Winter 2005 Study Abroad Program

            Course Requirements - African Ecology (tentative):               Course Requirements - Marine Biology (tentative):

A.     Research Papers (25% of course grade)                                        A.     Term Paper (25% of course grade)
B.     Exams (35% of your course grade)                                                B.     Exams (25% of your course grade)
C.     Journal (20% of your course grade)                                               C.     Journal (25% of your course grade)
D.      Photo Journal (10% of your course grade)                                    D.     Mini-Projects (15% of your course grade)
E.      Ancillaries (10% of your course grade)                                          E.     Ancillaries (10% of your course grade)

Additional Concerns:

    These are field courses and that means living in the field!  It is that aspect that makes this course exciting and different.  Other study abroad programs at Furman are definitely more oriented toward metropolitan activities.  If you are going to learn field biology, you have to get out-of-doors and "touch the earth." The stations vary from being plush (for a field station) to being rustic (although adequate).   We will be camping for a few days in South Africa.  Students must not be simply tolerant but rather enthusiastic about these conditions.  

    We will travel light, and each of us will carry all of our personal gear in a duffel bag.  You will get dirty! -- but then, so will everyone else.  An equipment list will be provided, but other than a good raincoat, hiking boots, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, and snorkeling mask and fins -- you probably already have everything.