South Africa: Multiculturalism and Human Rights
- South Africa
- Cape Town
About Program
Explore issues of human rights, multiculturalism, ethnicity, and identity in the context of South Africa, from both historical and contemporary perspectives.
Cape Town, the program base, was one of the first South African cities to voluntarily promote racial integration. In a typical semester, students complete four homestays —each providing the opportunity to meet and interact with South Africans from different geographic and ethnic backgrounds. The strong emphasis on the homestay as experiential learning complements lectures, discussions, field-based assignments, and excursions to provide a multidisciplinary analysis of the country.
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Program Highlights
- Experience different cultures through a range of lectures, excursions and homestays in Johannesburg, King Williams Town and Cape Town
- Study race, racial construction and mobilization, resistance to oppression, and human rights
- Experience four homestays with isiXhosa- and Afrikaans-speaking families including Langa, Tshabo and Bo-Kaap
Scholarships
SIT Robert Kantor Memorial Scholarship
Each year one student will be granted $10,000 in scholarship aid to study abroad with a SIT program. Funded by individual donors and foundations, the requirements are tight: seeking first-generation college students who've never traveled abroad before, currently attend an HBCU, and demonstrate strong financial need.