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In front of U. Ghana main administrative building.  Left to right:  Prof. Leslie Steeves, Ryan Coussens, Katie Gleason,Yuki Tanaka, Brittney Bent, Joe Holmes, Marta Drzymala, Kai-Huei Yau, Christina Diss, Jessica Pinso Tan, and doctoral student Twange Kasoma.

The five-week summer program, directed by Professor Leslie Steeves, brings SOJC students to Ghana to learn about the country's mass media, as well as its history, culture and development challenges.  The program began with a required weekly orientation program in spring of 2005.  In Ghana, students experienced three days of on-site orientation meetings and lectures on Ghanian media, followed by full-time internship placements with Ghanaian Media including: The Daily Graphic, the government newspaper; three private newspapers (Accra Daily Mail, The Chronicle, The Statesman); two private FM radio stations (Peace FM, Choice FM), two advertising agencies (Lintas Advertising, Origin 8); The Ghana Social Marketing Foundation, which carries out HIV/AIDS and family planning educational campaigns; and the public relations department of The Social Security and National Insurance Trust. 

Read junior Kai Yau's column on the markets in Accra, originally published in the Accra Daily Mail

Read more about the Ghana program at jcomm.uoregon.edu/ghana