During the first part of the program, students take a core course and one elective. Students also meet with the program’s field experience advisors in order to be placed according to ability, professional goals, experience, work habits, and availability of local appointments.
Note: Syllabi are for course approval and reference only. Students will receive up-to-date syllabi when their courses begin.
Required Course
All students in the Wheelock Program take this course during the first six weeks.
CAS AN 368 Australian Culture & Society
Major focus on Australia’s global and national development as a multicultural nation with European roots, traditional western alliances and an imagined future in the Asia-Pacific region. The themes of continuity and change in relation to the Aboriginal population are explored in some detail.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Historical Consciousness
Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Research and Information Literacy
Core Phase Elective
Students choose one of the following electives during the Core Phase of the term. The schedule and course offerings vary each term. Students will receive further information on the elective courses prior to their departure.
Elective Courses
CAS CS 330 Intro to Analysis of Algorithms
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASCS112, CASCS131, and CASCS132; or CASCS235 or CASCS237
Examines the basic principles of algorithm design and analysis; graph algorithms; greedy algorithms; dynamic programming; network flows; polynomial- time reductions; NP-hard and NP-complete problems; approximation algorithms; randomized algorithms.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Quantitative Reasoning II
Critical Thinking
CAS EC 464The Pacific Rim: Economic and Political Orders
The course focuses on the origins and dynamics of the ‘miracle’ Asia/Pacific economic growth, emphasising its impact on Australia. This region was the crucible for a global shift in political, economic and strategic power from the ‘developed’ western economies to Asia/Pacific.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Aesthetic Exploration
Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
CAS EN 383 Australian Literature – From Page to Screen
This course is designed to introduce students to the literature of Australia through an eclectic collection of texts, and diverse forms and genres of writing, including the adaptation from page to screen. A major focus is “What is Australian Identity?”.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Aesthetic Exploration
Writing Intensive Course
Creativity/Innovation
CAS IR 339Australia and the Politics of Regional Security in Asia-Pacific
This course examines the new era of regional security in the Asia-Pacific region to understand the public policy implications for Australia and the United States. Students will be able to identify and understand how the region could evolve.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
CAS SO 308 Australian Social Policy
This is an interdisciplinary introduction to concepts and issues entailed in critically evaluating Australian social policy as a field of academic study and a site of contemporary action, including policies for health, human rights, women and work, and Indigenous Australians.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Social Inquiry II
Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Critical Thinking
QST MK 463 Services Marketing and Management
Fall only.
Prerequisite: QST MK 323 Marketing Management.
Covers topics relating to customer service management and focuses on the role of marketing in managing services. Also covered are human resource, information management, operational, and financial overlaps with marketing throughout the course.
Units: 4
SHA HF 328 The Australian Wine Industry
Spring only.
This course introduces students to the Australian Wine Industry. The focus will be on the history, location, culture and development of the Australian Wine Industry, the process involved in the production of wine, the business of the Australian Wine Industry, and the basic skills of wine tasting.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Scientific Inquiry I
Ethical Reasoning
Critical Thinking
Field Experience Phase
Week 8 (Mid-Semester Break)
Week 9–Week 15
During the final seven weeks, students will participate in an internship and enroll in an elective course, a four-unit internship course, and a non-unit Hub co-curricular. Students work full-time in organizations in and around Sydney. Placements are contingent upon the student’s experience, professional interests, and relevant academic history, as well as the availability of opportunities in any given term; flexibility is essential.
Field Experience Areas
Gain hands-on professional experience through an internship in educational institutions, NGOs, or nonprofit organizations. Students intern four days per week, completing a total of 200 hours while building foundational workplace skills. While BU Study Abroad guarantees an internship to program participants, specific placements vary by term and may not always be available. Please note that placements in Deaf Studies are not available.
Field Experience Course
Study Abroad will enroll students in a non-unit Hub co-curricular and a four-unit internship course, which includes a classroom component. Upon successful completion of the field experience, students will receive a Hub requirement in the area Individual in Community from the co-courricular HUB SA 330.
HUB SA 330 Study Abroad Internship
This course is a Non-unit Hub Co-curricular.
Units: 0
BU Hub areas:
Individual in Community
CAS PO 405/IR 455 Internship in International Organizations
Units: 4
Field Experience Components
The field experience itself (evaluated by the workplace supervisor)
Academic strand of the field experience, including multiple assignments and participation in internship classes.
Internship advisor’s evaluation
Elective Courses
Students choose one of the following during the Field Experience Phase of the term. The schedule and course offerings vary each term. Students will receive further information on the elective courses prior to their departure.
CAS AH 374Australian Art & Architecture
Australia owns the world’s oldest continuing art tradition (indigenous Australian art) and the youngest tradition. This course focuses on key artists, in an historical and an international context, against themes of landscape, urbanism, abstraction, realism, the noble savage, and modernism.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Critical Thinking
CAS CS 411 Software Engineering
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASCS112
Introduction to the construction of reliable software. Topics may include software tools, software testing methodologies, retrofitting, regression testing, structured design and structured programming, software characteristics and quality, complexity, entropy, deadlock, fault tolerance, formal proofs of program correctness, chief program teams, and structured walk-throughs.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Teamwork/Collaboration
CAS EE 328 Australian Points of View Toward Global Environmental Challenges
The course explores the way people form viewpoints toward the environment and how this thinking manifests in practice. The current, urgent challenges that face our environmental systems require exploration of these attitudes through the lens of individual, community, corporate, non-government organisations and government levels as well as through indigenous perspectives.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Ethical Reasoning
Social Inquiry II
CAS HI 356 Empires and Soft Power: A History of International Relations and Sport in the Pacific Rim
This course explores the cultural, economic, diplomatic, and legal developments in sport in the region as a background to building management skills. While the course has a focus on understanding these elements with a view to informing sport management, it will also interest those who want to understand the interplay of the myriad nations of the region through cultural, diplomatic, legal, political, and other areas using the sport industry as a lens.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
COM CO 350 Mass Media in Australia
Contemporary issues associated with Australian mass media and film. Key areas of film, television, print, advertising, and radio, plus media ownership and government legislation in Australia. The emphasis of the course will be on current Australian media and film production.
Units: 4
COM FT 345 Australian Cinema
Australia produced The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), the world’s first full-length feature film. This course follows the local industry from a national to international identity, highlighting distinctly Australian characters alongside themes of city, bush and the outback.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Philosophical Inquiry & Life’s Meaning
Aesthetic Exploration
QST MK 467 International Marketing Management
Prerequisite: QST MK 323 Marketing Management.
Develops a critical appreciation of both the opportunities and challenges associated with the increasing globalization of markets. Students learn about the key environmental forces shaping the needs and preferences of the global consumer and the impact of foreign, political, and economic factors on the marketing mix.