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Study in Senegal

Dakar: Art, Literature, and Social Movements

Our Summer Program in Dakar is getting set for its second iteration, this time expanding to include a course on Regenerative Agriculture.

Co-led by Professors Subha Xavier (Emory, Atlanta) and Bamba Ndiaye (Emory, Oxford), this program will accept 16-20 students from Emory along with 4-5 students from the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar to offer a 6 week, 6 credit program in Art, Literature, Agroecology and Social Movements.

The program will run from May 13-June 24, 2026 and students will choose between one class in African Art and Museum or African Regenerative Design and one course in Literature and Cinema or Democracy and Social Movements.

This is a trilingual program in English, French and Wolof. All students will take 5 days of Wolof a week, and then choose to take courses in English and/or in French.

 

Program prerequisites to take classes in English: One class in African Studies or African American Studies

AFS 190, AFS263, AFS220 or equivalent

Program prerequisites to take classes in French:

FREN 310, FREN 314

 

Applications are due by February 15th, 2026 and acceptances will be conditional on a successful interview. Students who apply by February 1st, 2026 will be eligible for early interviews starting on February 2nd.

Students who have completed FREN 310 are eligible to apply for competitive paid internships in Dakar in any field of their choice. For more information, please contact Prof. Subha Xavier.

Office for International and Summer Programs

For further information regarding the summer program in Senegal, please visit the OISP site. The Office for International and Summer Programs (OISP) is dedicated to fulfilling Emory College's commitment to internationalization through study abroad. In collaboration with Emory faculty, OISP develops, promotes, and administers programming for undergraduate students that encourages both intellectual and personal growth through challenging scholarship and cultural immersion. Its services support students and faculty before, during, and after the study abroad experience in order to ensure that study abroad is an essential part of an Emory College education.