{"id":6323,"date":"2014-08-22T15:45:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T19:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:16","slug":"semester-development-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2014\/semester-development-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth in Development &#8211; Semester Abroad in Uganda"},"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                        Youth in Development &#8211; Semester Abroad in Uganda\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 is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of agreement with Youth In Development, a Canadian organization devoted to getting youth more involved and engaged with international development. This provides another way for Carleton students in African Studies and other programs to have an incredible experiential learning opportunity on the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Semester in Development has been specifically designed to help participants bridge the gap between theory and practice. Students spend a semester in Uganda where they are take two accredited courses on conflict and development at Makerere University, one of Africa\u2019s most prestigious institutions. Students also intern with one of their partner NGOs or social enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information of the Semester in Development program, please consult their website,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youthindevelopment.ca\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.youthindevelopment.ca&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1487442255951000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEnNhqgnEw-pRNT0Mbmq58-1qGohA\">www.youthindevelopment.ca<\/a>, and discuss with the Institute of African Studies (African_studies@carleton.ca).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of African Studies is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of agreement with Youth In Development, a Canadian organization devoted to getting youth more involved and engaged with international development. This provides another way for Carleton students in African Studies and other programs to have an incredible experiential learning opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,110,109],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-uganda","tag-youth-and-development","tag-youth-in-development-in-uganda"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9918,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions\/9918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}