{"id":156,"date":"2013-12-16T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/study-abroad\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:54:55","slug":"required-forms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/study-abroad\/approved-applicants\/required-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Required Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Study Abroad Confirmation Form<\/h2>\n<p>The Study Abroad Confirmation form authorizes the Office of Study Abroad to pay your initial deposit to the program sponsor. This deposit holds your spot in the program.<\/p>\n<h2>Assumption of Risk, Waiver of Liability and Indemnity Agreement<\/h2>\n<p>This form outlines the various policies and legalities of studying abroad.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Course Approval Form<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The form lists the courses you plan to take while abroad.\u00a0 Each course must have signature approval from your HSSA and major advisor, as well as\u00a0the department head of your major<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Engineering Majors Only<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/\">Department of Engineering<\/a>\u00a0requires engineering majors to complete a petition outlining the engineering courses you plan to take while abroad. These courses must be approved by the Engineering committee to be counted toward credit for graduation.<\/p>\n<h2>Study Abroad Checklist<\/h2>\n<p>Each department listed on this checklist must provide signature approval before you can go abroad. For approval from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/bao\/student-accounts\/\">Office of Student Accounts<\/a>, (1) your room deposit for your return semester must be paid and (2) your student account must be current and paid in full. For information about room draw, please see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/student-life\/\">Student Life<\/a>\u00a0section of HMC&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<h2>Insurance Authorization Form<\/h2>\n<p>All study abroad students are required to have comprehensive insurance while they are abroad.\u00a0 Some sponsor programs include student health insurance as part of the program. Regardless of whether or not insurance is provided by the program sponsor, the Insurance Authorization Form should be completed by the policyholder, usually the student\u2019s parent(s). It is important that you contact your insurance provider to inquire whether or not your policy will cover you while abroad. There are a number of companies that provide insurance for students studying abroad. Please review our\u00a0<a title=\"Resources\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/study-abroad\/resources\/\">Resources<\/a>\u00a0section of the study abroad website.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Note About Insurance Authorization<\/strong><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/h3>\n<p>The Insurance Authorization Form, along with a letter from the Office of Study abroad and a copy of the HMC Statement of Understanding Form signed by the student, is part of a mailing which is sent to the student\u2019s home address. The policy holder of the student&#8217;s insurance policy must return the completed form to the Office of Study Abroad. You may, however, choose to send this form to your family yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study Abroad Confirmation Form The Study Abroad Confirmation form authorizes the Office of Study Abroad to pay your initial deposit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-156","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions\/2142"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}