Junior year environmental study-abroad program developed by the Macalester-Pomona-Swarthmore Consortium in collaboration with the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Students from the three Consortium schools, as well as those schools under cross-registration agreements with the three schools, may apply for the January-June, 2008, semester.
The 2008 Program Announcement is available here as well as a 2-page flyer describing the program (pdf download).
A listing of science courses at UCT (pdf download), of "undergraduate" (first, second, and third-year) humanities courses, and "postgraduate" (fourth-year) humanities courses. For undergraduate courses (i.e. those with prefixes in the 3000 range), only courses with the 'F' suffix must be chosen (this means first semester). Other suffixes e.g. S, W or H mean that the course is NOT suitable. For most postgraduate courses (4000-level) the semester is not specified (X and Z is the commonest suffix and it does not relate to semester offered) and it is usually not finalised, until the academic year in question, in which particular semester the module is actually offered. For the two compulsory 4000-level modules (i.e. Globalisation and the research project) it is of course the first semester. Students accepted to the program should make their motivations on a curriculum that is structured as follows:
EGS 4034Z Globalisation and the Environmment
EGS 4029X Research Project in Environmental & Geographical Science
XXX 3000F Option 1
XXX 3000F Option 2
The University of Cape Town, as seen from Table Mountain.
A sample of a Swarthmore student's research project is available in PDF format here (41 pages), and of a research team here (157 pages).
Students in the Bryn Mawr-Haverford-Swarthmore-UPenn African Studies consortium should contact Prof. E. Carr Everbach (610-328-8079) for more information. There is a special "hold harmless agreement" form that students from Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore must sign and have notarized, once accepted to the program.
All accepted students will need to complete the UCT application, provide a resume, an official academic transcript, and six photos. Click here for the directions and here for the forms (pdf download). These should all be sent to: Rosa Bernard, Foreign Studies, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 by October 15, 2007.
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