2008 Summer Field Studies
Women and Children of Tanzania
World Discovery 325
Dr. Bill Snyder, English
Estimated seminar cost: $4,650* plus tuition:$2,450
We’ll study Tanzania, its culture, people, and daily life through the lens of its women and children. We’ll explore health, family, education and gender issues, including women's roles in family, community and tribe. It will be a rich and meaningful month in this vibrant, friendly, and beautiful country in East Africa. We’ll begin our journey in Arusha, in northern Tanzania. While there, we'll visit and volunteer at orphanages and schools. We’ll also visit clinics and a hospital, talk with groups working with people living with HIV-AIDS and with women’s groups; spend two nights and three days on a rural farm; and we'll make a safari to Ngorongoro Crater, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In Lushoto, we’ll stay at a hostel run by the Usambara Sisters and visit a school for special education students and a school for the blind. We’ll also go on nature walks through the mountains. Our next destination will be Morogoro in the southern lowlands, where we’ll accompany social workers on home visits to people living with AIDS; visit a youth center and women's group; and visit remote Maasai villages. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's principle city, our focus will primarily be on HIV-AIDS, but we’ll have time for souvenir shopping and good restaurants and we’ll learn to negotiate Dar's frenetic dalla dalla (mini-bus) transportation system. Then it’s to the exotic island of Zanzibar, where we’ll tour Stonetown, and spend time on the beach. *Includes full board (all meals)
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2008 Summer Field Studies
