This study tour is available to faculty, alumni, graduate and undergraduate students. All must register for at least one credit. This is a two week intensive field study in Ghana.
This program offers students the chance to:
Experience different cultural/groups in Ghana and how they relate to the environment;
Experience urban innovations and problems firsthand in four cities, Accra, Kumasi, Cape Coast and Sekondi-Takoradi;
Develop knowledge and understanding of the Ghanaian “worldview” and its influence on the environmental challenges and adaptive strategies used by different cultural groups in Ghana;
Enrich their cross-cultural experience in our “global village”
GRADING: Grading will be on a “Pass/No pass” basis
See travel itinerary (this is the 2012 itinerary - keep watching for updates)
Preparation to teach at High School
Maintain travel journal including pictures
Final presentation representing a culmination of learning experiences to College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at a date to be determined
Dr. Raymond Asomani-Boateng
Program Director
Urban and Regional Studies Institute
106B Morris Hall
MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO
Tel: (507) 389 5030
Fax: (507) 389 6377
Email: asomar@mnsu.edu
Web page: krypton.mnsu.edu/~asomar
Caryn Lindsay
Director
Office of International Programs
238 Centennial Student Union
MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO
Tel: (507) 389 6669
Fax: (507) 389 2790
Email: caryn.lindsay@mnsu.edu
Dr. Miriam H. Porter
Urban and Regional Studies Institute
Morris Hall 106E
MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO
Tel: (507) 389 5032
Fax: (507) 389 6377
Email: miriam.porter@mnsu.edu
Web page: mavdisk.mnsu.edu/miriamp
Estimated cost per student:
Students will stay in a first class hotel with excellent security, access to television, air conditioning and two meals a day. Two students sharing a double room is the standard policy.
January 10, 2014 $800.00 deposit due by this date (this is an estimate)
February 10, 2014
March 15, 2014
Note: Payments are nonrefundable after due date. If space remains available, late applications will be considered. The program will not refund monies for day trips, excursions, entrance fees to museums and castles, or any element of a planned group excursion and/ or site visit in which the student does not participate. The program will not refund monies for group meals in which the student does not participate. Make checks payable to Ghana. Bring the checks or mail them to Dr. Raymond Asomani-Boateng in 106 Morris Hall.
Because airline and hotel reservations must be secured early, those wishing to participate should turn in their applications as soon as possible.
Click to view Program Brochure for more details. (broken link)
This program is sponsored by: Urban and Regional Studies Institute and Office of International Programs
Don’t wait to apply for your passport. Passports have been taking twelve weeks to be delivered. Students at other schools have not been able to go on tours they paid for because their passport did not coe in time. Even if you are only thinking of joining our tour you should get your passport immediately. If you apply for your passport after November 1 be sure to write “Expedite” on the envelope.
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