Cross Cultrl Exp: Rwanda Trip

Catalog description

Taught by ABSW. This course will incorporate travel to Rwanda July 8-20, 2018 as part of the learning experience. Readings for the course will include: Rwanda before the Genocide: Catholic politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era and Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts. Themes for discussion and discovery will include: the impact of the church for good and for ill in societal conflicts; restorative justice; the strategies, successes, and failures of the Gacaca courts. Students will be required to meet June 17, 2017 from 1pm to 4pm for conversation around book #1 (listed above) as well as preparatory discussion for the trip. Students will be required to participate in all activities planned in Rwanda. A final paper will be required on a topic selected in consultation with the professor. Class meets 6/6/18 from 6:30pm-8:30pm at ABSW; and 7/8/18-7/20/18 in Rwanda.