International Programs

Harding in Zambia (HIZ)

HIZ is conducted every Fall. 

As Harding University prepares to open their newest program, you might be wondering what makes this program different from all the others. The goal of this program is to help the students understand the missionary needs of Africa through experiencing Zambia first hand. While in Zambia, students will live in a compound that holds the George Benson Teacher’s College as well as an elementary and high school, a medical clinic, an orphanage and a “haven” for infants and toddlers that have lost their mothers to AIDS.

The classes offered in this program directly relate to the world the students have entered into. For this program only, the required classes Humanities 201 and 207 will be treated as one course. This course will include Tonga lessons, African History, Anthropology, African Literature, and several guest lecturers including a converted witch doctor and a walk through the woods with a traditional herbalist. Other classes to be offered will be specific to the healthcare and education majors.

Classes will be held in the morning each day. In the afternoon, students will be divided into their applicable majors and taken to the appropriate places in the compound. There they will be directly applying what they learned in class that morning to the part of the compound they are working in. Students will also have the unique opportunity to stay with Zambia natives in their homes. Part of the program will involve students splitting up into host families and staying with their “family” for a weekend.

During the last two weeks of the program, students will be taken on a tour of East Africa. Students will get the opportunity to go on a safari, tour Victoria Falls and Lake Victoria, travel through Kenya, and stop at mission points all along the way.

HIZ photos

2008 fall

Note: Due to the nature of this program, students must go through a screening process before they are accepted to HIZ.