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Summer 2006
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Tanzania: Community Health -- Reading List >>
Program Title: Community Health
Academic Departments: Anthropology; cross-listed with Community
Health
Intercultural Location: Karagwe, Tanzania
Academic Instructor: Linda Winkler, Ph.D.
Service-Learning Facilitators: Joseph Croskey and Jon McConnell
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Program Description
This program integrates an anthropology course on social and community health
issues in rural East Africa with travel in Tanzania and service to a rural
community there. The program is designed to immerse participants into rural
African life and expose them to the issues that are part of the poverty and
culture of the community of rural northwestern Tanzania. The program is unique
in offering students a wide variety of opportunities to explore different
types of issues, everything from water quality to reproductive health to HIV/AIDS
programs to agencies dealing with womenís rights and equality. The
core anthropology course will provide a survey of the African continent and
then focus on the culture, history, and current situation in East Africa with
a particular focus on Tanzania.
The service learning course will take place
in rural Tanzania in the Karagwe district. Students will use a global service
learning framework to explore the issues and culture they experience while
in this community. Cultural immersion will include a broad array of activities
(see below) and social interaction with local community members in many different
environments. In addition, each participant will also spend part of each
day working on an orphanage for AIDS orphans with local community
members. The program will require the each participant prepare
a research paper as part of the core course, do two ethnographic
interviews that are related to the topic of this paper while in
Tanzania, and rewrite the paper using the interviews and other
information obtained during the stay in Tanzania after returning
from the trip.
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Program Learning Outcomes
At the end of global service-learning program and on-site experience,
students will be able to:
- Gain a general knowledge of the disease and community health
issues of the African continent and the geography of Sub-Saharan
Africa.
- Understand the historical and colonial influences that
have shaped the current situation in Sub-Saharan Africa and in
particular, East Africa.
- Develop an understanding of the complex
interplay between disease and community health issues in sub-Saharan
Africa, public policy and economic realities.
- Become familiar
with the culture of East Africa and the particular health and
social issues of that region, in particular, the country of Tanzania.
Students will be expected to be familiar with the health and
social issues affecting people (and in particular women and children)
in this region including HIV/AIDS, child mortality, maternal
health, and educational opportunity.
- Learn about the various initiatives
(government, United Nations, and NGO) that have been developed
in east Africa to address public health issues and the present
status of these initiatives.
- Write a research paper on one of
the health or social issues of East Africa
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Academic Details
Academic Credits
Academic credits are awarded for this course through West Virginia
University. The program is academically sponsored by the Sociology/Anthropology
and is cross listed with Community Health Promotion for the following
credit options:
Option 1
Sociology/Anthropology:
Sociology/Anthropology Special Topics - Community Health
- 3 undergraduate
credits (SOCA 493)
AND
Sociology/Anthropology Special Topics: Global Service-Learning
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3 undergraduate credits (SOCA 493Z)
Option 2
Community Health Promotion: Teaching Practicum - 6 graduate credits
(CHPR 690)
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Program Timeline
May 5
Online classroom discussions begin
June 5-27
Intercultural Service-Learning in Karagwe,
Tanzania
July 1-15
Online classroom discussions and program
completion
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