CLAS TANZANIA FIELD SCHOOL: human origins, climate change & adaptability in Tanzania
Course: ANTH 4995/5995 (6 credits); GEOG 4995/5995 (6 credits)
Dates: July 10 – August 10, 2010
Dates and Cost for 2010: TBA
This course provides students the opportunity to participate in an intense six week field-based learning experience that focuses on human origin, climate change and adaptability (with special emphasis in paleoanthropology, health geography, medical anthropology, archaeology, GIS, and culture of the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Highlands in northern Tanzania.
The field school is a collaborative effort of several academic institutions; including the University of Colorado Denver, University of Calgary, and Bugando University College of Health Sciences in Mwanza, Tanzania, as well as Endulen Hospital in Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Endowed with some of the most spectacular and
world famous archaeological and paleoanthropological
sites, Tanzania presents focused, selfdriven
students with an opportunity to become
deeply immersed and engaged in the beauty and
splendor of a unique cultural and prehistoric tour de
force. The field school will offer students a memorable, yet academically
challenging, chance to:
- walk in the footsteps of our ancestors, a journey which began a mere 3.56 million years ago;
- explore unique insights on health through the connection to Endulen Hospital;
- discover the beauty and wonders that one of Africa's most peaceful countries, Tanzania has to offer; and
- make lifelong, meaningful connections with cultures
rich in diversity.
