Democracy &
Diversity

In 1992 under the auspices of the Graduate Faculty and in collaboration with the international Cultural Center in Cracow, our East & Central Europe Program (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 Europeans and American students together to study and to explore in a rigorous academic manner the issues of democracy, citizenship, nationalism, political culture, 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 town 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. Institute faculty comes from both the New Schools Graduate Faculty and from different regions TCDS works in. Students earn six credits in two courses, which compliment 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 50 post-graduate students and junior faculty from a cumulative total of 31 countries so far.

NEW! 2003 CURRICULUM

2002
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2001
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2000
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Democracy & Diversity (Cracow) 1998
Democracy & Diversity (Cracow) 1997
Past Institutes (1992-96)
Alumni '96-99

Why Cracow?
Accommodations
Facts About the Program
Applications: Participants from New School University
Applications: Participants from other universities in USA, East & Central Europe and other parts of the world