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Call for Proposals 2006- The deadline for applications is 25 November, 2005 -The Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) of Central European University, funded by the Higher Education Support Program of Open Society Institute, announces a call for proposals to develop new, innovative and relevant university courses. Aims of the Program
Eligibility Application is restricted to resident citizens of Eastern- and Southeastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union and Mongolia who are teaching or intending to teach at a university in any country of this region. Citizens of new EU member countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) are eligible only if they participate in group projects with colleagues from non-EU countries (such collaborative proposals are strongly encouraged) AND/OR projects are proposed in the special focus area listed at the end of this call (courses on issues related to Roma). Previous CRC participants may apply for a CDC grant, Academic Fellowship Program fellows may only receive a CDC grant one academic year after finishing their AFP fellowship. Those who benefit presently from another alternative Soros grant should contact the CRC office to discuss their eligibility. General Requirements
Course Development Competition Grants Grants for both individual and group projects will consist of the following:
Selection and Evaluation of Grants Applications will be evaluated and judged by CEU academics with sufficient knowledge of the higher education needs of the region. All grantees are expected to submit interim and final project reports, a course syllabus, student evaluation forms and their head of department's reflections on the results. Finished course syllabi will be edited and placed on the CDC website. The CDC will visit a selected number of grantees during the course implementation.How to Apply
Discipline Areas for the Course Development Competition 2006-2007 The CRC invites applications to the Course Development Competition in the discipline/ subject areas briefly described below. Rural Development Policy Post-socialist rural societies face particular challenges from globalization. Agriculture is increasingly unable to sustain rural communities and in the absence of viable alternatives, the result is growing poverty and out-migration. Legal Studies Secured transactions law - inspired by Article 9 of the U.S. Uniform Commercial Code - is an emerging field of private/commercial law that has come to the forefront of international harmonization/reform efforts very soon after the transition towards market economy began in Central and Eastern Europe. The explanation for the sudden interest was in the realization that no market economy can strive without being at the same time also a credit economy, which - however - presupposes the existence of developed and efficiently functioning secured transactions legal regime. As a result, hardly could one point to a country in this niche of Europe where the introduction of secured transactions laws was not put on the agenda of the reformers. Driven also by the demands of virtually all internationally active financial institutions the 'movement' has reached all the Continents. Irrespective of the intensive law-making activity, however, little, if anything, has been made on the front of education by [primarily] law schools to catch up with these developments. Thus, one could hardly find a new course designed to meet exactly these needs. One of the major problems is that without new generations of lawyers (or businessmen) educated in comparative secured transactions law the chances of an efficient turn towards market and credit economy are less the realistic.Anthropology Courses are invited on topics related to social and/or cultural anthropology, including or combining the following elements:
Environmental Sciences Sustainable development is 'development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs' Courses should address the key development problems of our time - poverty and social inequality; environmental degradation and a diminishing natural resource base; and lack of access to resources and the tools for social betterment for large segments of the population - in a holistic manner. The sectoral nature of academia typically means that courses dealing with global problems address one element while ignoring others. Thus, courses supported will deal with at least two aspects of Sustainable Development (e.g. environment and social or social and economic), bringing together and exploring interaction between various disciplines, thus encouraging students to think beyond their disciplinary boundaries. Courses should utilize teaching staff from various faculties. Political Science This year we are announcing the CDC in 2 sub-categories within the discipline of Political Science.
We invite course proposals dealing with the spread of human rights norms. Issues of particular interest are: We invite proposals to explore topics in democratic theory. This topic may be developed with one particular country or geographical region as its focus, or it may be more general. As well, the approach may be of a single school, such as rational choice, deliberative democracy, political philosophy, and post-structuralism, or it may offer comparative perspectives. Gender and the State Courses should address any aspect of the intersection of gender with state ideologies and practices. This can be broadly interpreted to encompass political practices, national ideologies/nationalism's, state policies, as well as state-like "effects" produced by non-state actors such as international organizations and transnational networks. We encourage courses that look at these effects on the lives of both women and men, and on the constructions of both femininity and masculinity. Equally desirable is attention to the ways in which states influence ideologies and practices vis-a-vis ethnicity, race, religion, class, age, and other social categories in gendered ways. Courses can be based in one academic discipline but we encourage those that combine perspectives from one or more disciplines, especially sociology, anthropology, history, political science, international relations, cultural studies, and gender/women's studies. Macroeconomics We invite:
History This year we are announcing the CDC in 2 sub-categories within the discipline of History.
The writing of history underwent profound changes in the last decades. Historians extended their research to new social categories and areas of inquiry, incorporated meta-theoretical and methodological borrowings from other disciplines, and questioned the main tenets of traditional approaches. In addition, the collapse of the communist system in 1989 occasioned an unprecedented opportunity for convergence and co-operation between "Western" academic research and "local" scholarship in Central and Eastern Europe. These developments make imperious a fresh examination of the evolution of the European and global historiography in the twentieth century and the introduction of new courses on historiography into university curricula in the region. Applications are invited for courses aiming to provide a systematic introduction either to the general history of the historiography in the twentieth century or to specific fields of historiography, such as social or intellectual history. In addition to their work on the curricula, successful applicants will be also integrated into research projects on post-communist historiography organized by Past, Inc., Center for Historical Studies and the academic journal East-Central Europe. L'Europe du Centre Est, Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift.Both in Western European historiography and in the post-Communist countries, various attempts were made in the last decade at bridging the gap between national schools historical narratives. New analytical frameworks have been elaborated for approaching regional or European history from a transnational perspective, such as histoire croisée, "shared" or "entangled history" and the history of "transfers" attempting to critically re-evaluate comparative history and to shift the emphasis on multiple levels of connectedness, through interdisciplinary lenses. Applications are invited for courses that re-conceptualize the modern history of Central and Eastern Europe by employing relational and transnational approaches, as part of a more general effort to re-write continental history from an integrated perspective. Courses should place a greater emphasis on the "shared" and "entangled" history of the peoples in these regions and assess international influences and transfers. By reconsidering the historical role of empires, regions and national frameworks, they should transcend the prevailing narrow national-based historiographic perspective and integrate Central and Eastern Europe into the major themes and trends affecting European history as a whole. In addition to their work on the curricula, successful applicants will be also integrated into the research projects on collective identities launched by Past, Inc., Center for Historical Studies and the academic journal East-Central Europe. L'Europe du Centre Est, Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift.Beside the above discipline areas, we are inviting course proposals in the following special focus area. The restriction on new EU countries does not apply to this area. Courses on Issues Related to Roma With the goal to further encourage the integration of issues related to Roma into mainstream academic disciplines we welcome proposals for academic courses in all areas of humanities and social sciences dealing entirely or in a significant part with this topic. © Curriculum Resource Center http://www.ceu.hu/crc/cdc_propl.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||