Study Abroad

*Ordinarily,  student are allowed to count only one non-Harvard semester course for their concentration requriements.  This INCLUDES summer school courses.  Please keep this in mind as you plan your course of study.

If you think you might be interested in study abroad:

1. You can get credit for one economics course.* 
   
   
2. Visit the Office for International Programs (OIP) at their new address, 77 Dunster Street.   They will help you figure out where you want to study and how to apply. Some possible programs for economics concentrators are posted on the OIP website.  Applications are done through Studio Abroad.
   
   
3. During the school year, Kiran Gajwani and Anne LeBrun (located in Littauer 111 and 115) can approve study abroad courses for concentration credit. During the summer, please email  Jeff Miron during the summer months. Once you have been accepted to a program, please bring the course syllabi to a concentration advisor. They will determine whether a course can count and submit department approval through Studio Abroad when you meet.  Your course plan is tentative at this stage. Many students change their course plan while abroad. For students who are abroad, OIP, Jeff, and/or your concentration advisor can approve credit for course changes through the Studio Abroad application.
   

Note: Grades for courses taken abroad are recorded P/F on your Harvard transcript and do not count toward College or concentration GPA. However, courses taken abroad do not count toward the limit of two P/F courses that may fulfill economics concentration requirements.

To count as an economics elective, a course must:

• Have substantial economic content
• Employ primarily an economic methodology (i.e., use the tools from intro and intermediate economics, not primarily case studies, interviews, etc.)
• Have mostly readings with economic content and economic methodology

You can get theory prerequisite credit for a course if it counts as an economics elective and requires intermediate microeconomics or macroeconomics.

You can get writing credit for a course if it counts as an economics elective and requires a 15+ page research paper. To get writing credit, show your concentration advisor the graded paper when you return to Harvard.

You cannot get credit for Ec 970 abroad. Sophomores who study abroad in the spring must postpone Ec 970 until junior spring.

The economics concentration does not grant credit for internships.