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SOUTH AFRICA
Program Overview
The opportunity and challenge that South Africa faces as an emerging
democratic and multiracial society serves as the context of this Winter
Session program abroad. South Africa is breathtaking in its beauty,
plentiful in its natural and human resources, and exceptional in its
diversity and cultural richness. During the Winter Session program,
students will spend the month of January studying and traveling
throughout South Africa with University of Delaware and University of
Pretoria faculty members.
The program includes cultural excursions, academic course offerings, and
a field-based service learning experience. All students will engage in
some level of service-learning (whether for credit or not), providing
students with the opportunity to interact with local township families
and the professionals who serve them. Cultural excursions will include
visits to township schools, health care facilities, community service
agencies as well as historically and ecologically important sites in the
Pretoria/Johannesburg areas.
South Africa Program Courses
(All students are required to register for two courses):
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HIST/BAMS-397 - History of South Africa (3 cr.)
Surveys the complex
historical development of the South African society. Topics include African
resistance to white expansion, wars of resistance, the impact of
agricultural and labor laws on African societies, tensions in white society, Afrikaners
in power since 1948, and African struggles for freedom.
One of the following:
- HRIM-316 - Cross Cultural Etiquette and Protocol (3 cr.)
Introduces students to a range of mores and decorum required to
effectively work with and offer services to international visitors and
associates.
- IFST-334 - Experiential Education (3 cr.)
The course aims to discuss cultural development and music in the
Caribbean. Some of the topics addressed include the role of music in
society, the power of music, the relationship between music and
language; and music and the media. All students enroll in this course.
- UNIV-362-070 - Experimental Learning (3 cr.)
Cross-listed with IFST 334. All non-IFST majors interested in the
"service-learning placement" course should register for UNIV 362.
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