Welcome to the Semester Abroad Program's pre-departure website.  If you have been admitted to a Study Abroad Program by the Office of Transnational Programs, please review all of the information provided below. 

TRAVEL REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT

Students participating in study abroad programs are required to register their travel and to obtain specific Study Abroad Student Health Insurance.  To register your travel and obtain information on Study Abroad Insurance, please visit our Travel Registration website.

Travel registration must be completed at least 2 weeks prior to your departure.

 

VISA INFORMATION

Each student is responsible for applying for and obtaining his or her own visa.  Upon admission to a program, students should review the Entry/Exit Requirements of the Country Specific Information on the U.S. State Department's travel website http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1765.html.  Students should pay particular attention to the estimated processing time for visas and plan accordingly.

COURSE SELECTION

Each program's schedule of classes showing the actual course offerings, as well as the day and times that courses meet for the current semester are often not available until right before the Fall semester begins.  Therefore, students are not always able to know exactly which courses they will be taking.  In these cases, students should email Cara Morris at woltemat@law.georgetown.edu or Mariah Strauch-Nelson at mjs257@law.georgetown.edu with their final schedule once the semester has begun. 

In the event that a participating student wishes to take a course not listed on the Georgetown website, the student should email the course title, course description to Cara Morris at woltemat@law.georgetown.edu.  Students should also provide the number of credits assigned by the host institution and/or the number of hours the course meets per week. 

Students generally may not earn credit for a supervised writing project while they are studying abroad unless a Georgetown faculty member is also on-site and willing to supervise the project.  Students who study abroad may, of course, wish to take advantage of the availability of local resources to conduct independent research. With the requisite approval of the Associate Dean for the JD program, students may then use that research after returning to Washington, DC to work on a supervised research project overseen by a Law Center faculty member.  Upon submission, the final paper may satisfy the upper class legal writing requirement.

ADDITIONAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Students who participate in these programs will be expected upon his or her return to submit a report of five pages or more that includes, among other items: a discussion of whether the student's goals for participating were achieved; a description and evaluation of each course taken; a description and evaluation of other important academic, cultural, and social experiences; experiences in obtaining housing; and a discussion of any other matters that the student thinks important.  OTP and the Georgetown faculty advisor for that foreign law school will review the report.  Except for parts the student deems confidential, each report will be posted online for other interested students to read.  

 

Revised May 9, 2011