Ethnography Field School, 7 weeks, 8 credits.
Students learn to do ethnography on research topics such as heritage politics, Maya identity, globally connected youth culture, sustainable community development, tourism, Maya culture and traditions, NGO politics, sexualities and gender in transcultural contexts, New Age spiritualities. www.osea-cite.org/program/heritage.php

Maya Health and Healing, 4 weeks 6 credits
Intensive short course on the medical anthropology of the Maya traditions of health and healing. Students identify Maya healers with whom they do four weeks of “shadowing” or apprentice like service learning with persons such as midwifes, bone-setters, Maya massage, spiritualists, herbalists, and other specialists of non-invasive surgery. In addition opportunities to work with allopathic doctors that operate private, government or religious clinics in rural contexts of México. Ideal program for Pre-Med undergraduates to experience alternative forms of medical practices and to learn first-hand principles of social medicine. http://www.osea-cite.org/program/health-healing_overview.php

Teaching English Community Action Research
Participants in this program become English teachers and Ethnographers: English courses are offered for free as a community action research project that allows participants to gain on-site service learning experience in teaching English. Participants a are trained to teach English to Maya children and adults in the community using performative, conversational and interactive methods and are trained in visual documentary methodologies in order to do ethnographic research in the ESL classroom. http://www.osea-cite.org/program/selt_overview.php

OSEA also offers
7-Day Intensive Spanish Courses
Maya Language Immersion

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