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The Center for Latin American Studies offers the following Summer
Study Abroad and Language Immersion programs.
2008 Summer Ethnographic Field Methods - Anth 520
Application Proceedures
- Two letters of recommendation that attest to your knowledge of
anthropology and ability to be successful in an intensive fieldschool
- A current curriculum vitae
- If you are not a SDSU student, a copy of your transcripts.
Application Deadline:
March 31, 2008
2008 Summer Intensive Mixtec Language Program
-- 2008 Mixtec Flyer
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2008 Mixtec Application --
Where: Oaxaca City, Oaxaca Mexico
When: June 16 - July 24, 2008
Application Deadline:
March 31, 2008
Mixtec is an indigenous language of Mexico spoken by people living
in the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Puebla, many of whom have
migrated and established communities throughout northern Mexico
and the United States. This intensive program is taught by native
Mixtec speakers and linguists, Juan Julian Caballero of the Centro
de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología
Social (CIESAS) and Marcos Cruz Bautista from Mexico's Universidad
Pedagógica Nacional from the campus at Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca (UPN).
Both Profesores Caballero and Bautista received training in ethnolinguistics
and second language acquisition pedagogy from Mexico's Universidad
Pedagógica Nacional (UPN) and CIESAS. The course includes
four hours of classroom instruction, four days per week, and a minimum
of two weekend field trips into the Mixteca. Local and visiting
scholars whose research focuses on Mixtec culture and history conduct
seminars each week. Additional fieldtrips to market centers, archaeological
sites, elementary and secondary schools, and other such locations
where the language and culture can be experienced within the broader
Oaxacan environment are also worked into the weekly schedule. Dr.
Ramona Pérez, a Oaxacan scholar from the Department of Anthropology
at SDSU coordinates the program in San Diego and Oaxaca.
One of the critical issues of Mixtec is the extreme variation that
occurs within the language family. The Summer Intensive Language
Program is focused on acquiring sufficient linguistic skills to
communicate within the dialect taught in the classroom as well as
establishing a foundation for understanding dialectic differences
that one will encounter as they move among Mixtec speakers. The
program is also designed to provide students with a deeper understanding
of the interface between Mixtec culture and the broader mestizo
culture of Oaxaca, grassroots movements to preserve Mixtec culture
both within Oaxaca and among Mixtec communities in the US, and other
such topics that will provide a foundation for understanding Mixtec
language and culture.
These courses are open to undergraduates, graduates, professors
and independent scholars.
The program is five hours per day, four days per week of intense
classroom instruction over a six week period (120 hours). We have
two weekends in the Mixteca planned in the communities of San Juan
Mixtepec and San Francisco Nieves. In both communities the students
will be working in pairs or threes to administer a public health
survey on quality of life issues in the Mixtec language - under
the supervision of their professors. This is an opportunity to work
on their language use while also learning how to administer survey
data. We have on-going relationships in both communities and so
they are accustomed to working with our students in practicing their
Mixtec language skills. We are also fortunate this year to have
a special invitation to a regional meeting in Tlacatlaya of Mixtec
alcaldes to discuss language and cultural preservation, all of which
will be conducted in Mixteco as well as another invitation by one
of our former students who is conducting her dissertation fieldwork
in a Mixtec community further up in the Mixteca. Thus our students
will far exceed the 140 contact hours of language instruction.
In addition to language instruction, we have weekly Oaxacan scholars
who specialize in issues of the Mixteca present their work in two
hour workshops. Although most of these lectures are conducted in
Spanish they focus on the Mixtec both in Oaxaca and in the United
States. We are confident that our program more than exceeds the
requirements of the FLAS and find that most of our students walk
away from the program with not only language skills but a deep and
profound understanding of the Mixtec culture.
In addition to the normal program students who have participated
in the Mixteco program in the past will be able to start ten days
earlier so that they may gain additional experience working in the
mixteco communities. These students can earn one additional credit.
This program meets the US Department of Education guidelines for
Foreign Language and
Area Studies (FLAS) summer intensive language fellowships. Applications
for this program may be obtained through the Center for Latin American
Studies, San Diego State University. Please phone, email, or write
to request application materials. This program is limited to 25
students. Early applications will be given priority.
For more information or an application, please contact:
Gabriela Kovats, Summer Study Abroad Programs Coordinator
(619) 594-1103
lasga@rohan.sdsu.edu
or
Dr. Ramona Pérez
Arts & Letters 377
619-594-1155
perez@mail.sdsu.edu
2008 Zapotec Language Program in Oaxaca
-- 2008 Zapotec
Flyer --
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2008 Zapotec Application --
Where: Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico through San Diego State University.
When: July 7 - August 15 , 2008
Application Deadline:
March 31, 2008
Description: Zapotec is one of the most widely spoken indigenous
languages of Oaxaca, Mexico with some speakers of Isthmus Zapotec
in Chiapas and Veracruz. This intensive program is taught by native
Isthmus Zapotec speakers and linguists through the Casa de La Cultura
in Juchitán. The course, taught in Spanish, includes five
hours of classroom instruction, four to five days per week, over
a six week period with workshops and fieldtrips to market centers,
elementary and secondary schools, hospitals, and other community-based
centers of social interaction. Participants will experience a full
immersion in Zapotec culture and language through homestays with
Zapotec speaking families. Juchitán is located in the Isthmus
of Tehuantepec and is a coastal marketing center located between
Oaxaca City and the state of Chiapas, allowing students to easily
travel to both areas. Dr. Eda Saynes-Vazquez, Directora of Colegio
Superior para la Educación Integral Intercultural de Oaxaca
coordinates the program in Oaxaca along with Dr. Ramona Pérez,
a Oaxacan scholar from the Department of Anthropology at SDSU.
Cost: TBA (Does not include transportation or room and board).
This program meets the US Department of Education guidelines for
Foreign Language and
Area Studies (FLAS) summer intensive language fellowships. Applications
for this program may be obtained through the Center for Latin American
Studies, San Diego State University. Please phone, email, or write
to request application materials. This program is limited to 25
students. Early applications will be given priority.
FLAS Information meeting
Wednesday, January 31, 2008, 3:30pm
Arts and Letters 204
For more information or an application, please contact:
Gabriela Kovats, Summer Study Abroad Programs Coordinator
(619) 594-1103
lasga@rohan.sdsu.edu
or
Dr. Ramona Pérez
Arts & Letters 377
619-594-1155
perez@mail.sdsu.edu
2008 Summer Program in Cartago, Costa Rica
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2008 Costa Rica Application --
Where: Cartago, Costa Rica
When: May 24- June 22, 2008
Application Deadline:
March 31, 2008
Learn Spanish while living with a Costa Rican family in Cartago,
the old colonial capital of Costa Rica. Earn up to 4 units of Spanish
taught by native Spanish speaking instructors from an accredited
university, and 3 upper division units in Latin American Studies,
or Business Administration in 5 weeks. Business internships offered.
Enjoy exciting field trips, excursions, and cultural events. And,
of course, you would enjoy Latin music and dance, and great food.
Field trips include Carrara and Manuel Antonio National Parks in
the Pacific coast, Arenal Volcano National Park and Monteverde Cloud
Forest, Cahuita National Park and Puerto Viejo, in the Caribbean
coast. Optional fieldtrips include Rafting trip to the Pacuare River,
and excursions to the Irazu Volcano and Orosi Valley.
Cost:
The cost for the 4 week program is approximately $2,000.
The package includes housing with a Costa Rican family (2 meals
per day), Spanish courses, transportation from the airport to the
city and back, and 3 fieldtrips. The cost does not include airfare
to and from Costa Rica, SDSU registration fees (if applicable),
insurance, fieldtrip meals, and optional trips.
For more information or an application please contact:
Hugo Murillo
Arts & Letters 511
(619) 594-3761
murill2@mail.sdsu.edu
Gabriela Kovats, Summer Study Abroad Programs Coordinator
(619) 594-1103
lasga@rohan.sdsu.edu
Costa Rica 2006 Photo Slide Show
Costa Rica 2003 Photo Gallery
For More Information on Any of These Programs Please Contact:
Center for Latin American Studies
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-6038
Phone: (619) 594-1103.
Email: lasga@rohan.sdsu.edu
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