Academic Requirements
UMR students should work closely with their Student Success Coach to ensure academic prerequisites are met and to help students build the strongest, most competitive application for a health profession program.
Meeting Academic Requirements
Planning to go abroad requires finding out if your study abroad classes will count toward:
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your degree and major
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your liberal education requirements
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your prerequisites for a health profession program
Combining all of these will give you a comprehensive academic plan.
Prerequisites
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Some health profession programs will not allow prerequisites to be taken abroad.
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If you choose to take a prerequisite abroad, you will need to take an advanced course in that subject upon return to meet the prerequisite requirement. This includes lab work, it would also need to be taken at a higher level when you return.
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For example, a school will not allow you to use the biology and lab courses you took abroad to qualify as a prerequisite. You must take an advanced biology course with an advanced lab back at your home school to fulfill that requirement.
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Liberal Education Requirements
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Plan your University Liberal Education requirements early. Decide which liberal education requirements you want to satisfy through courses taken abroad so you do not fulfill them on campus.
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Consult the Learning Abroad Center’s database of approved study abroad courses.
For more information visit the Learning Abroad Center's Academic Planning page, including the Academic Planning Form.
OLPD 3332 - Global Identity: Connecting Your International Experience to Your Future (1 credit, online course)This is an optional course taken the term a student is abroad (semester-long programs only). This course will support the learning of your own identity and intercultural knowledge through introduction of intercultural literature, models, frameworks, theories, and concepts used in intercultural development and training. This course also provides the opportunity to receive individual feedback to you as a learner to help promote deeper understanding of your experiences in the host culture. You will also learn the value of the intercultural skill set you acquire overseas and how you can apply that to your future career (resume/interview application).
