Description

The University of New South Wales: Sydney, Australia
UNSW Study Abroad offers an exciting range of five-week 'Summer School' courses during the northern hemisphere summer. These 75-hour courses combine a full academic workload for credit with travel to many of Australia's unique destinations.

The first ten days of each course are set in Darwin, Australia's 'top end'. The highlight is a three-day camping expedition into Kakadu National Park viewing ancient Aboriginal rock art, crocodiles and spectacular scenery. The courses then move to various locations including Canberra, Melbourne and the Blue Mountains before meeting at the UNSW campus, located 20 minutes from downtown Sydney and five minutes from the beachside suburb of Coogee. All courses conclude in Cairns in Australia's tropical north, where students complete classes and are able to relax and participate in the wide range of adventure activities available.

Course dates: 15 June - 19 July

Credit: 6 UNSW Credits

Application deadline: Friday 23rd March

Program cost: AUS 6,300 (Price for the 6-week program includes full tuition, all accommodation, around 50% meals, all excursion travel and park entry fees, orientation programs, airport shuttle services, internet dongle [USB modem] and UNSW student card).

Airfare Package: UNSW and STA Travel in the USA have collaborated to organize a flight package for each summer school course. Packages can be viewed on the website.

Highlights

Three of the Study Abroad Summer School programs running in June/July are:

Tourism and Event Management: Sustaining the Attraction

This course is coordinated by UNSW's Tourism and Hospitality Management Unit, and comprises lectures, industry case studies, workshops, industry presentations, field excursions and travel throughout some of the most prominent and diverse tourist destinations in Australia. The combination of theory and real-life business management case studies provides students with a uniquely engaging and enriching way of learning how Australia is addressing the challenge of sustainability, within the context of tourism and recreation management.

Students participating in this course visit many of its stunning natural, cultural and man-made attractions. In doing so, they will discover the marketing and management techniques that have been used to create such impressive tourism growth, whilst conserving the natural and built heritage environments credited with attracting tourists in the first place.

Locations
Students travel to Darwin, Kakadu National Park, Melbourne, Sydney, the Gold Coast, and Cairns.

Australian Cinema, Media Production and History
This course examines how Australian image's feature in Australian film and literature and what they suggest about Australian identity and culture. Through creative projects, video production and textual analysis of literature and film, students undertake individual and group activities to interrogate dominant national myths and to discover the nuances and intricacies of Australian culture, nationalism and identity politics. Popular television shows, films, short stories, documentaries, novels and poetry are just some of the types of texts students investigate in this course. Students also discover the key images and transformative re-imaginings that compose the Australian conceptions of place, race, gender, culture and identity.

Students are given the opportunity to blog about texts and excursions, work in groups to produce a short video, and present (individually and in groups) textual and critical readings in seminars.

Locations
Students travel to Darwin, Kakadu National Park, Melbourne, Sydney and Cairns.

Australian Studies: History, Politics and Aboriginal Culture
This course presents a narrative overview of key topics in Australian history and explores some of the essential themes of the Australian experience. Through the lenses of Australia's sporting history, its political landscape and the development of the bush and Anzac mythologies, the nature of Australia's identity is uncovered. Using a variety of teaching mediums (lectures, seminars, films and excursions), the course introduces students to major aspects of the Australian experience.
Some of the other major topics that are explored include:

What is/was the nature of traditional Aboriginal society, and how has that changed since colonisation?

What are the major events and influences that have shaped contemporary Australian society?

The concept of sport as (Australian) culture;
Indigenous Australians and contemporary political discourse;
Constitutional systems, political parties and culture;
public-policy making in sport and the evolution of the governance of sport;
the importance of the media in the development and presentation of Australian sporting cultures.

Locations
Students travel to Darwin, Kakadu National Park, Canberra, Sydney, and Cairns.

Degree Level

Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Subject Areas

Cost in US$:

6,300

Program Fees Include:

Price for the 5-week program includes full tuition, all accommodation, around 50% meals, all excursion travel and park entry fees, orientation programs, airport shuttle services, internet dongle [USB modem] and UNSW student card.

Experience Required

yes

Students must be enrolled at a tertiary institution.

This Program is open to

American, Asian, Canadian, European, South African and Worldwide Participants.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Dormitory
• Other

Participants Travel

in Groups

Typically Participants Work

in Groups of 12-25 students

Scholarships are Available

A Summer School Travel Scholarship is available to a US based citizen who has applied to one of the UNSW Study Abroad Summer School courses.

Application Process Involves

• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Transcript

Typically The Application Process Time is

1 week

Post Services Include

• Alumni Network

Year Founded

1989