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Antioch University
Arts and Culture in Mali, West Africa
The Arts and Culture in Mali program allows students to expand their creative faculties in the visual and performing arts in an exciting cross-cultural learning environment. Students develop a foundation for greater understanding of American culture while learning about traditional and contemporary Malian lifestyles and customs. Participants live and work with Malians, study French or Bamanankan, and explore indigenous, Islamic, colonial, and global influences on current social conditions. Artistic apprenticeships, rigorous study, group arts workshops, extended homestays, an independent project, gifted guest lecturers, and focused field trips are integrated into an exciting multi-faceted educational experience that supports each participant's personal and intellectual growth. Director Nicholas Hockin collaborates with a well-developed network of Bamako-based artists, musicians, dancers, artisans, intellectuals, and staff to create a program that is safe, challenging, locally respected, and highly appreciated by dozens of alumni from colleges and universities across the country. Application deadline: March 30.
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Dates: Fall (September – December)
Cost: Contact AEA (aea@antioch.edu) for updated cost information and application deadlines.
Contact: Kelly Brannan Trail, Assistant Director, Antioch Education Abroad, Antioch University, 150 E. South College St., Yellow Springs, OH 45387
Tel: (937) 769-1015 or (800) 874-7986
Email: aea@antioch.edu
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Antioch University
Community Development in Cameroon (Buea)
Students explore the successes and challenges of community development projects in Cameroon. The core of the program is a “Community Development (CD) Seminar” led by a faculty member from the University of Buea (UB). Through guest lectures, field trips, and assignments, students explore citizen participation, continuing (adult) education, entrepreneurship, public policy, health, food/population/land issues, communication, and rural sociology as contributing agents in community development projects. The opportunity to engage in an internship allows students to make connections between the classroom and the practice of community life and is a central component of this seminar. Students will also select an additional three courses offered by faculty at UB.
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Dates: Spring (March - July)
Cost: Contact AEA (aea@antioch.edu) for updated cost information and application deadlines.
Contact: Kelly Brannan Trail, Assistant Director, Antioch Education Abroad, Antioch University, 150 E. South College St., Yellow Springs, OH 45387
Tel: (937) 769-1015 or (800) 874-7986
Email: aea@antioch.edu
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Connect-123 Study Programs in Cape Town, South Africa
Connect-123's Social Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Cape Town provides a hands-on, one-of-a-kind experience in the challenges of entrepreneurship as well as the special opportunities present in emerging markets. The Program is open to students from all disciplines and includes a substantial fieldwork component, where students work side-by-side with local social entrepreneurs, blending experiential and classroom-based learning. The Program is ideal for students looking to combine academic study at one of Africa’s leading teaching and research institutions with real-world, career-related international work experience.
Dates: February to June (Spring Semester) or July to November (Fall Semester)
Cost: The program fee includes tuition, housing, orientation, health insurance and select social events throughout the semester. For current fees, please follow the website link below and click "Programs."
Contact: Connect-123 South Africa, 37 Roeland Street, Cape Town, South Africa 8001
USA Tel: (800) 731 6406 (toll free); South Africa Tel: +27 21 462 5968
Email: study@connect-123.com
Website: www.connect-123.com/south-africa/study/
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NYU Global Programs
Stay on track in your major while studying abroad at one of NYU’s academic centers in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Subject courses are taught in English and language courses are offered at all levels.
Dates: Study abroad for a semester, year, or summer
Contact: NYU Office of Global Programs, 110 East 14th Street, Lower Level, New York, NY 10003-4170
Website: www.nyu.edu
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Amizade Global Service-Learning
Sustainable Development in Rural Tanzania — Spring Break
The program will take place in the context of student opportunities to serve directly with local NGOs and with the local secondary school. Students will have the opportunity to partner with local Tanzanians on water harvesting efforts and improved agricultural techniques. Students will also have the chance to support teachers in classrooms at the local secondary school, particularly in English language instruction. Additionally, there will be opportunities to explore the country and culture through field trips and community events.
Sustainable Development in Rural Tanzania — Semester
You will challenge yourself. You will study abroad in a region most Americans will never see, nor imagine accurately. You will live in a resource-scarce rural environment, and you will also have opportunities to experience urban Africa. You'll be able to begin introductory Swahili, and you'll struggle through the intellectual challenges of global ethics. You'll work with non-government organizations committed to locally-driven development in a variety of ways, and you'll have the opportunity to consider your experiences with an established development professional. You'll try to help address shocking economic poverty, you'll experience Tanzania's profoundly welcoming and warm culture.
Community Development in Ghana
This program provides students with an academic and practical introduction to the realities of international development efforts. While working with Amizade's Ghanaian site director and community contacts, you'll also have the opportunity to learn about the last half century of successful and failed efforts to promote positive social change and development. The region is bursting with contemporary and historical lessons relating to oppression, development, and human rights. Throughout your experience in Ghana, you'll have opportunities to listen and learn from local people, community-based development organizations, and essential on-site experience and observation.
Development and Social Change in Ghana — Winter Break
The program provides students with an academic and practical introduction to the realities of international development efforts. While working with Amizade's Ghanaian site director and community contacts, you'll also have the opportunity to learn about the last half century of successful and failed efforts to promote positive social change and development. The region is bursting with contemporary and historical lessons relating to oppression, development, and human rights. You'll visit the first European Castle in The Tropics, Elmina Castle, as well as other disturbing sites essential to the Transatlantic Slave trade. You'll have opportunities to listen to and learn from local people and community-based development organizations.
Visit: amizade.org
Brockport Study Abroad Programs (SUNY)
Offers more than 62 study abroad programs in countries all over the world including Ghana.
Contact: International Education Office, SUNY BROCKPORT College, 350 New Campus Drive, Brockport, NY 14420.
Tel: 800-298-SUNY; Fax: 585-637-3218; overseas@brockport.edu, www.brockportabroad.com.
CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange
CIEE offers several Study Abroad and Language Programs in Africa, including Botswana, Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa.
Contact: 300 Fore St, Portland, ME 04101, USA; 1.800.40.STUDY or 207.553.4000; www.ciee.org; info@ciee.org.
Eko Tracks
Veterinary Field Study
This special interest course is designed for students in veterinary science where you will meet and interact with wildlife veterinarians in South Africa, hands-on. Learn about the crucial role of veterinarians in the growing wildlife industry by participating in game capture operations, field and lab work. A visit to the Onderstepoort Veterinary School at the University of Pretoria also forms part of the course. The program is endorsed by the Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria (South Africa).
Contact: info@ekotracks.com, www.ekotracks.com
North Carolina State University
African Ecology & Conservation
This program is offered in Namibia with its variety of spectacular landscapes. Discover the unique ecology of the the Namib Desert, participate in adventure tourism activities, traverse the mountain landscape of Damaraland while tracking “desert” elephants, study the magnificent diversity of wildlife in the world famous Etosha National Park and learn about predator conservation, human-wildlife conflict, savanna ecology and game ranching.
Visit: studyabroad.ncsu.edu
School for International Training (SIT)
Offers a variety of study abroad programs based in Africa.
Contact: info@worldlearning.org, www.worldlearning.org
University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC)
Full Curriculum and African Studies in Accra, Ghana
The Ghana program offers an opportunity for students to live in the heart of West Africa. Students may enroll in a traditional African studies program or choose from a wide range of courses taught in English at the Univ. of Ghana. There are also several courses specifically designed to introduce the USAC participants to the local culture and region. These courses include dance, social studies, and agriculture.
Contact: University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC), Univ. of Nevada, MS 323, Reno, NV 89857; 775-784-6569, fax 775-784-6010; usac@unr.edu, usac.unr.edu.
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