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Study Abroad Home : Students : Programs Overview : Short Term Programs : Faculty_Led Programs The San Jose State University- University of Zambia joint Service Learning Project
Find more information in the FLP Zambia flyer Zambia 
The University of Zambia is the only public university. Acceptance is highly competitive and nearly all of the 6000 students receive financial support. The campus is in at edge of the city. The link is http://www.unza.zm/ Students who are or will be studying to become teachers or counselors will find these courses invaluable for their cross-cultural understanding of child development and teaching. At the same time it will be of interest to students who are studying social work and nursing. Other students would like to be involved because of their interest in Africa, or because they want to learn about international public health problems. Because this is a 6 unit experience, we begin prior to departure with reading, writing and discussion about Zambian cultures, history, and about the people who we will be working with, as well as learning about working in a developing world country. During their three week stay in Zambia students will work with University of Zambia students in service learning projects related to AIDS, sexual abuse or street children. Students are expected to write daily journals and turn in an edited version. Also, after returning to the USA each student will be expected to give a talk to a school or community about what you have learned from your experience. This is part of the service learning requirement. Course Enrollment There is a maximum of 20 students. Each student will enroll in two courses, three units of Counselor Education 289 (Professional Seminar) and three units of Counselor Education 294 (Personal Development). There will be several service learning sites, which involve working with AIDS orphans, street children, and children who have been sexually abused. We will be working with very poor people. SJSU student will be working students from University of Zambia UNZA who will accompany us you in the field. In the field Zambian personnel working at each site will supervise you. Students will work at their internship sites during the regular work day (approximately 8-4). Some evenings we will be debriefing. We will also have local speakers about the AIDS pandemic, and Zambian culture, history and politics. We will have a joint workshop with UNZA students and the personnel from the sites. Each student will be expected to give a professional presentation. Weekends are free. This is educational experience first, travel comes second. Accommodation, Safety and Visas Students will be staying at the Commonwealth Africa Conference Center which is on the edge of the campus. It is dorm like structure with a cafeteria. There are 39 rooms, we will be taking ten of them. Most of the others rooms will be occupied by Africans from former commonwealth countries (thus English speakers). There are pleasant grounds and bar that serves soft drinks and beer and wine. There is daily maid service to clean the rooms, which is included in the cost, and each room has a small TV, and shower and toilet. There are Internet and laundry facilities at an additional cost, but it is not a hotel so the service will not be up to hotel standards. The rooms are small and simple. Zambia and Lusaka are safe, although some caution needs to be taken with regard to being out at night. There is a history of democracy and resolving conflicts without resorting to violence. Zambia is poor; 86% of the population live on less than $2 dollars a day. Because Zambia has one of the highest rates of AIDS in the work, the average life expectancy is 36.96 years. UNICEF estimates that there are one million orphans. Program Leaders
Lewis Aptekar, Professor,
Counselor Education Lewis Aptekar is Professor of Counselor Education at San Jose State University. Some of his academic awards include two Fulbright scholarships (Colombia and Swaziland), a Senior Fulbright Scholar award (Honduras), Nehru Visiting Professor, (University of Baroda, India), a Kellogg Foundation/Partners of the Americas Fellowship in International Development, a Rotarian International Ambassadorship (Zambia). He is past President of the Society of Cross-cultural Research. He is on the Editorial board of Child abuse and neglect, Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS (SAHARA), and Journal of Psychology in Africa. His books include Street children of Cali (Duke University Press, 1988) and Environmental disasters in global perspective (G. K. Hall/Macmillan, 1994). Some of his chapters include “The changing developmental dynamics of "children in particularly difficult circumstances": Examples of street and war traumatized children. In Gielen, U. & J. Roopnarine (eds), “Cultural problems for Western counselors working with Ethiopian refugees" (in Counseling refugees: A psychosocial approach to innovative multicultural innovations, Greenwood Press, 2003, “Walks in Kaliti Life in a Destitute Shelter for the Displaced” (in Trauma, War, and Violence: Public Mental Health in Socio-cultural Context, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2002), He has been affiliated with the Universidad del Valle, Columbia, Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, University of Swaziland, Addis Ababa University, University of Zambia, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Francisco Morazan, Honduras, Johns Hopkins University, and the Free University of the Netherlands. He has had post-graduate training in Clinical Psychology from Texas Tech Medical School and is a licensed as a Clinical Psychologist. July 19-August 8, 2009 Application due March 1st
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Contact us at the Study Abroad Office, Clark Hall, Room 543 Tel
(408) 924-5931 Fax (408) 924-5976
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