• Psychology & Child Development program designed for students majoring in psychology, child development, education, sociology, human development, social work, and related fields.
• Program focuses on Children in a Multicultural Context or Children with Special Needs
• Practicum option available
• NU Terms: Fall Semester, Winter-Spring Quarters, Full Year

• One semester, intensive internship/academic experience
• Individualized placement for work and research in education and social policy. All work done in French.
• Typical placements: Ligue de l'Enseignement, Ministry of Education, educational associations, labor unions,  municipal governments and social agencies, public housing agencies, SOS Racism and other NGO's
• Typical research topics: Transitory populations and local policy, effects of immigration law changes, public service delivery and French rural renewal, integration of immigrant women, public housing and ghettoization, health care planning and delivery
• Language prerequisite: 2 years or equivalent of college French
• NU Terms: Fall Semester, Winter-Spring Quarters

• Field-based study programs that integrate academic study with field experience
• Focus on arts, culture, development, social justice, and social change
• Language prerequisites vary depending on the program.   Check the affiliated list for this information.  Please note that, with the exception of Music and McCormick students, all applicants to the SIT-Brazil program must have one year or equivalent of college-level Portuguese.  This is not a SIT prerequisite, but is required by Northwestern.
• NU Terms: Fall Semester, Winter-Spring Quarters

• This new program is part of NU’s ongoing campus-wide program in "Emerging Global Structures,” designed to provide pre-professional students with highly focused and research intensive experiences abroad.
• Introduces students to the common issues faced by global cities and engages them in research projects in a range of transnational issues of relevance to globalized cities and countries, such as migration, integration, environmental degradation, global culture and national identity.
• The program will begin at Northwestern in the Fall quarter, will continue at Panamericana in the Winter quarter, and conclude at Sciences Po in the Spring quarter.  Also included is a two-week special program in Shanghai.
• Language prerequisities: none
• NU Term: Full year

Swansea University
(Arcadia University)

Swansea, Wales

• Courses available in Childhood Studies department and Centre for Public Policy.
• NU Terms: Fall Semester, Winter-Spring Quarters, Full Year

• Lectures and seminars on emerging institutional, legal, and economic structures in Europe at a world-class institution
• All courses taught in English especially for Northwestern students
• No language prerequisite, but all participants study French
• NU Terms: Fall Semester

• Required course on Social Organization in Japan, with a field study component
• Language Prerequisite: Language Intensive Program requires 3 semesters of college level Japanese or the equivalent; Japanese Society & Culture Program has no language requirement
• Fall Semester, Winter-Spring Quarters, Full Year

• Fall Semester program at Sciences Po, a leading social policy institute in Europe
• Classes taught in English
• On-site French language training, no prerequisite French required
• Seminars in public health issues and policy responses
• Research seminar in individualized area of interest
• NU Terms: Fall Semester

• Public Health in South Africa (spring quarter)
• Public Health in Mexico (summer)
• Public Health in China (summer)
• On-site language and cultural classes
• Seminars in public health issues and research in topics pertinent to the host country

• Dozens of advanced level courses in Social Policy to choose from
• NU Terms: Full Year

• Public policy research course with field experience option
• Choose from a variety of courses in all areas at one or a combination of the various local universities
• All courses taught in Spanish
• Required: 2.5 years of Spanish  (7 quarters, including Spanish 199)
• Recommended: Completion of one 200-level Spanish course
• NU Terms: Fall Semester, Winter-Spring Quarters, Full Year

• Public policy research course option
• Choose from a variety of courses in all areas at one or a combination of the various local universities
• All courses taught in Spanish
• Required: 2.5 years of Spanish  (7 quarters, including Spanish 199)
• Recommended: Completion of one 200-level Spanish course
• NU Terms: Fall Semester, Winter-Spring Quarters, Full Year

Edinburgh, Scotland

• Direct university enrollment
• School of Education offers courses in childhood studies, primary education, adult education and technology teaching.
• NU Terms: Fall Semester, Winter-Spring Quarters, Full Year

Stirling, Scotland

• Direct university enrollment
• Various courses in social policy, sociology and criminology.
• NU Terms: Fall Semester, Winter-Spring Quarters, Full Year.

• Faculty of Education offers several courses in early childhood education, education and training, primary and secondary education, teaching
• NU Terms: Fall Semester, Winter-Spring Quarters, Full Year

• School of Education offers several courses in education policy studies,  human learning and development, primary and secondary education, curriculum studies, historical and sociological studies, Maori education, teaching processes and strategies
• NU Terms: Fall Semester, Winter-Spring Quarters, Full Year

• School of Education offers a wide variety of education courses, including Irish and European education.
• NU Terms: Full Year

• You must obtain pre-approval from your adviser to count coursework earned through study abroad toward your SESP degree requirements.  Research the course descriptions of the classes you hope to take abroad so your adviser can review them.
• Discuss with your adviser the courses you want to take at NU upon returning to Evanston.  
• Credit in SESP will not be given for courses that are inappropriate to the School’s curriculum or that do not meet the usual standards for credit in the School.
• Education courses taken overseas cannot count toward certification. It may be possible to use them to fulfill requirements needed in the certification area; i.e. someone who is planning to teach history may go to Ireland and take two history courses, both of which could possibly count toward her/his history requirements. Or a Spanish teacher candidate may go to Barcelona and earn four 300 level credits toward the Spanish certification requirement. This would have to be worked out with the WCAS department, as well.
• Internships taken abroad may only be counted toward elective credit. 
• If you are attempting a minor or second major in another school, you must gain permission from that department to apply transfer courses toward that minor or major.

• Retain all class descriptions, syllabi, papers, readings and other course materials; these might be needed to determine
  the kind of transfer credit you will receive.
• Be in contact with your adviser regarding any changes in course plans.

When you return:

• Your adviser must approve the final application of study abroad credit to specific concentration requirements, once
  NU has received your transcripts. Complete a SESP petition form on which you list the courses that you took while abroad. Your adviser will review your petition (along with a copy of your transcript which you must provide), before the coursework is fully approved. A copy of the petition will be sent to your degree auditor in the Registrar’s Office.

Jessie Blank

Learning & Organizational Change

7-6519

j-blank@northwestern.edu

SESP Student Affairs