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Geology students and faculty are active participants in four Colgate off-campus study groups: at Cardiff University in Wales and the University of Manchester (both in the United Kingdom), and at the University of Wollongong in Australia (the Fall program emphasizes environmental studies; the Spring term is for geology and other science concentrators). At each of these universities, participating students select from a variety of courses across all disciplines, including those in geology that can fulfill concentration or graduation requirements. Geology professors directing these study groups have designed special field trips to classic sites of geologic interest so that students can achieve a global perspective of the earth and environmental sciences. For example in March 2010, 15 Colgate students on the Australia II Study Group (directed by Connie Soja) spent four days in northern Queensland exploring two World Heritage sites – the Great Barrier Reef and rainforests of the Wet Tropics – for Connie’s course on “The Fragile Edge: Australia’s Reefs and Rainforests.” Students reported that the field trip was “transformative” in learning about inhabitants and processes at work in these imperiled ecosystems. |
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Last updated 7/10