Obtain appropriate home-campus approval. Your academic advisor must sign the interchange form. If another signature is required, your home registrar will advise you. All students observe the registration deadline of their home campus. More information about deadlines and other guidelines for interchange appears in the Five College Academic Calendar.
Copies are available in all registration offices.
Guidelines As a general rule, any of the 6,000 undergraduate courses may be taken through interchange, so long as the course falls within the field of the liberal arts and is judged to be beneficial to the student's overall educational program. The only two restrictions are that students normally do not begin taking courses through interchange until after the first semester of freshman year, and that, at the colleges, students may not take more than two courses off their home campus in any semester. Procedures Procedures for cross registration are handled through the registration office of the student's home campus. A common interchange form is used for all cross registrations and the final grade is transferred from the campus where the course was given to be recorded on the student's home-campus transcript. Five College Meal Exchange Students enrolled in a meal plan may arrange through their home campus food service office to have some meals at another campus.