In 1992 under the auspices
of the Graduate Faculty and in collaboration with the International
Cultural Center in Cracow, ECEP launched the Democracy &
Diversity: Summer Institute in Cracow, Poland,
a three-week graduate program in society, politics, and culture.
The Summer Institute brings East European and American students
together to study and explore in a rigorous academic manner the
issues of democracy, nationalism, religious conflict, and gender.
Each seminar, which is the equivalent of a full-semester course,
is designed to introduce both new curricular topics as well as
new approaches to graduate teaching. The city of Cracow is an
extraordinary historical site and major academic and artistic
center, which for centuries has provided a link between the cultures
of East and West. Professors from the region are invited as co-teachers.
Students earn six credits in two courses which complement the
Graduate Faculty's degree programs in Political Science, Sociology,
Anthropology, and Liberal Studies. In 1994 the Summer Institute
began featuring a special workshop on analyzing, designing, and
implementing public policy. The annual Institute brings together
each summer approximately 45 graduate students and junior faculty
from a cumulative total of 31 countries so far. Among the New
School participants there were foreign student from Mexico, Chile
and Peru. Institute faculty come from the GF and other universities
associated with ECEP.
1997 Summer Graduate Institute Information
_ Curricula of Past Summer Institutes
__ 1994 Democracy & Diversity Report
___ 1995 Democracy & Diversity Report
____ 1996 Democracy & Diversity Report