SIT Jordan - Refugees, Health, and Humanitarian Action (Amman)

SIT Jordan website

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Advisor/Important notes: 

  • SIT programs offer students the opportunity to dive deep into a specific academic topic! These small (15-25 student) programs run on a fixed course model where all students are enrolled in the same courses. SIT highly values experiential learning and makes an effort to get you out of the classroom and into your host community as much as possible. A key component of these programs are the Internship or Independent Study Project that students complete during the last month of their global study semester.   

  • This program works well for Health Sciences majors, as well as students interested in Policy, International Affairs, NGOs, and humanitarian action. 
  • Gettysburg students have the opportunity to fulfill the entire Gettysburg Curricular language requirement through SIT Jordan in Arabic language in one semester.
  • There is an excursion to Switzerland included in this program, but students can not do their Independent Study Project there. 

Who to contact: 

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Program Highlights: 

  • Visit Syrian refugee camps, host communities, healthcare facilities and NGOs to learn about humanitarian interventions.
  • Visit NGOs and local CBOs to learn about risks to protection and well-being, and observe psychosocial and protection interventions to enhance the resilience of refugees displaced by regional conflict.
  • Travel to Geneva to learn from health and humanitarian policy experts.
  • Contrast protection, integration and protection policies in Jordan and Switzerland.