Switzerland: Food Security and Nutrition (Summer)

Switzerland: Food Security and Nutrition (Summer)

Based in Geneva and Nyon, this program provides you with an understanding of global food security and nutrition challenges and their links to sustainable development, public health, and socio-political stability. You will explore issues such as food sovereignty, global health, climate change, humanitarian emergencies, and forced migration in the context of global food security. Please visit our website for more information

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Ghana: Africa in the 21st Century

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Key Topics of Study

• The ways in which Africa is represented in mainstream discourse
• New and emerging technologies in Ghana and how they are impacting Ghana’s social landscapes
• Technologies such as social media and money apps, solar energy, and rural and urban water supply systems
• The impact of new technologies on livelihoods in rural vs. urban Ghana
• Processes that are simultaneously facilitating and inhibiting technological application
• How class structure in Ghana is changing and the processes that are driving this change
• How changing class structure is transforming Accra’s spatial formations and use of public space
• Changing gender relations and the status of women
• The ways in which contemporary global power relations are implicated in constructing discourses of despair about Africa and elsewhere

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Senegal: Global Security and Religious Pluralism

Key Topics of Study

• Religious tolerance in Senegal
• The relationship between religion and state
• Regional security policies, programs, and projects
• International and regional institutions for peace

SIT Study Abroad

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