Where do I find my materials?
3. Who is my conversation partner?
4. How am I graded?
5. What will my final oral evaluation be like?
6. What if I need to drop or take an incomplete?
7. Where is the FCSILP office?
Five College Supervised Independent Language Program
Five College Mentored Language Courses
Language and International Opportunities Web
LangMedia: The Five College Foreign Language Media Archive
Five College International and Regional Studies
Five College Language Departments
Language Resources on the Web
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