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Education Abroad Program

All students planning on participating in EAP must take the following information into consideration.

The history department does not pre-approve EAP courses. To obtain credit towards major or minor requirements, students must submit all courses taken abroad to the department for review. Courses offered at EAP campuses can vary significantly from year to year, and whether or not a particular course is appropriate often depends on a student's chosen area of study, concentration and the other courses he or she has already taken. In addition, the campus admissions office must first determine whether an EAP course will count toward graduation, whether it is upper- or lower-division, and for how many units it will be counted. Only with all this information in hand can the department determine which major/minor requirements a course might satisfy.

A maximum of THREE courses completed through EAP may be approved for use towards major or minor requirements.

In choosing your classes while on EAP, keep in mind that courses most likely to be counted towards degree requirements are those that are standard course offerings for your chosen discipline. Interdisciplinary courses or courses in other fields of study will be assessed in terms of whether the preponderance of the readings, lectures, and course requirements are clearly applicable to your area of study. If you stick to upper-division courses in the host university's history department, you should be fine.

Applying EAP Courses

To apply EAP courses towards a major/minor, all students must do the following upon their return:

1. Determine that the desired EAP classes have been posted to your UCSC academic record; this is best done by checking your MyUCSC portal periodically. Most EAP classes are given a designation of XHIS, XGER, etc. This process may take up to one quarter.
2. Make an appointment with the appropriate Post-EAP adviser (see below). Office hours are posted quarterly.
3. Bring to that appointment the following materials:
   • a printout of your personal transcript for the relevant quarters showing that your EAP classes have been posted to your UCSC academic record;
   • syllabi, reading lists and the written assignments you completed for all courses for which you are seeking credit;
   • a completed History Department Post-EAP Approval Form.
   Be prepared to justify why these courses should qualify as part of your major or minor. Only courses passed with the equivalent of a letter grade of C may be applied to major or minor requirements.After the meeting, return your completed form to the History Department Office.
4. After the meeting, return your completed form to the History Department Office.
   

Program Specifications, 2009 - 2010

Important Information About Studying Abroad

• You must declare a major before going abroad.

• You should have all your GEs out of the way before you leave, even if you go as a junior.

•EAP in your senior year is generally a bad idea. If you decide to do this anyway, you should have the major requirements all but completed; you need to be prepared to return to UCSC after your time abroad (students may have to satisfy the residency requirements or outstanding degree or general education requirements – situations which, despite the best of plans, crops up regularly.) Also, grades from EAP courses are generally submitted too late for the student to graduate until the next quarter. Students should recognize that they may have to re-enroll at UCSC upon their return.

•You can never count absolutely on a course you take abroad counting toward the major;  but in general, the closer it is to a course in the UCSC curriculum, the more likely it is that it will be accepted. In any case, you must keep all documentation (syllabi, reading lists, the papers you write, etc.) to support the case you will need to make, upon your return, to apply such courses toward the major.