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Stanford Program in Cape Town |
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. download press release |
Overseas Studies in the News
The Dish, 11.10.2009 |
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| Berlin on film | |
For those who want a real sense of what life was like in East Germany before the wall tumbled, there’s a course for that: “Downright DEFA: Films from the German Democratic Republic,” taught by KAREN KRAMER, director of Stanford-in-Berlin, who is teaching on the Farm this quarter. |
Stanford Daily, 11.10.2009 |
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| Berlin Wall fall re-enacted | |
Yesterday, students, simulating the fall of the Berlin Wall exactly two decades years prior, smashed through their concrete replica, transporting White Plaza back to East Germany in 1989... |
Stanford Report, 11.9.2009 |
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| Remembering the day the Berlin Wall fell | |
A replica of the Berlin Wall was erected and knocked down in Stanford's White Plaza on Monday, the 20th anniversary of the wall's destruction. |
Stanford Daily, 10.26.2009 |
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| Cape Town program to launch in winter | |
The days are fast approaching when, in January 2010, 24 undergrads will embark to Cape Town, South Africa as the first class of Stanford’s new Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP). The Cape Town program, unveiled in April of last year, brings BOSP’s overseas program count to 11 and is Stanford’s first permanent overseas outpost in Africa... |
Stanford Report, 9.30.2009 |
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| Stanford, Ugandan students bridge cultural divide through performance | |
Stanford students team with their peers at Makerere University in Kampala to examine their preconceptions of each other. |
Stanford Report, 1.30.2009 |
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| History a 'creative process,' Norman Naimark says | |
Everyone's heard it: "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Despite Santayana's well-worn bromide, however, history is no amulet against repetition, according to Norman Naimark, Burke Family Director of the Bing Overseas Studies Program. |