Studying as an exchange student at another college is another way Mills students can experience different teaching styles and learning environments. Mills has exchange or visiting programs with 15 American colleges and universities and affiliations with study abroad programs in 11 foreign countries. For students with unique visions of what they want to learn, the College Major provides a valuable option. Students who choose to create their own major work with two faculty advisors to plan an individual program of study which draws courses from across the curriculum and knits them into a coherent whole. Some recent College Majors include Natural Language Communication with Computers, Dance in Relation to Anthropology, Human Biological and Social Science, and Urban Political Decision Making and Communications.
Mills offers preprofessional programs in medicine and health sciences, law, education, and business.
The San Francisco Bay Area offers one of the most exciting, cosmopolitan contexts for classroom work available anywhere in the world. Students may explore this larger classroom by taking internships with corporations and other organizations in San Francisco and Oakland, hiking through the wild and beautiful East Bay parklands, or attending the San Francisco Opera. The Mills campus is only 20 to 30 minutes away by bus or freeway from the downtown centers of Oakland and San Francisco. UC Berkeley is easily accessible by bus or by College van service, and Stanford University is less than an hour's drive away. The information in this Catalog is current as of March 1996.