Study or Work Abroad Guidelines
Semester or Year Abroad
The College of Arts & Humanities (CoAH) currently sends just under 20% of its students on a year or semester abroad during their year 3 (not including Modern Languages students, who normally take a ‘Language Year Abroad’).
Visit the University’s Study Abroad webpages to find out about the Go Abroad programme, potential destinations and application process.
Check your eligibility and your academic requirements
Find out if you’re eligible to study abroad.
While you are abroad, you will be expected to meet certain academic requirements. See below for more information.
Apply
Find out how to apply and join the Go Abroad Moodle for additional information.
Go Abroad Applications
Applications for the Go Abroad programme are handled centrally by the Global Opportunities team. For more information on how to apply, relevant deadlines, and Go Abroad events, head over to the webpage below.
CoAH Go Abroad Academic Requirements
While researching study abroad destinations, you will be required to design a courseload that meets your subject’s academic requirements. This is essential for your year or semester abroad to be recognized as a part of your degree at Glasgow.
Find out from your subject’s Study Abroad convenor whether there are any compulsory courses or topics that your subject requires you to study abroad.
You can use the Study Abroad map to find potential destinations available for your subject. Make sure to study their course catalogues or equivalent to find out whether they offer courses that meet your subject’s academic requirements.
In terms of the number of credits/courses abroad, you will normally be expected to take what constitutes a full-time courseload at your host university. If going abroad for one semester only, you should normally take 60 credits during your semester at Glasgow and a full-time semester courseload while abroad. Joint honours students are expected to take 50% of their credits in each of their subjects (see exception below).
- Joint honours students applying to the Go Abroad programme: You can apply to partner universities that either of your subjects has an agreement with, on condition that both of your subjects at Glasgow are happy with this and that your host university allows you to take courses in your two subjects. Please check carefully with your host university’s International Exchange office and keep both Study Abroad advisers at Glasgow informed of your plans.
- Joint honours students applying for a semester abroad: As most courses in the College of Arts are 20 or 40 credits, it is likely that you will not be able to split your 60 credits equally during your semester at Glasgow. Please talk to your Study Abroad convenors to find a satisfactory solution. You might, for example, take 20 credits in your subject A and 40 credits in your subject B during semester 1 at Glasgow, then while abroad in semester 2 take 1/3 of your credits in subject B and 2/3 in subject A.
- Language year abroad students (Joint Honours and Single Honours): Academic requirements are different for students doing a compulsory language year abroad. Make sure to check the relevant School of Modern Languages & Cultures Moodle pages and discuss your plans for your year abroad with the study abroad adviser.
CoAH Subject Advisers for Study Abroad and Exchange
School of Critical Studies
| Subject area | Subject Study Abroad Adviser | Email address |
|---|---|---|
| English Language | Piotr Wegorowski | piotr.wegorowski@glasgow.ac.uk |
| English Literature | Andrew Radford | andrew.radford@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Scottish Literature | Theo Van Heijnsbergen | theo.vanheijnsbergen@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Theology & Religious Studies | Sean Adams | sean.adams@glasgow.ac.uk |
School of Culture & Creative Arts
| Subject area | Subject Study Abroad Adviser | Email address |
|---|---|---|
| Film & TV Studies | David Martin-Jones | david.martin-jones@glasgow.ac.uk |
| History of Art | Hilary Macartney | hilary.macartney@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Music | Bjorn Heile | |
| Theatre Studies | Anselm Heinrich | anselm.heinrich@glasgow.ac.uk |
School of Humanities
| Subject area | Subject Study Abroad Adviser | Email address |
|---|---|---|
| Archaeology | Tessa Poller | tessa.poller@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Celtic and Gaelic | Michel Byrne | michel.byrne@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Classics | Costas Panayotakis | costas.panayotakis@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Information Studies | Ann Gow | ann.gow@glasgow.ac.uk |
| History | Sihong Lin | |
| Philosophy | Michael Hicks |
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
| Subject area | Subject Study Abroad Adviser | Email address |
|---|---|---|
| Comparative Literature | Elwira Grossman | elwira.grossman@glasgow.ac.uk |
| French | Jackie Clarke | jackie.clarke@glasgow.ac.uk |
| German | Sheila Dickson | sheila.dickson@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Hispanic Studies (Portuguese) | Luis Gomes | luis.gomes@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Hispanic Studies (Spanish) | Guillem Colom-Montero | guillem.colom-montero@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Italian | Eanna O'Ceallachain | eanna.o'ceallachain@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Russian | Olga Allison | olga.allison@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Slavonic Languages | Jan Culik | jan.culik@glasgow.ac.uk |
Geography & Earth Sciences
| Subject area | Subject Study Abroad Adviser | Email address |
|---|---|---|
| Geography | Lazaros Karaliotas | lazaros.karaliotas@glasgow.ac.uk |
Psychology & Neuroscience
| Subject area | Subject Study Abroad Adviser | Email address |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | Jamie Murray | jamie.murray@glasgow.ac.uk |
CoAH Pre-Departure Checklist
If you have been offered a study abroad space, please bear in mind the following before you depart:
Apply to your host university
- After you've been allocated a space on the programme, the Global Opportunities team will formally nominate you to the host university. You will then receive further information on the host university's application process for incoming students. You must ensure that you meet all application deadlines set by the host university. This is a good opportunity to re-visit your courseload and talk to your Study Abroad convenor(s) about any significant changes.
Make sure you’re on track to progress to Honours
- Your study abroad space won’t be confirmed until your subject, following Exam boards in June, confirms that you have successfully progressed to Honours. Please ask your subject if you’re not sure about Honours progression requirements
Send your final course choices to your Study Abroad advisor(s) and the College Student Mobility Coordinator
- Once you’ve arrived at your host university and enrolled in your final list of courses, please e-mail your Study Abroad advisor(s) and the College Student Mobility Coordinator with your choices. The CoAH Student Mobility Coordinator is Andreea Tint, and you can reach her at arts-goabroad@glasgow.ac.uk. If you make any changes to your enrolment during your time abroad, please let both your Study Abroad advisor(s) and the College Coordinator know.
- While at Glasgow we have systems to make sure that you are enrolled in the right number and type of credits and any mistakes can be rectified quickly, this is not the case while you are abroad. After you’re back, your transcript will get checked against your list of agreed courses: if there are any discrepancies, this might mean that you might have to take extra credits in year 4 or re-take your year 3.
Familiarize yourself with your host university’s Good Cause (or equivalent) and Appeals processes
- Although you can make representations about the translation of your grades back in Glasgow, the University of Glasgow will expect you to have followed the relevant Good Cause and/or Appeals processes at your host university if you are unhappy with a grade you received there.
Check the University of Glasgow’s policies on the translation of grades from Study Abroad
- At the end of your time abroad, your host university will send your transcript to the UofG International Office. Your grades will be converted to Glasgow grades using the University's Grade Conversion Tables.
- Please note that Conversion tables do not have the same status as the Schedules within the University of Glasgow Code of Assessment found in the University Calendar. They provide guidelines only and may be retroactively amended, positively or negatively, by the Grade conversion committee on the basis of evidence that they are no longer an appropriate basis for conversion.