Credits:
Participants in the Brockport University of Melbourne Program will normally earn five U.S. credit hours for each course successfully completed at the University of Melbourne, for a maximum of fifteen credits per semester. Students normally take 4 courses, adding up to 50 points per semester at the University of Melbourne.
Curriculum:
Prior to departure, participants in the Brockport University of Melbourne Program will select four courses from the courses available to study abroad students at the University of Melbourne. The Study Abroad office is the first point of contact for a well-developed support network. Together with faculty advisers they also assist students with course selection and assessment of prerequisites. To maintain a full time student visa, study abroad students must complete 50 points per semester. Subjects can be taken across most faculties: Architecture, Arts, Economics and Commerce, Education, Engineering, Land and Food Resources, Law, Music, and Science. All instruction in the Brockport/University of Melbourne Program is by University of Melbourne faculty.
Participants in the Brockport/University of Melbourne Program are examined in the same manner (and to the same standard) as their Australian counterparts and classmates. The majority of courses in which they will enroll are examined formally at the end of the semester and in order to be awarded credit, participants must take and pass the examination at the end of the study period in question.
The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is Australia's leading visual and performing arts training institution. Beginning in the Spring 2007 semester, it will become a faculty of the University while maintaining its distinctive identity for training in the visual and performing arts. It consist of six schools. Art, Dance, Drama, Music, Film & Television, Production, and two centres, The Centre for Ideas and The Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development. The VCA campus is situated in the centre of Melbourne's arts precinct, about a 20-minute tram ride from the University's Parkville campus.
