May 30 - June 30, 2012
Moscow and the Komi Republic
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The Department of Anthropology at the University of Northern British
Columbia and the Komi Republic's Syktyvkar State University (Russian
Federation) are pleased to offer an ethnographic field school this summer
open to all undergraduate students.
This field school has been organized in concert with proven collaborators,
both academic and community partners, in the Komi Republic. It will
comprise of three courses for a total of nine (9) credits or and will
involve five days of intensive coursework prior to traveling to Russia.
Departing from Moscow students will spend 30 days traveling past the
Arctic Circle to the reindeer herding camps of the Russian tundra. Between
these two locales, students will observe and learn in greater detail the
social, cultural and environmental challenges facing the populations of
northern Russia.
The coursework will include one required course and two optional courses.
Required readings will vary depending on which optional course is
selected.
Required course:
• ANTH 298-3 Introduction to Fieldwork
Two of the following six courses:
• ANTH 214-3 Anthropology of Europe
• ANTH 305-3 Circumpolar Ethnography
• NORS 311-3 Lands and Environments of the Circumpolar North 1
• NORS 321-3 People and Cultures of the Circumpolar World 1
• POLS 298-3 The Russian North: Society and Politics
• INTS 200-3 Contemporary Russia
The costs of the field school:
• The cost of the field school is nine (9) tuition credits (approximately
$1,388.79 for Canadian residents)
• $2,650 fee to cover the students' direct costs in Russia (all meals,
travel and accommodations).
• Flight to Moscow and traveler health insurance
To apply or for more information, please consult our website:
http://www.unbc.ca/anthropology/field_schools_-_anth/efs/rfs_2012/index.html
or send an email to Dr. Michel Bouchard (Michel@unbc.ca).
