Courses focusing on heritage studies may equip students with a broad understanding of how cultures impact the present. Programs provide students with the knowledge and skills to research and apply cultural findings to locations, politics, literature and art.

Many programs in Africa take place in a very unusual cultural and physical environment than most students are familiar with in the good old days. Come To Know to adapt to this living conditions is part of fun and the challenge of living there. The challenge is intellectual, emotional and physical.