AUR Offers 10 Scholarships for Ghana Education Project
As part of the Latium Regional Government sponsored project “Sustaining education, educating for sustainability”, AUR is offering ten scholarships of €500 each to participants in this year’s Ghana study program.
Those who are awarded the scholarship will take part in the project monitoring in Ghana and the activities to promote awareness of the project in Rome and Latium.
Read here for detailed insight into the program.
Awards will be granted on the basis of proven academic excellence and commitment to the project aims.
Applicants should send their resume and c. 300 word account of why the candidate would like to participate in the project and how s/he might contribute to it.
Please send this information to: j.walston@aur.edu
Deadline: December 1st, 2011.
The Ghana Education Project
This is a two week intensive field study course composed principally of four elements:
- History; the Atlantic slave trade, colonization and independence.
- Development and consolidation of democracy.
- Economic development. These use the Ghanaian experience to illustrate the points.
- International relations, with a look at the whole of west Africa.
The course integrates classroom learning with seminars from distinguished lecturers, field trips, community work, cultural experiences and informal encounters. It develops theoretical skills with a very practical approach. With the permission of their advisor, students may choose an assignment which would allow the course to be registered as an upper level elective for a number of other majors or minors (ECO, MKT, COM, ARC, ANT, SOC, HST). It can also be taken at graduate level with the same activities and revised assessment tools and reading list.
Participants visit the political and media institutions of the country; examine development projects, such as the Kakum rain forest where we spend the night in tents in the forest and walk through it at night, and the Akosombo dam; we visit refugee centers that were established as a result of conflicts in neighboring countries. Students study the country’s slavetrading and colonial past with visits to Anomabu, Elmina and Cape Coast Castles where so many slaves started their journeys to the Americas. Formal lectures and seminars take place on the Kokrobitey Institute Campus and include distinguished faculty from Ghanaian universities, foreign and Ghanaian diplomats, decisionmakers and opinion formers from Government, civil society, IGOs and NGOs. Students will also be required to participate in community projects at the Cape Coast School for the Deaf where AUR has funded a new poultry unit and at the local school in Kokrobite in order to make closer contact with the society itself. Students from Ghanaian universities also participate in the program as part of the ongoing exchange initiative promoted by AUR and the Kokrobitey Institute.
This trip may be taken for academic credit at undergraduate or graduate level. 3 credit hours.
Cost: €2000 including board and lodging and transport in Ghana, excluding airfare.
Participants may make their own way to Accra but the main group will almost certainly (January flights are not confirmed yet) take Alitalia AZ844, leaving Fiumicino on Friday 6 Jan. Dep. 14.50 arr. 21.45, returning AZ845 Friday 20 Jan. Dep. Kotoka 23.55 arr. 6.40 on 21 Jan. (cost of Alitalia flight €493.93, and credit (€400).
Book your own ticket.
Max 30 participants. Registration, payment and vaccination must occur no later than December 6th. Places will be filled on a first come, first served basis.
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