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AUGUSTANA-LED As part of our commitment to experiential learning,
J-TERM SHORT Augustana sponsors off-campus J-Term Away programs in
which groups of 10-28 students travel with faculty both within
PROGRAMS the United States and to overseas destinations. The J-Term
Away programs are discipline specific, but open to students
of all majors and are designed to explore a new location with
a specific focus, a much more intensive focus than tourism
typically provides. All the programs are designed to combine
academic study with experiential learning to broaden each
student’s education.
J-Term programs may be structured in several
different ways, however the most common
structures are listed below
1
SINGLE COURSE (4 CREDITS)
This course offered during the January interim
period and preceded by a series of predeparture
orientation meetings (non-credit) in the Fall
semester
2
TWO 2-CREDIT COURSES
One offered in the Fall and including pre-
departure meetings for the travel group, and one
offered as part of the January interim term
3
SPRING SEMESTER 4-CREDIT COURSE
The course is offered on campus and followed
by a 0-credit travel experience in June. This
final model does require registration for the 0-
credit course, but does not require payment of
ELIGIBILITY summer tuition.
All three models typically focus on a single field
All J-Term programs require sophomore status of study, though in some cases two parallel
and a 2.00 GPA both at the time of application programs of study will join together in travel and
through the semester prior to travel. A student accommodations while offering separate
who is initially accepted with a 2.00 GPA or excursions, guest lecturers or assignments for
higher may be removed (at student expense) their individual courses.
from a program if their GPA drops below the
2.00 threshold at any point before departure. J- While there is a great deal of variability in some
Term programs, unless offered through the aspects of the J-term program of faculty-led
World Languages, Literatures & Cultures courses, there is also a good deal of coherence
Department as language immersion courses, among all programs. The following information
require no foreign language background. is true of all programs.
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