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original works include The Family Project and Drive Change, a musical that centers on the justice system in the US. He wrote Twilight in Manchego (Directed by Tony Winner Billy Porter) for the NYMF, has written and arranged music for Playwrights Horizons and translated, adapted and directed Romeo and Juliet in Pulaar (Mauritania, West Africa). Matt has performed around the world including Uganda, Mauritania, and Japan, and across the US. A graduate of Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, Matt is a

Learn More: Bamana MaskThe Bamana are a large and powerful ethnic group in Mali, West Africa. Both Islamic and traditional religious views are entwined in Bamana culture. The political structure is patrilineal, meaning positions are inherited and handed down through the male side of the family. Political leaders also control the group’s religious arrangement. Adulthood is earned through the process of six major initiation societies, collectively called the jow, which are used as both a

natural multinational artistic project with an educational orientation to evaluate colonial pasts and postcolonial relations between both sides of the Mediterranean landscapes. MED-BD has the capacity to challenge deceptive unrepresentative photographic reportage and journalistic writing and humanize internees and refugees of WWII in North Africa and today’s migrants in Europe. The MED-BD has developed into a repository of visual stories that challenge pictorial archives of photographers and

natural multinational artistic project with an educational orientation to evaluate colonial pasts and postcolonial relations between both sides of the Mediterranean landscapes. MED-BD has the capacity to challenge deceptive unrepresentative photographic reportage and journalistic writing and humanize internees and refugees of WWII in North Africa and today’s migrants in Europe. The MED-BD has developed into a repository of visual stories that challenge pictorial archives of photographers and

Learn More: Yoruba Agere IfaThis wooden sculpture, created by an unknown Yoruba artist from Nigeria in West Africa, depicts a kneeling maternal figure with a nursing child in her arms, while carrying another child on her back. Figures created in this form are commonly called agere ifa. This term refers to any carved container that is used to store the sacred palm nuts that are an important element in the Yoruba ritual of divination. This figure balances a carved bowl on top of her head, which

IntroductionAfrican ArtFind out moreIn terms of land mass, Africa is a large continent, in which all of the United States, Europe, China, India, Mexico, and Japan could easily fit. It is also a place of tremendous diversity, in terms of languages spoken, ethnic identities, cultural traditions, environments in which people live and work, and historic experiences. Sadly, popular culture has profoundly shaped what Africa, Africans, and their rich and diverse cultures are “supposed” to look like

goals Build knowledge of pressing issues facing Mexico today through extended study tours to Mexico City and the states of Puebla and Morelos Learn More & Apply Windhoek, Namibia: Cultural Immersion for Education, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences Study at the premier University of Namibia alongside students from Namibia and countries across Africa and the globe Engage in a practicum in a local school and complete a robust set of Education courses Learn about this young democratic country with a

Dr. Bridgette O’Brien McGoldrick grew up in Colorado, but has lived in several different states and countries including Nepal, Japan, South Africa and Hungary.  Her formal education includes an undergraduate degree in religious studies from the University of Puget Sound and a master’s degree in comparative world religions from Columbia University. She graduated from the University of Florida with her Ph.D. in 2013 and her dissertation research explored institutional efforts to integrate

and done. What surprised her about studying away: I was surprised to find that people you study away with will become a little community quicker than I thought. Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa - April 6, 2019

Course Title CHIN 201 Intermediate Chinese - VW, GE CHIN 202 Intermediate Chinese - VW, GE FREN 201 Intermediate French - VW, GE FREN 202 Intermediate French - VW, GE FREN 210 French History, Culture, Society - VW, GE FREN 211 Francophone Africa in Global Context - VW, GE FREN 301 Advanced French - VW, GE FREN 310 French History, Culture, Society - VW, GE FREN 311 Francophone Africa in Global Context - VW, GE GSRS 201 Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies - VW HGST 200