approved programs
Summer Programs in Africa
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Ghana
Harvard Summer Program in Ghana
Slavery and Slave Trade in West Africa and the Caribbean; 6 weeks
North Carolina State University in Kumasi
[College of Art, University of Science and Technology] 4wks art and design; must take 2 courses (incl Afr Art Hist and Culture);
soph summer or later; faculty also from the College of Design, NC State University; private guest houses
Kenya
Yale Swahili Program in Mombasa
8 wks; intensive language and culture taught at the Fort Jesus Museum; prereq- elementary Kiswahili
St. Lawrence University Summer Program (Nairobi)
choose one of three courses on offer: Health Care Delivery in a Developing Country, Challenges in Conservation: National Parks at Risk,
Archaeology in Kenya: In Search of Our Ancestors (field course), as well as culture seminars and intro to Swahili;
4 wks- early June to early July; students live in housing compound
Rutgers University (Koobi Foora Field School)
Senegal
Summer at Cheikh Anta Diop University [Indiana Univ/Univ of Oregon; Ecole Normale Supérieure]
early July - mid-Aug; Wolof language, History, Culture and Polotics of West Africa; prereq- 3.0gpa, 2 semesters college-level French;
university residential housing
South Africa
SIT South Africa: Education and Social Change (Johannesburg,
Soweto, Durban)
6 wks; seminar and practicum; some homestay
Penn Summer Program- Intensive Intermediate-Advanced Zulu
Fulbright-HAYS-sponsored program, in collaboration with the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg; 8 weeks
Duke Paleoanthropology Field School (Gauteng Province, World Heritage Site) not offered in 2008
6 wks; fieldwork and history; best suited to students interested in: archeology, biology, geology, conservation, biology
*this program would only work for someone able to leave Harvard before finals
Rhodes University International Summer School (Grahamstown)
4 wks: late June - late July; studies, with South African students, in: apartheid; politics of the body; poverty and
dvlpment policies in an arid zone; South African HIV/AIDS epidemic; changing environments and env. education; music, drama,
film, poetry, street theater at Grahamstown National Arts Festival; live in student residences
Tanzania
Georgetown Summer Program in Dar-es-Salaam
[University of Dar-es-Salaam] Jun-Aug; intensive Swahili and either
Environment and Marine Biology or Tanzanian Civil Society and Politics; university residential housing
US Programs in African Studies/Languages
Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI) [Indiana University,
Bloomington] 8 wks, beginning mid-Jun; intensive language courses and cultural workshops and activities;
languages offered include: Twi, Afrikaans, Amhara, Hausa,
Arabic, Kiswahili, Luganda, Setswana, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
