Academics
Southern Vermont College academics offer you the opportunity to discover and develop your true potential and be fully prepared to enter the job market. The College's strong liberal arts education, combined with the expertise learned in our many internships, workshops, and degree programs, provide the perfect blend of skills necessary to succeed in the workplace and throughout life.
- Degree Programs: The College offers 16 bachelor degree programs and 6 associate degree programs.
- College Calendars
- Special Programs: A Southern Vermont College education helps expand your horizons to see that there is more to education, more to life, more to learning. The College offers a variety of special programs that assist students with their educations.
- Academic Support: Southern Vermont College has a diverse student body with a wide range of skills and abilities. To assist students who need extra support to succeed in college, we offer a number of special services and programs that have proven to be effective year after year, student after student. All support services are free of charge (Note: This does not include College courses). Also, Upward Bound is a program funded by the U.S. Department of Education to help students develop the skills, motivation, and self-confidence necessary for success in high school and college. The Southern Vermont College Upward Bound Program serves students in grades 9-12 from area high schools in New York and Vermont.
- Transfer Agreements: Southern Vermont College has transfer agreements with a number of community colleges and graduate schools. Students who plan to transfer to SVC can select courses which will allow them to transfer credits into the corresponding programs and meet the curriculum requirements as possible. See Pre-Professional Programs.
- Registrar: All students' permanent academic records are maintained in the Registrar's Office. A report of grades is sent to each student at the end of each semester or session unless the college is requested to send it elsewhere. Application for graduation, transcript information, course schedules, and the final exam schedule is available on the Registrar's Web page.
- Cross Registration: Southern Vermont College is member of the Hudson Mohawk Association of Colleges and Universities (a consortium of 19 colleges and universities). Full-time matriculated students may take courses offered at a member institution.
- Four College Issues Forum: In October 2007, four colleges in Southern Vermont and Western Massachusetts agreed to co-sponsor an annual symposium to bring significant discussion of national global issues to the region and to their campuses. The Four College Issues Forum is the initiative of the presidents of Southern Vermont College and Bennington College in Vermont, and Williams College and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in neighboring Berkshire County Massachusetts. The Forum features an address by a prominent national figure in addition to shared cross-campus discussions. The first speaker in April 2008, Amory Lovins, nationally-known environmentalist and chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute, addressed the issue of sustainability. In April 2009, Anita Hill, lawyer, activitivist, scholar and civil rights activites, spoke at the Bennington Center for the Arts in Bennington.
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