{"id":6335,"date":"2014-08-25T14:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T18:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?page_id=6335"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:08","slug":"ias-placement-course","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/ias-placement-course\/","title":{"rendered":"IAS Placement Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        IAS Placement Course\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Institute of African Studies Placement Course (<strong>AFRI 5900<\/strong>) allows students to arrange with an organization that works on African issues to do relevant academic work for them for the equivalent of one day a week for a term. Students are evaluated by a supervisor at the organization and by the Director of African Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students are required to arrange the placements. Most placements occur in Africa, but there is a possibility of doing them elsewhere, including in Ottawa-Gatineau. The Institute maintains a list of some potential placement opportunities, including one in Ghana through Carleton Professor Daniel Osabu-Kle (Political Science\/African Studies).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go here, to find out more about what students are saying about the <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/undergraduate-studies\/ias-placement-course\/placement-testimonials\/\">African Studies Placement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of African Studies Placement Course (AFRI 5900) allows students to arrange with an organization that works on African issues to do relevant academic work for them for the equivalent of one day a week for a term. Students are evaluated by a supervisor at the organization and by the Director of African Studies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-6335","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6339,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6335\/revisions\/6339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}