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Summer Scholarships

This summer, we will be offering several Certificate Completion scholarships in the amount of $4000 to students who will have completed their four Area requirements toward the Certificate in Core Texts and Ideas by the beginning of Summer 2024. To review what those requirements are, please consult our certificate plan. We will offer scholarships of $1000-2000, depending on available funding, to students who have not completed those requirements. All of these scholarships will cover only a part of the total cost of summer study, so we encourage you to seek additional funding elsewhere.

Students who enroll in any great books based summer study abroad program are eligible for our scholarship, and some courses will also count for CTI credit. The following programs may be of particular interest:

The Rome Institute of Liberal Arts has enjoyed a long-standing affiliation with the University of Texas, and Dr. Dempsey has taught there several times (though he will not be teaching there next summer). The program gives students the opportunity to spend their summers in Rome, studying great texts in small seminar settings, for UT credit. Both courses, Beauty and the Sacred and Empire and the Soul, will count as CTI electives. For more information about the courses, program dates, requirements, costs, and upcoming information sessions, please visit http://rilarts.org/.

The Oxford Summer Program, sponsored by the Department of English, is also eligible for funding, and the Shakespeare course counts as a CTI elective. 

The Jefferson Center scholarship may also be used for the summer study programs in Pamplona, Rome, and Athens offered through the Association for Core Texts and Courses, though students will have to consult with Texas Global to see whether they can earn UT credit for completing the program. The Jefferson Center cannot promise either UT or CTI credit in advance for these courses, but if you would like to share a syllabus with us we can advise you on whether, if requested by Texas Global, we will recommend CTI credit for a particular course. 

To apply for the Jefferson Center scholarship, please send the following materials to cti@austin.utexas.edu with the subject heading “Summer Study Scholarship Application”:

  • A grade report. You do not need an official transcript; the grade report should be up to date for the Fall 2023 semester.
  • Confirmation that you have applied to a study abroad program. If you applied to RILA, please include a copy of the statement of interest that you submitted, verification of your payment of the application fee, and notice of which course you applied for.
  • If you are applying to a study abroad program other than the ones listed above, please send a sample course syllabus with your application.

We have a limited number of scholarships to give out. The deadline for applying is February 1 at 5:30 PM. We will evaluate applications as quickly as possible.

 

 

To apply for CTI's scholarship, please send the following materials to this email address (cti@austin.utexas.edu) with the subject heading “Summer Study Scholarship Application”:

--A grade report. You do not need an official transcript; the grade report should be up to date for the current semester.

--Confirmation that you have applied to a study abroad program. If you applied to RILA, include verification of your payment of the application fee, and notice of whether you have applied to the Beauty and the Scared course or the Empire and the Soul course.

--If you applie to RILA, also include a copy of the statement of interest that you submitted when you applied.

We have a limited number of scholarships to give out. Applicants will be selected on the basis of their academic performance and their progress toward completing the Certificate in Core Texts and Ideas. 

JSP Book Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement

This scholarship, in the amount of $200, is intended to help Jefferson Scholars who have distinguished themselves academically to build their own libraries of books. It is awarded each year to 20 or more Jefferson Scholars on the basis of academic performance, with extra weight given to CTI classes and activities.

Applications are accepted each year in May and awards are distributed in early summer.

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