Program in African Studies
The Program in African Studies strongly encourages concentrators to study in Africa.
Princeton's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology offers a spring semester in Kenya for juniors. Through the Tropical Biology Program in Kenya, Princeton faculty and Kenyan scholars teach a sequence of four courses that involve total immersion in the tropics.
Princeton also has an affiliation with the University of Cape Town to enable undergraduate study in South Africa for a semester or a year. Students are also welcome to study at other African universities, including Rhodes University, where a summer course is offered. In addition, the Program in African Studies offers the summer program Princeton in Dar es Salaam.
Students interested in working in Africa for either a year after graduation or during a summer can apply to Princeton in Africa for internships. Princeton in Africa, an independent support organization of the University, was established in 2000 and seeks to encourage American/African collaboration, to provide effective assistance to the world's most underserved continent, and to create a constituency committed to the emergence of Africa as a full partner in the developed world.