Curriculum Resource Center - Fall 2004 Sessions (Budapest)

Curriculum Resource Center - Fall 2004 Sessions


Organized in cooperation with the Departments and Programs of the Central
European University.
In the Fall 2004 semester CRC is offering the following sessions:

1.Open House Sessions in broad discipline areas
The Open House sessions are organized in broad discipline areas covered by
one or more CEU departments. These sessions are intended to introduce
participants to CEU's approach to a relevant discipline and new techniques
for designing courses in that field. To this end the sessions will provide
participants access to the facilities and resources of the CEU and the
appropriate department, as well as general training workshops on course
design and teaching methodology. Participants are invited to use the CEU
library, visit relevant classes and meet faculty. The primary target groups
of the Open House sessions are junior academics who are at the beginning of
their teaching career, or mid-career and senior academics who would benefit
from the above offerings.

Open House CRC sessions offered in Fall 2004 will be hosted by the following
CEU departments on the dates indicated:
-Medieval Studies 11-16 October 2004 (deadline for applications: 3 September
2004)
-Political Sciences 18-23 October 2004 (deadline for applications: 3
September 2004)
-History: Art and Music 15-20 November 2004 applicants should be professors
who teach or develop courses in art or music history, or courses in history
that use art and music as part of their study materials (deadline for
applications: 1 October 2004)
-Environmental Sciences 22-27 November 2004 (deadline for applications: 1
October 2004)
-Sociology 29 November - 4 December 2004 (deadline for applications: 1
October 2004).

Applicants to Open House sessions should consult the relevant CEU
department's homepage to see the description of regular MA courses offered
during the week of the CRC session. Preference will be given to applicants
whose courses match with the hosting department's profile and interest.

2. Course Innovation Sessions
These sessions intend to explore the cutting edge developments in a
particular discipline. The sessions are meant primarily for senior faculty
with significant teaching and research experience or for outstanding,
research-oriented junior faculty. By discussing recent developments and
exploring contemporary debates with CEU's host departments and faculty,
participants are expected to revise or update their courses or offer new
courses in their particular area of interest. Additional training on course
development is also offered by the CRC. These sessions are organised with a
strong involvement of CEU departments and often will be combined with a
workshop or a conference on the topic of the session.

In Fall 2004 we offer the following Course Innovation Sessions:
-Gender and International Relations 25-30 October 2004 (deadline for
applications: 3 September 2004)
Gender Studies scholars are increasingly interested in developing a
trans-national perspective in recent years. Innovative scholarship has
emerged around themes such as the tensions between citizenship and
international migration, gender as an important marker in international
politics in war and peace, the global repercussions of engendering Human
Rights policies, the feminization and unequal division of labor between
women within the global labor force, mainstreaming gender policy in the
transnational space of the European Union and beyond, etc. Yet, how does
scholarship in these and related fields impact the theoretical perspectives
and empirical research in International Relations?
The joint CRC session of the Department of International Relations and
European Studies and the Department of Gender Studies is intended to explore
recent shared developments in these two fields and to critically examine
points of juncture in order to devise joint creative perspectives.

-Economics and Evolution 8-13 November 2004 (deadline for applications: 25
September 2004)
The focus of this CRC session will be on evolutionary concepts in
contemporary economics. We will look at the particular mechanisms that
generate novelty, imitation and selection and we will consider the
complementarities that can limit the speed and the qualitative direction of
technological and institutional change. Discussions will be held around
recent innovative scholarship on the complexity of the evolutionary
approach, its relation to evolutionary biology and its methodological
difficulties.

All CRC Applicants must:
-Be university teachers and/ or professionals (who teach part-time) in the
Social Sciences and Humanities from the region who are preparing to revise
or develop their courses
-Have sufficient English language ability, both written and spoken, to
participate in discussions and use resource materials
-Submit an application with all accompanying required documents as stated on
the CRC application form.

All costs related to transportation and accommodation during the sessions
will be covered by the CRC.
More information
Website: http://www.ceu.hu/crc/
Email: [email protected]