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Participate in TU South Africa and U.S.: Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs during Minimester 2023

Study in South Africa in January 2023 with Towson University! 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.

Participants will choose to take among THEA 310 Theatre for Social Change (Core 14), THEA 488 Theatre Visitation and Analysis, THEA 680 Special Topics (grad only), IDFA 471 Special Topics in Social Action, or IDFA 571 Special Topics in Social Action (grad only) for a total of 3 credits with Dr. Tavia La Follette.

Full program details and the application are available in Horizons.

For more information, contact Dr. La Follette. You can also contact the TU Study Abroad & Away Office by email, by calling 410-704-2451, or by online chat at towson.edu/abroad.

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This post was written by Campbell, Nicholas S.