Harvard Summer Program in Copan, Honduras

  Honduras

Copan

Term: Summer 
Dates: TBA

Description: Dubbed by early scholars as the Athens of the New World for its evocative stone sculptures, Copán serves as an ideal study site for students interested in archaeology, epigraphy, museums, and Latin American studies. In the five-week program, students learn about ongoing archaeological investigations through on-site training.

Since the rediscovery of the ruins in the 1830s, Copan has been the setting for many of the major breakthroughs in the study of classic Maya civilization. More recently, in the past three decades, the stone sculptures and their extensive hieroglyphic texts have been the subject of a comprehensive multidisciplinary research program in which Harvard scholars have endeavored to describe and explain the rise and fall of this distinguished ancient center of arts and sciences. Copán is recognized as the best understood city of the ancient Maya and one of the best represented in site museums.

Highlights: Course: Course: Field School in Classic Maya Archaeology and Epigraphy

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Harvard Summer School Study Abroad Programs's Mission Statement: The Harvard Summer School makes Harvard's academic resources a distinguished faculty, well-equipped laboratories, fine museums, and a world-class university library available to men and women of many ages, backgrounds, and nationalities through an intensive summer session of liberal arts courses in Cambridge and overseas. Our international student body includes Harvard undergraduate and graduate students, visitors from other colleges and universities, highly qualified secondary school students, adult learners, and nonnative English speakers seeking to refine their language skills. Students take courses to challenge themselves academically, meet degree requirements, prepare for graduate school, gain college experience, advance their careers, and pursue personal enrichment. Students, who study at Harvard Summer School may reside in a supportive residential environment, commute to campus, complete courses via distance education, or participate in one of the faculty-led programs based abroad. Many come to experience the extraordinary environment of Harvard College academics, resources, and residential life. Harvard Summer School serves the University community by providing faculty with teaching opportunities that allow them to experiment with new materials and teaching methods. Students from many Harvard schools take advantage of the breadth of summer course offerings to meet requirements for concentrations and degree programs, and to create more flexibility within their term-time academic program. Harvard graduate students from abroad can work on refining their English language skills, and Harvard College students take advantage of the summer session to expand their cultural, social, and intellectual horizons by studying abroad.