Harvard Summer Program in Ghana

  Ghana

• Accra: 
Accra

Term: Summer 
Dates: TBA

Description: The Harvard program in Ghana offers a six-week lecture course that explores the history and material culture of slavery and slave trade in West Africa and the Caribbean (Danish Caribbean and Jamaica). Students attend formal classroom lectures given by professors and oral historians, and participate in archaeological fieldwork and field trips to sites of enslavement and slave trade. Building on a partnership between Harvard and the University of Ghana, faculty at the University of Ghana also guide Harvard students in research and in finding suitable internships after the six-week course.

Highlights: In addition to the course on slavery and slave trade, students can arrange to study Ghanaian languages through the University of Ghana.

AFAM S-136 Study Abroad in Ghana: Slavery and Slave Trade in West Africa and the CaribbeanHistorical and Archaeological Perspectives
This course combines lectures, the critical use of contemporary sources, oral history, film and images, field trips to sites of enslavement and slave trade (European forts along the coast, interior slave marts, and settlements that survived slave raids) and archaeological fieldwork on Danish plantations in the reconstruction of the period between about 1650 and 1850. Britain, Denmark, and the Netherlands were the preeminent European powers in the Gold Coast in this period. Gold Coast influences on material culture, religion, and socio-political organization in the Danish Caribbean islands and Jamaica underscore the diasporic connections that unite the black Atlantic. Prerequisites: none.

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Cost in US$: $6,630

Tuition
Room and some meals
Excursions (including in-country transportation)

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Application Process Involves:

• Essay
• Transcript
• Written Application

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