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Central European University A Program for University
Teachers, Advanced Ph.D. Students, Researchers and Professionals in the Social
Sciences and Humanities Summer University
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Brief Course DescriptionsCEU Summer University June 26 - July28, 2006
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*** Application
deadline: February 14, 2006. ***
Cultural Studies/Cultural Theory
Gender studies, health psychology, medical sociology and anthropology, public health and health policy
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Brief course description This course will examine various interrelations between health, gender, and inequality from multi-disciplinary perspectives including sociology, anthropology, psychology, and social medicine. The course will focus on the ways in which gender inequality is socially constructed and the important roles that social institutions, ideology, and cultural practices play in creating, perpetuating, and addressing gendered health issues. We will discuss issues of general global significance such as reproduction, sexuality, mental health and well-being, lifestyle, morbidity and mortality in comparative European contexts, with an emphasis on the post-socialist states. Classes will also consider the implications of poverty, labor markets and labor force discrimination on gender inequality and health. The course aims to move beyond a description of specific health problems to a critical analysis of women’s and men’s health in relation to their everyday lives, exploring how their embodied experiences are shaped by cultural beliefs and practices, social institutions, and social policies. [detailed description] [back to course list]
[detailed description] [back to course list] Brief course description The program is about the Practice of European Union Law, providing insider hands-on analysis of the functioning of the European Union. As such, it constitutes an excellent course for those wishing to deepen their knowledge in the field or to prepare for working in or with EU institutions. The Total Law™ method believes in contextualization, situating a legal controversy, a court decision, a Treaty provision, a Directive or Regulation in its economic, social and political context. The Total Law™ team, led by Joseph Weiler, University Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at New York University School of Law, is a unique blend of well‑known academics and senior officials working in the European Union institutions who have also written widely in the field. The members of this team are José M. de Areilza, Professor of European Union Law and Vice Dean of Legal Studies at Instituto de Empresa, Madrid; Kieran Bradley, Head of Unit in the Legal Service of the European Parliament, Brussels; Damian Chalmers, Reader in EU law at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Miguel Poiares Maduro, Advocate General at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg and Professor of European and International Law at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Imola Streho, coordinator of the Team, référendaire at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg. The coursework will consist of seminars, workshops and daily assignments that will be completed individually or in group. A basic knowledge of European Union Law is required to follow this advanced course. Those without this knowledge but wishing to participate are required to take a one-week Introductory Course to European Union Law, offered immediately prior to the start of the program and taught by faculty from CEU Department of Legal Studies. Up to four special scholarships may be awarded to participants of exceptional quality, and financial support in the form of partial tuition waivers granted on the basis of merits and status. Central European University is a US-style, internationally recognized institution of post-graduate education in the social sciences and humanities, located in the capital city of Hungary, Budapest. Incorporated in the State of New York, CEU is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (in the United States) and by the Hungarian Ministry of Education. Further information: http://www.ceu.hu/total_law.html Those who do not wish to apply to the Introductory Course in European Union Law course, and would be interested in applying to another SUN course as well, can submit an application to any other course of their choice.
Please
note that the Total Law TM course is a fee-paying course.
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The course will concentrate on the relationship of philosophy and scientific thought in the Greco-Roman world, from the Presocratics through the Hellenistic age up to the close of classical antiquity. We would like to investigate how mathematics, natural sciences, astronomy, and medicine influenced philosophy, and on the other hand, how philosophy and its methods and techniques framed science and scientific knowledge. Our intention is that the course should address basic questions of interrelatedness, and should show how questions asked and methods used either in science or in philosophy fertilized other areas of intellectual activity. The focus will be on questions concerning the structure of knowledge, methodology, second order theories, argumentativity, demonstrational techniques, and polemics. [preliminary schedule] [detailed description] [back to course list]
Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Law, International Studies/ Relations
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Brief course description "Globalization" has become a topic of the day. Our library shelves are lined with books dealing with globalization and anti-globalization processes, and more are being written. Many examine globalization in combination with another topic of the day, "global governance." Global governance seems to be evolving in response to globalization as people and their governments and communities strive to attain "security" as well as other basic needs, values and interests. Presently however, these concepts *"globalization," "global governance" and "security"* remain rather murky. There are no widely accepted definitions: "global governance" means different things to different analysts, as does "globalization" and "security," and the theoretical confusion surrounding globalization, global governance and security and their interrelationships is presently hampering our practical dealings with all of them. Resolving this theoretical confusion and creating new knowledge and perspectives for guiding research and practice are the principal objectives of this course. [preliminary schedule] [detailed description] [back to course list] Sociology, Anthropology, Policy Studies
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Brief course description Cities emerged as market places. They are strategic sites of globalization that is often understood as the expansion and intensification of market logic. The course examines global urban restructuring through the processes of commercialization and counter-tendencies: the commercialization and privatization of the urban ‘commons,’ of housing, urban services and public space as well as policies and movements challenging them. It oscillates between a political economic and cultural analysis of the market in an abstract sense and an empirically driven analysis of formal and informal venues and ways of commercial activities. It is a theoretically and historically minded critical treatment of commercialization with a rich and diverse comparative material including Budapest as constant referent. Field trips in the city are part of the course. [detailed description] [back to course list]
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The Course on Energy Regulatory Practices is organized by the Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA).
Professional development in energy regulation requires a working knowledge of regulatory economics, an understanding of policy impacts and the ability to navigate national policy processes, and effective agency management of the legal and organizational processes necessary for adequate “due-process” protection in regulatory activities.
The course curricula in 2005 included the following main regulatory topics:
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Target audience: junior and newer energy regulatory commissioners/staff who are current and future policy makers in their countries and whose employment should be no more than 2 years at the regulatory organization. In addition, we expect researchers, PhD students and/or professors. The maximum number of available slots for this latter group is 5.
The level of education is advanced academic.
The course is organized bilingually, with simultaneous Russian interpretation provided. [special application form] [detailed description] [back to course list] Environmental sciences, human development, sustainable development, poverty reduction
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This summer course will be a policy and practice-based course for approximately 15-20 civil servants/decision makers as well as graduate students from Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, as well as interested graduate students from other regions. The aims of the course are to customize the Millennium Development goals to the target regions and develop policy proposals for realizing them. The course will provide a platform for cross-policy and cross-national dialogue, transfer of practices and experience, and development of integrated responses to some of the most pressing problems of today - sustainable human development and poverty alleviation and its associated implications. In addition to developing expertise in the MDGs and their implementation, participants will engage in intensive discussions and debates on the cutting edge of issues in the area of human development, sustainability, and policy development. Topics and workshops will be taught and facilitated by experienced staff from the United Nations Development Programme and faculty from Central European University and other universities. [detailed description] [back to course list]
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Brief course description This is a course for junior law faculty and senior students interested in pursuing academic career, who wish to learn more about the use of innovative methods of teaching human rights law and ethics, including experiential learning. The workshop is devoted to giving participants knowledge on cutting-edge substantive law topics, specifically within the themes of human rights and ethics, as well as skills-training in new methods of pedagogy. The goal of the course is to convey challenging material, technical know-how and motivation to a group of young academics who will be expected to have an impact on reform of higher legal education through their own curricular innovations.
The course will consist of three components: selected human rights and advocacy issues, questions of ethics and professional responsibility and teaching methodology. Case studies and hypotheticals will be included to foster an environment for interactive learning. Participants will be divided into 3-4 groups and asked to prepare a class on a selected topic from human rights and ethics and present it at the end of the course. [detailed description] [back to course list]
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Brief course description The course is designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and cooperative projects among academics, professionals and students in the East and West who are pursuing the study of conflict and conflict resolution processes. The program, set in the context of Central and Eastern Europe's emerging democracies, will focus on mediation, as well as other consensual methods for addressing and resolving conflict and promoting understanding between peoples. The course is a cross-disciplinary and cross-national inquiry into the use of dialogue in conflict scenarios, attempting to lay a philosophical and intellectual foundation for mediation and then cultivate basic mediation practice skills. Mediation is a newly emerging field in both the west and the east. Legislation mandating the use of mediation has outpaced the development of both theory and practice, and this course is designed in part to fill that gap,cultivating scholars, teachers and practitioners in this developing arena. [detailed description] [back to course list] Global Public Service Lawyering: Theory and Practice In
cooperation with the Global
Public Service Law Project at New York University School of Law July 17-28, 2006
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Brief Course Description This is a two-week advanced course for public service lawyers from developing and transitional countries to examine the emerging global phenomenon of public service lawyering and the forms it has taken in Central and Eastern Europe. This course will examine the effectiveness of impact litigation versus other approaches to social change; the appropriateness of public interest law for non-Western societies; the effectiveness of international legal and political norms in domestic law; and the role of lawyers and legal institutions in addressing these issues. Classes will also focus on topics such as the development of civil society and the ethical challenges faced by public interest lawyers. The curriculum aims to ensure that lawyers learn from each other, trade practical lawyering strategies, and reflect critically at the underlying assumptions and ideologies behind their work. The core of the course consists of lawyering dilemmas written by and based on the students’ own experiences. Lawyering dilemmas are prepared and presented by a team of two (teacher and student). Each lawyering dilemma is analyzed by the class via an interactive discussion, which focuses on key lawyering and strategy questions raised by the case. Field visits, hypotheticals and advanced readings will also be part of this open, interactive learning process. The readings outside of the lawyering dilemmas will address multiple foreign legal systems, both from Central and Eastern Europe and from outside the region. Course specific requirement: applicants should be lawyers with at least two years of work experience in a public service law setting – government, non-governmental organizations, academia (including advanced doctoral students). [detailed description] [back to course list] Public Policy, Public Finance, Economics
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Brief course description This course offers an analytical framework for understanding and implementing fiscal decentralization: improving assignment of functions and responsibilities and the fiscal relations between the central, regional, and local governments. Fiscal decentralization is closely related to the "restructuring of the public economy" and involves rethinking the role of the state in different sectors, such as social policy, education, housing, communal services, etc. The process of restructuring took much more time than it was originally planned. Furthermore, the process involved little if no coordination at all among the sectors, and therefore has not taken into consideration the effect this may have on fiscal decentralization. In fact sectoral reform has often not organized itself along the lines of fiscal decentralization principles at all. The course will start with eight distance learning modules introducing participants to the principles and legal framework of decentralisation, expenditure and revenue assignment and intergovernmental transfer. The two-week workshop style course will include an advanced discussion and analysis through exercises and case studies from the region, in the following areas: 1) worldwide trends in fiscal decentralization and the concept and practice of the assignment of expenditure responsibilities and revenue authority; 2) the design of various forms of central to sub-national transfers and local own-source revenues; creditworthiness and the financial risks of local authorities; and 3) the emerging topic of budgeting and local public management. Attuned to new teaching techniques, the workshop aims to achieve the right mix of exercises, lectures, and interactive learning methods. This includes the dissemination of materials prior to the course presentation electronically. The course will use distance learning techniques to teach the basics, and during the course the group will focus more on the case studies and exercises. Accepted applicants will start the distance learning phase on January 15. [detailed description] [back to course list] Public administration, public sector ethics, law, economics, politics, anthropology
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Corruption is widely recognized as a major obstacle to development and legitimate democratic governance. This course meets a need for critical and strategic approaches that straddle the exigencies of corruption control and organizational integrity. Corruption control refers here in particular to external control variables (e.g. by the executive or on an institution and profession) and organizational integrity refers in large measure to internal processes of control and value-driven reform. The course will explore the myriad challenges of effectively implementing elements of a corruption control and organizational integrity strategy that is both effective and sustainable. This course is aimed at operational line managers, internal control specialists (e.g. investigators, compliance officers, inspectors, etc.) as well as external change agents (e.g. media, NGOs, think tanks, etc.). It will also be open to academics developing similar courses at their own universities. Information for fee-paying participants The fee for this course is 1000 EUR/10 days for those employed by organizations that are likely to provide a training budget, in particular government agencies and international organizations. The standard SUN fee of 500 EUR/10 days is for students, academics, researchers and those employed by NGOs/the non-profit sector. However, those in the former fee category may also apply for reduced fees or fee waivers to the course director, stating their reasons for such request. [detailed description] [back to course list]
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The course will focus on the urban and city policy related processes (analysis, formulation, acceptance and implementation) and strategic planning and implementation methodologies. It will start from the review of the context where local governments operate and the available strategic planning approaches, after it will single out specific issues related to financial and sector policies, and in the closing block it will reconnect issues through the discussion of some integrated urban strategies. The course will cover issues like decentralization, strategic planning methodology and practice and will have discussions on municipal finance and service delivery with special attention to local financial management and different partnership arrangements. The sectors like transportation, utilities, as well as programs and projects of urban rehabilitation, local economic development and urban development will be analyzed in detail. On the other hand, issues such as social inclusion, environment and urban economy will be treated as cross-cutting issues and discussed through their implication and relevance to the various key topics. Overall, the course will be specifically tailored around the crucial issues of local governance in the post-socialist region but will include methodology and analysis suitable for all countries involved in the globalization processes as well as case studies from different parts of the world. Course-specific application requirement Course applicants will be asked to submit a proposal for an issue paper as the equivalent of one of the general application requirements listed in Section VIII. Attachments of the application form ("An English language article/research paper in progress, which you would like to develop for publishing as the outcome of the course"). The issue paper must be related to one of the topics discussed in the course (see the tentative course schedule in the long description) and be written on an issue/problem/policy of the applicant's home town/country or selected form her/his work experience. The 2-page long issue paper proposal should specify (1) what topic of the course they want to contribute to, (2) what question or issue belonging to that topic and being experienced in their city or another city in their country they want contribute to with their issue paper, and (3) what type of information or data they will be able to provide in their final issue paper in order to illustrate the case of their chosen city. Selected applicants are expected to prepare a 7-10 page highly focused issue paper on the basis of their proposal and consultation with the course directors. The paper should include: a short description of the context; an explanation of main issues addressed with key data; evaluation of the existing policy program or projects of interest; and if needed suggestions for policy changes. The paper should incorporate relevant concepts and methods described during the course and will be distributed to faculty and other course participants as part of discussion forums. [preliminary schedule] [detailed description] [back to course list] CEU reserves the right to change course offerings at its discretion.
Non-discrimination policy statement
Central European University does not discriminate on the basis of - including, but not limited to - race, color, national and ethnic origin, religion, gender or sexual orientation in administering its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs. |
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