Exploring the Environment of Australia and New Zealand

Students are spending two weeks abroad through distinctive interim-session course

Thirty-one students are spending their winter break halfway around the world in the Envisioning Environmental Science: Australia and New Zealand interim-abroad course. The two-week course is being taught by Roger Ruggles and Arthur Kney, both associate professors of civil and environmental engineering

The students are exploring the true interdisciplinary nature of environmental science through observation, discussion, and readings. The course tries to demonstrate how all areas of study at Lafayette (humanities, social sciences, engineering, and natural sciences) when integrated together provide knowledge and skills to truly understand and communicate issues impacting the environment. Australia and New Zealand provide the unique environmental setting that is the focus of the course. The class is exploring Fiordland National Park, the Dart River, the Antarctic Center, population centers of Queenstown, Christchurch, Sidney, and Cairns, and the Great Barrier Reef.

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