Overview

This study tour offers a unique opportunity to experience New Caledonian cultures. You will undertake a two-week intensive program in Noumea where you will stay with a host family, participate in language classes, engage in global and intercultural learning through seminars and excursions. You will come out of this experience … For more content click the Read More button below.

Rules

Enrolment Rule

Contacts

Chief Examiner(s)

Dr Jessica Chakowa

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Jessica Chakowa

Notes

  • This unit is not offered in 2025.
  • Study tour taking place in New Caledonia over two weeks
  • This unit is an international study program that requires an application to be enrolled and may incur additional cost.
  • Permission from the Unit Coordinator is required to enrol into this unit. Please contact Arts Student Services for advice.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to:
1.

Explain with nuance the diverse postcolonial situations in New Caledonia;

2.

Critically examine the cultural artefacts and discursive frameworks of political and cultural discourses which accompany and frame the situations of various groups in a postcolonial environment;

3.

Extrapolate such discourses and artefacts to broader global challenges;

4.

Relate these challenges to their own field of interest or discipline;

5.

Deploy theoretical tools to analyse relevant case studies on topics provided or chosen for assessment;

6.

Competently employ digital literacy skills.

Teaching approach

Active learning

Assessment summary

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment

1 - Reflective blog
2 - Final project
3 - Language test
4 - Reading engagement

Workload requirements

Workload

Other unit costs

Costs are indicative and subject to change.
International study tour cost estimate for planning purposes - $5,000 (eligible students will receive $3000 from New Colombo Plan Mobility grants)
Expenses of a personal nature (e.g. visas, entrance fees, meals etc.) may also be at participant's expense unless specifically included in the tour arrangements.

Availability in areas of study

European languages