Program Price: $4,500

1. Round-trip air transportation from Los Angeles to Accra, Ghana.
2. 20 nights accommodation in hotels, guesthouses and/or dorms in double occupancy.
3. Five nights home-stay accommodation.
4. A total of 75 meals plus in-flight meals. Daily breakfast, lunch and dinner.
5. Transportation by private vehicle, taxi & public bus.
6. City tours and excursions with local guides, coordinators and their assistants, including admission fees.
7. Educational & cultural events, fieldtrips and drum & dance classes.
8. Taxes and service charges as related to hotels and restaurants.
9. Brandt Ghana guide book or a similar guide book of Ghana.

1. Travel protection plan.
2. Long Beach City College, related enrollment fees.
3. Books other than the Ghana guide book.
4. Fees related to passports and visas.
5. Health related costs.
6. Personal items
7. Any item not listed under "The Price Includes"

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Day 1 - Los Angeles to Accra, Ghana
Depart from LAX.

Day 2 - Accra, Ghana
Arrive in Accra, where you will be picked up by a local representative and transferred to your hotel, where you'll enjoy a welcome dinner with your classmates.

Day 3 - Accra
After breakfast at the hotel, take part in an orientation meeting. After lunch, visit the Du Bois Center and enjoy a drum performance and dinner at your hotel.

Day 4 - Accra
Today, visit the Kwanu Nkrumah Memorial, the last resting place of the first President of Ghana, and a famous pan-Africanist.

Day 5 - Accra to Cape Coast
After breakfast, travel to Cape Coast.

Day 6-Day 9 - Cape Coast
Daily class instruction.

Day 10 - Cape Coast
Today, visit Elmina Castle, known as the slave castle, which is one of over twenty castles built along the shoreline of the Gold Coast (now known as Ghana). Hundreds of thousands of people in captivity passed through the dungeons of Elmina Castle, and were shipped off, like commodities into the Americas and Caribbean against their wishes. This illicit human trade carried on for close to 300 years.

Day 11 - Cape Coast Homestay with a local family.

Day 12 - Cape Coast
Today, visit Kakum National Park, which is situated in a unique rainforest that is home to many almost extinct animal and plant species. Its most unique feature is a Canopy Walkway consisting of seven hanging bridges high up in the tree tops.

Day 13 - Cape Coast
Visit Brennu Beach.

Day 14 - Cape Coast
Instruction day.

Day 15 - Cape Coast
Instruction Day.

Day 16 - Cape Coast to Kumasi
Today, travel to Kumasi.

Day 17 - Kumasi
Instruction day.  Visit the Manhyia Royal Palace and the museum. Take part in a meeting with the King in the afternoon.

Day 18 - Kumasi
Travel to Kintampo Monkey Sanctuary & Waterfalls.

Day 19 - Kumasi
Travel to local craft villages.

Day 20 - Kumasi to Hohoe
In the morning, travel from Kumasi to Hohoe.

Day 21 - Hohoe
Travel to the Africa Alive Microcredit Assistiation in Dzogbedze and the Alavanyo village, where you will meet with the women members of the AAMA and the chiefs of the village.

Day 22 - Hohoe
After breakfast, visit some homes of the AAMA members including volunteering at the local elementary school to repair the roof, walls & foundation of the school.
 

Day 23 - Hohoe
After breakfast, travel to the Wli Waterfalls, the highest falls in West Africa. The hills mark the border between Ghana and neighboring Togo.

Day 24 - Hohoe
In the morning, travel to the Monkey Sanctuary. Later, travel again to Dzogbedze to visit Queen Mother.

Day 25
One last visit with the AAMA village.  In the afternoon, attend in a drum performance by local bobobo drummers.

Day 26 - Hohoe to Accra
Once back in Accra, pay a visit to the African Traditional Religion church.

Day 27 - Free day.

Day 28 - Accra to Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Depart for Los Angeles in the afternoon. Arrive at LAX.

Financial aid and scholarships are available for Long Beach City College students.
The deadline to apply for a scholarship is December 5, 2008.
The deadline to apply for financial aid is May 1, 2009.

Contact the LBCC Financial Aid office
LAC campus in room A-105 (562) 938-4257
PCC campus in room AA-122 (562) 938-3955.

Contact Alicia Kruizenga in the LBCC Scholarship office
LAC campus (562) 938-4083
PCC campus (562) 938-3936

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Janét Hund obtained her Master of Arts in Sociology at Arizona State University and her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology/Race Relations at Wichita State University. Janét completed her Master's Thesis on Factors Influencing American Indian College Drop Out Rates. Her interest areas in sociology include cross-cultural research, race and ethnic relations, social problems and stratification and gender issues Janét has been instructing sociology at the community college level since 1993, employed at LBCC full time since August 1997.  A major interest area for Janét is traveling: both international and national. In the summer of 1999, she traveled cross-country: a cross-country trek by car. She viewed various rural and urban settings ranging from Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota to rural Appalachia in Northfork, West Virginia to New York City to Detroit to rural Mississippi. In addition, Janét has traveled to Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. Most recently, she traveled to Africa, Asia and Europe for her sabbatical, during the 2003-04 academic year. Specifically, she traveled to Ghana, Tanzania, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Holland, and Germany to study cross-cultural norms and values as well as research the effectiveness of microcredit programs. In Ghana, she helped to implement Africa Alive Microcredit Association; every microcredit program serves to provide small loans to low income earning people, typically women, who would not otherwise have access to loans. Janét also met her husband, Opokuware (OWASS) in Ghana; they have one child, Jonas Kofi Oware.  Instructor Hund traveled to Ghana with 20 students in Summer 2005, organized the Summer 2007 trip with 13 students attending, and is planning for the Summer 2009 trip, in which OWASS and Jonas will both travel, too!

For further information/questions please contact:

Janét Hund
Professor of Sociology
jhund@lbcc.edu(562) 938-4190

Maureen Mason
Study Abroad Coordinator
mmason@lbcc.edu (562) 938 - 3165