Political Science Majors

If you are interested in using a course taken while studying off-campus toward a major/minor in Political Science or one of the joint majors in which Political Science is a participant, you must:

1. Declare your major. In order to do this, sign up with an advisor in the Political Science Department, if you have not already done so.

2. Talk to your departmental advisor about courses in the intended off-campus study program that might satisfy requirements for the major or minor in Political Science or for Political Science requirements in one of the joint majors.

3. Submit an official course approval request using the Summit system. No course can be considered for approval without a syllabus (a course description alone is not sufficient.)

   While students can and should come up with a few options for courses to take while off-campus, please note that the Political Science department normally accepts only one unit taken abroad to fulfill requirements.

International Political Economy Majors

If you are interested in using a course taken while studying off-campus towards the IPE requirements, you should:

1. Declare your major and consult an IPE advisor, if you have not already done so.

2. Talk to your departmental advisor about courses in the intended off-campus study program that might satisfy requirements for the major.

3. While students can and should come up with a few options for courses to take while off-campus, please note that IPE majors who study abroad can earn no more than one course towards the Economics side of the major, and one course towards the Political Science side.

4. If the course you are submitting for review for the IPE major is an Economics course, be aware that these are generally approved as an upper-division Econ elective. As such, Econ courses taken off-campus for the IPE major must generally have Macroeconomics and Microeconomics as a prerequisite.

5. Please note, you are REQUIRED to upload a syllabus to your course approval requests in Summit for Political Science courses towards the IPE major (a course description alone is not sufficient).

Summit Instructions:

To submit a credit-approval request through Summit please follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Center for Global Education and Field Study portal via Summit.

2. Start a New Application.

3. Select the CC Internal Application for Off-Campus Study.

4. Find and Select your program.

5. Select a pre-approved course or Create a new one in the Course Approval Tab.

6. Check the appropriate box (Apply to Major or Minor)

7. Complete and Submit your application.

Note: When you submit a course approval request in Summit, it first goes to the Registrar's Office, who will automatically determine whether a course meets all-College requirements as well as how many units it will be at CC. This will be reflected on the course approval in Summit once the Registrar has reviewed it. Additionally, if you would like to forward a course approval request also to your major or minor departmental chair, you'll have an opportunity to indicate this on the specific course approval request in Summit, and it will go to department chair, after the Registrar makes their initial determination of transferability to CC.

If you have any questions please email Heather Powell Browne hpb@coloradocollege.edu .