International

Study Abroad

Outdoor Education: What Will I Study?

Each semester you take a total of 60 credit points.

Semester 1 runs from February - June.

Semester 2 runs from July - November.

Option 1:

For the full outdoor education program, including 45 days of outdoor field trips, you can take:

Semester 1

• Outdoor Living & Travel Skills A
• Field Experience A
• Australian Environments
• Ways of Knowing Nature

Semester 2

• Naturalist Studies
• Field Experience B
• Worldviews & the Environment
• Outdoor Environments

Option 2:

Here's a small sample of the units you can choose from:

Semester 1

• Outdoor Living and Travel Skills
• Ecology
• Introductory Geology
• Life in Society*
• Photo Journalism
• Photo, Print and Media Theory
• Photo, Print and Media Workshop
• Psychology of Community Life*

Semester 2

• Adventures in the Australian Landscape
• Brain and Behaviour*
• Health - Mental Health*
• Photo, Print and Media Theory*
• Photo, Print and Media Workshop*
• Plant Ecology
• Soil Science*

The above units are all worth 15 credit points, except Brain and Behaviour which is 20 credit points.

*These subjects have prerequisites; look them up in the UnitSearch database for details.

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Last Updated: 29 February, 2008