The course will be delivered from Monday—Thursday for Two (2) weeks on a Face-to-Face basis. On Fridays, all students shall be taken to different Historical, cultural and geographical sites in and around Kampala. These field visits will be composed of a range of ‘activities’ relating to their academic content (e.g., a national museum visit, visiting the source of the River Nile, women conservation projects, Uganda Wildlife Authority, National Environment Authority, Uganda Tourism Board, Uganda wildlife education centre.

In the 3^rd week, students will go to the field to translate theory into practice. The areas to be covered will include: Ziwa Rhino and Wildlife Ranch(https://ziwarhinoandwildliferanch.com), Murchison Falls National Park together is the most powerful waterfalls in the whole world and the surrounding communities (https://ugandawildlife.org/national-parks/murchison-falls-national-park/) and the Albertine oil region in North Western Uganda. Students will interact with communities around Lake Albert Fishing Sites, and interact with communities surrounding the park and their co-existence with wildlife.  There will also be a day to visit Budongo Set in northwestern Uganda, Budongo forest features among a few of Africa’s spectacular tropical rain forests. It is one of the largest mahogany forest reserves which still thrive in Africa. It extends up to 825 square kilometers and it is remarkably one of Uganda’s few natural forests. For birders, there are more than 360 bird species to identify in this forest reserve. They include the dusky long-tailed cuckoo, yellow browned camaroptera, black-headed paradise flycatcher, Puval’s illadopsis, chocolate backed kingfishers, chestnut crowned eremomera, slender-billed greenbul, white spotted fluff tail, Cassin’s hawk eagle, little green sunbird, yellow manted weaver, crested Malimbe, lemon bellied crombec, forest robins and others. Click for details