Other Programs

Cape Town

BOSP will offer this one-quarter program again in Spring Quarter 2007-08. Please continue to check back to this page and our main BOSP News site for up-to-date details. The program will run similarly to the 2005-06 program summarized below.

2005-06 Cape Town Program

In Winter Quarter 2005-06, BOSP offered a special program in Cape Town, South Africa. This full-quarter program was affiliated with the University of Cape Town (UCT), and led by Timothy Stanton, Director of Scholarly Concentration in Community Health and Public Service, and Senior Lecturer for Health Research and Policy at the Stanford School of Medicine.

The academic objectives of the program were to introduce students to post-apartheid South Africa - its people, history, politics and culture - with an emphasis on theories and practice of health-focused community reconstruction and development. Classes included elements of service-learning, and students met and worked with health professionals, activists, and residents of ‘previously disadvantaged communities.’ Students also engaged in hands-on research, enhancing their research skills and contributing needed data gathering and analysis to ongoing community health and development initiatives.

The program in Cape Town was open to 15 Stanford undergraduates. All students enrolled in the prearranged set of three courses and an individual research project.