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Specific Program Resources
Learning Abroad Center Program Forms and Resources
Budget Estimate: Breakdown of program fee for financial aid purposes, plus estimates of additional expenses. (pdf)
Senegal Program Guide (pdf)
Institutions that have sent students on MSID programs
Related to Senegal
Stanford University Library: Annotated links to web sites on Senegal. Part of a larger African site.
African Studies Internet Resources: Gateway site with a wealth of links to other web resources on Africa. Maintained by Columbia University’s African Studies Program. For Senegal, click on African Studies Resources by Region and Country, then West Africa, Countries, and Senegal.
BUBL Link: Dewey-decimal-based catalog of Internet resources on Senegal. Part of a larger site maintained by Scotland’s University of Strathclyde.
ENDA-TM: Homepage of an important Dakar-based NGO with branch offices in many other countries. Excellent worldwide links to other sources on development.
AllAfrica.Com: Senegal page of a larger African on-line news site based in Mauritius.
Senegal On-line: A wealth of information on Senegal, plus links to other sites.
Senegal Government: Official home page of the Republic of Senegal; also has government daily paper, Le Soliel.
Pan African News Agency: Includes links to West African and Senegalese news specifically.
Sud Quotidien: Senegalese daily newspaper.
Senegal Post: Compendium of Senegal news and listing of other sites for Senegal information; in English.
Université Cheikh Ante Diop: Homepage of Senegal’s leading university. Includes many links to other Senegalese sites.
Structural adjustment: IMF/World Bank link to Policy Framework Papers on Senegal; includes recent economic data and Senegalese government’s structural adjustment plan for IMF.
Ethnologue: A Summer Institute of Linguistics guide languages in Senegal, including their linguistic classification, number of speakers, and areas where spoken.
Wolof dictionary: Gateway site to dictionaries of many languages, including Wolof.
General Web Resources
Current Events Abroad
Country Reports. Country information from around the world. Regularly updated information and maps, including lots of statistics.
OneWorld.net. A British site with links to current news from and above the "two-thirds world."
Health & Safety
Centers for Disease Control. Travel and prophylactic health information by country.
Travel Health Online. Another good travel health site.
List of Doctors/Hospitals Abroad. US Department of State list of doctors and hospitals abroad.
Health Information by Country. Information distributed by the World Health Organization.
SAFETI/Peace Corps. Peace Corps materials adapted to study abroad.
US State Department Travel Information. Travel Advisories and Consular Information Sheets for US citizens traveling abroad.
Additional safety monitoring sites. Include links to British, Canadian, and Australian counterparts to the State Department site.
U.S. Embassies. Websites of US Embassies, Consulates, and Diplomatic Missions abroad.
Experiences Abroad
Gender Abroad. Northwestern University site providing web links and bibliography of print pieces on gender issues in study abroad.
Multicultural Students Abroad. Learning Abroad Center page designed for multicultural students studying abroad.
GLBT Students and Study Abroad. Indiana University site containing travel/study abroad information and links for GLBT students.
Mobility International USA. For international travelers with disabilities.
Access Abroad. Learning Abroad Center page designed for students with disabilities.
Foreign Currency
Foreign Currency Converter. Permits you to check on exchange rates between currencies of any pair of countries.
VISA ATM Locator and MasterCard ATM Locator. From the VISA and MasterCard websites.
Communication Abroad
Country Codes. Gives country codes and explains how to dial out of one country to another.
Cybercafes Abroad. Easy-to-use search engine for cybercafes.
Time Zones. Allows you to convert time in one country to time in another (helpful when calling home!).
Web Translator. Translates blocks of text and webpages in English, simplified or traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Translating Dictionaries. Offers basic phrases in multiple languages, including less-commonly taught languages (such as Amharic and Basque).
Global Climate
World Climate. Climatic data on thousands of cities throughout the world.
By City/Country. Covers most cities in each country, and lists current and near future conditions.
Through BBC. 5-day forecasts, excellent for European weather conditions.
International Development
Eldis Gateway to Development Information. British/Scandinavian gateway site to a wide variety of information about development, including 15,000 online documents and 4,500 organizations.
Praxis: Resources for Social and Economic Development. Another gateway site to lots of development resources, this one maintained by a University of Pennsylvania professor.
Last modified on May 20, 2008 |