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There are two ways you can obtain academic credit from the OSEA Programs.
· Participants can transfer
OSEA Credits to their Home University or
· Participants can receive OSEA
Credits directly on their home university transcript through what is often called Concurrent Enrollment or Direct Credit
Direct Credit through Concurrent Enrollment
Concurrent Enrollment is possible through an agreement reached betweetn OSEA and your home institution through the support of the anthropology department at your school. This arrangement must be made in advance of the program start date. Typically the process to make this happen is initiated any time from the fall prior to the summer program up to the last month of the spring semester.
Please follow this link for more details in setting this up prior to program start date.
OSEA Partnership with Universidad Intercultural Cultural de Quintana Roo
OSEA was founded in 2003. For twelve years, OSEA has proudly partnered with the Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas (FCA) of the Universidad
Autónoma de Yucatán (UAdY) for the university course Accreditation of all OSEA coursework and programs.
Beginning in 2016 OSEA has initiated a new partnership with the Universidad Intercultural Cultural de Quintana Roo (UIMQRoo). This partnership provides for the accreditation of all OSEA coursework and programs. OSEA participants receive a transcript from the UIMQRoo that is used to transfer credits to their home institution.
University Accreditation of OSEA Course Credits
The UIMQRoo is a unviersity established by federal government initiatives to provide higher education to Indigenous peoples of Mexico. It is a fully accredited and internationally respected university whose students are primarily non-traditional Maya students from the southern, Cruzob, region of Quintana Roo. The university is based in José María Morelos, Quintana Roo.
In addition, this partnership provides an important new opportunity of learning. Select UIMQRoo students are fully funded by OSEA to participate in a four week ethnography training program along side the US and other international students. This unique situation opens up not only academic learning experience but intercultural exchange and growth for both Maya UIMQRoo students and the traditional OSEA participants.
Transferring OSEA Credit
OSEA courses are accredited by the UIMQRoo which provides each student
with an official transcript. The UIMQRoo is recognized throughout the
US by universities and colleges, which facilitates transfer of your OSEA/UIMQRoo credits. You also receive an official OSEA transcript with its seal. Your transcript is mailed in an officially sealed envelope that must be delivered unopened directly to your university registrar and official administrator in charge of international credit transfering.
Upon completion of an OSEA program, you receive a package that contains one set of official transcripts -- one OSEA and one UIMQRoo. These are your copies to keep. You also receive in this package an signed and sealed envelope that contains a second set of identical, official transcripts. Although this envelope is addressed to you, do not open it but deliver it to your registrar unopened to your university registrar (typically the person responsible for validating and accepting transfer credits).
OSEA credits are based on contact hours in seminar contexts, experiential learning hours during structured non-classroom learning (e.g., field trips), and fieldwork research or field practicum activities. Please review the OSEA credit equivalency chart for details and feel free to share this information with your academic advisors.
Remember, OSEA’s advisors are alwayshappy to advise on the proper transfer of the credits you will earn abroad.
 OSEA Credit Equivalency chart
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