The Study Abroad Office facilitates applications to School for International Training Programs in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Spain. The Year at Sevilla Program , sponsored by the UNC-CH Department of Romance Languages and the College of Arts and Sciences, offers programs abroad for an academic year or semester in conjunction with the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, and other supporting institutions. Or such as the Field School in South American Archaeology, in Peru, led by Professor Brian Billman, Department of Anthropology. Check the Summer School or with the individual schools and departments for more information about summer study abroad programs.
Students receive six hours credit.
Conversation, grammar, and classical Yucatec texts are used, and students have the opportunity to focus individually on the acquisition of skills of special interest. The second part consists of a weekend workshop focusing on the structure and content of the ancient Maya writing system with comparison to Yucatec grammar and literature. Special field trips throughout the two weeks introduce participants to the area's rich pre-Hispanic and colonial heritage. The second week is spent in Valladolid with daily trips to the Mayan village of Xocen, where students are placed with families in order to share in their daily lives and practice speaking Maya. This course may be used to fulfill the requirements of the major, and is often linked to undergraduate grants for summer research travel or to internships.