COURSES OF STUDY
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Birmingham-Southern College Catalog 2014-2015
Participation in the Vail College Fellows Program is noted on the
student’s transcript.
British Studies at Oxford
British Studies at Oxford is a summer program in which students spend
six weeks of study for two or three units of credit at Oxford University
in England. Students live and dine in the seventeenth-century buildings
of St. John’s College and attend lectures and seminars covering the arts,
history, literature, and philosophy of a distinguished age of Britain’s past. In
addition, students are given the opportunity to travel throughout England
and Europe. Students, at their option, may have one course count as an
Exploration term unit. The second course taken through British Studies
at Oxford that summer will count as a unit credit in a discipline. Special
scholarship assistance is available to Birmingham-Southern College
students participating in this summer program.
Birmingham Area Consortium for Higher Education (BACHE)
The four-year colleges and universities that serve the Birmingham area
have a long record of cooperation with one another. Building on that
history, the Presidents of Birmingham-Southern College, Miles College,
Samford University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the
University of Montevallo created the Birmingham Area Consortium
for Higher Education (BACHE) to enhance and strengthen educational
opportunities available to the students and the community.
Students, faculty, and staff at BACHE institutions may access the
resources of all the member libraries by simply presenting their valid ID
cards. Students enrolled full-time at a BACHE institution who are in good
academic standing may also take undergraduate courses at another BACHE
campus at no additional charge. The procedure for taking a course through
this cooperative program follows.
Registration
—This must be completed prior to the opening of a new
term at the BACHE institution. Registration for courses may be completed
in the Records Office. As listed on the academic calendar, the last day to add
a course each term is also the last day to register for a BACHE institution
course. Schedules of courses are available in the Records Office and online.
Approval
—A student must have the approval of his or her advisor,
the department chair in the discipline of the course, and the Provost. (A
student must be taking at least three units at Birmingham-Southern College
during a regular term or two units in a summer term in order to register for
one course at a BACHE institution.)
Credit
—Work at a BACHE institution is given credit as if it were taken
at Birmingham-Southern College; however, courses taken through BACHE
may not count as learning outcomes designated courses for Explorations.
