Courses for Newcastle Program

With this program you will be "direct-enrolling" at the University of Newcastle. This means you will be able to choose from the vast majority of any course offerings the University of Newcastle offers, and the majority of your classmates will be Australians.

Also, as part of this program, the UW-Platteville Study Abroad Office has two requirements in your course selection. One, is that you to take a specific one credit course with other program participants. The second is that you take a course about Australia culture. More details about these two course requirements are below.

Please consult the University of Newcastle website for updated course offerings at: http://search.newcastle.edu.au/program/

For course timetables, please visit:

All available undergraduate courses for Spring 2010 and Fall 2010.

Please note:
-Some of these courses (ie, Medical, later-year Engineering, etc) may still have restrictions in place in terms of student quota's or the academic requirements for entry.
-We encourage you to only look for courses offered at the Callaghan Campus which is close to downtown Newcastle where you will be living. You may take classes at the Ourimbah (Central Coast) campus, but it is a substantial commute.

Program Academic Requirements:

1) ANTH 1010 Cross-Cultural Understanding (1 credit) - this is required for all program participants.

Course Description:
ANTH 1010 1 Credit Cross-Cultural Understanding
This course is designed to help students examine and discuss their own experiences in Australia and discover the aspects of Australian life and culture that underlie them. These experiences are supplemented with group and individual excursions to explore various aspects of Australian culture including politics, philosophy, society, art, education, history, and the media. It is intended to stimulate personal reflection and a cross-cultural perspective. Course consists of lecture, discussion, journal writing, and excursions. Grades are assigned on a pass/fail basis. Text: Maximizing Study Abroad (2004), University of Minnesota (CARLA Press)

2) One course on Australian Culture (4 credits)

For this requirement, students may choose any course offered from the University of Newcastle that has "significant course content" about Australia life & culture. These may include courses in the areas of, for example: history, media studies, social science, art, and literature. See potential courses here.

Students in the hard sciences or who have strict academic plans, should plan this Australia Culture requirement to match with a General Education requirement they still need to complete.