Winter 2007 CAPPP alumnus Raul Alvarez with Senator Barack Obama (D-IL).

Since Fall Quarter 1990, the Center for American Politics and Public Policy (CAPPP) has offered students the only opportunity to work in Washington, DC while remaining a full-time student at UCLA. The CAPPP Quarter in Washington program, which combines academics with an internship experience, was one of the first of its kind among American universities and continues to be a model for other academic internship programs.

CAPPP sends students throughout the academic year. While the Fall/Spring Quarter and Winter Quarter programs differ slightly, they both offer the same one-on-one faculty interaction and substantive internship placements.

CAPPP now offers two programs: one for the Fall & Spring quarters, one for the Winter Quarter. While the two programs differ slightly in their course offerings, both will offer the same close faculty interaction and substantive internship placements. Please see the chart below for a summary of the two programs:

Fall/Spring Quarter Programs	Winter Quarter Programs
11-12-week program mandatory enrollment in Political Science / Sociology / History M191DC (eight units) eligible to take up to one additional elective course academic units are applicable on College Honors requirements eligible to take up to 16 units during the quarter (PS M191DC [8 units], PS M195DC [4 units], one elective [4 units])	10-week program mandatory enrollment in Political Science / Sociology / History M194DC (four units) eligible to take up to two additional elective courses academic units are applicable on College Honors requirements eligible to take up to 16 units during the quarter (PS M194DC [4 units], PS M195DC [4 units], two elective [8 units])