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- Students may register for 4 or 7 credit hours. Students from institutions represented on the faculty will register and pay tuition on their home campus regardless of which courses they take.Students from other USG institutions will enroll as transient students at AASU.

- All courses are taught in English, except for Spanish language courses. While some knowledge of Spanish is helpful, it is not required.

- The program is endorsed by the USG Americas Council.

General Information and Application Process
- Faculty will teach two three-credit-hour courses.

- Interested faculty should submit the completed application form and supporting materials to their Campus Representative, who then submits the application to James Anderson, director of the program.

- Selection means that a faculty member's courses will be included in the program course offerings and advertised system-wide. Participation in the summer program depends upon the number of students who enroll in the program at the faculty member's institution.

- The curriculum is based on proposals submitted by faculty from across the University System of Georgia and is designed so that a range of courses in the core are offered including a variety of specialized lower division, upper division, and occasionally graduate courses.

-The program covers the following expenses for faculty: round-trip airfare, housing, and most meals. Faculty also will receive a modest per diem in the range of $20-$25 per day, depending on program enrollments.

-Faculty salaries are not paid by the Chile Program. Salary arrangements are to be made directly between the faculty members and their home institutions.

-A "7 to 1" criterion applies (i.e., it takes 7 students enrolled in the program to cover the costs of one faculty member). This means that each faculty member is required to enroll 7 students from her/his campus for the summer in which the faculty member is teaching.

- Faculty members' spouses or partners may accompany them for all or part of the program at reduced costs to be paid by the faculty member.

- The program structure and the housing facilities do not accommodate dependent children. Faculty members are strongly discouraged from bringing children younger than sixteen years old.

- Faculty commit to spending time in the recruitment of students during fall and spring semesters. Examples of recruitment activities include the following: speaking in their own classes and those of their colleagues, participating in study abroad fairs, distributing program and course materials, and urging students to participate in the program.

- Students are recruited from a faculty member's home institution and may enroll for any courses offered in the Chile program. Faculty members are not required to recruit students for their own courses.

- Faculty must attend two meetings in the academic year preceding the summer in which they are teaching: 1) an informational meeting early in the fall semester, and 2) a pre-departure orientation in late spring semester.

- Faculty commit to engaging themselves with students in a much more intensive and extensive way than is common for regular on-campus courses. Study abroad teaching is rather like total immersion with students, since the whole experience becomes a "teaching moment."

- Faculty need to commit to traveling at least one-way with the group of students.
For more information, please contact your Americas Council Representative or call Jim Anderson at (912) 344-3224.

More general information can also be found by visiting the Chile Program website http://www.intl.armstrong.edu/chile.html