Develop your own summer program in 2006

CSEAS offers a special opportunity to chart your own course in Southeast Asia

Thanks to a special grant available to the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, undergraduate students at U-M will have an opportunity to design and carry out their own programs in Southeast Asia during the summer of 2006.

The program is designed to be very flexible. You tell us what you want to study, design a program to do so, and we will fund the best proposals in full.  You could, for instance:

• Apprentice yourself to an artist, traditional or modern
• Learn Vietnamese in Hanoi, Filipino in Baguio, Thai in Chiang Mai, or Malay in Penang.
• Work on women’s issues, landmines, deforestation, AIDS, urbanization, or another issue with a non governmental organization
• Do field work with orangutans in Malaysia or study marine biology in the Philippines
• Prepare an honor’s thesis
• Get an internship in business, social work, government, or education

This may be done as an individual or as a member of a group-proposed project (for no more than three members total). We do strongly encourage students to find ways to work with existing academic programs, agencies, or organizations, but attaching yourself to a specific person is also fine.

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies will select and fully fund up to four undergraduate summer study programs. The application process has three stages to it.

• A Preliminary Application is due on or before October 14, 2005.
• A meeting to refine the idea with staff from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies is required before October 28, and
• The Final Application is due on or before November 14.

Downloadable versions of the application packet are available here:
     Summer program application in PDF format [PDF, 134K]
     Summer program application with fillable form fields [PDF, 215K; requires Reader 6 or greater]
     A note on the fillable form: The forms can be viewed, filled and printed using the Adobe Reader software; but to save a copy of the filled out forms on disk, you must be editing the file with the full Acrobat Standard or Pro software.

Contact for questions:

Charley Sullivan, Program Coordinator

The center is committed to promoting a broader and deeper understanding of Southeast Asia and its peoples, cultures, and historiesby providing resources for faculty, students and the community to learn and disseminate knowledge about the region.