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Study Abroad

The University of Florida has a student exchange program with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in which students can study for a semester or an academic year. Students pay UF tuition to study there. For details see here: https://www.advising.ufl.edu/beyond120/global-engagement/hebrew-university/

The Shorstein Center also offers an excellent summer study abroad program based in Tel Aviv. Contact the Center for details.

The Shorstein Center also offers numerous travel scholarships for students working on undergraduate research projects, either as honors students, CLAS scholars, or university scholars. We have sent students to New York, Washington, DC., Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Daugavpils (Latvia), and Jerusalem. Contact the Center for details.

Students may apply courses taken elsewhere to the major or minor in Jewish Studies at UF. In most cases, such courses are taken abroad in Israeli programs. The Office of the Registrar has the sole authority to put courses on the student’s official transcript. The Center only determines whether such courses apply to the major and minor.

Provided they have followed appropriate procedures, students accredited programs in Israel may have those hours applied to a Jewish Studies major or minor. In transferring specific courses, we attempt to assign a course number that matches a UF course equivalent. If no such equivalent course exists at UF, we assign a JST 3930 (Special Topics) or a JST 4956, Overseas Studies in Judaism.