The Department of Economics strongly encourages students to complete some
portion of their undergraduate study through the Education Abroad Program. The program allows students to enhance their knowledge of economics while experiencing another culture and way of life. With careful planning, students may spend up to one year abroad without any loss of progress towards graduation. Students gain valuable international experience that will benefit future career goals and/or graduate school opportunities.
EAP provides unparalleled opportunities to obtain the broader perspectives,
knowledge, and skills necessary to be effective professionally in a rapidly
changing global economy. From the recently enlarged European Union, to the
global crossroads of Hong Kong, to the challenges facing post-NAFTA Mexico,
students can experience first-hand realities and responses to an increasingly
complex and interrelated economic world.
EAP offers a variety of short-term and year-long programs taught in English or
in a foreign language that complement and enrich economics degrees. Students
can fulfill major and GE requirements, get a comparative perspective on their
field of study, and grow personally and intellectually through study abroad.
Participating in EAP provides further advantages when it comes to the challenges of graduate and professional study. Students who study abroad have
a competitive edge in the job market and are well prepared for careers in the international global economy. Furthermore, some EAP programs offer internship and research opportunities.
Economics majors find that a term, or better, a year in a foreign university not
only enhances their critical and quantitative skills, but that the experience of adapting to another academic and cultural world expands their self-under standing and gives them a keen sense of the political, social, and economic differences in today’s world. Also, students who go abroad have the opportunities to take courses that are not offered at UCSB.
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Students can participate in full-year, semester, and summer programs in 35
different countries. Students have the option of studying in English or in a
foreign language.
While courses in business and economics are available at most EAP host universities, particularly strong English language programs can be found at Warwick University and the University of Essex in the UK and at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Economics students should also consider unique programs such as in Milan, Italy, where students can study Italian and European financial systems in one of Europe’s leading institutions
in management and economics. In Chile, students can experience firsthand
how recent developments have positioned Chile as a major trading partner within Latin America and with the US, Japan, and Germany. Advanced students may consider studying at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. For a full listing of the opportunities in economics see: http://eap.ucop.edu/eap/discipline/ econ/.
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Students majoring in any of the majors in the Economics Department should
successfully complete the pre-major courses and petition for admission to the full major before leaving for EAP. Completion of the core intermediate economics courses is also highly recommended as some courses abroad require these as foundation.
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All EAP students automatically earn UC credit for the work they complete abroad. However, the application of credit to major requirements is subject
to the discretion of the Economics Department and approval of the college.
Students can take both required and elective major courses abroad. To find
out if a course is transferable to the major, please provide the course syllabus
to an economics undergraduate advisor. The advisor will then review the information and assess how they transfer into the major. All courses must be petitioned upon return. In fact, some courses have already been petitioned by students who have gone abroad in the past. For more information, please visit: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/undergrad/eap/courses.pdf
Please note that while business, management, and marketing courses transfer to UCSB, they cannot be applied towards any of the majors in the Economics Department.
Students interested in these fields should still consider taking them abroad for
overall units since they complement the economics background and similar fields are not offered at UCSB.
Students who are interested in sitting for the CPA exam, should avoid taking accounting courses abroad as the rules and regulations differ among countries.
Therefore, accounting emphasis students wishing to take economics courses through EAP, should take courses in Areas A-D and/or E but take the accounting courses (Areas F-I) at UCSB.
Economics and economic/mathematics majors need more careful planning so
as to not delay their graduation. Because these two majors require courses to be taken in a certain order, careful planning is essential. Check with an economics undergraduate advisor every step of the way.
Keep in mind that at least 20 units of upper-division major coursework must
be completed in residence at UCSB along with other residence requirements.
Consult an advisor in the College of Letters & Science for more information.
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Come by the EAP office at 2431 South Hall. Peer advisors who have recently
returned from studying abroad as well as staff advisors are eager to answer your
questions.
Consult the EAP web pages. In addition to Coursefinder and Programwizard,
navigate to host universities’ websites on the available links.
Once a program is chosen, please consult with your major advisor for major substitutions and course eqivalencies. To make an appointment with an economics undergraduate advisor, please go to: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/ug_appointments.cgi or call the economics undergraduate office at (805) 893-2891.
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Department of Economics - Undergraduate Office
2121 North Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9210
Phone: (805) 893-2981
www.econ.ucsb.edu
