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General Description:
Students in Chicago 's autumn-quarter Vienna program study the history of Central Europe in one of its chief capitals, a city of extraordinary beauty and cultural richness. The three-course "Vienna in Western Civilization" sequence is compressed into the ten weeks of autumn-quarter and taught in English. A series of excursions in and around Vienna supplements the lectures and readings, connecting them with the architecture, historical sites, and artistic treasures that comprise the physical legacy of the Habsburg Empire. A more extended excursion to Prague or Budapest offers an opportunity to explore this beautiful and historically significant city and to compare the two Central European capitals. Apart from the civilization sequence, students take an additional course in German language designed to help them connect with their surroundings. The headquarters of the Vienna program is at the University of Vienna. The University is a major European institution of higher learning, dating from the fourteenth century and attracting many students from around the world.
Housing:
Program participants live in the Residenz Molkereistrasse, a student residence hall located in the Leopoldstadt section of Vienna near the Prater Park (with its famous Ferris wheel). Students occupy single rooms arranged into apartments, each apartment including a common area, kitchen, bathroom, television, and internet cable. The building itself includes bike and laundry rooms.
Credits:
As a participant in the Vienna program, you receive three credits for the civilization sequence, which meets the College’s civilization requirement, and one credit for the German language course. If you have already met the civilization requirement you may use these credits as electives. Course titles, units of credit, and grades are placed on your Chicago transcript.
Registration and Tuition:
You remain registered full-time in the College and pay regular College tuition, the Vienna program fee and the non-refundable study abroad administrative fee required of all participants in Chicago's programs abroad. For precise figures, see Study Abroad Program Fees.
German Language Pre-session:
Students wishing to get a head start on their German may participate in the German Language Pre-session, a three-week supplement to the Vienna program devoted exclusively to German language. Participants in the pre-session arrive in Vienna three or four weeks before the regular program begins. This opportunity is open to students at all levels of German, including beginners. There is a modest surcharge for instruction and accommodation.
Financial Aid:
You retain your financial aid eligibility. However, two expenses—the study abroad administrative fee and the round-trip airfare to Vienna —are not underwritten by College Financial Aid. On the other hand, since you cannot be expected to work part-time while in Vienna, the self-help component of your financial aid package does not include a term-time employment factor.
Eligibility:
The Chicago Vienna program is designed for undergraduates in good standing who are beyond their first year in the College. While the program stipulates no minimum grade-point average, you should present a transcript demonstrating that you are a serious student who will make the most of this opportunity. Because the civilization sequence is taught in English, you are not required to have had previous study of German. At the same time you are encouraged to take as much German as possible before the beginning of the program, and your application is likely to be strengthened by doing so (and your experience of Vienna enhanced). Please note: Because of the considerable demand on the Chicago civilization programs abroad, no student may participate in more than one of these programs.
Application:
Applications are available on the study abroad website. To apply to the Vienna program, a student submits a general study abroad application electronically, then downloads the supplementary application specific to Civilization programs and submits it on paper, normally in mid-winter quarter of the previous academic year.
In preparing the application and especially in composing the required personal statement, students should keep in mind that admission to Civilization programs are selective and that the number of places available is insufficient to meet the considerable demand. A student accepting an offer of admission is expected to secure his or her place with a $500 non-refundable study abroad administrative fee. (To begin the application process, click on the Study Abroad General Application.)
Further Information:
If you would like to discuss the Vienna program and the possibility of participating in it, you are invited to contact Sarah Walter (Harper 207A; 834-3753; scw@uchicago.edu).
Statements contained on this site are subject to change without notice.
