The summer 2024 program in Botswana is funded in partnership with the UW-Madison Office of Student Financial Aid.
The Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement is generously funding additional spaces for DDEEA students to participate in Summer 2024.
This program requires all participants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 for the Summer 2024 program.
Botswana, Gaborone
There is expected to be a high level of interest in the UW Global Gateway Program. As space on the program is limited, IAP encourages students to put care and thought into their application materials.
Join a small group cohort of Badgers on this fully-funded summer program to Gaborone, Botswana! Led by a UW Professor, Global Gateway is a unique, engaging experience designed specially for first- and second-year UW students.
Through classroom learning, guided trips in Gaborone and the surrounding villages, activities and overnight excursions, you'll explore language, culture, history and politics within contemporary Botswana. There is no language pre-requisite for this program.
Each student selected for the program will receive a Global Gateway scholarship covering the program fee, including airfare!
Select applicants will be invited for an interview before final decisions are made. Accepted students will demonstrate a strong commitment to the program and its learning objectives, be an active participant while on the program, and help promote international education upon their return to UW-Madison. Both need and merit-based criteria will be taken into consideration.
The summer 2024 program in Botswana is offered by UW-Madison in cooperation with CIEE. This program is funded in partnership with the UW-Madison Office of Student Financial Aid.
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Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to providing quality study abroad and domestic study away programs for every UW-Madison student. We work strategically to identify, address, and remove barriers that may prevent participation and to provide a welcoming and inclusive environment for students. Our staff actively engages with students, faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds and prioritizes the continuous development of our knowledge and cultural competence. We also recognize the importance of increasing access to study abroad for historically underrepresented student populations. We are committed to diversity and inclusion so that every student can engage with and understand their identity through a new lens and continue to develop and make progress on their personal, professional, and academic goals.
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Eligibility
- Must have a Free Application for Student Aid (FAFSA) on file. For information on how to complete your FAFSA, visit https://financialaid.wisc.edu
Preference will be given to students with an Estimated Family Contribution (EFC) of $12,000 or less as determined by the FAFSA.
Students who have previously participated on a UW Global Gateway Program or received a UW Global Gateway Fellowship are not eligible to receive a second UW Global Gateway award. - Academic standing eligibility requirements are based on year in school (first or second year) and not on academic credits. Transfer students’ years of study are calculated by adding the years of study at previous institutions and total years at UW-Madison
- 2.0 cumulative GPA
- Freshman, Sophomore
- Open to UW-Madison degree-seeking students only
- Good academic and disciplinary standing
- At the time of application and the semester prior to participation, UW-Madison students must be currently enrolled. Transfer Students to UW-Madison need to be currently enrolled at their home institution
Advising Location
Program Structure
UW Signature
Subjects
Setswana Language and Culture, African Studies
Classroom Language
English
Housing
Hotels, Apartments
Program Duration
Summer: mid May - early June, 2024
Application Deadline(s)
Future durations will be posted at a later date.
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You will take one (3 credits) while on the UW Global Gateway Program in Botswana.
Global Social Problems (3 credits)
This course will be taught by UW-Madison Professors Gay Seidman and Heinz Klug.
This course is designed to introduce students both to sociological approaches to large issues, and to specific contemporary examples of those issues. The syllabus will be composed of topics and issues that are directly related to Botswana’s history, and its present. The readings and discussions will focus on debates around Botswana’s colonial legacies; apartheid’s impact on Botswana, and how the country was affected by the migrant labor system in the mines; the challenges Botswana faces in trying to diversify its mineral-dependent economy today; the AIDs crisis, and Botswana’s unusual response; and the dilemmas posed by Botswana’s current shift to ‘ecological tourism’.
The course will include multiple excursions to a range of sites, organizations, and institutions in and around Gaborone.
Course Equivalents
Use the links below to see a list of courses that past students have taken on this program and the UW equivalents. Note: This list only includes pre-approved courses for your program and may not be an exhaustive list of courses, departments or equivalents. Courses may not be available the semester you are abroad. You will receive instructions on the course equivalent process after acceptance. View Course Equivalents
Program Leader
Gay Seidman and Heinz Klug
Professors , Sociology and Law
Gay Seidman is the Matindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology. Her academic interests include political sociology, economic change and development, and demography and ecology, and she has conducted the majority of her research in Brazil and Africa. Before joining UW in 1996, she did her undergraduate work at Harvard and graduate work at UC-Berkeley, where she received two Master’s degrees and a Ph.D. Her most recent book is Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights and Transnational Activism. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she taught African Studies at high schools in Swaziland (now Eswatini) and wrote a book for students studying development in Botswana.Heinz Klug is the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He is a member of the California Bar (inactive) and is admitted as a Advocate in South Africa. Growing up in Durban, South Africa, he participated in the anti-apartheid struggle, spent 11 years in exile and returned to South Africa in 1990 as a member of the ANC Land Commission and researcher for Zola Skweyiya, chairperson of the ANC Constitutional Committee. He was also a team member on the World Bank mission to South Africa on Land Reform and Rural Restructuring. He has taught at Wisconsin since September 1996.