Programs : Brochure
- Locations: Aragon, Spain
- Program Terms: Maymester
- Cost of Attendance Sheets: Maymester
Program Category: | UGA Faculty-Led | College/School: | Franklin |
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Program Category: | UGA Faculty-Led | College/School: | Franklin |
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This program advances college and department learning goals in three areas. It provides students with a hands-on experience in which they are required to extend their learning beyond the classroom in order to succeed. It offers students a learning opportunity in which they collect, visualize, analyze and interpret data to develop strong data literacy skills crucial to their future success as citizens and professionals. The interdisciplinary nature of the program serves to promote knowledge and skills that transcend anthropology as a major while allowing students to simultaneously achieve deep disciplinary knowledge of the human experience. A unique strength of anthropology as a discipline is that it bridges between traditional STEM fields and the classical humanities.
The Ebro River Valley lies at the crossroads of European history, and has been at the center of human use, occupation and conquest of the Iberian Peninsula since the Neolithic. You will have the opportunity to work at the Medieval market town of Mercadal to learn archaeological and landscape field methods, and visit monumental archaeological sites across Aragon from Bronze Age hill forts to decisive battle fields in the Spanish Civil War.
Students will earn 9 credits - ANTH4200 Field Methods (6cr) and ANTH 4240 Laboratory Methods (3cr) while fulfilling one ore more UGA general education core curriculum requirements, university-wide requirements, Franklin College requirements, and/or Department of Anthropology major requirements.
Program students and the GTA will be housed in a Casa Rural (a regional designation for a 'country hotel'). It is renovated multi-level Medieval house located in Loscos that can house up to 15 individuals in the numerous bedrooms, and contains two bathrooms and a full kitchen. Rental includes all linen and regular cleaning.
The $1,700 tentative program fee includes shared occupancy for all participants for the duration of the program, ground transportation, admission fees, group meals and 24/7 emergency support. Additional costs include:
Speak with a UGA Financial Aid Advisor about how to apply the HOPE and Zell scholarship and other financial aid to study abroad expenses.
Admissions are rolling after the Nov. 1 decision date, and only applications marked "complete" by that time will receive a decision. Admission decisions will be sent via the studyaway.uga.edu application portal. Students will have a limited time to accept or decline an admission offer before the spot passes to another candidate. Students who accept the offer of admission must pay a non-refundable $300 deposit to confirm their place in the program and register for courses.
Dr. Ted Gragson, Program Co-Director
Phone: 706-542-1460
Email: tgragson@uga.edu
Baldwin Hall 254
Dr. Victor Thompson, Program Co-Director
Phone: 706-542-1480
Email: vdthom@uga.edu