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	STUDY ABROAD FOR CONCENTRATORS IN SOCIAL STUDIES Contact: Director of Undergraduate Studies Dr. Anya Bernstein, abernst@fas The Committee on Degrees in Social Studies strongly encourages study abroad for one semester, and it is also possible to study abroad for an entire academic year. Students taking study abroad must go during their junior year, as they cannot go during their sophomore year when they are taking Social Studies 10 or their senior year when they are taking Social Studies 99 (the senior thesis course). Many students use a term abroad to find a thesis topic and even to conduct preliminary research, and some students stay in the country after they have completed their studies or return to it after a semester's hiatus in order to conduct senior thesis research. Social Studies is extremely flexible in granting credit towards history, theory, and focus field requirements for courses taken elsewhere, as long as they are roughly equivalent to courses offered at Harvard. Starting in 2003-04, Social Studies will waive one junior tutorial for students who go abroad, provided that they write a research paper of at least twenty pages in length either while they are abroad or in a non-Social Studies course at Harvard. This paper must be approved by the Director of Studies in order to obtain junior tutorial credit. Social Studies can give social science or history credit for study at any institution approved by the Office of International Programs. Below please find a list of institutions where Social Studies students have done term-time study abroad in the last few years: AFRICA South Africa University of Cape Town Uganda SIT Uganda: Development Studies AUSTRALIA University of New South Wales (Sydney) EUROPE France Center for University Programs Abroad [CUPA] (Paris) Columbia University - Reid Hall (Paris) Direct Enroll Institut d'Etudes Politiques/Sciences Po (Paris) Germany Humboldt/Die Freie Universities [Berlin Consortium/Columbia] Italy Direct Enroll University of Genoa Spain Academic Year Abroad [AYA] (Madrid) Brethren Colleges Abroad in Barcelona Institute for the Intl. Education of Students [IES] (Madrid) UK England University of Cambridge, Pembroke College, through Harvard's Exchange Agreement, or Oxford University, Direct Enroll or through Butler University LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN Argentina Harvard College Study Abroad Program in Argentina (Buenos Aires) Chile Harvard College Study Abroad Program in Santiago, Chile Harvard College Study Abroad in Santiago, Chile for study at: La Universidad de Chile Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Cuba COPA [Butler University/University of Illinois] (University of Havana) Mexico Loyola University in Mexico