The Ateneo de Manila University is inviting all students to its 2024 Summer program: Philippine Studies Immersion Program (PSIP). 

PSIP is designed to introduce international and local students to the practice of Philippine studies and the Filipino lifeworld through each of the tracks to be taught during the summer months of June and July. The summer program will allow students to immerse themselves in a particular aspect of the Philippine lifeworld to provide an experiential ground for their reflections and insights. 

PSIP 2024 offers the following tracks:

             1. Cultural Heritage Studies Field School

The Cultural Heritage Studies Field School (CHESS), formerly known as the Ateneo Social and Cultural Laboratory, refers to a field school, run likewise by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, that is more strictly sociological in its scope. The CHESS is run by the Cultural Heritage Studies Program of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Ateneo de Manila University in collaboration with the John Gokongwei School of Management, the Fine Arts Department. the History Department and the Institute of Philippine Culture

2. Ateneo Development Field School

The Ateneo Development Field School (ADFS) of the Development Studies Program is a transformative 5-week, 6-unit course combining academic study with immersive fieldwork, focusing on sustainable development, social justice, and empowerment in the Philippine context through a mix of classroom and immersive Service-Learning and Community Engagement experiences. The 2024 ADFS program will focus on rural development, utilizing the research for organizing and inclusive sustainable approaches to development. Through classroom lectures, fieldwork, and exercises, students will learn participatory action research and sustainable development principles, methods, and skills relevant to rural development issues.

3. Filipino Urbanities 

The course focuses on the discourse of urban spaces, through the lived experience of what is seen, heard, and felt, and how these are illustrated and enacted through various linguistic and creative expressions across both traditional and contemporary platforms. Students explore urban sensibilities and consciousness, spatial histories and historicities, and sites and tensions of individual and collective modern experiences. The processing of this exploration surfaces in the form of critical or creative output that necessarily engages urban issues, sensory/sensuous experiences, and the strengths and limitations of one’s own subject position within the city.

Tracks can be credited as 3 or 6 units, depending on the chosen program.

Factsheet: please click HERE

Step 1: Please notify OIA before 2024/3/25 by sending an email to Maxine Hsu, oia.outbound@mail.nsysu.edu.tw that includes the following information

(1) your name in Chinese & English (matching your possport);

(2) Gender

(3) student ID number;

(4) College / faculty

(5) Department

(6) Academic level (undergraduate or graduate)

(7) Year of Study

(8) GPA

(4) mobile phone nubmer;

(5) any proofs of English proficiency test scores

Step 2: OIA nominate to Ateneo de Manila University before 2024/3/31

Step 3: Nominated students submit applications to Ateneo de Manila University by 2024/4/30