Study Abroad

Australia Study Group - Univ. of Wollongong

Fall / spring (offered twice every year)

The University of Wollongong, located on the coast of New South Wales, approximately 50 miles south of Sydney, is the study site for the Australia Study Group. This study-abroad program is designed for students who have demonstrated a strong affinity for broad-based, interdisciplinary exploration of environmental studies.

The academic offerings and extensive resources of the University of Wollongong, as well as the living and studying opportunities with Australian students, allow study-group participants a unique means to broaden and deepen their understanding of the historical, cultural and biological diversity of Australia.

The overall goal of this study group experience is to acquaint students with the historical, geographic and environmental processes that have shaped the modern state of Australia. This experience will immerse students in a foreign culture, exposing them to contrasting ways of thinking about and configuring the world, which will deepen their understanding of their own beliefs and identity.

Wales Study Group

Spring term -- every year

Students majoring in any of the natural sciences, mathematics or computer science may continue required courses at the University of Wales, College of Cardiff (UWCC), while studying the history and culture of Wales.

Participants take two required courses (Welsh History and Welsh Literature and Culture) and two science courses chosen from offerings in archaeology, biology, chemistry, computer science, geology, mathematics, physics and psychology. All courses are in English.

The study group begins the last week in January, and final exams are completed by early June. Students share university dormitory suites with Cardiff students.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Fall term (+ optional summer) -- every year

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Study Group offers the opportunity for Colgate students interested in the biomedical sciences to spend a full semester working in some of the most exciting, “cutting edge” research laboratories in the world.

The NIH in Bethesda, Md., house more than 5,000 active researchers and are the official federal research facilities of the United States. The hallmark of the study group is an intensive research experience involving 30+ hours of research each week in an NIH laboratory of the students’ choosing.

Students will carry a normal course load of four credits while on the study group. The research experience will count for two of the required four course credits. Colgate course credit will appear on the transcript upon satisfactory completion of study group courses.

The NIH attracts some of the world’s finest scientists. There can be as many as 50 public lectures each day; so many that the NIH campus has its own daily news sheet just to keep its population informed. The library at the NIH has one of the best collections of scientific literature in the world. Colgate students often obtain summer employment in research laboratories at NIH or work opportunities after graduation as a direct result of contacts made while attending the NIH Study Group.