In 1992, ECEP developed the first Collaborative Courses in Warsaw
and Budapest. The syllabus of this initial course in Political Sociology
was prepared jointly by New School faculty and coordinators of the course
in Warsaw and Budapest. The preparatory work (discussing the topics, selecting
the reading materials, the purchasing and shipping of books for the course)
took place during the fall semester. The course was taught (and coordinated)
during the spring semester by two local professors. Approximately one-third
of both the classes were conducted by visiting professors from the U.S.
or Western Europe, experts in a given topic. In 1993, the course introduced
to the curricula of the region's universities was entitled The Social
Construction of Democracy and was taught in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw.
The 1994 course, Political Sociology, took place in two separate
universities in Sofia (Sofia University and New Bulgarian University) as
well as at Comenius University in Bratislava. Another course entitled Modern
Political Ideologies, was introduced at Trnava University in Slovakia
in 1994. A course entitled The Political Theory of Ethnicity and Minority
was introduced into the curriculum of Eötvös Loránd University
in Budapest. The program of Collaborative Courses was superceded, over
time, by the Teaching Partnerships initiative.