SIT Study Abroad: South Africa: Multiculturalism and Human Rights
Location
- South Africa
- Cape Town
Term
Fall, Spring
Need-based funding, Merit-based funding, General grants/scholarships
Health & Safety
Apr 23, 2024
Mar 30, 2020
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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.
Video and Photos
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.