<p>if you are an sfs student what are the policies for taking classes outside the sfs adn can you get a second major, minor or certificate from say the business school? </p>
<p>i am interesting in taking a couple of finance courses/getting a certificate to make me more appealing to ibanking recruitment.</p>
<p>If you're interested in ibanking, you might be better off transferring to the MSB and double majoring in International Business/Finance, because you can't take a double major/minor in the SFS. You can do regional studies certificates, but none are business-related. Due to the rigidity of the SFS curriculum, you have very few free-elective credits, but if you budget them right, you probably would have space to fit in the finance for non-msb students (that is the only finance class you can take if you aren't a business student).</p>
<p>Sounds like what you want is the International Business Diplomacy certificate: GU</a> > SFS >> Karl F. Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy</p>
<p>i am also in SFS, but i want to be pre-med, also. when i emailed a pre-med advisor from georgetown she said i could do this, but, would you recommend transferring to the college so i can have 2 majors?</p>
<p>Pre-med isn't a major in itself, it's just a 10 course track that you have to take to go to med school, so unless you want two other majors, you don't need to transfer. I'm assuming you want to do STIA? Also check out the International Health major in the NHS...</p>
<p>Yeah, I am going to major in STIA and then I was hoping to have a minor in neuroscience, do you know if that would be possible?</p>
<p>You can't minor in the SFS, you can only do certificates. The only way you could do a minor in neuroscience is in the College or possibly in the NHS.</p>
<p>So, sounds like SFS students are pretty much locked in with the requirements of the program and there is not much flexibility for pursuing electives. Would this be accurate as compared with other G-Town schools, specifically the College?</p>
<p>You're absolutely right, but either way, the SFS is an awesome program if you're into international relations.</p>
<p>Yup, strict/rigid core requirements allowing very few electives. Remember, you can only major in one major in SFS and do only one certificate. I didn't know this until I went to GAAP.</p>
<p>Pre-med and SFS is rare, but not unheard of... it's tough and you may have to stay a summer or two at Georgetown to get some of the requirements out of the way... if you want to be a doctor, why not just Pre-med and you can also major in IR and take classes within the SFS...</p>
<p>Is the SFS considered an "elite" school within Georgetown if you're interested in history and politics/government? I went to the open house of SFS, and the small size of classes sounded appealing. Is an SFS degree seen as more prestigious than one from the College?</p>
<p>i believe that the sfs is the elite school within gt, especially in politics/government. even though some sfs professors teach classes in the college, it is very few, as they are sfs prof. after all. sfs is ranked 4th in the ir major so if you're really into it, i would suggest transferring. however, i think kids at the other schools are more laid back.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what you mean, elizabeth. There are classes "in the SFS" in the sense of them being coded STIA or CULP, but people in the college or any other school can take them without a problem. The same goes for INAF classes. The vast majority of the classes for my International Politics major were coded GOVT, and there was also a HIST and even a COSC (computer science). All of those are technically "in the college."</p>
<p>So, case in point: David Edelstein is an SFS professor. He teaches (or at least used to...) the survey International Relations course. There are just as many College government and other majors in his class as there are SFSers, so I'm not sure what impact a student being in either school would have on being able to take classes with SFS profs.</p>
<p>i was sharing what i heard when i went to the dean's academic info session at the gaap thing. maybe the dean that was talking meant higher up classes?</p>
<p>but, you probably know more about this, as you are a current sfser/gt student.</p>