Hamilton College
Common Data Set, 2000

Section E. Academic Offerings and Policies

Accelerated program	Honors program
Cooperative (work-study) program	Independent study
Cross-registration	Internships
Distance learning	Liberal arts/career combination
Double major	Student-designed major
Dual enrollment	Study abroad
English as a Second Language	Teacher certification program
Exchange student program (domestic)	Weekend college
External degree program
Other (specify):

3-2 program in engineering with Columbia University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, & Washington University (St. Louis, MO), 3-3 program in law with Columbia University.

E2. Has been removed from the CDS.

E3. Areas in which all or most students are required to complete some course work prior to graduation.

Arts/fine arts	Humanities
Computer literacy	Mathematics
English (including composition)	Philosophy
Foreign languages	Sciences (biological or physical)
History	Social science
Other (describe):

The Hamilton Plan for Liberal Education provides highly motivated students with both the freedom and the responsibility to make educational choices that emphasize breadth and depth. Unique to this plan are two distinct capstone requirements - one prior to declaration of an area of concentration (The Sophomore Program) and one at the conclusion of the concentration (The Senior Program) - that serve as integrating and culminating experiences for students at decisive points in their undergraduate careers.

As part of the new Hamilton Plan for Liberal Education, the faculty has significantly strengthened the general education sequence by: (a) replacing distribution requirements with a series of recommended goals; (b) instituting special first- and second-year seminars; (c) reaffirming the centrality of the three-course writing-intensive program; (d) reinvigorating the advising system; and (e) establishing a multidisciplinary seminar program at the end of the sophomore year that culminates in an integrative project with public presentation.

For more details, please refer to page 5 of the college catalog:

http://www.hamilton.edu/assets/pdf/college_catalogue.pdf

Library Collections

Report the number of holdings. Refer to most recent IPEDS Library Survey, Part, D for corresponding equivalents.

E4. Books, serial backfiles, electronic documents, and government documents (titles) that are accessible through the library's catalog: 538,377 (sum of lines 27 and 29, column 2)

E5. Current serials subscriptions (paper, microform, electronic): 3,585 (sum of lines 30 and 31, column 2)

E6. Microforms (units): 419,461 (line 28, column 2)

E7. Audiovisual materials (units): 52,051 (line 32, coulumn 2)