Departments, Offices and Centers

The Art Studio department encourages artistic exploration while providing technical skills and interdisciplinary opportunities.

The Arts & Technology Initiative seeks to transform teaching and learning across the arts curriculum — music, theater, art, film, architecture, dance — and with other disciplines to prepare students for a globally connected 21st-century world.

The Asian Center for Empowerment serves as a space that provides support, education, community and a meeting spot for students within the Asian diaspora (including, but not limited to, Asian, Asian American and South Asian).

The Department of Asian Students helps students explore the rich and extremely diverse cultures of Asia, home to some 60 percent of humanity.

The Department of Astronomy helps students study and understand the nature of the universe and the various structures within it —galaxies, stars, planets, atoms— how they are formed and how they change.

Mount Holyoke participates in 13 intercollegiate varsity sports and a variety of club sports, including rugby and ice hockey. We also have a nationally renowned Equestrian Program.

Be Well is the College’s wellness program that provides students with strategies and opportunities to create their own path to wellness.

The Betty Shabazz assists and supports students who identify within the African diaspora (including, but not limited to, African, African American and Caribbean) through interactive programming and as an overall space to come together and celebrate.

The Biochemistry Program helps students build on a background in the fundamentals of both biology and chemistry and to develop an awareness of the unique principles of biochemistry.

Courses in the Department of Biological Sciences span topics ranging from molecules and cells to organs, organisms, and ecosystems.