Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad (GPA) Program
The four-week Fulbright-Hays GPA program was held in South Africa in the Summer 2023. The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program (GPA) is a national, federally-funded program by the U.S. Department of Education, with partial support from California State University, Los Angeles. Participants used the resources, instruction, information, experiences, and environments they were exposed to in the Zulu GPA program to produce the curriculum models below. They developed innovative assignments and in-class exercises that made use of indigenous cultural materials. The modules they created were designed to:
- Improve students’ knowledge of Zulu worldviews and African cultural perspectives.
- Develop social and cultural participation skills and awareness that will help students engage in effective cross-cultural and cross-ethnic interactions to be better citizens in a culturally plural world.
- Help students to apply the principles of liberation, freedom, and social justice to address issues of identity, power, and privilege and contribute to the advancement of local communities, nations, or the world.
Curriculum Modules
- Stefanie M. Blue, M.Ed.
How Ubuntu, Teamwork, Perseverance and Problem-Solving Empowered Students to Change the World: The Soweto Uprising - Deborah Anna Brown, C. Phil
African Knowledge Systems:
Performing Arts in South Africa During Apartheid and Beyond - Cynthia Cupprill Comas, M.A.
Art 1 Ethnic Studies: The Envisioned Self - Wesley Cox, M.A.
African American Studies 5: 1865-Present - Esmeralda Xochitl Flores, M.A.
Ukukhala Kusasa? Cha! Ubuntu – Yebo! - Yuanyuan Li, Ph.D.
Embedding Zulu Culture into International Business Curriculum - Differences in National Culture Module
Course Name: BUS 4150 Contemporary Issues in Global Business - Jenell Marshall, M.A.
Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are - Humanity Towards Others
Lesson Plan 9th Grade - Staci Nomandila Mitchell, M.A.
Zulu GPA Course Module - Mary Roaf, Ph.D.
-Amandla! Awethu! “The Power is Ours” The Liberation Struggle to End Apartheid
-Cry Freedom”: Apartheid in South Africa
-Pre-Colonial South Africa: The Ancestors who Paved the Way
-Intro to Black Studies, California State University, Stanislaus Ethnic Studies Department - Lori Stubben, M.A.
Taking Care of Ourselves, Each Other, and the Earth
Three cultures great ideas we can use in our class and our lives - Cassandra Tesch, M.Ed.
Course:/Unit The Purpose of Schooling Youth Voice, Protest and Educational Change -
James M. Thomas, DPPD
Course Module: Zulu Language, Culture, and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa