Guidelines for Economics Students Studying Abroad
Economic students who are going abroad for their junior year ideally should have completed their core requirements—ECON 0150, 0155, 0250, 0255, 0210 and 211.
Students who have not completed all these core requirements should generally only go abroad for a semester so that they can complete the core requirements in their junior year. Exceptions can be made in unusual circumstances, but it is not a good strategy to be taking core requirements in the senior year.
Students should plan on taking 200 or 300 electives abroad; any 400 seminar taken abroad must have a major writing component and must require at least one intermediate course as a prerequisite. Any student requesting 400 level credit should get prior approval from the department. (At least one 400 level senior seminar must be taken at Middlebury.)
Students going abroad generally take one or two economics courses while abroad. When choosing courses that will get credit in the economics department, the courses should be listed as economics, not business courses. (Economics courses generally have an econ preface in the course numbering.) Credit for business courses that have a large economics component will only be given with prior approval, and at most one credit will be given.