Zanzibar Program Profiled on BU Today
The allure of study abroad is a passion that unites students at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Through the BU Study Abroad office, which works in partnership with the Pardee School’s affiliated Regional and Thematic Studies Centers, students can participate in over 20 different study abroad programs on six continents.
On Sept. 10, one of those programs – the joint study program between BU and the State University of Zanzibar – was profiled in BU Today. The Zanzibar program was developed by Peter Quella, assistant director of the African Studies Center, an affiliated regional center of the Pardee School.
The program focuses on the multicultural aspects of life on Zanzibar, as well as intensive study of Swahili. It includes interviews with Pardee School students like Derek Hartnett and Maddy Powell, who studied Swahili and lived with a host families on the summer 2015 trip.
From the text of the BU Today article, entitled “Study Abroad Zanzibar: Swahili and Spice:”
“It’s just as much a learning experience for our hosts as it is for us,” Hartnett says of his family, Hajji and Nahda Islam—both former professional basketball players—and their two sons, ages two and a half and four and a half, who tended to use Hartnett as a visiting jungle gym. “They appreciate that we respect their values and customs while we’re in their homes,” says cultural anthropology and African studies major Kasey Shultz (CAS’17), whose host parents took her on day trips to beach villages to visit relatives. The students almost all returned home daily for dinners of fresh curry and seemingly endless offerings of passion fruit, papaya, and the ubiquitous avocado, which is made into a creamy juice.
You can read the entire article here.
To find out more information about undergraduate study abroad, visit the BU Study Abroad website. The Pardee School also offers numerous graduate study abroad opportunities. Learn more here.