Preference will also be granted to those students who have completed their distribution requirements in the humanities, the natural sciences and mathematics, and the social sciences at Colgate. Additionally, the University of Wollongong requires a GPA of 3.0 for matriculation in their international student Study Abroad Program. The overall goal of this study group experience is to acquaint students with the historical events and environmental issues that have shaped the modern state of Australia. This experience will immerse students in a foreign culture in such a way that the contrasting ways of thinking, doing, and configuring the world by others will deepen their understanding of their own cultural beliefs and identity. All participants are required to enroll and to complete four courses during the fall term at the University of Wollongong.
Students elect two courses and enroll in two required courses described below.
The industrialization of the world is dependent on a largely unexamined precept that wilderness has little value until transformed by humans into usable resource. Australia, a modern industrialized nation, has endorsed this manifest destiny and has systematically tamed and civilized its wildland, including its aboriginal people, as documented in Ann R. M. Young's Environmental Change in Australia Since 1788 . The thematic focus of the course will be a critical examination of the ethos that underlies this developmental trend. Louis P. Pojman's Global Environmental Ethics will provide the means for both a theoretical and applied analysis of the ethical issues that surround resources exploitation for technological and economic accomplishment and advancement. This procedure underscores the environmental emphasis of the Australia Study Group, including the salient interdisciplinary nature of the discipline.