Independent study project
ACM program faculty or University faculty - 4 credits
Each student plans and completes an independent study project under the direction of the ACM program faculty or a member of the University faculty. Projects are expected to emphasize interviews and field observation. Students prepare written reports and make an oral presentation to the group. Students are encouraged to formulate projects to fit their individual interests.
Independent Study Projects
- Identifying the Challenges to Sovereignty in Botswana
- Bringing HIV/AIDS Care Home: Investigating the Value and Impact of Community Home-Based Care in Botswana
- Setswana Hip-Hop: Lekwalo la me go Motswako (My Letter to Motswako)
- Naming Their Realities: The Important Struggle of Women in the Developing World A Case Study—Emang Basadi Women’s Association
- Social Capital as Collateral, Control, or Corollary for Women’s Finance House Botswana and the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency: A Comparative Study
- Privatizing the Commons: Innovative Approaches to Renovating the Park System in Gaborone, Botswana
- Beyond States or Markets: Government intervention in Botswana's Development
- Zimbabweans in Botswana: A Study of Legal and Illegal Immigration
- The Newfound Violence Towards Women
- Changing Architecture in Botswana
- Social Movement Theory and the Removal of the Basarwa
- In Search of a Culture Not Your Own: The Achievements and Setbacks of Public History in Gaborone, Botswana
- Attitudes Towards Homosexuality In Botswana: The Paradox Of Western Imposition
- Women Members of Parliament in Botswana
- Towards Vision 2016: Assessing the Impact of the Government PMTCT Program on Infant Survival in Botswana
- Innocent Victims of a Non-Discriminatory Disease: An Evaluative Case Study of Tlamelo Trust Orphan Center
- Shopping, Consumption and Personal Identity in Gaborone
- Weaving, Learning, and Sticking Around: An Exploration of Project Longevity and Co-operative Challenge with the Oodi Weavers
- Urbanization and Mental Health in Botswana: Analysis of Mental Health Care
- Qualitative Study of HIV/AIDS-related Stigma: Attitudes and Perspectives in Botswana
- An Evaluation of Botswana's Monthly Allowance for University of Botswana Students
- Basadi at Work: Narratives of Professional Women in Gaborone, Botswana
- Starting from the Streets: Football and Gender Identity Among University of Botswana Males
- Preservation of Tswana Music and Dance: Concepts of Identity
- Who's Taking Care of Baby? Young Mothers' Attitudes Toward Legal Child Custody
- Assessing the effects of fluctuation in Pula exchange rates on the possibility of Dutch Disease in Botswana
- Evaluating the Utilitzation of Microcredit Opportunities: A Study of Street Food in Botswana
- Globalization of Higher Education: A Case Study of Zimbabwean Students at the University of Botswana
- An Analysis of Anti-HIV/AIDS Campaigns in Uganda and Botswana: Why What Works For One Does Not Work For Another
- Cultural Imperialism through Children's Media in Botswana
- The Price of Being Female: The Link Between Colonialism and Gender Inequality in Botswana