21 July 2016 Town and for some to travel up the Garden Route along the east coast. NEWSLETTER Compiled by Shannon Dowdall of IDACA Academically, from feedback received, the Greetings to you from Ida Cooper Associates SSA students enjoyed their courses to give you a few of in Cape Town. We’d like appreciating the new perspectives and content. the highlights of the first semester 2016 SSA Courses they studied ranged from isiXhosa students. and History of African Music, Anthropology and African literature to Marine and Environmental Sciences as well as Business Science courses. The last of our first semester 2016 SSA Havilliah Malsbury (UC Merced) was students left on June 27th and we welcomed adventurous enough to travel alone to a small the second semester group on July 9th. village in the Eastern Cape to live with a female- headed family to improve his isiXhosa. He ploughed fields and herded cattle, sleeping in a hut with the children of the family (an experience his professor of isiXhosa assisted him in setting up). Henry Ascencio (UC Berkeley) followed up on his interest in animals and explored the immensely varied natural environment of the country. Some of the students engaged in community SHAWCO service through UCT’s student –run organization. This involved tutoring school children of varying ages in the townships. They The first semester group arrived in the middle found this a rewarding and the experience of summer in Cape Town at its best. They also broadened their understanding of the broader arrived on a UCT campus that was still and varied Cape Town community. experiencing some protest action by a small group of students associated with the # FeesMustFall group. However, registration went without hitch and the debate and discussion around this issue generated engagement both with UCT students as well as with the wider Cape Town community and nationally in the media. First semester students had a week between registering and when classes started which was a great time for them to explore Cape
21 July 2016 NEWSLETTER Compiled by Shannon Dowdall of IDACA Greetings to you from Ida Cooper Associates in Cape Town. We’d like to give you a few of the highlights of the first semester 2016 SSA students. The last of our first semester 2016 SSA students left on June 27th and we welcomed the second semester group on July 9th. The first semester group arrived in the middle of summer in Cape Town at its best. They also arrived on a UCT campus that was still experiencing some protest action by a small group of students associated with the # FeesMustFall group. However, registration went without hitch and the debate and discussion around this issue generated engagement both with UCT students as well as with the wider Cape Town community and nationally in the media. First semester students had a week between registering and when classes started which was a great time for them to explore Cape Town and for some to travel up the Garden Route along the east coast. Academically, from feedback received, the SSA students enjoyed their courses appreciating the new perspectives and content. Courses they studied ranged from isiXhosa and History of African Music, Anthropology and African literature to Marine and Environmental Sciences as well as Business Science courses. Havilliah Malsbury (UC Merced) was adventurous enough to travel alone to a small village in the Eastern Cape to live with a female- headed family to improve his isiXhosa. He ploughed fields and herded cattle, sleeping in a hut with the children of the family (an experience his professor of isiXhosa assisted him in setting up). Henry Ascencio (UC Berkeley) followed up on his interest in animals and explored the immensely varied natural environment of the country. Some of the students engaged in community service through UCT’s student –run SHAWCO organization. This involved tutoring school children of varying ages in the townships. They found this a rewarding and the experience broadened their understanding of the broader and varied Cape Town community.