South Africa is a thriving African nation neighbored by Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Lesotho. Boasting a multi-lingual and ethnically diverse population, South Africa is a country of contrasting geographical terrains of beaches, deserts, mountains, and the seas. Skyscrapers tower its major cities and its rural areas provide a glimpse of South Africa’s pristine past. From May 18th to June 5th 2014, Dr. Dawne Y. Curry took five students: Amy Soderquist, Deborah Embree, Elyse Lyons, Kelsie Vanderkolk and Mirvat Al-Hajj, to South Africa on the Department of History’s first study abroad to Cape Town. These students represented not only history majors but also majors and minors of Ethnic Studies, Global Studies and Psychology. Students visited four museums, experienced a safari, and township living. Because of the past’s program’s success, another Study Abroad to South Africa, this time visiting Cape Town where students will be engaged in traditional classroom learning and interaction with historical documents, spaces, and sites, as well as assignments analyzing how history is produced, preserved and conveyed.
2016 Study Abroad to South Africa will occur during the pre-session from May 8-May 28, 2016.
For further details please consult the UNL’s Education Abroad website for an application, scholarship information and for more information about the trip. You can also contact Dr. Curry at dcurry2@unl.edu. The deadline is February 1, 2016.
