The Washington Semester program is a cooperative arrangement between American University , Millikin, and several other colleges throughout the United States.
Participants spend a semester in Washington, D.C., generally during the junior year.
They take two seminar courses fro the A.U. faculty. Meetings with many public officials are always an important feature of the course work. Students also conduct an individual research project of their own choosing and are placed in a semester-long internship. Concentrations in American government and politics, foreign policy, criminal justice, journalism, and a number of other areas are available. The internships may be used to meet the political science department requirement and American U. course credit transfers to Millikin.