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UC director to teach WU students in Africa
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By: Angela Riley
Issue date: 10/11/07 Section: News
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John Ginsburg, director of the University Center and Campus Activities, announced he would be teaching the first study abroad course ever offered by Webster University in Africa.
The announcement was made at the Student Government Association meeting on Oct. 9 in the University Center Sunnen Lounge.
Ginsburg will be taking students on a two-week trip to Namibia May 24 - June 7, 2008.
The course will focus of cultures, wildlife and geography of the country. Namibia is located on the West coast of Africa, just north of South Africa.
Namibia declared its official independence from South Africa in 1990 and more recently was in the news as the birthplace of Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, the daughter of actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
The geographical landscape of the country is fairly unique with the Namib desert on the west which hits the cold Atlantic Ocean and creates an unusual fog.
There are plains and in the Northwest there is a wooded, forest region.
The official language is English, although some dialects of German and a few tribal languages are spoken. Students can look forward to seeing wildlife that they will never have seen roaming free before.
They will go to a national park and drive through while watching giraffes and antelopes come up to their vehicle.
"It's unlike any other experience and is truly memorable," Ginsburg said.
The trip will be costly as airfare isn't cheap. Financial Aid does not offer its world traveler program for this trip.The program gives first-time students studying abroad their plane ticket for free.
Interested students should contact Ginsburg at ext. 7105.
A variety of organizations and students were given money from the student grant fund to cover trips over or close to fall break.
Grant Fund Awards
Residential Housing Association was awarded $1,500 for a charter bus to take 14 students and one adviser to a regional residence hall conference in North Dakota.
The announcement was made at the Student Government Association meeting on Oct. 9 in the University Center Sunnen Lounge.
Ginsburg will be taking students on a two-week trip to Namibia May 24 - June 7, 2008.
The course will focus of cultures, wildlife and geography of the country. Namibia is located on the West coast of Africa, just north of South Africa.
Namibia declared its official independence from South Africa in 1990 and more recently was in the news as the birthplace of Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, the daughter of actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
The geographical landscape of the country is fairly unique with the Namib desert on the west which hits the cold Atlantic Ocean and creates an unusual fog.
There are plains and in the Northwest there is a wooded, forest region.
The official language is English, although some dialects of German and a few tribal languages are spoken. Students can look forward to seeing wildlife that they will never have seen roaming free before.
They will go to a national park and drive through while watching giraffes and antelopes come up to their vehicle.
"It's unlike any other experience and is truly memorable," Ginsburg said.
The trip will be costly as airfare isn't cheap. Financial Aid does not offer its world traveler program for this trip.The program gives first-time students studying abroad their plane ticket for free.
Interested students should contact Ginsburg at ext. 7105.
A variety of organizations and students were given money from the student grant fund to cover trips over or close to fall break.
Grant Fund Awards
Residential Housing Association was awarded $1,500 for a charter bus to take 14 students and one adviser to a regional residence hall conference in North Dakota.
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