Australia Today
Location	Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Dates	January 4 - 24, 2009
Credits Offered	GEOG 383.97 - 3 CREDITS (CUNY tuition is not included in program fee)
Application Deadline	October 23
Financial Aid	PELL, student loans
Program Fee	$600 (estimate) includes housing, airport pickup, first day dinner, excursion to Warnambool, field trips, and insurance. Airfare not included.
Payment Schedule	$350 due with application. Balance due November 13. All payments by certified checks or money orders.

- IMPORTANT -
Only Hunter students can enroll through Hunter College.
Other students interested in the program should contact Queens College.

Program Description
This program is offered by Deakin University, with whom Hunter College has a semester and academic year-long reciprocal tuition agreement. There is no Hunter faculty accompanying the students. The program is located at Deakin's Geelong Waterfront Campus, about 50 miles south-west from Melbourne.

The aim of the course is to provide students with tools for cultural orientation; information, experiences, analyses and interactions which will inform, entertain and heighten their understanding of Australia Today. It will be achieved through a series of presentations and readings on everything from Australian history, politics and geography to an engagement with key social and political issues - Indigenous rights, gender relations, inequality, multiculturalism, national identity and Australia's place in the world - while also exploring myths and popular cultures. In addition to quality printed materials, students will attend presentations and small group discussions of the materials. They will venture on field excursions beyond the University to tour Australian cities and suburbs; to see elements of Indigenous Australia. Assessment will be based on a class presentation, a fieldwork exercise related to the excursion and an essay, which will be due at the end of February.

Topics include:

• Australian history
• Landscape and settlement Australia in film
• The ANZAC legend: War and national identity
• Aboriginal settlement and unsettlement
• Australia and Asia
• Multicultural Australia
• Australia: A distinctive democracy
• The Lucky Country?
• Sporting nation: Sporting culture
• Gender relations in Australia
• Global Australia

Pre-requisites
One 100-level social science course (GEOG, ANTHC, SOC, PSYCH, POLSC, HIST)

Inquiries
Education Abroad Office E1447, Monday - Friday 9:30 am - 5:30pm
Phone: (212) 772-4983
Fax: (212) 772-5005
E-Mail: edabroad@hunter.cuny.edu

 

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