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For most programs, upon return to KU and receipt of transcripts from the host institution abroad, grades are posted for KU equivalent courses on the student's KU transcript.
Through the Office of Study Abroad, students remain enrolled at KU, earn resident KU credit, and are awarded grades for credit earned while studying abroad. Students from most disciplines may earn credit to fulfill KU degree requirements.
To ensure continued progress toward a degree, an Academic Advising Form for Study Abroad, an outline of courses the student plans to take while overseas and the KU degree requirements that will be fulfilled, must be completed for admission to a study abroad program.
To begin a search for a study abroad program, you are encouraged to visit the Office of Study Abroad, browse through the resource library and attend information meetings, then schedule a meeting with a study abroad advisor to identify the program that best fits your needs.
An application, including academic advisor's approval of intended courses of study, must be submitted for admission.
Admission requirements and prerequisites available fields of study, and competitiveness for admission vary from program to program. Early planning for study abroad will generally afford more options.
You do not need to be fluent in a foreign language to study abroad. Several semester and year programs and many summer institutes are open to students with a minimum of language study.
Opportunities to study in English are plentiful, both in English-speaking and non-English-speaking cultures.
Of course, KU offers many study abroad programs for students with proficiency in the language of the host country.
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Semester at Sea Tel-Aviv University Richmond College in London
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advisor, allowed me to realize that I would have several personal expenses that NSEP would not cover. The form also allowed me to realize that my financial aid from KU would "travel" with me and thereby cover such expenses.
Even after informing me that I am a scholarship recipient, NSEP continued to prepare me for my time abroad: it required that I take a Spanish language test over the phone and that I send photocopies of the paperwork concerning my final travel arrangements. By the time I boarded a plane for San Jose, Costa Rica in January of 1997, I felt adequately prepared not just financially but also emotionally and academically - for my semester abroad.
Of course, no amount of advance planning, prepping, and budgeting could have prepared me for all of the new experiences I faced while actually abroad. NSEP, therefore, asks its scholarship recipients to complete and send several "progress reports" during their time abroad. Filling out these reports helped me record and evaluate the changes I was experiencing while abroad; the reports became my travel journal.
Now that I have returned, I find that NSEP still wants to prepare me-not for another semester abroad but for the job market. NSEP
requires that its scholarship recipients serve an organization of the federal government for the same amount of time as that of their stay abroad. Although I had never seriously considered working for the U. S. government before learning of the service requirement, I now look forward to the experience. After all, how many KU students could pass up an offer to spend several months in DC and simultaneously gain material for their resumes?
Yes, I must admit that I sometimes feel as though I have signed years of my life away to NSEP, but I don't consider these years to be wasted time.
NSEP helped in giving me the confidence and money I needed to be able to have a rewarding experience abroad; and I believe that one satisfying semester abroad is worth years of preparation at home.
Margareta O'Connell...Director Barbara Gearhart...Associate
Study Abroad Staff
Director/Finance
Melissa Jguemouj ...Finance Assistant
Nancy Mitchell...Assistant Director/
Coordinator for English, German and
Japanese-Speaking Programs
Pina Pereiro ...Coordinator for
Spanish-Speaking Programs
Summer Programs
Beau Pritchett...Coordinator for
Susan MacNally ...Coordinator for Summer Programs
French-Speaking Programs
Doug Schenkelberg..Outreach Coordinator Jill Stark ...Receptionist Jeannie Doering...Office Manager
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Stacia Williams ...Special Sections Manager,
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Traci Meisenheimer ...Creative Director,
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Marc Harrell...Business Manager,
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