Center for Global Engagement

Passionate about global change?
Looking for real-life experience combating poverty, injustive, and inequality?
ENGAGE Uganda is for you.

Last year, 16 Northwestern undergrads spent their summer partnering with Ugandan nonprofit organizations to design and implement community development projects.

These students invite you to join them for the first course of the ENGAGE Uganda program, “Development, Humanitarians, and Uganda,” the first step in participating in next summer’s ENGAGE Uganda immersion program.

This winter quarter student organized seminar is designed for students interested in the ENGAGE Uganda program and the questions of development, humanitarianism, and youth engagement it focuses on. Through discussions, readings, films, and workshops, this pass/fail course will introduce students to the major challenges and opportunities of global youth engagement, as well as the conceptual frameworks for making sense of those challenges. Led by students and staff from ENGAGE Uganda 2007, the course will include a variety of lessons including a strong emphasis on introductions to development and humanitarian work. Outside guests will facilitate professional development workshops designed to build project management and leadership skills.

For a permission number, email Jonathan Marino
j-marino@northwestern.edu
815.222.9088

ENGAGE Uganda Program Info:
The ENGAGE Uganda program will enable 12-15 students to partner as small teams with community based organizations in Uganda to collaboratively design and implement small-scale community improvement projects. ENGAGE Uganda will include a recommended winter quarter student organized seminar, a mandatory spring quarter professional linkage seminar, and a 2-credit summer immersion experience. Through the program, students will develop their capacity not only to act abroad, but to think critically about the challenges and opportunities of global engagement; through readings, discussions, in-classroom learning and applied experiences, they will access conceptual frameworks that will help them better understand their own place in our global world and make them more able to understand issues of cross-cultural partnerships, insider-outsider partnerships, and leadership more generally.