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Summer Study Abroad is an option for students interested in spending summers taking courses overseas, and is not under the oversight of International Academic Programs (Study Abroad).

In order to receive credit, students must follow the procedures outlined in the Academic Regulations, under the “Summer Study at Another Institution” section. In so doing, students must consult with the chairperson of the Haverford department which corresponds to the field in which the work is to be done, along with their advisor and Dean. They then must submit the summer study abroad form to the Registrar’s Office in advance of attending the program. Students may not apply for retroactive credit for programs already completed.

Students have received credit from many programs on the following list. This is not an exhaustive catalog or a suggested list; students are free to apply for credit from a program not listed, or to attend a program for no academic credit.

Additionally, GoAbroad.com is a good resource for learning about potential summer study options.

Language study-focused program:

• Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program: Rigorous academic instruction in 15 languages critical to America's national security and economic prosperity. CLS participants are citizen ambassadors, sharing American values and promoting American influence abroad.
• Russian Heritage Speakers Program
• Business Russian Language and Internship Program
• Russian Language and Area Studies Program
• Russian Language Immersion (Moscow, Russia)
• Spanish Language Immersion (Malaga, Spain)
• Intensive Hebrew Summer Ulpan (July and August)
• Intensive Arabic Language Program (July and August)
• Intensive Arabic Language at the Center for International Learning in Muscat, Oman
• Arabic Language and Interdisciplinary Learning Program in Jordan
• Chinese Language Study (Contact professor shuang [at] haverford.edu (Shizhe Huang))
• Taiwan-US Ambassador Summer Program
• KU Leuven, Belgium: EU Inside Out

Global Sustainability and Medicine Programs:

• Environmental Sustainability in the Middle East: Challenges of the Southern Arava
• IFSA Butler – Community Building and Sustainable Development in Lima, Peru
• IFSA Butler – Medical Spanish and Public Health in the Yucatan

General Summer Study Programs:

• American Council’s Contemporary Russia
• API: Academic Programs International
• Arcadia STEM Summer Research Abroad
• Arcadia University Summer Programs
• CAPA: The Global Education Network 
• CIEE Summer Programs
• Coexistence in the Middle East
• Columbia Summer programs:
  • Summer Archaeological Fieldwork at Hadrian’s Villa in Italy
  • Summer Arabic Program in Amman
  • Summer Language Program in Beijing
  • Columbia-Bogazici Byzantine Studies and Urban Mapping Summer Program in Istanbul
  • Summer Programs in Modern and Classical Japanese in Kyoto
  • Summer French Studies in Paris at Reid Hall
  • Summer Portuguese Program in Rio de Janeiro
  • Summer Business Chinese and Internship in Shanghai
  • Summer Italian Cultural Studies in Venice
• Copenhagen, Denmark DIS for Summer
• DAAD-RISE Germany: Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) Germany offers undergraduate students the opportunity to complete a summer research internship at top German universities and research institutions.
• Freie Universität Berlin International Summer
• Fulbright UK Summer Institutes: The Fulbright UK Summer Institutes are three to four week programmes for US undergraduate students, who have no or very little travel experience outside North America. Participants can explore the culture, heritage and history of the UK while experiencing higher education at a UK university.
• IES Summer Programs: Programs in Vienna, Berlin, Frieburg EU, Madrid, Salamanca, Paris, Rome, Milan, and Tokyo. Note: Haverford College is a full member of the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES). This means that the Office of International Academic Programs and the International Study Abroad Faculty Committee can directly admit students to their programs. Many of these summer study abroad programs also offer summer internship programs in addition to coursework.
• Irish Studies Gateway: International Summer School
• Kings College London Summer School
• Pembroke-Kings Program
• Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel
• Siena School for Liberal Arts
• Study Abroad to Turkey: Society, Politics, and Economy in Modern Turkey
• University College Dublin
• University College London (UCL) Summer School
• The University of East Anglia’s International Summer School
• University of Exeter: International Summer School
• University of Leeds International Summer School - Scholarships are also available.
• University of Warwick Summer School
• Villanova University Summer Programs