Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park – South Island, New Zealand
Customized Faculty-Led Programs
If you have an idea for a study abroad program you would like to run in the South Pacific, you can draw on AUIP’s expertise in developing customized faculty-led programs. As local on-the-ground experts in study abroad education, we can assist you in developing a course in any discipline. We have run or are currently running programs in the following disciplines:
- Agriculture
- Animal Science
- Biology
- Business
- Conservation
- Communications
- Cultural Studies
- Engineering
- Environment
- Film
- Geography
- Geology
- Health
- Indigenous Studies
- Journalism
- Literature
- Marine Science
- Natural Resources
- Nursing
- Postcolonial Studies
- Sports Science
- Sustainability
- Tourism
- Urban Planning
- Visual Arts
Some considerations when planning a customized program:
- Setting: would you prefer urban or rural locations, or a mixture of the two?
- Activities: would you like your program to include nature-based activities (hiking, kayaking, for example) or urban-based activities (museums, cultural visits and university visits), or both?
- Weather: what time of year would you like to visit?
- Cost: what is your budget? (Big cities and remote locations tend to be more expensive.)
- Travel: How much do you want to travel? Would you rather see as much as possible in the time you have, or have longer stays in each location?
- Developed/developing: Would you be comfortable running a program in a developing country?
It has been a real pleasure working with AUIP for the past few years. I most appreciate the focus on truly understanding our program’s educational aims and building an itinerary around those objectives. The level of detail and organization is phenomenal, and our engineering students have engaged in incredibly enriching educational experiences in New Zealand and Australia.
Dr. David Knight, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech
Great Barrier Reef – Northern Queensland, Australia
Below are some South Pacific locations AUIP currently uses. We can design programs to travel to other locations as well, so this partial list is just to provide some inspiration. See our program development brochure for a sampling of activities available across the region.
North Queensland, Australia
- Magnetic Island
- Townsville
- Paluma National Park
- Atherton Tablelands
- Cairns, Great Barrier Reef
- Port Douglas
- Daintree Rainforest
- Cape Tribulation
South Queensland, Australia
- Brisbane
- Lady Elliott Island
- Carnarvon Gorge
- Lamington National Park
- Noosa
- Gold Coast
Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
- Sydney Opera House
- Sydney Harbor
- Blue Mountains
- Royal National Park
- Phillip Island
- Mornington Peninsula
- Great Ocean Road
South and Central Australia
- Adelaide
- Kangaroo Island
- Flinders Ranges
- Uluru/Ayers Rock
- Alice Springs
Northern Territory, Australia
- Darwin
- Kakadu
- Arnhem Land
Fiji
- Nadi
- Mamanuca Islands
- Yasawa Islands
- Coral Coast
- Taveuni
- Ovalau
South Island, New Zealand
- Dunedin
- Queenstown
- Aoraki/Mount Cook
- Milford Sound
- Fox Glacier
- Hokitika
- Punakaiki
- Abel Tasman National Park
- Nelson Lakes National Park
- Kaikoura
- Christchurch
North Island, New Zealand
- Wellington
- Tongariro National Park
- Napier
- Rotorua
- Tauranga
- Waitomo Caves
- Auckland
- Paihia
- Waitangi Treaty Grounds
Ushuaia, Argentina, and the Antarctic Peninsula
Consortium Programs
For our flagship programs, there may be opportunities to work with other partner schools or to join an existing consortium. One benefit of the consortium option is that it allows you to minimize costs and to run a course even with a small number of enrollments.
Talk to us about the programs we are currently running and about the partnership opportunities.
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Work closely with our Program Development Team to implement a flagship or customized program at your college or university. Send us your curricular requirements today!
AUIP DESTINATIONS:
NEW ZEALAND
An isolated island nation in its evolutionary infancy, New Zealand is the most recently inhabited country in the world
AUSTRALIA
Australia is one of the most diverse countries on Earth, both in terms of its landscapes and its multicultural population
FIJI
Fiji is an archipelago of 330 islands, 110 of which are inhabited. It is a tapestry of ecological, cultural, and social complexity
ANTARCTICA
The coldest, driest, and windiest place on Earth, Antarctica is a frozen desert that is the least understood of Earth’s continents
