The Opportunities Abroad Program (OAP) is the umbrella title for programs other than EAP. It includes study programs as well as work, intern and volunteer abroad programs. Students going abroad through the Opportunities Abroad Program earn transfer credit from the sponsoring institution. Courses taken abroad may satisfy general-education, major or minor requirements, depending on department or college approval. Federal and state financial aid for approved plans of study abroad is available. Special study abroad scholarships are also available.

Information about program abroad options for UC San Diego students may be obtained at http://pao.ucsd.edu.

The program operates all four quarters; students intern a minimum of ten hours per week and may receive upper-division credit. Students may enroll in a maximum of three internships and/or earn sixteen units of internship credit during the course of their junior and senior years. The number of units earned corresponds to the number of hours worked, actual job description and the length of a research paper/project. The research paper/project and relevant readings comprise the academic component of the program, which is directed by a faculty advisor selected by the student. All internships require assigned faculty advisors and program evaluations. All students earn grades of P/NP and receive transcript notations.

The AIP serves students from all six colleges and handles all undergraduate majors. Students planning to participate in the Academic Internship Program should apply at least one quarter before they want to be enrolled in the program. Students planning an out-of-town internship are encouraged to apply two quarters in advance. In cooperation with AIP and UC San Diego’s Programs Abroad Office, students also may participate in, and earn academic credit for, other established internships abroad.

To be eligible for the program, students must have completed at least ninety units of credit with some related upper-division course work and have a minimum 2.5 GPA at the date of application. For more information contact the AIP office at (858) 534-4355 or visit their website at http://aip.ucsd.edu.

The Campus
Dartmouth's 265-acre campus is located in Hanover, New Hampshire, on the Connecticut River between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the While Mountains of New Hampshire. In this setting, Dartmouth is able to fuse exceptional academic opportunities with full exposure to the beauties of northern New England.

Requirements
Students who will have completed up to 60 units by the time that they would enroll at Dartmouth are eligible to apply. Seniors are eligible if they will be returning to UC San Diego for at least one quarter after they have attended Dartmouth. The program is open to all undergraduate students at all six UC San Diego colleges. Preference will be given to students who have a UC San Diego grade point average of 3.0 or higher, although applications will be considered from students who have UC San Diego grade point averages of 2.5 - 3.0. Courses taken at Dartmouth are treated as transfer units at UC San Diego. No grade may be calculated into the UC San Diego grade point average.

Applications

Applications for Fall 2012 will be due Friday, April 20th, 2012
to the Muir Advising Office - H&SS 2126 by 4:30pm.

Students must file their applications at the Muir College Academic Advising Office by the end of the third week preceding the quarter they wish to attend Dartmouth. Qualified students will be interviewed by the Dartmouth Exchange Program Reviewing Committee during the fourth week of the quarter.

Prospectus of Dartmouth Course Offerings
Exchange Fees
Dartmouth Exchange Application (pdf)

Students maintain financial aid eligibility; the amount can be adjusted to reflect the additional costs of the program. In addition, eligible students are considered for the University of California President’s Washington Scholarship Program. Students live in the University of California Washington Center, located in the heart of Washington, D.C.

Internship—Students work twenty-four hours per week as interns in federal agencies, interest groups, trade associations, the national news media, museums, research institutions, or in other organizations related to policy, politics, science, and culture and geared to the interests and objectives of individual students. Political Science 197I: six or eight units of academic credit.

Research Seminar—Drawing on the internship experience, each student participates in a seminar and undertakes an independent research project. Political Science 194 (or depending on the student’s major, one of the cross-listed equivalents): four units of academic credit.

Elective Course—Each student also enrolls in one upper-division seminar course at the Washington Center. These courses are taught by the different campuses’ resident faculty and change each quarter. Typically they include a mix of political science, international relations, other social sciences, history, and the arts and humanities. In addition to regular instruction, these seminars may take advantage of the Washington locale and often include guest speakers and field work activities. For more information please see http://career.ucsd.edu/L3/sa/UCDC.shtml or http://www.ucdc.edu.