Spring 2006 Newsletter

Program News

NEW ZEALAND
NEW—An American (Semester) in Auckland
We are pleased to announce a major restructuring of our Auckland Internship Program. Beginning with the Fall 2006 semester, we are shifting to a an American-length semester built around the internship experience. This model, familiar to you as the semester structure for our London, Dublin, and Sydney programs, allows students to work in their internship placements for a solid eight weeks and complete three other courses for a total of sixteen Boston University credits.

With this restructuring we will be working with a new academic partner, the Auckland University of Technology, which is particularly strong in our most popular internship areas, including journalism, communications, business, hospitality, computer science and information technology, and physical and occupational therapy. We will be retaining the popular course, Aotearoa New Zealand: History and Society, and its Cook Islands excursions. As with our other internship programs, courses will be custom-designed for Boston University program participants and taught by AUT faculty. We'll have pictures soon on our website.

AUSTRALIA
A New Home in Sydney
Over the holiday break the Sydney Internship Program moved into its new home, the Fusion centre, just around the corner from our student residence, Unilodge. The new building gives us greatly expanded office, classroom, computer, library and work space, and will settle us down for the next several years. As always, we’re located in the Chippendale section of Sydney, very close to UTS and less than a mile from Sydney University, where our students continue to enjoy access to athletic and other facilities.

Two of our longstanding summer programs have adjusted their schedules to better fit the needs of students:

The Sydney Internship Program will now be an eight-week, eight credit program, combining an internship with an elective course in Australian politics or cinema. The dates are June 2- July 26, 2006. Also available is the 8-credit Sydney Film Studies Program, built around the annual Sydney Film Festival. Dates are May 26-July 14, 2006.

Also, the London Liberal Arts Program (formerly London Summer Term), May 22 – 30 2006 offers students two 4-credit courses from a variety of fields including politics, history, law, communications, journalism economics, psychology and art.

And...

New Guadalajara Engineering Program launched its first semester this month at the Guadalajara campus of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Like our popular Dresden Engineering Program, the Guadalajara program is designed for second-semester sophomores in all engineering majors.



Summer 2006

ITALY
NEW—Tuscany
The Tuscany Landscape Painting Program offers anyone with an interest in painting the unique opportunity to spend six weeks at the breathtaking Tuscan villa of Capitignano overlooking the olive groves and vineyards of the Mugello Valley. The villa is an unparralled setting for landscape painting and the program is a once-in -a-lifetime opportunity. Naturally, we complement the villa instruction with field trips into the museums and architectural masterpieces of Florence, and offer either an art history course to go along with the painting class, or introductory Italian. The only requirement is that students have at least some painting experience.

SENEGAL
NEW— Dakar Senegal
The Dakar Senegalese Studies Program offers six weeks in Dakar, the vibrant costal capital of Senegal Africa’s westernmost country.

Once in Dakar, students will have the chance to study one of the principle spoken languages, Wolof, as well as drum and dance, or Senegalese literature and film. Students will be housed with Senegalese families, which promises a profound cultural experience, and of course, field trips and excursions to complement coursework.




STAFF
BUIP has recently restructured its program management responsibilities.

The following staff members serve as enrollment coordinators for our programs.
We provide additional information about our staff at www.bu.edu/abroad/staff