Costa Rica: Field Research in the Environment, Social Sciences, & Humanities
San José & field sites, Costa Rica
Schedule
Spring 2010 dates
Full spring semester program: January 30 - May 22, 2010
| Saturday, January 30, 2010: |
Students arrive in San José
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| Monday, February 1, 2010: |
First day of classes |
| Saturday, February 27, 2010: |
Students depart for field research sites |
| Sunday, April 25, 2010: |
Students return to San José |
| Friday, May 21, 2010: |
Last day of classes |
| Saturday, May 22, 2010: |
Students depart |
Spring trimester program: April 5 - June 19, 2010
| Monday, April 5, 2010: |
Students arrive in San José
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| Tuesday, April 6, 2010: |
First day of classes |
| Saturday, May 1, 2010: |
Students depart for field research sites |
| Sunday, May 30, 2010: |
Students return to San José |
| Friday, June 18, 2010: |
Last day of classes |
| Saturday, June 19, 2010: |
Students depart |
Full spring semester program
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Spring trimester program
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Weeks 1-4: Orientation in San José
- Intensive course in Spanish language and Costa Rican culture
- Select a research topic, confer with your advisor, write a detailed research proposal and visit the field site
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Weeks 1-4: Orientation in San José
- Intensive course in Spanish language and Costa Rican culture
- Select a research topic, confer with your advisor, write a detailed research proposal and visit the field site
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Weeks 5-12: Field research
Conduct research, collect data and periodically confer with your advisor
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Weeks 5-8: Field research
Conduct research, collect data and periodically confer with your advisor
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Weeks 13-16: Wrap-up in San José
- Continue Spanish language course
- Confer with your advisor and complete the research paper
- Present research results
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Weeks 9-11: Wrap-up in San José
- Continue Spanish language course
- Confer with your advisor and complete the research paper
- Present research results
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My ACM Costa Rica experience can best be summed up as inspirational. It was the first time I truly felt useful as a researcher, carrying out research that was bigger than me but somehow, made better by my hard work and by that of my team members. Also, I got my first true idea of just how research can go wrong and, in spite of the best-laid plans, can be taken off track by external forces. As a result, I learned the best lesson of social research- what I want to learn and what others want to teach me are often two different things, and the only way to make the best of it is to change my perspective, not that of those who are being kind enough to share their lives with me. The ACM Field Research Program is the only one I know of that truly challenges its students, and I managed to love every second of it.
—Stephanie Jaros, Research Coordinator at Stanford University's Bipolar Disorders Clinic, Costa Rica, Spring 1998
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