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Regulations & Requirements

Regulations & Requirements

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Field Study

The Faculty has instituted a program of Field Study under which students may pursue a course of study away from Amherst for either one or two semesters. Students are admitted to the program by the Committee on Academic Standing and Special Majors after approval of their written proposal and are assigned a Field Study Advisor chosen from the Faculty.

      Upon being admitted to Field Study, students become candidates for the de­gree of Bachelor of Arts with Field Study, which is normally attained in four­-and-one-half or five years. During the first semester in residence at Amherst after the period of Field Study, students must take a Special Topics course, nor­mally with their Field Study Advisor, in which they draw on both their experi­ence of Field Study and further investigation relating to it. Students may also pursue a related Special Topics course in the semester before they enter their program of Field Study.

      Students pursuing a two-semester plan of Field Study will be allowed to continue after the first semester only upon providing evidence to the Commit­tee that they are satisfactorily carrying out their program. No student shall be­gin study in the field later than the first semester of the senior year.

      Students pursuing Field Study shall maintain themselves financially in the field, and during the period shall pay a Field Study fee of $50 to the College in lieu of tuition.

      The transcript of a student who has undertaken Field Study shall include a short description and appraisal by the Field Advisor of the student’s project and of the related Special Topics course.

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