An undergraduate Summer Field Studies Program in Anthropology will be offered for the first time this summer, University officials announced yesterday. Under the plan, qualified students, not necessarily those considering careers in Anthropology, will spend three months in South America.

The Program is the first such field research project to limit participation to undergraduates and will include students from Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell. The purpose of the project is to introduce college students to a foreign culture under the guidance of professional anthropologists. Regular academic course credit will be granted.

Director of the Program, Evon Z. Vogt, associate professor of Anthropology, stressed the educational value of "actual field studies of different cultures."