Study Abroad - Programs

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Although the Ghana program has been cancelled for January 2004, the faculty will be taking a separate program to South Africa. Students interested in an Africa study abroad experience should contact the faculty for more information.

If you're interested in education, family studies and cross-cultural issues, this program will prove an enriching experience for you in contemporary Western Africa.

In addition to a field-based learning component, the Winter Session in Ghana combines UD course offerings with a variety of cultural excursions. You’ll have the unique opportunity to stand on a stone terrace of a slave castle, looking out over the Gulf of Guinea, and come face-to-face with the most prominent West African country in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Cultural excursions will include visits to museums, a national park, waterfalls, and botanical gardens. You’ll also tour several craft villages and markets, learning about the colorful Ashanti kente cloth and the importance of Adinkra symbols. On a long-weekend excursion to Akosombo, you’ll see another part of the country, visit a cultural village and take a boat cruise across the Volta Lake.

The excursions will be guided by an experienced Ghanian tour director. The group will be housed in comfortable hotels. The main hotel in Accra provides many on-site amenities and activities including a pool, tennis courts, sauna, aerobics, internet access and a live band at night.

Independent Study options may be available. Contact the faculty director for more information.

The program fee includes a bed and breakfast plan. Students may dine in the evening in a variety of restaurants within walking distance or a short taxi ride from the hotel. There will be two students per double-occupancy room.

Study abroad at the University of Delaware is highly competitive. See here for an overview of the acceptance process. If you are not selected for your first choice program, we recommend moving your application and deposit to another program (by emailing your request to studyabroad@udel.edu).

UD students pay all program fee deposits by direct bank transfer via this website: http://www.udel.edu/studyabroadpayments. Non-UD students should send a check, payable to the University of Delaware, to CFIS, Elliott Hall, 26 East Main Street, Newark, DE 19716. Credit card payments are not accepted.

	DE Resident	Non-DE Resident
Final Tuition based on current year	1107	2894
Estimate Program Fee	4000	4000
UD Registration & Activities Fee	20	20
Estimate Total	5127	6914

Please note that final program fees are subject to change until the group's departure date. Final program fees may be increased due to airline taxes, fuel surcharges, exchange rates, or changes in the group size.