Courses are offered in selected areas of the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Strasbourg is the administrative, economic and cultural capital of the province of Alsace, with a rich cultural history. This is a comprehensive program, with tuition, housing, meals, and airfare allowance included in Haverford's tuition, room, and board fees. This is a recently established program of the African Studies Consortium which gives French majors and French-speaking students the opportuniity to work in African studies and development studies. This is one of the few college-level study programs for U.S. students anywhere in Africa.
Courses range over African history, society, politics, religion, arts, and literature.
Students can live in homestays with Senegalese families during presession, and in dormitory room in the village universitaire with Senegalese roommates during regular courses. Meals are taken in the cafeteria, but many inexpensive restaurants are open in town. Students must have at least three years of college-level French, and one previous African areas studies course. Students pay Haverford tuition, but they are responsible for their room and board. An allowance for airfare will be deducted from the tuition.