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CROATIA:
DUBROVNIK
Summer Program
In this region, over thirty
years ago, Florida State University established an educational linkage
with Yugoslavia. The link grew into a nine-university consortium to
explore issues in Southeast Europe. It continues today, as the former
Yugoslavia and other Balkan nations find themselves in the direct
path of democratic and free-market movements. This study program is
an exceptional opportunity for participants-working within an international
scholarly enclave-to learn about, analyze, and discuss both the region's
cultural-historical background and its contemporary political issues
of transition and security.
Through its long-standing relationship with the Balkan region-including
collaboration with the 300-year-old University of Zagreb-FSU is able
to offer this timely program at the historic Inter-University Centre
(IUC). Founded in 1971 at the height of the Cold War, this distinguished
international institution is co-sponsored by some 200 member universities.
As an independent center for advanced studies, the IUC became a seminal
venue for exchange of ideas among scholars of the East and West. In
the twenty-first century, the IUC continues its dedication to independent
scholarship, while promoting communication in an increasingly pluralistic
region and world. A focus is specialized postgraduate education that
bears both on regional concerns and the challenges of globalism. Its
international agenda, notably in the social sciences and humanities,
is now informed by issues of post-communism, European integration,
and the stabilization of Southeast Europe.
The IUC's location is apt for its multinational purpose. Dubrovnik's
first-millennium roots and varied cultural heritage offer a fertile
ground for modern explorations of identity, government, and culture.
It is, moreover, a beautiful, cosmopolitan city that few Westerners
know firsthand.
COURSEWORK AND EXCURSIONS
Classes, taught by faculty from FSU and prominent regional European
universities, will meet for approximately half the day. Students will
enjoy use of the facilities of the Inter-University Centre. Program
excursions will include trips to coastal islands, where monasteries
have existed for as long as two millennia.
HOUSING
Program participants will look out over the azure Adriatic waters
from their popular vacation hotel. Breakfast is included.
DATES AND FEE
The
dates indicate the first night in housing until the morning of the
program's last day. Dates and fees are subject to change.
June 18 - June 29, 2003 (2 weeks) $1750
Fee includes: all registration and instructional
costs for up to 3 credit hours; housing; program excursions and
activities; health insurance; international student ID card; T-shirt
or cap; full-time academic and administrative support.
Not included: round-trip international airfare;
passport; food; books and supplies; personal travel/activity/spending
money.
COURSE OFFERINGS
CPS
4321 Contemporary Policy Studies: Introduction to Contemporary
Economic / Political/Social/Legal Systems: Southeast Europe
CPS 4905r Directed Individual Study
CPS 5424 Comparative Politics and Administrative
Organization
CPS 5911r Supervised Research
For more information
about the Dubrovnik summer program or any of FSU's study-abroad
opportunities, contact the Office of International Programs [Link].
Please note that students should consult with their Program Director
about the study abroad programs they wish to pursue. Coursework
taken in overseas locations must be approved in advance for credit
toward the major or degree.
For a complete list of study abroad opportunities, please visit
the Office of International Programs. 
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