Description
This is a selected course contributing from three to six hours of credit for the summer study abroad program. Summer abroad activities will highlight the role and challenges of tourism in presenting historical perspectives and memory to an international market. It will include themes like imprisonment, slavery, sea power, and community identity. The group will critically explore how the private and government sectors have packaged the social history of the city of Cape Town alongside nature tours and engaging recreational activities like mountain hiking, and shark cage diving. Students will visit a variety of museums, walk along coastal shipwreck trails, visit animal rehabilitation centers, fishing communities, apartheid museums, and informal settlements. The tour includes extreme activity options to dive with great white sharks and interact closely with game in animal rehabilitation centers. Students will assess the attraction and value of these activities to the economic and social re-structuring of the post-apartheid South Africa through readings, their own experiences and presentations by local tour guides and heritage professionals.