Study Abroad and Internship Milestone Credit
Study Abroad
Potential economics majors who expect to study abroad for one or two semesters must plan well ahead. Because the department only rarely permits core courses to be taken abroad, and because core courses may not be postponed to senior year, potential economics majors planning study abroad must complete the appropriate core courses in their sophomore year. It is rarely feasible to spend a semester abroad in the senior year.
Ordinarily up to one economics course per semester taken abroad may be preapproved as a departmental elective course by the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Plans for Junior Independent Work must also be approved in advance.
To ease students’ planning, we have compiled various course plans students can follow. These vary depending on students’ mathematics and economics backgrounds and which semester or semesters they plan to go abroad. It does not cover all possible cases, but in most situations students should be able to construct their own sequence by slight variations on the cases offered.
Office of International Programs
Internship Milestone Credit
The Internship Milestone Credit is available to Economics majors to record a summer internship experience on their transcript and receive academic credit for it. In order to be eligible, the internship must be at least six weeks in length and the work must be directly related to economics.
An economics major who is interested in applying for this credit should submit an application through TigerHub by clicking the Internship Milestone App link on the Academic Tasks Tile. You will need the following: (1) proof of meeting prerequisites to enter the Economics department, (2) the internship offer letter, and (3) the related job description. If you have additional questions, please contact our Undergraduate Program Manager, Gina Holland.