STUDY
ABROAD PROGRAMS
 The
University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and
Swarthmore Colleges, has established study abroad programs with four African
universities. Students who study abroad enrich their knowledge of Africa.
African Studies majors are encouraged, though not required, to spend a
semester in any of following programs:
"Why Study in
Africa?"
Africa
certainly has distinctive natural attractions, from the Nile to Victoria
Falls and the great game parks. The range of environmental
contrasts is exceptional: vast plains and deserts, dramatic escarpments,
dense rain forests, striking mountains, tropical villages, and modern cities.
The sheer size of Africa is impressive - three times greater than the entire
U.S.
But Africa's greatest
attractions are its peoples and varied cultures. An African
educational experience can be particularly meaningful and exciting because
the continent's rich traditional heritage is so vital, its legendary hospitality
is so welcoming to strangers, and its multiethnic cities so energizing.
African music, dance and arts, both traditional and modern, constitute
whole other worlds of meaning and delight; and there are few esthetic experiences
anywhere to compare with the color, swirl, smell, and sounds of an African
market. The diversity of political and economic development models
is equally exhilerating, to be observed in comparing villages in neighborhoods
as well as across the 50 independent states of Africa, and there is a simply
extraordinary variety of religions, kinship systems and languages even
within any small African country..." Richard E. Stryker, unpublished
essay (1993) revised as "Why Study Abroad in Africa," in Transitions
Abroad XVIII/6 (1995).
National
Consortium for Study in Africa
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