2010 Global Service-Learning Programs - Amizade Semester Opportunities in Bolivia, Brazil, Tanzania

[Valeri Werpetinski]

[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]

Dear Colleagues:

Amizade is pleased to announce its 2010 academic year global service-learning programs in conjunction with West Virginia University*.

This year, Amizade is offering *3 semester programs
http://amizade.org/service_learning/courses/upcoming_courses.html

** *in addition to winter break, spring break, and summer opportunities*. *The programs combine rigorous academic inquiry, community-driven development, systematic consideration of global citizenship, intercultural immersion and exchange, and ongoing reflective inquiry. Amizade is a 501c3 nonprofit organization with a *15-year record of safely connecting people across cultures through service. *

Amizade continues to work to make programs *as affordable as possible*, through keeping program fees as low as possible as well as offering scholarship opportunities. A brief, volunteer-produced video summarizing our semester programs is available here.


Please share with interested students:

*Spring Semester in Bolivia: Indigenous Politics, Service, and Development in the Andes
http://amizade.org/service_learning/courses/titles/indigenous_polit...

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*Spring Semester in Brazil: Amazon to Atlantic: Development and Change in Brazil
http://amizade.org/service_learning/courses/titles/development_and_...

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*Spring Semester in Tanzania: International Justice, Identity, and Rural Sustainable Development
http://amizade.org/service_learning/courses/titles/international_ju...

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Additional upcoming programs include:

Winter Break in Ghana: Development and Social Change: The Gold Coast
http://amizade.org/service_learning/courses/titles/development_soci...

Spring Break in Jamaica: Community Development in Rural Jamaica
http://amizade.org/service_learning/courses/titles/community_develo...

Summer

Germany & Poland: Never Again: Remembrance, History, and Genocide Prevention
http://amizade.org/service_learning/courses/titles/remembrance_hist...

Mexico: Reform and Revolution: Modern Latin American History
http://amizade.org/service_learning/courses/titles/reform_revolutio...

Northern Ireland: Peace, Reconciliation, and Identity: Literature and Politics
http://amizade.org/service_learning/courses/titles/literature_and_p...

Tanzania: Local to Global: Life Stories and the Politics of Rights
http://amizade.org/service_learning/courses/titles/life_stories_and...

Thank you for sharing information with students interested in community-driven development and social change. Best wishes in all of your efforts.

Eric

*The programs are pending final approval by the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and the Associate Provost for International Academic Affairs, but have been approved by the Director of the WVU Center for Civic
Engagement, the Proposing Faculty Member, The Relevant Department Chairpersons, and the Office of the Dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. WVU has granted formal approval to promote the programs as pending
final approval.

--
Eric Hartman, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Amizade Global Service-Learning

Latin American Development and History Instructor
West Virginia University and Amizade Partnership

La Casa Internacional, 0225 Avenida Aniceto Padilla,
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Phone: [phone] (From the US, precede with 011-591-42, followed by local number)
Skype: amizade_international

Call Amizade in the US: 304.293.6049

Visit Amizade online at www.amizade.org or view my Amizade blog at
http://amizadeeric.blogspot.com/.