Study Abroad & Service Learning
Credit-bearing terms in Ghana, and fieldwork that serves the community hosting it.
Study abroad
Terms that count toward a degree
Credit is awarded by your institution, not by us. What we build is everything that makes awarding it straightforward: documented contact hours, a site-to-outcome map, host credentials, and an assessment plan drafted alongside your faculty lead.
The programs below are formats we run regularly. Each one is a starting point — every cohort we host ends up with something shaped around its own department.
Heritage, Memory & the Atlantic
Cape Coast and Elmina, the Assin Manso ancestral river site, and the archives at Legon. Built for history, Africana studies and humanities cohorts.
Co-taught with University of Ghana faculty
Public Health in Practice
Clinic rotations and community health outreach in the Eastern Region, paired with seminars on health systems and access.
Hosted with regional health service partners
Enterprise & the Ghanaian Market
Fieldwork with Accra small businesses, artisan cooperatives and diaspora-founded ventures, ending in a capstone presented to local founders.
Business and entrepreneurship departments
Semester in Ghana
A full term in residence combining coursework at a partner institution with an ongoing service placement and independent study.
Direct enrolment with academic advising support
Credit hours and term lengths shown are typical rather than fixed — the final figures are set with your registrar during program development.
Service learning
Service that the community actually asked for
A great deal of international service learning is designed backwards — around what visiting students want to feel rather than what a host community needs done. We run it the other way, and it changes what students take home.
01
The community sets the work
Projects come from what partner communities have already identified as needed — not from what makes a good photograph or a tidy two-week deliverable.
02
Students assist, they do not lead
No undergraduate is put in the position of delivering a service they are not qualified to deliver. Local professionals lead; students support and learn.
03
The work outlasts the cohort
Every placement connects to something with a life beyond the term, so the next group builds on it rather than starting a new project for the brochure.
04
Reflection is assessed
Structured reflection is part of the coursework, because service without examination teaches students the wrong lesson about their own role.
Build the term around your outcomes
Send us your course outline and the term you have in mind, and we will come back with a site-to-outcome map and a line-item budget.