Off-Campus Study

Studying off-campus may expand your thinking beyond a purely academic approach to SOAN, giving you a different understanding of what it really means to study another culture. There are many options for Off-Campus Studies (OCS) with sociology and anthropology in their curriculum. If you are creative enough, you can put a social scientific slant into almost any program.

You may apply up to 12 credits of OCS work to the SOAN major. We typically give credit for courses that are comparable to existing courses and courses that we could offer as a Department. Credit is given after you’ve returned from your program. When seeking credit, please schedule a meeting with the Department Chair. Bring your syllabi and assignments to help determine if you can receive credit for the courses.

Selecting an Off-Campus Program:

Use the Program Gateway of Carleton’s Off-Campus Studies Office to find  Carleton & non-Carleton programs that Carleton students have done in the past. Or consider some of the programs below.

• ACM India: Culture, Tradition and Globalization
• ACM, Costa Rica: Community Engagement in Public Health, Education and the Environment
• ACM Chicago Program: Arts, Entrepreneurship & Urban Studies
• ACM Tanzania: Ecology & Human Origins
• Council on International Educational Exchange (cĭee)
• HECUA Programs including
  • Inequality in America: Policy, Community, and the Politics of Empowerment
  • The New Norway: Globalization, National Identity, and the Politics of Belonging
  • Democracy and Social Change in Northern Ireland
• SIT (School for International Training)
  

For information on other programs, finances, and off-campus study policies, visit the Office of Off-Campus Studies.