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Five College Interchange Program
Contact: Sheila Brennan, Coordinator
Office: 614 Goodell
Phone: 545-5352
Web site: www.fivecolleges.edu
Students may elect to take
courses off campus at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, or Smith colleges.
These institutions join with the University of Massachusetts Amherst to
form the Five College consortium, combining their academic activities
in selected areas for the purpose of extending and enriching their collective
educational resources. Certain specialized programs are operated jointly,
such as the Five College Astronomy Department, the Five College Dance
Department, the Five College Black
Studies Executive Committee, which oversees the curriculum for
the Five College Black Studies major; and the Five College East
Asian Languages program, which oversees
the curricula in the Chinese and Japanese languages. In addition,
the Five Colleges appoint certain faculty in very specialized areas (such
as Latin American studies, analytical
geochemistry, international relations), whose courses rotate among
the five campuses, and are open to all.
Any matriculated part-time or full-time University
student in good standing in a degree program may register for courses
at any of the other four without additional cost beyond normal lab or
instructional fees. At the University, an eligible student must be at
least a second-semester freshman and be enrolled in at least one regular
three-credit academic course at the University.
Approval by the student's major or minor academic adviser
is required only if the course is related to the requirements of the student's
major or minor. Permission of the instructor at
the host institution is required when enrollment is limited, if consent
is normally required, and during the University's Five College re-gistration period. Approval by the Academic
Dean or Dean's designee at the student's home institution is always required.
At the University the Dean's designee is the Five College Adviser associated
with the Premajor Advising Services.
Students can apply for interchange courses- preferably
during the preregistration period, or during the registration period specified
in the Five College Academic Calendar. When taking courses off campus,
students are governed by all the rules and regulations of the host institution.
(Arrangements for grades for Hampshire College courses must be made with
the instructor.) Grades earned at the other four colleges are recorded
on the student's University transcript and factored into the University
grade point average. Free bus transportation among the five institutions
is available.
Current catalogs for Five College courses, for Amherst,
Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith colleges, information about their
academic programs and schedules, and Five College registration applications
are available at and processed through the Five College Interchange Office.
Office hours are posted.
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