New Zealand
Creation Care Study Program
Program Overview
Course Content
The courses offered include:
New Zealand Ecosystems
God and Nature
Introduction to Sustainable Community Development
Environmental Literature
Each course experience is enriched with field trips. Through ecological field studies, homestays, and participation in a diversity of cultural activities students explore the ecological and cultural diversity of New Zealand. Learning to sustainably care for both non-human creation and human communities tops off an academically rigorous and spiritually transformative semester.
Application
The student will fill out two applications:
- George Fox off-campus application form (obtained from the Center for Global Studies; or downloaded here).
- Creation Care Study Program application (to be completed online here). An application fee must accompany your application.
*The CCSP application should only be completed after being informed from the Director of Global Studies that you are accepted for an off-campus study semester.
Eligibility Students must be full-time undergraduates with junior or senior status, holding a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher to apply.
Credits
Recommended credit is 15 credit hours.
Housing
While in New Zealand, students will primarily live on the CCSP campus, which is a turn-of-the-century convent turned bed and breakfast turned CCSP campus. Students will also have enriching immersion experiences in indigenous Maori and Polynesian communities and local homestays.
For more information, contact:
Center for Global Studies
Stevens First Floor
Phone: 503-554-2686
E-mail: globalstudies@georgefox.edu