During IAP, there are many different course offerings available, including for-credit and non-credit options. Learn a new skill, connect with others over a fun project, and explore your own potential.
Want to offer a for-credit IAP course or non-credit IAP activity in EECS? Submit your proposal here: https://eecsis.mit.edu/iap.cgi
IAP 2027: proposals will be accepted from four weeks before Registration Day to four weeks after: noon deadline on the due date. This year’s proposal period is to Tues, Aug 11, 2026 to Tues, Oct 6, 2026.
Considering proposing a course/activity? Read more below:
Who can propose/lead a course?
- Current MIT EECS affiliation with the department is required of all proposers.
- The course proposer must be the program leader and principal lecturer. Non-MIT course leaders, including alums, cannot be considered.
- Student-leaders of for-credit courses must have an EECS faculty/lecturer sponsor confirmed at the time of proposal.
What funding is available for IAP courses?
- Funding from the department is very limited. In your proposal, you may request funding for materials, or (in rare cases) for grad/undergrad student-employees teaching the course..
- Wages for student-employees teaching are uncommon. Most courses should plan to run with all-volunteer leaders and staff. An exception is a course that is run by an ASA-recognized student group that does external fundraising to support its course; such a course may pay wages to its teaching staff, but should expect to use external funds to pay those wages (not EECS department funds), and should use the EECS hourly course/lab assistant rate.
- No funding for course operations, A/V, food, swag, etc. is available.
- Funding is available for for-credit courses only; non-credit activities should not request funding.
When and how do I propose a course?
- For courses/activities that run each year, a new proposal must be submitted each cycle.
- Courses may be offered twice under a special subject number (6.Sxxx). Thereafter, to be offered again a permanent subject number must be requested (6.9xxx).
- EECS instructors/faculty: submit an EECS course proposal form for a permanent subject AND submit the IAP course proposal.
- MIT students: To be offered more than twice, a course must be run by an ASA-recognized student group, must work with an EECS instructor/faculty member to submit the EECS course proposal form AND must submit an IAP course proposal.