The overseas students' program was established in 1968.

The whole idea behind this project was to strengthen the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora.

The program has been very successful and we have 18,000 alumni.

The program is designed for English speaking students who would like to spend one year or one semester studying abroad. Students studying in our program also get academic credits for their studies.

The program starts with a 7 week Intensive Hebrew Ulpan, usually held at the end of July the beginning of August (the exact dates are determined by the Jewish holidays).

In this Ulpan students study 5 days a week Sunday to Thursday 08:30 - 13:00.

This is the largest Ulpan Tel Aviv University offers and successful completion of the course awards the student 6 credits.

The academic year starts in October. (Again the date is determined by the Jewish holidays. The University always starts one week after Sukkot).

Our semester is 11 weeks long and each course meets for 4 hours a week.
For each academic course students get 3 credits.

Students can also chose to come for the Spring semester. The program starts in January again with an Intensive Ulpan but this time the Ulpan is only four weeks long. Students study 5 days a week 5 hours per Sunday to Thursday 08:30 - 13:00

As opposed to the Summer Ulpan this Ulpan is mainly designed for students coming to our program. Again successful completion of the course will grant the students 6 credits.

During the academic year/semester students are required to take 5 courses.

The academic areas which are covered in our program are:
Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Israel Studies, The Arts, Social Sciences, General Studies and Hebrew Studies.

In addition to the academic program there are 4 counselors living in the dorms with the students. These counselors are all Israeli students whose job is to look after the well fare of the students and enrich their experience while they are in Israel.

There are 3 major trips that are organized for the students. 1 day trip to Jerusalem,
3 day trip to the North and 3 day Trip to the South. The counselors issue a monthly activity calendar which specifies all of the activities available to the students. These activities include Seminars, Lectures, Films and Parties.

The program is closely monitored by our academic office and social one. We make it our business to know exactly how the students feel and help whenever it is possible.

Our main target is to turn our offices to a home away from home. We don't have reception hours and there is always a counselor on duty 24 hours a day. The students have access to the tel. numbers of the counselors and are welcome to come to each one of them for anything they need.

In the months June and July we also offer a 5 week Summer session in which the students have an option of either studying Hebrew (for beginners level only) or chose 2-3 courses which we offer: Arab Israeli conflict, Israeli Politics, Modern Jewish History, Int. to Judaism.

Again in addition to classes we also offer 2 3 day trips one to the South and Jerusalem and one to the North.

In addition to the above mentioned programs we also offer an MA program in Middle Eastern History.

This program is two years long and successful completion of the program awards the students an MA degree from the Humanities dept. of Tel Aviv University. Qualified students with at least a B average in their BA studies are required to complete 9 seminars, Hebrew and Arabic and also write a thesis.

(Please note: All costs are in US dollars)

In Australia:
Amanda Slome (03) 9296 2065
email: aftau@alphalink.com.au

In Israel:
Rachel Bar-El
Director, the Lowy School for Overseas Students

http://www.tau.ac.il/overseas/frameset.html

US office: www.telavivuniv.org
Students can download application forms
and get scholarship information specific to Australia