The Honors College is committed to offering unique study abroad opportunities that integrate place and culture into the study of classic texts. Studying abroad allows Honors students to deepen their appreciation for various cultures, histories, and perspectives on what it means to be human.
Honors Study Abroad Opportunities

JumpstartTU for Honors students
Jumpstart your UTulsa experience in the Honors College with an opportunity to study and travel in the Eternal City! This international experience will take first-year Honors students on a journey through the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern worlds, setting the stage for the critical works they will read in their classes. Staying together in a beautiful villa near the Vatican, students will explore how the cultures of Athens and Jerusalem meet in Rome, and are transformed into Western Civilization. This JumpstartTU destination is open only to admitted Honors College students. Honors students may also select from non-Honors JumpstartTU destinations in Germany, Mexico, Panama, Dubai, and China.
Spain 2025 – HON 2143 The Long Middle Ages
Through this seminar, with a study-abroad component in May, Honors students will study the intellectual tradition of the medieval and Renaissance worlds in the West, including the transition into the early-modern world through the lens of the emerging Spanish empire. To study this tradition we will focus on the historical, philosophical, and literary texts of Western cultures, c. 500–1600. In so doing, we will explore perennial themes of life and death, flourishing and suffering, authority and empire, society and the individual, church and state, virtue and vice, and many other timeless elements of the human condition.
Rome 2025 – HON 2143 The Long Middle Ages
This course will immerse Honors students into the rich worlds of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with particular attention to the development of religion, philosophy, literature, and politics. These were incredibly fertile periods of human history that sought harmony in every area of human existence, leading to the rise of cathedrals, universities, and supreme works of art. Using their literature, scholastic thought, and material culture, we will explore the colorful tapestry of the Middle Ages and Renaissance by visiting key sites primarily in Rome with brief excursions to Florence and Orvieto.