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
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Biodiversity
- Business
- Conservation
- Communications
- Computer Science
- Creative Arts
- Cultural Studies
- Ecology
- Education
- Engineering
- Environment
- Film
- Geography
- Geology
- Geothermal Energy
- Global Leadership
- Health
- Indigenous Studies
- Journalism
- Literature
- Marine Science
- Meteorology
- Natural Resources
- Nursing
- Political Science
- Postcolonial Studies
- Psychology
- Resource Management
- Social Work
- Sport 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?
- Transport: Are you looking for public transportation in cities or trains to reduce your programs carbon footprint or does your home institution require you have mid-sized coaches?
- Guide: Will your program be entirely faculty-led or would you like a specialized guide for part or for the full duration of your program?
- 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 includes in itineraries. We can design programs to travel to other locations as well, so this list is just to provide some inspiration. See our program development brochure for a sampling of activities available across the region.
Australia
Queensland (QLD)
- Daintree Rainforest
- Cape Tribulation
- Great Barrier Reef
- Port Douglas
- Cairns
- Atherton Tablelands
- Paluma National Park
- Townsville
- Magnetic Island
- Lady Elliott Island
- Carnarvon Gorge
- Noosa
- Brisbane city
- Gold Coast
- Lamington National Park
New South Wales (NSW)
- Sydney city
- Sydney Opera House
- Sydney Harbour and Bridge
- Bondi Beach
- Blue Mountains
- Royal National Park
Australian Capital Territory (ACT)
- Canberra
- Parliament House
- Australian War Memorial
- National Museum and Gallery of Australia
Victoria (VIC)
- Melbourne city
- Dandenong Ranges National Park
- Phillip Island
- Great Ocean Road
South Australia (SA)
- Adelaide city
- Kangaroo Island
- Flinders Ranges
- Coober Pedy and the ‘Outback’
Northern Territory (NT)
- Darwin
- Kakadu National Park
- Arnhem Land
- Alice Springs
- Uluru/Ayers Rock
Aotearoa New Zealand
Te Ika-a-Māui / North Island
- Waitangi Treaty Grounds
- Paihia, Bay of Islands
- Auckland
- Rangitoto and Waiheke Islands
- Tauranga
- Hobbiton
- Waitomo Caves
- Rotorua
- Taupō
- Tongariro National Park
- Napier
- Wellington
Te Waipounamu / South Island
- Abel Tasman National Park
- Kaikōura
- Christchurch
- Nelson Lakes National Park
- Punakaiki
- Hokitika
- Fox Glacier
- Lake Tekapo
- Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park
- Queenstown
- Milford Sound
- Dunedin
Fiji
Viti Levu
- Yasawa Islands
- Mamanuca Islands
- Nadi
- Sigatoka
- Coral Coast
Antarctica
From port to peninsula
- Ushuaia, Argentina
- Faulkland Islands
- South Georgia
- South Shetland Islands
- Antarctic Peninsula
Other destinations
We have researched and developed itineraries for other Pacific islands (such as Rarotonga, Tahiti and Hawaii) and also the Arctic region (Greenland and Iceland). If you have an interest in a location not listed here, please do get in touch to discuss how we might work with you on an itinerary in a South Pacific or Arctic destination of your choice.
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 with 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
