Spring 2016

Ecuador Study Abroad

ANT 2410 Cultural Anthropology: Special Focus on Indigenous
Cultures of Ecuador
ANT 1920 Independent Work in Anthropology

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Quito
Otavalo
Cuenca
Ayampe

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Courses

ANT 1920 Independent Work in

Anthropology

Trip during Spring Break

(1 - 3 credits)

ANT 2410 Cultural Anthropology (3 credits)

Cayey

Course Descriptions
ANT 1920
This independent study opportunity is
designed with anthropology majors in
mind, particularly those who have already
taken cultural anthropology. Students will
work closely with anthropology faculty to
design the focus of specific research topics
and will be expected to meet regularly with
the cultural anthropology class traveling to
Ecuador.

ANT 2410

Cultural Anthropology, is a General

Education course that seeks to understand
why people throughout the world today
and in the past differ in their customary
ways of thinking and behaving. Culture is
the primary means for human survival,
establishing how populations adapt to
specific physical and social environments.
Through the observation and analysis of
diverse cultural adaptations such as
subsistence patterns, reproductive
strategies, marriage customs, kinship
organization, political and economic
systems, religion, art, and music, students
develop an understanding of why and how
cultures change.

Quito
UNESCO World
Heritage Site

Otavalo

Inga Pirca-Cuenca

Agua Blanca

Ayampe

Instructional intent
To use various techniques
from cultural ethnography
to study the relationship
between the natural
environment, social and
cultural structures, and the
phenomenon of cultural
change among several
communities in Ecuador.

Indigenous Communities

When

How much?

March 2-14, 2016

$ 2,955

Round-trip airfare from Florida to Quito

International Insurance
All in-country transportation and accommodations
Tours, museums, and other activity fees
Some meals

Financial Resources
Student Life Study Abroad
Grant

1/3 trip ( up to $1,200)

Stuart McRae Scholarship

$2,500 (45 college credits, GPA 3.5,

financial need)

Fundraising

World Travelers Club

Faculty Leaders
Prof. Heather Hall

Prof. Joshua Crosby

Mr. Joshua Crosby has a M.A. in Cultural
Anthropology from the University of
Central Florida, and is currently a Ph.D.
student at the University of Florida.
As a former AmeriCorps volunteer, he has traveled
extensively throughout Latin America. He conducted
research in Oaxaca, Mexico for 2 months for his M.A.
thesis. Currently he is working in collaboration with a
ecology-based multidisciplinary group in Swaziland,
Africa. He has participated in four study abroad trips
through Santa Fe.
Phone: 352-395-5336
A236
joshua.a.crosby@sfcollege.edu

Ms. Heather Hall

has traveled
extensively
throughout
Europe, the
Caribbean, South
and Central America, as well as
Hong Kong and other parts of
China. She has co-led ten very
successful study-abroad
programs at Santa Fe, including
programs to Peru, Costa Rica,
Egypt and nine to Ecuador.
Phone: 352-381-3696
K254
heather.hall@sfcollege.edu

Follow Up
SF International Education
www.sfcollege.edu/international
SF Study Abroad Facebook Page
World Travelers Club
Coordinator of International Education
Paloma Rodriguez, A-213
paloma.rodriguez@sfcollege.edu