CS 702 Enrollment for Professional Master’s Students

International students with F-1 visas who wish to pursue Curricular Practical Training (CPT) through CS 702 enrollment must complete two consecutive semesters of in-person instruction as a master’s student before being eligible for CPT. This means that most PMP and MSDE students on F-1 visas will be ineligible for CPT until the summer after their first spring semester. The full list of eligibility requirements can be found on the ISS website.

Below is the process for enrollment into CS 702. These steps need to be taken before your internship begins.

1. Obtain an internship. This internship must be related to your area of study.
2. Email your assigned CS faculty advisor and request permission to enroll in CS 702 with them. You must send them information about the planned internship, including an offer letter, location of the hosting organization, dates of the planned internship, and the kind of tasks you might work on.
3. Your CS faculty advisor asks any questions and sets expectations for checking in during the internship. (For example, you may be asked to send an email with a brief progress report to your faculty advisor every two weeks.) Once satisfied, your faculty advisor will agree to be your instructor for CS 702 and emails their approval to you.
4. You’ll then complete the CS 702 Professional Programs Form to provide information for the PMP/MSDE Graduate Program Manager (Kyle Martinez) and to obtain permission for enrollment. You’ll be asked for information about your planned enrollment, all of which must be entered or uploaded into the form. A few key items:
   • Personal information
   • Internship company
   • Internship dates
   • CS 702 credits planned for enrollment
   • Offer letter
   • Explicit email approval from the course instructor
5. You then must submit a Terra Dotta verification request using the PMP/MSDE Graduate Program Manager (Kyle Martinez) as the verifier. The verification request is completed by the PMP/MSDE Graduate Program Manager and NOT your assigned faculty/CS 702 course advisor. This step needs to be completed before you will be granted enrollment.
6. After the PMP/MSDE Graduate Program Manager has approved the materials and the Terra Dotta request, you will receive an email from enrollment@cs.wisc.edu confirming your permission to enroll in CS 702. You will be expected to enroll in CS 702 as soon as possible after receiving the email.
7. Once you have enrolled in CS 702, you must then complete your Terra Dotta CPT request, which then gets sent to ISS for final review.
   • NOTE: it takes up to 15 business days for ISS to approve CPT requests. Please plan ahead.

If you are a student on a J-1 visa, please review the information on J-1 employment from ISS and connect with Kyle Martinez to discuss further.

You will need to your CS faculty advisor’s approval to enroll in CS 702. They will want to know the details of your internship and will ask any necessary follow-up questions.

Once they have given their explicit approval to enroll in a section of CS 702 with them as the instructor, please forward your faculty academic advisor’s enrollment approval to the PMP/MSDE Graduate Program Manager, Kyle Martinez. Please be sure to tell Kyle exactly what you are hoping to enroll in and for what term.

Remember that domestic students are not required to register for CS 702 if they have an internship; it is optional.