Summer 2025 Ethnographic Field School in Belize

[Douglas Hume]

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Summer 2025 Ethnographic Field School in Belize

Online Ethnographic Boot Camp: June 2-8, 2025

Ethnographic Fieldwork in Orange Walk District, Belize: June 9-July 1, 2025

Community-based research coupled with ethnographic methods training in Belize, an English-speaking country in Central America!

• Participate in a pre-departure online ethnographic field methods workshop!
• Experience Belizean culture for three weeks doing ethnography!
• Earn four credit hours of undergraduate or graduate level anthropology coursework–the tuition is waived!
• Be a part of a community-based research project on the impact of agricultural development on sugar cane farming families in northern Belize!
• Develop skills in ethnographic methods of data collection!
• Be part of the writing of a published ethnographic field report!
• Present at local, regional, and international conferences!

In addition to conducting community-based research, students will visit Maya ruins and explore Belize’s flora and fauna!

• Base Program Price: $3,700-4,100 - (price will be determined by application deadline - includes ground transportation, accommodations, breakfast, dinner, and excursions – lunches and personal expenses are only other costs of participation)
• Group Travel Price: $800-1,100 - (estimated price round trip air transportation)
• Tuition: Waived! Optional transfer credit to another institution, $100.00 transcript fee (check with your institutional transfer fees, if any).
• Early Application Deadline: February 17, 2025 - Space is limited, it is best to apply well ahead of the deadline!
• Application Deposit (to secure your placement): $200.00 (goes towards Program Price)
• Online Orientation Meeting: 4-6 PM May 5, 2025
• Online Ethnographic Boot Camp: June 2-8, 2025
• Ethnographic Fieldwork in Orange Walk District, Belize: June 9-July 1, 2025
• Final Written Assignments Due: July 6, 2025
• Credit: 4 hours (undergraduate or graduate)
• Cooperative Center for Study Abroad: Scholarships

For more information, including sample syllabus, schedule, and packing list as well as scholarships and fundraising techniques, visit: https://www.nku.edu/academics/artsci/about/centers/cfaa/ethnographic-field-school.html

If you are interested in more information or to be included in updates on scholarship opportunities, application deadlines, and events related to the field school, please email the field school director, Dr. Douglas Hume (hum...@nku.edu)!

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Douglas W. Hume, Ph.D. (he/him)

Professor of Anthropology

Director, Center for Applied Anthropology

Sociology, Anthropology & Philosophy Department

Northern Kentucky University

https://nku.edu/~humed1/