Shoreline Community College
Cape Town
South Africa
Professor
Ernest B. Johnson
Actual Flight Itinerary to
Depart
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Arrive Jo-Burg Wednesday August 23 – 8:25 am
Depart Jo-Burg (SAA) –Wednesday August 23 – 10:00
am
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Depart
Arrive Jo-Burg, Monday, September 18 – 4:40 pm
Depart Jo-Burg for
Arrive
Depart
Arrive SeaTac International: Tuesday, September 19 – 11:05 am
Pre-Departure
Guide
Program Overview
The program will be divided into three parts,
pre-program preparation, the actual on-site program, and the follow up
post-program. The pre-program will involve instruction in South African history
and culture, journaling, interactive collaborative activities, and
cross-cultural training for all participants. Once on site, students will
attend lectures facilitated by scholars and community leaders, and travel
throughout the city of
Educational Program
The educational program will begin with a pre-travel course
on South African history, culture, language and customs, journaling, and
webpage development. All participants should enroll in Dr; J's African Culture
210 Class Spring 2006 or make special arrangements to access course content.
Pre-travel email contact with participants in the home-stay experience will
also be established.
Students will have a chance to collaborate with students
from the UW in facilitating Theater of the Oppressed dramatic performances
between a group of students from
See: (Grant Proposal:Worlds
Apart Hearts)
Learning Objectives
Participants will learn to appreciate and interact with
diverse cultures appropriately
Participants will learn to respect the strength,
durability, and integrity of South African cultures
Participants will examine the impact of Apartheid on Black,
White and Colored South Africans
Participants will examine how race is constructed in South
African society
Participants will interact with South Africans from a
cross-section of society in authentic socio-cultural situations
Study Abroad Program
First Phase (with a slow start for the
jet-lagged)
Our first week in
In Cape Town, we will explore the modern urban
setting, have lectures on the history of the area, and we'll travel to
historical sites, including Cape Castle, the Cape Peninsula, which by
train brings you to the very edge of the majestic African continent where
fantastic cliffs split the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This southern-most
tip of the continent is also the home of the famous South African
Penguin. See:
www.bouldersPenguins.html Highlights also include a cable
car to the top of
Accomodations
For 15 nights we will be accommodated at the
Riverview Guest Lodge, which is conveniently located near the train station,
several shops, restaurants, and a supermarket. (See link below)
http://www.riverview.co.za/contactus/
Second Segment: Visiting the village where His
Excellency Nelson Mandela was raised.
See: 100 plus websites on the Nelson
Mandela
During the second week will be traveling along
the scenic Garden Route from Cape Town to Qunu, the
village in which Mandela was raised,
stopping at cultural and historical sites in between. We will be visiting
the scenic and historically segregated cities of Mossel
Bay, Knysna, Jeffery’s Bay, Port Elizabeth (the city
where Steve Biko was imprisoned and tortured),
East London (our point of departure for Qunu), and by
contrast the distinctively Black town of Umtata. Once in Qunu
we will investigate the HIV/AIDS center that was under construction when we
last visited in 2003, and hopefully have a chance to interact with the
remarkable residents of this African village. We will also make a short
pilgrimage to Mandela's birth village and his presidential residence. This
entire journey should take eight days and seven nights.
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Map of
Qunu and Mvezo Website
http://www.nelsonmandelamuseum.org.za/
Third Segment
Once arriving back in Cape Town we will resume
our relation with the residents of the townships, attend cultural lectures
about the history and contemporary realities of life in and around the
townships in preparation for our home-stay. This phase of the onsite program
will entail a visit to a high school in historic Langa
township, a two-night home-stay in one or more of the townships, an opportunity
to investigate projects first hand e.g. the HIV/AIDS pandemic,
cultural/political responses to Apartheid, and current state of reconciliation.
We'll also explore several historic townships
(Cape Flats), where we will experience the stark contrast between the lives of
the materially wealthy city dwellers and the culturally wealthy, yet materially
deprived, masses of "Black" and "Colored" South Africans.
This is where millions of people struggle to survive and yet manage to maintain
a light-hearted outlook often thriving through the sheer richness of their
cultures and their creative initiatives.
We will have the opportunity of meeting with, attending lectures by, and
interacting with former freedom fighters who are members of fantastic
organization called WECAT.
Students will also collect oral histories,
personal interviews, and images to be part of their post-program project. These records will be acquired in a manner
that is respectful of and true to the cultural ethos and values of the persons
interviewed or otherwise recorded. This
aspect of the educational program requires awareness, knowledge, and skills
that will allow you as a quest in someone’s community, to avoid appropriating
their culture for your own academic purposes.
Selective and appropriate onsite experiences will be recorded in
collaboration with our hosts. Those
collective images and records should be properly stored and protected in order
to have them produced and when appropriate exhibited upon our return. Before departing we expect to have a closing
celebration and then prepare for the long journey back to Seattle.
Fourth Segment
Upon returning to SCC, students will have a
chance to compile and organize their recorded explorations of their specific areas
of interests. The final component will be a visual and/or audio-visual
production of the study abroad experience to be exhibited for the campus.
Descriptions of Select Places around Cape Town
Lying at the southwestern tip of
incredibly scenic
in the south a distance of approximately 60 km. The narrow
finger of land with its many beautiful
valleys, bays and beaches is bound by waters of the
of
rich, diverse and unique flora and fauna, this singular land
formation - with its rugged cliffs, steep
slopes and sandy flats - is a truly remarkable natural, scenic
historical, cultural and recreational
asset both locally and internationally.
natural feature in
a popular alternative to reach the Western Table from where
a host of footpaths can be followed for
further exploration. The Western Table also offers various visitor
facilities including a curio shop
and a restaurant.
Boulders is home to 570
pairs of the endangered African penguins. Visitors have the rare
opportunity to interact (even swim), with these birds in their natural
habitat. Cape Point is the
southern most tip of the peninsula and is in the region famous as
the
Signal Hill, Noon Gun, a popular look out point above
where early colonials received their signal when ships were
entering the bay. Every day, at noon, a
canon is fired as a reminder of this old colonial tradition.
Your stay will provide plenty of discussions
around the Park s approaches and strategies to a variety
of conservation issues, e.g. fire and invasive vegetation
management, contractor development,
medicinal plant stripping (illegal) vs. resource use rights,
cultural heritage management as well as
community partnerships.
The National Botanical Institute (NBI) manages
eight Botanical Gardens in
Kirstenbosch.
Through these gardens and their research and educational programs, NBI strive
to
encourage appreciation, enjoyment and conservation of
flora. Though your visit to
conservation issues, other places of interest here are the
Environmental Education Centre, the
National Botanical Institutes
reference library, the great glass house and the visitor complex.
Township Visits
Several days of your time in
will visit the townships of
experience first hand the day-to-day activities of ordinary people,
and have an opportunity to
visit the Love Life center in Langa.
Tsoga Environmental
The Tsoga Environmental
Resource Center is a community based organization, with varied
educational programs that include food gardening, recycling and
literacy. Tsoga also promotes a
new perspective on the concept of tourism in disadvantaged
communities, by offering a host of
cultural tours, including a walking tour around Langa.
The history of this island goes back thousands of
years. In the past few centuries it has been used as
a pantry and source of raw materials by seafarers, and
colonists and as whaling station, hospital,
mental asylum and leper colony. However,
banishment. It is the location of the famous prison where Nelson
Mandela and many other
members of the struggle against apartheid were held.
See: http://www.robbenisland.org.za/welcome.htm
Waterfront
The Victoria and Alfred Waterfront in
could wish for), movie houses, restaurants and pubs, a host of
harbor activities, including
boat/yacht charters, craft markets and of course the Two Oceans
Aquarium. At the Two Oceans
Aquarium (TOA) visitors are astounded by live
displays of marine life from the oceans and
coastline of southern
also offers educational programs for schools and other groups.