Muli bwanji nonse! The Malawi Immersion Seminar provides students with an intensive and immersive three week long summer study abroad experience. The program differentiates itself from others through a unique focus on experiential learning as the main pathway of instruction. No words can describe the first time your hand touches the deep red earth of the Great Rift valley, or the excitement you feel when you watch "The Great Dance" of the Gule Wamkulu, or the satisfaction you get after planting a mango tree in the middle of an irrigation project.

The Malawi Immersion Seminar is sponsored through the Department of Anthropology (ANT 299/499) at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. Participants will be expected to keep daily ethnographic observations and interviews in a field notebook, attend Chichewa language sessions and complete a competency exam, perform an ethnographic research study and community survey, and participate in daily lectures and excurisions with American and Malawian faculty.

Highlights include:

• Guided tours of Lilongwe city markets
• Courses in Chichewa language
• Ten day homestay in a rural Malawian village
• Hike the escarpment of The Great Rift Valley
• Continuous service learning, ethnographic research, and cultural exchange activities
• Seminars by local experts on sustainable agriculture, tourism, economics, culture, history, religion, rituals, and health practices
• Two day safari at Liwonde National Park
• Six academic credits
• No prior study of anthropology required
• Open to all class years