Field Study

Much of your learning will take place outside of the classroom on a field study program. Field study can include a wide variety of research methods, ranging from culturally-acceptable interviewing techniques to quantitative data collection.

Things to Consider:

• Highly interactive learning
• Focus on a specific academic theme
• Opportunity to produce original research for an honors thesis or complete an internship/practicum
• Learn practical quantitative and qualitative research methods in both the human and physical sciences
• Abstract concepts discussed in a classroom setting can be explored in practical ways in the field
• Often you will be in an "island" setting where you are only in classes with other U.S. students
• Often everyone on the program will take the same courses
• You may have little time for independent travel on the weekends

Photo credits: Flinders Ranges in Australia, by Paul Jones