Goddard College:Undergraduate Program for Homeschoolers

The Undergraduate Program for Homeschoolers at Goddard offers young people, ages 14-19, who have learned independently outside of schools, an opportunity to begin earning college credit while continuing to learn in a self-directed style. Students design their own courses in collaboration with a faculty advisor, and may choose one or two 3-credit courses per semester.

The Undergraduate Program for Homeschoolers is designed to support broad areas of personal inquiry in the liberal arts and interdisciplinary study. The faculty are academic generalists who can support students’ growth in critical inquiry, academic research and writing, reasoning and reflection on their learning. Faculty advisors are not conventional instructors; they are coaches or mentors assisting students in pursuing their own research and intellectual growth. For highly specialized areas of study, such as advanced science or foreign languages, a student may need to find an additional mentor (outside the Goddard faculty) who is a specialist in the subject, and there may be some topics a prospective student wishes to study that are too specific or obscure to be adequately supervised in this program.

Students are not tested and do not receive grades. At the end of each semester, both the student and advisor write detailed narrative evaluations that become part of the student’s academic record. Each course is taken on a pass/fail basis.

The deadline for applying for enrollment in the Spring, 2006 semester is February 16, 2006. However, qualified applicants will be admitted on a first come, first served basis, and available spaces may fill quickly.

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