Study in South Africa with Towson University in Minimester 2019. As the U.S. moves past its 50th year of the Civil/Voters Rights Act and South Africa moves past its 20th year of democracy/post-apartheid, Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs reflects on what we can learn from one another. What have we done wrong and what have we done right? How can Culture and the Arts be a reflective tool for society? How do our governments, communities, and societies discern and apply our past to our present? Are environmental rights the same as human rights? What language do we use to talk about these issues? By meeting with civil rights activists, artists, and cultural intellectuals in South Africa, the goal of this program is to practice reflective research in relationship to our own history.
Students will be exposed to a wide variety of cultural submersions, traveling to Johannesburg to learn about the Soweto Uprising, they will visit Market Theatre – named the “theatre of struggle” during Apartheid, visiting a game (safari) park, meeting with artists and activists, traveling to Cape Town to see the work of NGO’s, visiting District Six, and working with children in a township through an arts based program.
Students will choose from one of the following courses:
- THEA 488 South Africa and US: Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs (3 credits)
- THEA 680 South Africa and US: Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs (3 credits; grad only)
- IDFA 471 Topics in Arts, Media, Communication, and Social Action (3 credits)
- IDFA 571 Topics in Arts, Media, Communication, and Social Action (3 credits; grad only
For more information and to apply online, visit the program page. Applications are due by October 15.
