The Bing Overseas Studies Program has appointed Timothy Stanton as director of Stanford in Cape Town. Previously, Stanton served as director of the Haas Center for Public Service and was the director of the Scholarly Concentration in Community Health and Public Service at Stanford Medical School.
The Cape Town program will introduce students to the people, history, politics and culture of post-apartheid South Africa with an emphasis on theories and practices of health-focused community reconstruction and development.
“Everyone we talked to in Cape Town had a story, a fascinating story that somehow shed some new light on this foreign world for us. There is so much you cannot learn from a history book (…).”
- Previous program participant
Cape Town Program
BOSP is pleased to announce the opening of a new program in Cape Town, South Africa, beginning Winter Quarter, 2010. The program, Stanford’s first on the African continent, will blend coursework with service-learning and community-based research in Western Cape townships and informal communities.