The program is based at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, with the first week spent in the Northern Territories and the final week spent in Queensland at the university's research facility at Lady Elliott Island on the Great Barrier Reef and in the tropical rain forest of Northern Queensland. The second course will be selected from several taught by faculty of the University of New South Wales. Students live in dormitories. Students earn one year of Chinese language credit at the intermediate or advanced level. Independent travel is possible during the program and there is an optional guided 10 day study tour available after the program.
Students live in dormitories.
Students must have completed one year of college-level biology. Students will begin the program with lectures and demonstrations in San Jose, then will travel into the field in southern Costa Rica. The Wilson Botanical Garden and Las Cruces Biological Station will be used as bases, with students conducting ethnobiological assessments at neighboring communities. Students must have completed one semester of college-level biology and one semester of Spanish or the equivalent and will enroll in one laboratory course. Classes are taught by Professor John Clum of Duke and a variety of well known British actors, writers, and directors.