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Heritage & Tourism Management Internships
Summer Ethnography Field School / Field Study Abroad
Winter Break Study Abroad
Internships at Chichén Itzá: Heritage & Tourism Management
OSEA is partnering with Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) to offer students exciting opportunity to work as an intern at Chichen Itza. This is an ideal internship for anyone wanting to have direct hands-on, guided learning experience in heritage and tourism management and practical operations of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Interns work for 20 hours a week directly with INAH supervisors in areas such as the Chichen Archaeology Lab, the Chichen Museum, Community Outreach and Education Program, Tourism Resource Management.
This is a pioneering new initiative for OSEA. Students can do the internship program in either the Four Week or Six Week Ethnography Field School.
Learn more about OSEA Internships at Chichén Itzá
Summer Field Study Abroad, aka Ethnography Field School
Participants learn to design, conduct, and complete their own interdisciplinary ethnography project in a Maya community that combines global cultural networking with face-to-face community interaction and lifestyle.
Participants in the Ethnography Programs learn to design and conduct their own research projects on topics they choose. These projects are ideal for students to use as the basis of their undergrad BA thesis or "cornerstone" projects Past participants have done resarch in areas such as:
⇒ Tourism Ethnography, Food, Performance, Sustainable Community Development
⇒ Emergent Forms of Maya Cultures: Sexualities, Sociality, Subjectivities, Ritual
⇒ Health, Healing, Curing, Belief, Medical Pluralism, Identity
Winter Program: Independent Study and Guided Study Abroad Course
OSEA offers a unique international immersion course in the month of January. This course is designed for students who seek an international field study abroad program during the winter break between semesters. There is no set curriculum or activities: Each program is individually tailored to meet each student's needs and interessts with specific kinds of hands-on learning experiences and activities both in and out of the classroom. We offer students a structure of experience in Maya communities throughout the Yucatan Peninsula with on-site guidance and supervision for students to develop their own research projects and achieve their learning objectives.
Dates can vary starting as early as late December to end of January. Contact the OSEA Director Quetzil Castañeda to initiate conversations on how we can provide a flexible, guided learning structure for your independent field study abroad
More about Winter Break Intensive Immersion Courses
Read about student experiences, comments, and program evaluations
Participants learn how to conduct specific types of ethnographic research projects focused on specific topics and issues defined in the context of ongoing research. Participants select their areas of interest and focus, then design specific projects accordingly. The core seminar provides historical and ethnographic contexts on the research issues and problems that are investigated. The ethnographic field methods and practicum course is a series of workshops in which participants are trained in the methods and then conduct their own research. There is a student conference in which the participants present their research achievements and results.
OSEA Ethnography and Maya Coursework is Accredited through our Mexican University Partner, the UIMQRoo — Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo
Early Decision Deadline is Jan 20. All Enrollment Materials must be received by deadline receive the $200 tuition reduction, including Registration Deposit of $300 (tuition reduction is applied on final billing, due May 10)
OSEA Ethnography Field School Coursework is Accredited through a Partnership with the Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo UIMQRoo. The UIMQRoo provides OSEA ethnography undergraduate participants with a fully accredited UIMQRoo transcript.
Read more about UIMQRoo and OSEA Partnership.
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