Cultural Heritage Field School
The Cultural Heritage Field School is a supervised course experience for students interested in sustaining living and material cultures. Here, they learn hands-on innovative techniques in preserving, conserving, and promoting material cultural heritage and living cultures from cultural producers, culture bearers, or cultural heritage experts. In consonance with the co-production,co-ownership, and co-beneficial ethos of heritage work, students engage with partner institutions, communities, entrepreneurs, and actors in communicating information about heritage projects.
It exposes students to the art and science of documenting, managing, and safeguarding cultural and living heritage. Furthermore, the course equips students with lifelong skills to investigate complex sociocultural, political, economic, and social justice issues implicating cultural heritage. Through the course, students gain opportunities to conceptualize a heritage project with cultural stakeholders.
Sociological Field School
The Sociological Field School is an immersive field-based course that offers students the opportunity to conceptualize a supervised inquiry on sociocultural issues affecting groups, communities,and persons in a Philippine locality or overseas. Students learn how to apply a range of theories and methodologies drawn from the disciplines of Sociology and Anthropology while working on their respective sociocultural investigations.
Here, students apply the art of rapport building with research participants, data collection techniques, data management, and data analysis in an immersive ethically informed field-based social investigation setting. With close supervision, students work collectively with local partners on a plan to effectively communicate and ethically utilize research results for practical, policy, or theory-building purposes.
Ateneo Cultural Encounters
Ateneo de Manila University, through the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, provides a venue for visiting students of partner institutions to explore the dynamic culture of not only the University but also of the Philippines in general. This program provides various encounters for the visiting students to experience Philippine culture, education, science, transportation, food, and daily living. Addressing various needs of partner institutions, the Ateneo Cultural Encounters (ACE) can be tailor-fitted to provide a maximum cultural experience.
ACE intends to provide cultural encounters that would help improve the English speaking and conversational skills of students. It is the goal of the program for the students to be able to learn and use the concepts and ideas that will be acquired in various activities of the program as a way of improving their conversational English.