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Overview: OSEA Training Programs in Ethnography Spring Semester in "Heritage and Globalization" Study Abroad and Field Study 16 credits based on Seminar on Globalization and Heritage, Maya Anthropology (focus on Yucatan Society, Cultures, and History), Ethnography Field Methods, Spanish and/or Maya language coursee, and Student Designed-Indepdendent Field Research on Heritage Issues, involving, for example, community based cultural and language revitalization, language education and literacy, environmental policy and ecology management, and archaeological heritage in contexts of regional tourism development and economic globalization processes.
OSEA Study Abroad and Field Study, General Description Who Should Consider OSEA Programs? We are looking for highly motivated, creative, and flexible persons with a variety of skills, experience, training, and interest.Successful participants in OSEA Ethnographic Training Programs are persons who study or have significant experience in cultural anthropology, photography, video, visual anthropology, theatre arts, staging design, installation, invisible theatre, performance art, studio art, Maya cultures, México and Latin America, Indigenous peoples, history, ethnohistory, art history, epigraphy, archeology, cultural studies, writing, journalism, tourism, museum studies, ESL, multicultural education, critical pedagogy, anthropology of education and the anthropology of art. Our programs are appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students of all levels as well as persons who have just completed a degree and seek additional fieldwork experience and training before continuing on to a graduate degree program or to a professional position Training with OSEA provides you tools, understandings & methods on which you will continue to rely long into the future Our History OSEA and its antecedent organization, the Field School in Experimental Ethnography, have provided graduate and undergraduate students a unique learning experience since 1997. Through our programs we have and continue to provide students with an invaluable, on-site, hands-on interactive training in research methods and ethnographic fieldwork. Successful students have used their training and experience from OSEA and the Field School in Experimental Ethnography to go on to graduate programs at Stanford, Rice University, Michigan, the New School. Their experiences have helped them develop new or accelerated career paths in TESL, the anthropology of education, visual anthropology, and other fields. Click here to learn more about OSEA History, Student Success, and On-Going Research Endeavors OSEA Programs (2003-2006) Spring Writer’s Workshop (temporarily suspended, until 2010) The OSEA experience will make the difference in your life |