Tanzania: the country ... travels

Field sites: Northern Tanzania

In the city: Dar es Salaam ... the University

Living arrangements

Links ... maps ... photo album

Program timeline and course listing

Courses: Kiswahili ... Human Evolution ... Ecology of the Maasai Ecosystem ... Methods course and Field project

Academic info: eligibility ... credit and grades ... faculty ... costs ... how to apply

Contacts: campus program advisors... ACM office

Tanzania is at once rich and poor, exhilarating and exasperating, traditional and dynamic.

The University of Dar es Salaam, in the capital city, boasts scholars and professors with international reputations. Tanzania’s National Parks are among the most fascinating in Africa. The paleoanthropological research at Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli continues to rewrite the history of humankind.

A suburb of Dar es Salaam. (Photo courtesy of Katie Adelsberger)

Left: On the last day of field season, students from the Serengeti and Endulen camps reunite, along with all their gear. (Photo courtesy of Stacia Falat)

Tanzania is not an easy place for Western visitors accustomed to daily showers, air conditioning and a varied diet. But the ACM Tanzania Program offers adaptable undergraduates the exciting and extraordinary opportunity to observe and conduct field work in some of the world’s greatest paleoanthropological and ecological sites.

Below: Sunset on the Serengeti Plain. (Photo courtesy of Rachel Sandler)