Brookdale International Center Faculty Led Short-Term Program

Brookdale International Center  Faculty Led Short-Term Program GHANA: Tracing a History, Touching a Culture, Transforming a Future (January 2 – 17, 2005) DAY-TO-DAY ITINERARY January 2: Departure from Newark Liberty Airport toilets. The people struggle to survive monetary inflation. January 3: We will land at Ghana’s Kotoka International Airport, where we’ll Formal introduction/greeting by the royal family and tour of the village, we’ll meet our driver and guide for our 14-day tour of the country. From there, visit the Beryl Dorsett Memorial School. The group will participate in the we’ll tour the capital of Accra, a 100-year-old city with a blend of colonial child sponsorship program, helping to record and distribute monies, gifts, and modern architecture. It is the country's largest city and the commercial and correspondence from American sponsors to the students. Informal and political heart of Ghana. Known as the modern gateway to one of lecture on Ghana's subsistence patterns, using life in the village as a case Africa's ancient lands, Accra has museums, historic public monuments, study. After dinner, female participants in the study abroad program will residential suburbs, busy markets, beaches and restaurants that reflect the return to the village to meet with the Apatrapa Women in Development many cultures of Ghana. Organization. Cultural learning activities will include the exchange of ideas, We will check in at Novotel, located in the city center, where students will as well as shared teaching and learning experiences. (B, D) receive a traditional Ghanaian welcome reception. After unpacking, January 9: Students will begin their experiential learning and volunteerism students will convene for an informal lecture on the myths and facts about activities in the village of Apatrapa, conduct ethnographic interviews, gather Africa and discuss the revelation and unveiling of these myths and facts data, and complete field reports. Students will then participate in a within the culture. Students will record their responses to their arrival in designated volunteer project to be defined before travel abroad. (B, D) their reaction journals. (D) January 10: Students will continue their experiential learning and January 4: A guest lecturer from the University of Ghana will present an volunteerism activities in the village. (B, D) orientation/lecture on Ghanaian traditional institutions. We'll spend the January 11: We’ll visit Ahwiaa, the wood carving village, home of some of remainder of the day touring the campus, visiting classes and gathering the region's best woodcarvers who specialize in royal regalia, stools, staffs, research at its library. (B, D) masks, and clan totems. We’ll also tour the Ntonso, the home of Adinkra Janaury 5: We will depart early for the Cape Coast, a coastal town about an and Bonwire, the Kente weaving village, where we’ll get to see the hour east of Accra most notable for its university and Cape Coast Castle, a meticulous ancient weaving methods of the Kente cloth. In addition, we’ll former slave trading post. Next, we’ll tour Elmina Castle, called "São Jorge da also visit the pottery and iron villages, as well as take a tour of the region’s Mina" (Saint George's of the mine), or simply "Elmina" (the mine). It was the Art and Culture Museum. (B, L, D) first permanent structure south of the Sahara built by Europeans, and for January 12: Today we’ll visit one of the largest man-made lakes in the centuries it was the largest. (B, D) world, the Volta Lake dammed at the Akosombo gorge. There we will board Janaury 6: This morning we leave for Kakum National Park, West Africa’s the Dodi Princess and cruise to the Dwarf and Dodi Islands, where we’ll have most noted rain forest and home to approximately 300 kinds of birds, 100 the opportunity to see villages, hamlets, and the daily activities of the types of mammals and 550 types of butterflies. This park is one of the last Ghanaian people. At this time, students will gather ethnographic data for remaining habitats for six globally endangered species. There will be an their field study. We’ll stay overnight at the Volta Lake Hotel. (B, D) opportunity to trek a 1¼-mile nature walk through the forest and discover Janaury 13: We’ll return to the capital of Accra early this morning. We’ll the wide variety of exotic fauna and floral species. After lunch, students will visit the W. E. B. DuBois Centre for Pan African Culture and have the get a firsthand view of local culture in the area's markets, containing opportunity to view his library’s private collection. We’ll also tour the Kwame Ghanaian pottery, Adinkra cloth, brass castings, hand-woven baskets, glass N’krumah Memorial Park, the National MuseumAccra. Late afternoon, we’ll beads, symbolic kente cloth and various woodcarvings. (B, D) attend a lecture at the University of Ghana on the African Diaspora and the January 7: We will leave the Cape Coast for the Ashanti region and the African Independence movement. A guest lecturer will discuss the role of ancient capital Kumasi, capital of the Ashanti region and home of the Ashanti language development and ethnicity. (B, L, D) people, the richest and most powerful tribe in Ghana. We will tour Manhyia Janaury 14: Full day of sightseeing and a walking tour of Accra, the Palace, the Asantehene’s (Asante king) residence, to gain insight into the administrative and economic capital of Ghana. (B, D) customs, legends, and ceremonies which are still of high importance to the Janaury 15: We will spend the day at the university, finalizing our journals, people of Ashanti. Overnight at the Pink Panther Hotel. (B, D) compiling data, completing the rough drafts of our reports and gathering Janaury 8: Today we’ll begin our experiential learning and volunteerism research. Late that evening, we will attend a farewell dinner reception, activities in the village of Apatrapa. The village, located on a 11/4-mile branch featuring traditional Ghanaian music and dance. (B, D) of the main Sunyani-Kumasi Road, is in the Ashanti Region. The average Janaury 16: After breakfast, we’ll visit the Centre for Scientific Research family size is 5.5 children. Seventy percent of the 10,000 villagers are into Plant Medicine at Mampong-Akuapem. We will depart late evening for women and children, and the average income is less than $2.00 a day. For New York. (B, D) the most part, life in the village is without the basic essentials of water and January 17: Arrival in Newark. I. Program Cost: $4,100 III. Courses & Credits Cost include: 1) Participants enroll in one of the following Brookdale  Roundtrip Airfare Newark-Accra courses (3 credits):  Accommodations in hotels  ANTH 106 Cultures of the World  Daily breakfast and dinner; two lunches  ENGL 150 African-American  Bus transportation in Ghana Literature  Full-time tour director in Ghana  HIST 145 African-American  All entrance fees as per itinerary History  All fees for three (3) Brookdale credits  HIST 215 African Civilization  Comprehensive travel insurance  Pre-departure orientation session at Brookdale 2) Participants earn 1 experiential learning credit Not included: through their volunteer work in the village of  Transportation to Newark Airport Apatrapa  Additional meals, as necessary  Tips for guide/driver  Personal Expenses IV. Faculty Members & Group Leaders

II. Payment Deadlines to International Center 1) Professor Isaac Kanu 2) Professor Floresta Jones 1) July 30, 2004 $500 Deposit to International 3) Sheri Stanford, Writing Department Center 4) Dr. Beryl Dorsett, Queen Mother of Apatrapa Village; NON-REFUNDABLE former Assistant U.S. Secretary for Education COMMITMENT TO PAY FULL REMAINING BALANCE

2) November 30, 2004 $3,600 due to International V. Contact Information Center Brookdale International Center Phone: 732-224-2799 Payment can be made by check (made out to “BCC Fax: 732-224-2980 International Center”) or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, Email: [email protected] American Express) Web: http://internationalcenter.brookdalecc.edu Contact the International Center with questions and for more information: Phone: 732-224-2799 Fax: 732-224-2980 Email: [email protected]