Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad (GPA) Program
The four-week Fulbright-Hays GPA program was held in South Africa in Summer 2025. The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program (GPA) is a national, federally funded program by the U.S. Department of Education, with support from California State University, Los Angeles. Participants used the resources, instruction, information, experiences, and environments they were exposed to during the program to produce the curriculum modules below. They developed assignments and classroom activities that incorporated Zulu language and culture, African Indigenous knowledge systems, and perspectives related to health, healing, and well-being.
The modules they created were designed to:
- Expand students’ knowledge of Zulu culture, African Indigenous knowledge systems, and approaches to health, healing, and well-being.
- Develop greater social and cultural awareness by exposing students to African-centered perspectives, practices, and ways of knowing.
- Help students examine issues of identity, community, resistance, health, and social well-being through materials and experiences grounded in South African culture.
Curriculum Modules
- Dr. Desmond Delk
Movement, Music, and Resistance: Perspectives from South Africa and the U.S. - Dr. Libby Lewis
Kusuka “Kungiyaphila” kuya “Kusiyaphila” Curriculum (From “I am well” to “We are well” Curriculum)
Re-cognizing African-Centered Epistemologies: Representation, Rupture, and Healing - Ms. Chantel Heard
Youth Rising: Spirit, Song, and Resistance
African-Centered Cultural Practices, Activism, and Holistic Healing in Youth-Focused Social Work - Dr. Matthew Simmons
Africana Political Models of Resistance and Healing Against Western Oppression - Dr. E. Nicole Vines
Reclaiming the Womb: Indigenous Knowledge, Medical Authority, and the Black Doula Birth Renaissance - Mr. Dion Vines
Through Our Lens: Diaspora, Resistance & Storytelling in the Global South - Dr. Kefentse Chike
The Psychology of African Americans - Ms. Aja Whitten
Indigenous African Healing Rites of Passage - Dr. Natalie Witherspoon
Isibongo: My Community, My Song - Dr. Patricia Nunley
Fulbright Hays Curriculum (Module title forthcoming) - Dr. Trina Gipson-Jones
Maternal Health as a Health Disparity Concern - Ms. Stephanie Wilson
Exploring Ubuntu as an African Worldview - Ms. Brenda Drew
An Ubuntu Perspective on Health & The Plus-Sized Black Body