If you're interested in Studying Abroad in Ghana (West Africa) & want more information, we have our final four information sessions this month (deadline to apply is September 28).

BIOL 468: Biology & Global Health OR SUST 388: Urban Sustainability (choose one, but both courses travel together)
Register for Spring 2026, with 2+ weeks of travel after the semester ends (“Travel Added Course”) – so you can travel with this course even if you graduate in Spring!
Course(s) may count for your program in: Biology, Biochemistry, Black & Africana Studies, Geography, International Relations, Neuroscience, Sociomedical Sciences, Sustainability Studies, Urban Studies

This faculty-led program travels to Accra, Kumasi, and Cape Coast.
Ghana is experiencing extraordinarily rapid environmental and social change. This includes rapid deforestation, visible climate change and very rapid urbanization. Ghana, like many developing countries, experienced colonialism followed by post-colonial development. In lower-middle income countries, economic growth in the twenty-first century has brought wealth and better health for some, but not all. As a result, poverty coexists side by side with wealth, and Ghana faces challenges seen in low-income countries as well as those seen in high-income countries. This program seeks to dig deeper into this. Africa is undergoing rapid urbanization, and more than half of time will be spent in and around Accra and Kumasi, the two largest cities. We also visit Cape Coast to see tropical rainforest, and to visit to one or more of the UNESCO World Heritage sites in Cape Coast related to the transatlantic slave trade.
Site visits to such places as Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor, Agogo Hospital, West African AIDS Foundation, Elmina Slave Castle, and Kakum National Park.

BIOL course contact: Dr. Susan Bandoni Muench - bandoni@geneseo.edu
SUST course contact: Dr. Jennifer Rogalsky - rogalsky@geneseo.edu