South Africa: Global Community Engagement and Social Change
Summer Faculty-Led Study Abroad Info Session Next Week!
Interested in Summer Study Abroad? Attend next week's information session: Summer 2020 South Africa Study Abroad CourseSouth Africa: Global Community Engagement & Social ChangeTuesday, December 10, 12-12:45 p.m.Location: PUP 438Course details:Instructor: Jessica Cook3 credits4 pre-departure class sessions in Spring 2020 (dates/times TBD)Dates in South Africa: May 28-June 14, 2020In PUB 300, students will engage in academic, experiential and intercultural learning about South Africa. The focus will be on South Africa’s contemporary social challenges and the strategies that government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and citizen activists are using to address them. Special attention will be paid to how these social conditions and interventions manifest themselves in the lives of South Africans. Following pre-departure class sessions at UMBC, students will spend 2 1/2 weeks in Cape Town, South Africa on a faculty-led program of study combining service-learning with traditional class sessions and site visits to political, historical, and geographic landmarks.