Info Sessions:
SGA Presidential Conference Room, Davis Center
Jan. 20th at Noon
Jan. 29th at 4:30 PM
Feb. 11th at Noon
Contact: Daniel.Bentil@uvm.edu (802) 656-3832
Mankessim Shrine
Eating a Traditional Meal
Designing "Batik" Cloth
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The Program
Program Costs Program Fee: $1970. Items are included in this fee:
Students are responsible for the following items:
Medical Insurance
Contacts for Further Information
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tenets of the Ghanaian
culture (including food, music, dance, religion, modes of communication,
traditional authority, and local language usage) and history (focusing
on slavery, colonialism and contemporary politics). Based on an
inter-disciplinary approach, the program will combine participation in
cultural activities, travel to relevant sites with local language
learning and formal seminar presentations on selected topics, in order
to actualize its broad aims of bringing American students close to a
cultural understanding of a relatively less known Ghanaian culture and
reality. Resource persons will include the University of Cape Coast
Professors, traditional rulers, tour guides and practitioners from
non-governmental agencies. The program is open to students who wish to
be challenged in ways that are creative in a supportive and stimulating
environment. The program will allow room for self-refection and
project work.
A
major objective, here, is to provide an
interdisciplinary program that opens possibilities for non-locals to
appreciate the complexities of the ideologies that
guide the diurnal practices of the people of present day Ghana. The
program is interactive. Participants will be expected to become part of
the planned activities. The program’s language
component will cover topics, such as ‘self-introduction,’
‘greeting
and leave-taking’, and ‘shopping.’ The formal
lectures on aspects of the local culture (women,
politics, religion, the arts, etc.) will set a context
for participants to make meaning out of their experiences with the wider
cultural context. The program’s site visits and activities will provide
such a
context that should augment
participants’ own perspective, if any, about Ghana’s historical and
cultural heritage.
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