Five College Program in Culture, Health, and Science : Five College Collaboration

Five College Collaboration

To meet these challenges, the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and UMASS/Amherst) formed a joint Five College Medical Anthropology Program in July, 1995. In November of 1996, the Program expanded its scope and changed its name to the Five College Program in Culture, Health, and Science (CHS). The CHS Program sponsors visiting lecturers and informal faculty workshops (e-mail chs@fivecolleges.edu to add your name to the e-mail list). It has proposed a Five College Certificate in Culture, Health, and Science for those undergraduate students interested in pursuing interdisciplinary studies of human health. The Program emphasizes the value of community-based fieldwork and internship experiences, and has created and compiled lists across all five campuses of such internship possibilities. These resources are described on this web site. As the Program develops, it expects to sponsor collaborative research projects across campuses, raise funds to support student internships, and develop closer ties among students, faculty, and community health institutions.

Several interdisciplinary Programs already exist within the Five Colleges in fields such as Coastal and Marine Sciences, Early Music, Peace and World Security Studies, African Studies, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, and International Relations. Faculty from the five institutions exchange courses and lectures, and a joint faculty appointments program has existed for over 20 years. More than 4,000 students annually take courses outside their home campus through a Five College exchange program at no extra charge. These long-standing arrangements facilitate intercampus and interdisciplinary planning for the CHS Program.

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	Five College Collaboration To meet these challenges, the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and UMASS/Amherst) formed a joint Five College Medical Anthropology Program in July, 1995. In November of 1996, the Program expanded its scope and changed its name to the Five College Program in Culture, Health, and Science (CHS). The CHS Program sponsors visiting lecturers and informal faculty workshops (e-mail chs@fivecolleges.edu to add your name to the e-mail list). It has proposed a Five College Certificate in Culture, Health, and Science for those undergraduate students interested in pursuing interdisciplinary studies of human health. The Program emphasizes the value of community-based fieldwork and internship experiences, and has created and compiled lists across all five campuses of such internship possibilities. These resources are described on this web site. As the Program develops, it expects to sponsor collaborative research projects across campuses, raise funds to support student internships, and develop closer ties among students, faculty, and community health institutions. Several interdisciplinary Programs already exist within the Five Colleges in fields such as Coastal and Marine Sciences, Early Music, Peace and World Security Studies, African Studies, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, and International Relations. Faculty from the five institutions exchange courses and lectures, and a joint faculty appointments program has existed for over 20 years. More than 4,000 students annually take courses outside their home campus through a Five College exchange program at no extra charge. These long-standing arrangements facilitate intercampus and interdisciplinary planning for the CHS Program.