The Curriculum

Bucknell in Barbados

The Curriculum

Students will remain officially enrolled at Bucknell and will be registered simultaneously at the UWI.

Students are required to take four courses.  All Bucknell students will enroll in the core course offered by Professor Shara McCallum, Bucknell Professor in Residence.  Professor McCallum will also be teaching a seminar course at the UWI, open to both Bucknell University and UWI students, in which students may choose to enroll.  Internship opportunities are available to students for elective credit (see below).  Students will receive Bucknell credit and a Bucknell grade for each of the courses offered by Professor McCallum and for the internship.  In addition, students will enroll in UWI elective courses, for which they will receive transfer credit.  Grades for UWI courses will not be posted to their Bucknell transcripts.
Students may choose from a wide variety of courses in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and law, which is an undergraduate discipline at the UWI. All UWI courses chosen must be approved by the appropriate department chairperson at Bucknell.  Up to three courses completed in the BIB program may be counted toward satisfying the five-course requirement for a minor in Caribbean Studies at Bucknell.

 UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES 

 Established in 1947 as a college of the University of London, the UWI comprises three campuses: the Cave Hill Campus, Barbados; the St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad; and the Mona Campus, Jamaica. The Cave Hill Campus has four Divisions: Arts and General Studies, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Law. Most of the faculty received their undergraduate and post-graduate degrees from North American and Western European universities. The UWI boasts one Nobel Laureate in Literature, Derek Walcott, and one of its former Vice Chancellors, i.e., Presidents, Sir Arthur Lewis, a West Indian, received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979.