The Cape Town program will be led by Dr. Timothy Stanton, Visiting Senior Fellow at the John Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities at Stanford University’s School of Education.
BOSP is pleased to announce a special full-quarter program in Cape Town, South Africa. This program will be offered only in Spring Quarter 2007-08.
Download Program Announcement“Everyone we talked to in Cape Town had a story, a fascinating story that somehow shed some new light on this foreign world for us. There is so much you cannot learn from a history book (…).”
- Previous program participant
Community Development and Public Health in Post-Apartheid South Africa
The program’s academic objectives are to introduce students to the people, history, politics and culture of post-apartheid South Africa with an emphasis on health-focused community reconstruction and development. Students enroll in seminars and service learning courses and conduct community-based research in Western Cape townships and informal communities.