Applicants to the Uganda Studies Program will apply to either the Uganda Studies Emphasis (USE) or the Intercultural Ministry and Missions Emphasis (IMME).
To help put the Uganda experience in perspective, USP students spend a week in Rwanda traveling and hearing from church leaders, missionaries, and visiting different ministries and organizations. While some time is spent looking at the 1994 Genocide, most of the focus is on what Rwandans and others are doing to build up society and the church. Rwanda has been recognized as a recent success story and is a great case study for both issues of governance and civil society development. The program recommends that students be granted the equivalent of 16 hours of credits by their home institution. w w w. b e sts e m e st e r . c o m / u s p/a c a d e m i c s /
Recommended & Required Credits
Uganda Stu dies Emphas is Faith & Action in the Ugandan Context Core Course #1 Core Course #2 Elective Course #1 or Core Course #3 Elective Course #2 or Core Course #4
4 credits 3 credits 3 credits 3 credits 3 credits
Total Credits 16 CREDITS Intercu ltural Ministry & Mission s Emphasis Faith & Action in the Ugandan Context IMME Practicum Core Course #1 Core Course #2 Elective Course #1 or Core Course #3
4 credits 3 credits 3 credits 3 credits 3 credits
Total Credits 16 CREDITS All students are required to take Faith & Action in the Ugandan Context (4 credit hours). In addition, students choose two core courses focused on the African context and elective courses based on their chosen emphasis.
Core Co urses on the African Context African Literature East African History from 1800 to Independence East African Politics since Independence African Traditional Religions, ISLAM AND Christianity in Contemporary Uganda
3 credits 3 credits 3 CREDITS 3 CREDITS
Elective cou rs eS Additional electives may be available when students register in Uganda. Understanding the Old Testament 3 credits Understanding the New Testament 3 credits Understanding Worldviews 3 credits Understanding Ethics 3 CREDITS Health & Wholeness 3 CREDITS Introduction to Ugandan Politics 3 CREDITS social work Practicum 6 CREDITS USE Practicum* 3 CREDITS *Required for Intercultural Ministry and Missions Emphasis (IMME)
USE students live most of the semester with Ugandan and other African students in the UCU Honours College dorms, a setting conducive to friendships that often end up being the core of the student experience. Students also spend two weeks with a host family within walking distance of campus and another week with a rural host family.
IMME students live the entire semester with a host family within walking distance of the university, in addition to one week with a rural host family. The semester long homestay allows students to truly be adopted as sons and daughters, brothers and sisters. IMME students also spend several weekends traveling to different places in Uganda, learning from Ugandans and expatriates involved in Christian ministry and development work. w w w. b e sts e m e st e r . c o m / u s p/ st u d e n t _ l i f e /
From Sudan to South Africa
to suburban America, USP alumni are seeking ways to live faithfully in a fallen world. Many students leave Uganda with a deep desire to return to Africa or go elsewhere overseas. Others have a renewed—and often surprising—conviction to return to their own cultural context and seek creative ways to live out the Gospel. Whether your long-term goal is to live in America or the Amazon, you’ll be connected with hundreds of other USP alumni who are a little further down the road of discovering what life after graduation means. You’ll have the opportunity to connect with these alumni and learn more about the organizations, jobs and opportunities they’ve explored since leaving the Uganda Studies Program. www.bestsemester.com/usp/alumni/
The Junior Field Experience provides students with opportunities to integrate social work theory and practice in a cross-cultural setting. Students will complete a minimum of 150 hours of practice at an approved service location in Uganda. Each student will be on-site 2 days per week under the supervision of their field instructor and the Uganda Studies Program (USP) staff supervisor (MSW). Senior Level Field Experience is available. Please contact the USP to coordinate specific requirements.
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The Uganda Studies Program is offered in partnership with Uganda Christian University (UCU), a CCCU affiliate member in Mukono, Uganda—15 miles from the capital city of Kampala. The large hillside campus is a perpetual summer paradise, with temperatures in the 70’s, views of Lake Victoria and Red-tailed monkeys feasting on mangos. The University setting also means that you’ll have the unique opportunity to get to know Ugandans in your stage of life, asking the same questions you are asking-about studies, faith and their future. you’ve been surrounded by people who look like you, talk like you and even think about God like you. Assumptions you’ve subconsciously held – from your definition of poverty, to what being a Christian even means. It’s time to ask big questions. It’s time to marvel at everything from the hospitality of your Ugandan hosts, to the magnificent hills and valleys of the Rwandan countryside. Participate in Ugandan community and learn much about your own identity in the process. Be exposed to the social and economic injustice present in East Africa, explore the Biblical perspective of injustice and then wrestle with faithful Christian responses. Your semester at the Uganda Studies Program will be time spent in society, nature, and spirit in the raw. Be ready to be changed.
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