The Center for Social Well Being celebrates 14 years
offering our program in interdisciplinary qualitative field methods, as well
as Spanish and Quechua language classes, with a continued internship
option in the Peruvian Andes. This year we offer our June Solstice
seminar, a 3 week training program after which students may work and/or pursue
their own research objectives in health, education, agriculture, social
development, with municipal institutes and civic organizations, depending on
acquired skills, demonstrated abilities and interests. Length of the
post-training internship is adapted to students’ needs with respect to academic
and professional requirements (usually extends from 2 to 10 months). The intensive field
methods and language component is equivalent to 1 semester of university study;
we provide participants with a qualitative letter of evaluation and
grade. Upon successful completion of the
seminar students may formally affiliate with the Center for Social Being
as researchers and outreach workers.
The
combined undergraduate and graduate seminar is held at the center's rural base,
an adobe lodge on an ecological ranch in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range
of the Callejón de Huaylas, 7 hours northeast of Lima. Coursework
provides in-depth orientation to theory and practice in field investigation
that emphasizes methods in Participatory Action Research and
Andean Ethnography centered on themes of Climate Change with respect to
Ecology, Health, Education, Social Justice, Agrobiodiversity, Community
Organization and related topics. Students have the opportunity to actively
engage in ongoing projects and programs with Quechua communities to develop
effective interactive field abilities and required language skills for
placement in appropriate contexts to provide community support and research. In
addition, the training seminar provides excursions to museums, archaeological
sites, glacial lakes and hotsprings; optional recreational activities include
hiking, mountain biking, rafting, kayaking, rock climbing and trekking. The
training program tuition fee is $4000 US dollars that includes all in-country
travel, food and accommodations at the rural center, and course materials. The
program is under the direction of Applied Medical Anthropologist, Patricia
J. Hammer, Ph.D., and Flor de María Barreto Tosi, Ecologist and
Field Coordinator.
Program dates: June Solstice
Seminar June 7th
through 27th 2015
Please contact us for other potential program
dates for 2015.
For an
application: phammer@wayna.rcp.net.pe
For
further program information: www.socialwellbeing.org
