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Courses while overseas

Declaring your courses abroad

Now that you’re in your program abroad – and once your course enrollments have settled down -- you will need to notify IESP of the courses you enroll in and that will appear on your transcript.

You are responsible for keeping IESP informed of course enrollments and any changes, so that when the time comes, your courses can be transferred to UW-Madison with minimal delay or problems.

We recommend strongly that you keep copies of your course syllabi (and bring them back with you when you return to the United States), in case these are needed for course approvals.

To inform IESP about your courses abroad, about one month into your semester, you will need to send IESP a course declaration form listing the courses you are taking abroad, along with their equivalents at UW-Madison, and including full courses and titles.

If some of these courses need to have UW-Madison equivalent courses approved, you should request this approval using the Course Equivalency Request Form. You will send the form, along with the syllabus of your overseas course, to a professor here at the UW, and then, once the form is completed and signed, you will send it to IESP. Details of the course equivalency process are available online, and you may also want to refer to the grade and credit scale you were given at orientation, as you confirm your enrollments.

To do at this stage:

• Keep copies of all syllabi
• Refer to credit scales as you enroll
• Submit Course Declaration Form to IESP about one month after classes begin
• Submit any needed Course Equivalency Request Forms as well
• Refer to information on the course equivalency process

Courses at the UW for the semester you return

While you’re abroad, and if you’re coming back to UW-Madison for the next semester, make sure you enroll for courses at the UW the way you normally would, through MyUW, to make sure that you can make a smooth academic transition back to Madison.