 | Kenya Course, July 9-31 2007:
INHL 653: "Health and Development in Kenya in the Age of HIV and AIDS Led by Professors Kate Macintrye and Laura Murphy
This is a 3 credit, 3 week field course to explore a range of health, development and environmental issues that interact in Sub-Saharan Africa. Download Syllabus, FAQs and more materials below. Kenya is a laboratory to investigate aid agency and governmental projects tackling inter-related problems of HIV and AIDS, poverty, poor health care, and endemic malaria, urbanization, inter-tribal conflict, and globalization. Participants meet up in the densely populated, chaotic city of Nairobi; a camping safari takes us to the semi-arid northern districts and across the Rift Valley to the Lake Victoria region, where we visit AIDS-affected Western and Nyanza Provinces. Students spend time: talking to VCT clinic staff, observing farming and water harvesting in rural Machakos, attending a mobile health clinic serving the Samburu, digging in a community garden and assessing an AIDS orphan program. Presentations from local and international experts complement site visits and community field trips. Academic course work includes reading texts and course-pack articles, individual essay writing, field exercises and group discussions. Conditions are demanding, including long stretches of travel on unpaved roads, rough camping, hiking!
The official start date is Monday, July 9: this means you need to already be in Nairobi by Sunday, July 8 (at the latest), which would require departure from the US no later than Saturday July 7. Factor this into your planning! Likewise, allow time at the end of the course, after the official end date (July 31), to get back to Nairobi and on to other destinations.
To sign up, download and read the syllabus & FAQs below, and then contact Laura Murphy (lmurphy2@tulane.edu)
Syllabus Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Orientation Packet
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