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Five College Departments

Astronomy Department
http://www.astro.umass.edu/ast_page/fcad1.html
Faculty: 23 full time
Administration: department chair and undergraduate faculty committee
Chair: Ronald L. Snell, Department Head, UMass Amherst, 545-1949
Administrative Assistant: Barbara Keyworth, Five College Astronomy
Office: Lederle Graduate Research Tower, UMass Amherst, 545-4301
Activities: coordinates undergraduate curriculum and deploys faculty; shares research and instrumentation facilities
Science Education Fellows:
Catrina Hamilton, Astronomy, 233 Kendade Hall, Mount Holyoke College, 538-2263
Salman Hameed, Astronomy, Clark Science Center, Smith College, 585-3964

Dance Department
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/dance
Faculty: 18 full time
Administration: department chair and executive committee
Chair: Susan Waltner, Dance Department, Smith College, 585-3236
Department Office: Dance Building, Hampshire College, 256-8974
Administrative Assistants: Betty Veres Thurston
Production Manager: Jean Baxter
Activities: coordinates curriculum and deploys faculty; annual faculty and student concerts; joint appointment
poster available

Departments | Programs |Centers

Five College Programs

African Studies
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/african
Administration: African Studies Council
Council Chair: Joye Bowman, History, UMass Amherst, 545-0098
Activities: African Scholars Program (see following entry); certificate program; short-term residencies for visiting scholars/artists from Africa; faculty seminar
Publication: The African Studies Review: coeditors Mitzi Goheen, Anthropology, Amherst; Ralph Faulkingham, Anthropology, UMass Amherst

African Scholars Program
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/asp
Administration: director in consulation with the African Studies Council and the program’s executive committee—John Lemly, English, Mount Holyoke, director
Chairs: Executive Committee Chairs—Holly Hanson, History, Mount Holyoke (fall), and Rowland Abiodun, Art, Amherst (spring); Selection and Recruitment Co-Chairs—John Higginson, History, UMass Amherst, and Elizabeth Garland, scholar-at-large; Program Coordinator—Tina Barsby, UMass Amherst
Address: Herter Hall, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003-4805 USA
Voice mail: 413-577-3778
Fax: 413-577-3781
Activities: Semester- and year-long residencies for junior-level African scholars
E-mail: asp@fivecolleges.edu
brochure available

Anthropology
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/anthropology
Administration: faculty steering committee
Activities: annual student symposium featuring student research; cooperation in developing Culture, Health, and Science Program.

Art
www.fivecolleges.edu/academic_programs/academprog_deptprog_art.html
Administration: faculty committee and course coordinator
Activities: joint course, Five College Advanced Seminar in Drawing; visiting artists; annual exhibition of student work

Asian/Pacific/American Studies
www.fivecolleges.edu/asian_pa
Administration: faculty committee and chair
Administrative Chair: Lili Kim, SS, Hampshire College, 559-5393
Activities: certificate program (available currently at HC, MHC, SC, and UM); faculty seminar; curriculum development

Canadian Studies
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/canada
Administation: chair
Chair: Robert Schwartzwald, French and Italian, UMass Amherst,
545-6694
Activities: seminars and cultural programming

Crossroads In The Study Of The Americas (CISA)
(see centers)

Coastal And Marine Sciences Program
www.science.smith.edu/departments/marine/
Administration: faculty committee
Director: Paulette Peckol, Department of Biology, Smith, 585-3844.
Coordinator: Christina Petersen
Activities: program-sponsored field trips; field study placements; fieldwork; affiliations with research centers; curricular planning
Annual Events: student symposia, alumni/ae and career forums;
faculty seminar
brochure available

Culture, Health, And Science Program
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/chs
Administration: faculty committee and director
Program Director: Lynn Morgan, sociology and anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, 538-2108
Assistant: Alexandra Barr
Activities: curricular planning; internships; field study placements; certificate program; faculty seminar
brochure available

Early Music Program
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/earlymusic
Administration: program director in consultation with the Music chairs and Early Music commmittee
Program Director: Robert Eisenstein, Music, Mount Holyoke
Activities: instruction (voice and instrumental); ensembles and Five College Collegium; concerts of Medieval and Renaissance music; "painless auditions" open to the Five College community
Program Office: 210 Pratt Hall, Mount Holyoke, 538-2079
brochure available

East Asian Languages Program (EALP)
www.fivecolleges.edu/academic_programs/academprog_deptprog_ealp.html
Administration: faculty committee
Co-Chairs: Neoko Nemoto, Asian studies, Mount Holyoke College, 538-2886; Ying Wang, Asian studies, Mount Holyoke College, 538-2281
Activities: coordination of curricula in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean; pedagogical workshops; support for course staffing; public event

Film Studies
www.umass.edu/film
Administration: Five College Film Council
Council Chair: Helen von Schmidt, English, Amherst, 542-3248
Activities: curricular planning; film screenings; student film and video festival; two joint appointments in film and video production

Geology
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Geology/5Cgeology/5Cgeology.html
Administration: Geology chairs
Activities: curricular planning; field research trips for undergraduates and faculty; annual student symposium; joint appointment; speaker series; faculty symposium; joint technician (Stable Isotope Laboratory, UMass Amherst)

UMass/Five College Graduate Program In History
www.umass.edu/history/grad.html
Administration: Five College planning committee
Graduate Program Director: Larry Owens, History, University, 545-6775
Director of Graduate Admissions: Barry Levy, History, UMass Amherst, 545-2378
Activities: curricular coordination; faculty exchange; faculty seminar; distinguished lectureship
brochure available

International Relations
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/international
Administration: faculty committee
Chair: Vincent Ferraro, International Relations, Mount Holyoke, 538-2669
Activities: certificate program; lectures; joint appointment
brochure available

Latin American Studies
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/latinamericanstudies
Administration: Five College Latin American Studies Council
Co-Chairs: Ann Zulawski, history and Latin American studies, Smith College, 585-3727; Michelle Bigenho, Social Science, Hampshire College, 559-5355
Activities: certificate program; lectures; conferences; films; faculty seminar
brochure available

Middle Eastern Islamic Studies
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/middleeast
Administration: faculty committee
Activities: Five College Program in Arabic; certificate program in Middle Eastern Studies; faculty seminar; joint appointment in Arabic.

Music
www.fivecolleges.edu/music
Administration: Music chairs
Activities: curricular planning; coordination of applied instruction; joint concerts (Five College World Music and Choral festivals); student symposia; other events.
Subcommittees: Residency Committee; Choral Festival (biennial); Early Music; Choral Directors; Ethnomusicologists
brochure available

Native American Indian Studies
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/natam
Administration: Curriculum Planning Committee
Chair: Frederique Apffel Marglin, Anthropology, Smith, 585-3511
Activities: curriculum development; conferences, lectures, and films; certificate program (at the University only); faculty seminar

Peace And World Security Studies Program (PAWSS)
http://pawss.hampshire.edu
Administration: director in consultation with steering committee
Director: Michael Klare, School of Social Sciences, Hampshire, 559-5563
Address: School of Social Sciences, Hampshire College, 559-5367
Activities: workshops, lectures and conferences; support for curriculum development; curriculum resources project; summer internships; extensive Web site
Publications: Peace and World Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide; Guide to Careers, Internships, and Graduate Education in Peace Studies; World Security: Challenges for a New Century

Physics
www.fivecolleges.edu/deptprog/physics
Administration: faculty committee
Activities: annual undergraduate colloquium What’s New in Physics? and student symposium; advanced physics laboratory; curricular coordination.

Supervised Independent Language Program (SILP)
www.umass.edu/fclang/fcsilp.html
Administration: Five College Center for the Study of World Languages, University; director Elizabeth H.D. Mazzocco, French and Italian, UMass Amherst, 545-3453; assistant director, Amy Wordelman; projects assistant, Kerry O’Keefe
Program Office: 102 Bartlett Hall, UMass Amherst
Activities: supervised independent study program in 16 less-commonly taught languages, including Czech, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Modern Greek, Norwegian, Thai, Turkish, Romanian, Twi, Vietnamese, Wolof, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Swahili, Urdu; LangMedia: the Five College Foreign Language Media Archive at http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/.

Theater
www.fivecolleges.edu/theater
Administration: Theater Department chairs
Activities: open auditions agreement; workshops for students; faculty and staff development; joint courses and productions; residencies; WORD! (annual staged readings of works by students); Five College Theater Newsletter
Subcommittees: Costumers; Multicultural Theater Committee;
Technical Directors

Departments | Programs |Centers

Five College Centers

Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA)
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/cisa
Administration: director in consultation with faculty executive committee
Director: Robert Schwartzwald
Center Office: Mason Hall (69 Paradise Road), Smith College, 585-4669 (fcc-cisa@smith.edu)
Activities: collaborative development of new courses; curriculum coordination, including team-taught courses; faculty seminars; public events; Fellows Program (for new faculty); Joint Visiting Teaching Fellow; student symposium (annual); conference (annual)

The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS)
www.smith.edu/fcceas
Administration: faculty committee
Activities: outreach program for New England educators; lending library of curricular materials; newsletter; workshops (academic year); summer institutes for educators
Program Office: Florence Gilman Pavilion, 69 Paradise Road, Smith College, 585-3751/2
Projects Director: Kathleen Woods Masalski, Smith College
Administrative Assistant and Newsletter Editor: Anita Finnell
Projects Assistant: Mika Fujimoto Keezing

The Five College Center for the Study of World Languages
www.umass.edu/fclang
fclang@hfa.umass.edu
Administration: director Elizabeth H.D. Mazzocco, French and Italian, UMass Amherst, 545-3453; assistant director Amy Wordelman; projects assistant Kerry O’Keefe
Center Office: Bartlett Hall, Room 102, UMass Amherst, 545-3453
Activities: Supervised Independent Language Program (SILP); LangMedia; language materials development; Language Opportunities Website; editorial office for NASILP Journal; seminars and workshops for faculty

The Five College Women’s Studies Research Center
www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/fcwsrc
Administration: director in consultation with faculty committee
Center Offices: 79 and 83 College Street, Mount Holyoke College, 538-2275
Director: Amrita Basu, Political Science/Women and Gender
Studies, Amherst College, 542-2306
Assistant Director: E. B. Lehman
Activities: Scholar Associates (national and international visitors); seminars and colloquia; scholars and activists in residence; promotes use of local archival collections
Special Project: International Visiting Scholars, funded in part by the Ford Foundation

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