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Minors, Certificates, & Letters (Nonmajor Programs)

These programs are meant to allow students to explore and attain some competence in a second field. In some cases, students may choose a minor or certificate topically connected to their major (e.g., a major in Spanish and a certif-icate in Latin American studies), or may choose a secondary field removed from their primary area which evinces a specific skill (e.g., a major in philosophy and a minor in cartography).

Descriptions of minors and letter programs are given at the end of the department's major description. Certificate programs are grouped separately. Interdepartmental minor and letter programs are described in the Certificate, Interdisciplinary Minor, and Letter Programs section.

It is the student's responsibility to make sure that all requirements for these various programs have been met and to obtain the proper departmental signature. An authorized form for minors is available at the Registrar's Office and must be filed upon completion of the minor and prior to graduation.

Following is a list of programs which offer specific academic concentration:

Certificates and Letters

African Studies (Five College), Arboriculture and Urban Forestry, Asian and Asian American Studies, Criminal Justice*, Culture, Health and Science (Five College), Film Studies, International Agricultural Studies*, International Relations, Latin American Studies, Medieval Studies, Middle Eastern Studies (Five College), Native American Indian Studies, Population Studies, Social Research and Analysis*

(*Letters)

Minors

Aerospace Studies, Afro-American Studies, Agricultural Economics, Anthropology, Arabic Language, Art, Art History, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Chinese, Classical Civilization, Comparative Literature, Computer Science, Economics, English, Entomology, Environmental Design, Environmental Sciences, Exercise Science, Food Marketing Economics, Food Science, Forestry, French and Fran-cophone Studies, Geography, Geology, German, Greek, Hebrew, History, Human Nutrition, Italian Studies, Japanese, Judaic Studies, Latin, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Managerial Economics in Food and Resource Industries, Mathematics, Microbiology, Middle Eastern Studies, Modern European Studies, Music Performance, Natural Resource Economics, Philosophy, Physics, Plant Pathology, Plant and Soil Sciences, Political Science, Portuguese, Psychology, Russian and East European Studies, Sociology, Spanish, Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation, Women's Studies.

Other Nonmajor Programs

Courses in other areas contribute to under-graduate education by fulfilling General Education, college, or major requirements, or as electives. Several departments regularly offer courses at the elementary and intermediate levels in other languages (Danish, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Yiddish), and the English as a Second Language Program offers college-level English language courses to non-native speakers. Some departments that have only graduate programs offer some courses that are available to undergraduates (Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Community Health Studies, Environmental Health Sciences, and the Labor Relations and Research Center). (See index for respective entries.)

Other nonmajor programs described in this book include: Aerospace Studies (Air Force ROTC), Military Science (Army ROTC), Athletics/Intramurals/General Physical Education, Internships, Study Abroad, and the Stockbridge School. Also, undergraduates at this University may elect courses at the other area colleges in the Five College consortium (Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and Smith College).

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