History
Students in the History Department are encouraged to participate in those programs for foreign study approved by the University.
The History Department has the following policies related to Study Abroad:
- Sophomores intending to major in History may count one history course taken abroad toward the requirement to enter the department. The course cannot be used to substitute for the 200-level prerequisite
- Juniors majoring in the department may receive credit for up to four courses in history taken while abroad for either a full year or semester. These courses will require the prior approval of the Departmental Representative. To secure that approval students will be expected to produce some evidence of the work load and the material covered by the courses.
- Sophomores intending to go abroad in their junior year must take History 400, the junior seminar in which students write their first Junior Paper, in the spring semester before they depart. Having written their first junior paper in the spring of their sophomore year, these students will thereby be prepared to write the second while abroad or in the resident semester of their junior year (if they elect to spend only one semester abroad). Students who meet the requirements of junior independent work while at Princeton will still be expected to undertake a full course load while abroad. Moreover, study abroad should include some research work. In particular, the department encourages students to take seminars that include a research component.
- Recognizing the many difficulties of doing research without Princeton’s institutional and intellectual resources as a base, the Department will try to be flexible regarding the deadlines of submission of independent work conducted abroad. (Students must make arrangements for extension of deadlines with the Department Representative.)
In recent years, History majors have studied abroad through the following programs:
- Argentine Universities Program (COPA-IFSA-Butler), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- University of Melbourne, Australia
- University of Queensland, Australia
- University of Sydney, Australia
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Cambridge University, Pembroke College, England
- Hertford College, Oxford University, Oxford, England
- Oxford-Princeton Exchange in History, Oxford University, England
- University College London, England
- University of Nottingham, England
- Center for University Programs Abroad (CUPA), Paris, France
- Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France
- Middlebury in France, Paris, France
- Wellesley-in-Aix, Aix-en-Provence, France
- Berlin Consortium for German Studies, Germany
- Arcadia Center for Hellenic, Balkan, and Mediterranean Studies, Athens, Greece
- National University of Ireland, Maynooth
- Boston University Program in Padova, Italy
- Temple University Abroad, Rome, Italy
- Bard-Smolny Study Abroad Program, St. Petersburg, Russia
- University of Cape Town, South Africa
- McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Alanya, Turkey