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African Studies Program Has Project of Interest for BASW Students

The African Studies Program in the Jackson School of International Studies is pleased to announce that the U.S. Department of Education has fully funded the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL) Title VI Project, being undertaken at the UW, for 2008-2010. Nancy Farwell, Chair of the African Studies Program, is the principal investigator. Dr. Farwell is also an associate professor in the School of Social Work.

Of particular interest to undergraduates in social work, a major component of the project comprises the development and implementation of a four-course sequence designed for students enrolled or interested in the professional schools. The sequence, being launched in winter quarter 2009, begins with a course on Health, Human Rights, and Social Transformation in the Greater Horn of Africa, and includes language instruction and cultural orientation in Swahili here at UW during spring quarter, as well as a summer practicum and capstone course in Kenya or Tanzania. The UISFL project also includes faculty development, addition of instruction in Tigrinya and Amharinya (languages widely used in the Horn and its Diaspora), library acquisitions, and community outreach.

For more information, contact Dr. Farwell at nfarwell@u.washington.edu.