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 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. The Year at Sevilla also offers a five-week summer program in collaboration with the Office of the Summer School. Units within UNC- Chapel Hill often organize their own programs abroad, such as the Despu s del Hurac n program, offered by the School of Social Work to aid communities in Honduras and Nicaragua in their continued recovery from Hurricane Mitch, or such as the Field School in South American Archaeology, in Peru, led by Professor Brian Billman, Department of Anthropology. Interested students should check with the Summer School or with the individual schools and departments for more information about summer study abroad programs.
Students receive up to 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. The third part involves a two-week field orientation in Yucat n. In the city of M rida, students continue language classes conducted by native Yucatec speakers and participate in seminars and lectures led by distinguished Yucatec historians, ecologists, and anthropologists. Special field trips throughout the two weeks introduce participants to the rich pre-Hispanic and colonial heritage of the area.