Courses:
For a complete list of courses available, visit: http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/handbooks/
As is the case on your own campus, not all courses will be offered each year and/or semester, but similar courses will be offered in their place.
Credits:
Students must enroll in a full academic load, normally 24 points per semester. Point values for each unity vary across faculties. Generally students will enroll in 3-4 units per semester. Most units are offered on a semester basis. However some, especially first year units asre offered as full year units. There is some flexibility to offer full year units as 'special' semester units and students wishing to do so should contact the Study Abroad Office direct. Students who select units across more than one faculty or at different levels (i.e., a combination of 1st/2nd or 3rd year units) may not be able to achieve 24 points exactly. In these circumstances, total points between the range of 22 to 24 points will be acceptable.
At UWA students are enrolled in a number of classes (units) concurrently. The emphasis is on independent learning with less direction from lecturers and greater expectations of individual study outside classes. There will also be fewer assessments and heavier weighing on assessments than some students may be used to. Students attend weekly lectures, which may be large, sometimes over 100 students. These will be complemented by weekly tutorials, seminars or laboratories and workshops where students will be expected to actively participate in discussion and debate with other students and tutors or lecturers. Tutorials, seminars or laboratories and workshops are usually smaller classes, usually around 20 students. They may be compulsory and often assessed. There is less multi-choice assessment.
Curriculum:
Participants in the Brockport University of Western Australia Program will select (prior to departure) three courses from the courses available to study abroad students at the University of Western Australia. All instruction in the Brockport University of Western Australia Program is by University of Western Australia faculty.
Participants will have selected and received approval for their selection of courses (with advisement) prior to their departure.
Participants in the Brockport University of Western Australia 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.
