SIT Study Abroad: South Africa: Multiculturalism and Human Rights
- South Africa
- Cape Town
About Program
Examine historical and contemporary multiculturalism, ethnicity, and identity in South Africa.
Starting from your base in Cape Town, you’ll learn how race relations continue to be shaped by a range of contested histories, politics, resistance, activism, and the deployment of rights-based rhetoric. Journey to key sites such as the Steve Biko Centre, where you will study the Black Consciousness Movement, and Robben Island, the prison that held the late South African President Nelson Mandela. You will experience South Africa through the eyes of diverse homestay families in city and rural locations.
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Diversity & Inclusion
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.