Biology Students:

The University of Virginia is a participating institution in the Trans-Atlantic Science Student Exchange Program (TASSEP).

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The TASSEP exchange program is designed to allow science students, particularly at the undergraduate level, to study their chosen discipline at a foreign university. The agreement insures that students receive full credit for courses taken at the foreign university. Students pay tuition and fees at their home institution and thereby receive student status at the foreign university. The exchange program is based on 1:1 reciprocity in which one foreign student replaces a student from the home institution.

President Casteen has stated that a goal of the University of Virginia is to have 80% of its undergraduate students participate in a Study Abroad program. It is essential that science students become familiar with foreign cultures, languages, and economic systems. One of the most effective vehicles for acquainting undergraduate students with other cultures and languages is through exchange programs in which students spend a semester or a year abroad, living much like the students at the foreign university. The present program seeks to bring these opportunities to science students. Science students face unique problems because of the highly structured nature of the science curriculum. TASSEP partners, by assuring students academic credit for courses taken abroad, allow students to study science in another country and earn credit at home. At the same time, the student receives exposure to another culture and a foreign language. TASSEP web site:http://studyabroad.unc.edu/tassep/