OSEA Ethnographic Methods Field School / Heritage Ethnography, Visual Ethnography / Summer Study Abroad / Community Tourism Sustainable Tourism Field Studies / International Service Learning in Yucatan. Maya Culture and Tourism Development / Open School of Ethnography and AnthropologyOSEA Schedule of Fees OSEA Summer Field Study Abroad Programs in Interdisciplinary Cultural Anthropology . TESL, Teaching English Service Learning, Ethnography of Archaeology, Heritge Ethnography, Tourism Studies, Intensive Maya Language Immersion, Learn Maya, teaching Maya as a second language acquisition, Mexico. Quetzil Castaneda is the founding director of OSEA the Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology. Specialist in Maya language, archaeological tourism and heritage, ethnographic methods, experimental ethnography and experimental fieldwork.
Online Applications Please note that this system does not support "save and resume (later)". You must complete the entire application at one sitting.
Please review the information that you will be required to submit on the online application form. Prepare your narrative answers in advance so that you can quickly cut and paste into the form field.
OSEA Online Forms
SELECT EITHER "Ethnography" or "Maya" Enrollment Form below
A: Ethnography Enrollment Form Applicants for all Ethnography Programs (not Maya), including applicants for Chichén Internships and Work Study submit this form.
AND COMPLETE Supplementary Forms below
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1. Homestay Form
— All applicants for Maya and Ethnography. We use this form to learn about your personal needs, health concerns, and other special circumstances in order to assign you with the most appropriate homestay family or other type of lodging and meals.
2. Spanish Self Assessment
— All applicants for Maya and Ethnography. Native or fluent Heritage Speakers must also complete this form, but are exempt from the Spanish evaluation.
3. Spanish Instructor Evaluation
— Non-Native, non-Heritage speakers of Spanish must find an appropriate Spanish language instructor to complete this form.
5. Send unofficial transcripts by email attachment to quetzil@osea-cite.org
6. FLAS Eligibility Form — Only applicants to Maya Immersion must submit a FLAS Eligibility Form. Download the FLAS pdf form here.
Email this form to the osea director by deadline.
7. Application Fee —
All applicants must submit a non-refundable application fee by Zelle or Venmo by application deadline to receive a timely review of enrollment materials.
Unofficial Transcripts. An enrollment form is not complete without submission of transcripts. Enrollment in Spanish is the exception that does require transcripts to be submitted. You may have transcripts sent directly to OSEA by your university or you may send unofficial yet current copies in your possession.
Hardcopy of transcripts should be sent by you or your university to 2244 Martha Street, Bloomington IN 47408. Electronic file transcripts can be sent to quetzil@osea-cite.org as an email attachment
⇒ Online transcript submission is no longer a current option
Letter of Recommendation Form. All applicants must submit a Letter of Recommendation as part of their enrollment in an OSEA program. We ask that you find letter writers who can address these three areas of assessment:
(1). Academic-Intellectual abilities and performance;
(2). Experience in or potential to adapt to study abroad or other off-campus activities cross-cultural immersion contexts;
(3). Personal character.
Spanish Proficiency Forms
Applicants to Ethnography programs are required to submit the Self-Assessment Spanish Proficiency Form and a third-party (e.g., instructor) Spanish Evaluation or a letter of recommendation about the applicant's level of Spanish and suggested target areas to prioritize in learning.
Applicants to Maya language programs are required to submit the Self-Assessment Spanish Proficiency Form and a third party Spanish Evaluation Form or a letter of recommendation about the applicant's level of Spanish and suggested target areas to prioritize in learning.
Native or Heritage Speakers of Spanish
Fluent speakers of Spanish, whether based on being a native-1st language or a heritage speaker of Spanish, indicate this on the Spanish Self-Assessment Form and do not complete the Spanish Evaluation Form.
Online Application Short Essay Questions
for Ethnography Field School, including Internships
OSEA is interested to know about your unique individual skills, experiences, strengths and weaknesses. The questions below help us to better understand who you are and how you will fit into the program of cultural immersion, language learning, and field research. It makes little difference whether you have extensive or no experience traveling abroad, or whether you have skills that derive from non-academic employment or not. OSEA welcomes a diversity of applicants and accepts students with a WIDE range of life experiences, skills and motivations. We benefit from knowing about your unique attributes in order to create a learning, training, and personal experience that is more attuned to your individual needs and life histories.
The questions below are intended as a means for you to help us create a more vibrant and relevant program. Please address the questions below to the extent that you wish.
Short Narrative Answer, Max. 500 Words. Why do you want to participate in OSEA's programs? In your answer you may find it useful to address your interest in the subject matter of the OSEA programs and how your participation in OSEA will contribute to the realization of your own long-or short-term educational, career and/or personal goals and development.
Max. 250 Words: Describe your participation in any collaborative projects that may have involved research, teaching, or community involvement. If you have participated in such activities, we are interested to know such things as: What did you do? What roles did you assume and why? What did you get out of your participation? What did you contribute to the project? How do you work with others?
Max. 200 Words: Describe any experiences you have had living or traveling outside of the USA or any other cross-cultural experiences and personal history that may help to enrich your participation in and contribution to the OSEA Program.
Max. 200 Words: If you find it relevant, please describe those aspects of your work history or background that may have provided you with technical or other skills, tools, aptitudes, and or personal qualities that will contribute to a more rewarding participation in the OSEA Program.
Troubleshooting Application Problems
If you have any questions or difficulties with this system please contact us as soon as possible by email at quetzil@osea-cite.org. If you have an urgent concern you may also reach us by phone at 812.327.5845. Thank you for your interest in OSEA!
