> Dear Friends,
>
> The Curriculum Resource Center of the Central European University has
taken over the management of the Course Development Competition (CDC) from
HESP, and we are announcing now our call for proposals for the academic year
2000/2001.
>
> The competition is intended to encourage the introduction of new courses
which are innovative in content, methodology and teaching approach, in the
subject areas included in our announcement.
> The competition is open to individuals and groups from the region for 10
month grants. During this period the successful applicants should first
prepare and then teach their proposed course.
> The application deadline for submitting the proposals is 10 April 2000.
>
> I am attaching the detailed call for proposal, as well as the individual
and group application forms (all these are also available on our website
(www.ceu.hu/crc/cdc/)
>
> All the best,
> Matyas Szabo
>
>
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>
> COURSE DEVELOPMENT COMPETITION
>
> ORGANISED BY
> THE CURRICULUM RESOURCE CENTRE (CRC),
> CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
>
>
> CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2000
>
> Application deadline: 10 April 2000
>
> The Curriculum Resource Centre (CRC) of Central European University,
sponsored by the Higher Education Support Program of Open Society Institute,
announces a call for proposals to develop university courses.
>
> Aims of the Program
> This competition is intended to encourage the introduction of new courses
which are innovative in content, methodology and teaching approach.
> The program seeks to further the dissemination of new curricula across our
region (defined as Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and
Mongolia).
> Finally, we also aim to provide incentives and means for interdisciplinary
and international co-operation amongst academics from the region.
>
> Competition Description
> Applicants are invited to develop and teach a one or two semester long
course on an important topic from a new perspective, in the discipline areas
listed below. The course should be clearly directed towards one of the
following levels: introductory; intermediate; advanced; post-graduate.
> The competition is open to individuals and groups for 10 month grants.
During this period, the successful applicants should first prepare and then
teach their proposed course.
> Group grants will be awarded to promote innovative, collaborative projects
and priority will be given to groups of academics from at least two
different countries or cities of the region who aim to design a course from
an international perspective.
> Where appropriate, applicants are strongly recommended to base their
courses on their original research in the given field.
> All applicants should show how they intend to apply new approaches
(teaching methodology) to delivering the course.
> Project proposals should demonstrate the following: compatibility with the
curriculum reform endeavours; innovative character and approach (also to
course design); relevance to regional issues; scientific quality in the
selected field; feasibility.
> All accepted applicants will attend a workshop on Curriculum Design and
Teaching Methodology at the beginning of their grant period.
> Application is restricted to resident citizens of Central and Eastern
Europe, the Former Soviet Union and Mongolia who are teaching or intending
to teach at a university in any country of this region.
> Previous CDC grantees and HESP/RSS Course Development Fellows are not
eligible for 5 years. Previous CRC participants can apply for a CDC grant.
>
> Course Development Competition Grants
> Grants for both individual and group projects will consist of the
following:
> Monthly individual stipends for the preparation and teaching period;
> An allowance for legitimate additional course development expenses (book
purchases, teaching materials, photocopying, slides, etc.);
> An allowance for additional, justified travel costs and administrative
expenses in the case of group grants;
> By negotiation with the CRC, an allowance for justified travel to a
library outside the home city for the development of course materials etc.
The CRC will not, however, cover the costs of study in countries outside the
region.
>
> Group stipends for the teaching period will be calculated from the amount
of a full stipend in proportion to the degree of involvement of each
participant (involvement should be expressed clearly as a percentage in the
course plan). Group leaders will, in addition, receive a small group
leader's fee for their extra responsibilities.
>
> Evaluation Procedures
> Applications will be evaluated and judged by a special selection committee
set up by the CRC. Members of the committee will be respected scholars with
sufficient knowledge of the higher education needs of the region. The new
courses will also be evaluated by experts in the field. Finally, all
successful applicants are expected to have their students on the given
course provide their own evaluation. Finished courses will be edited and
placed on the CRC Web Site to be available to all.
>
> Discipline Areas for the Course Development Competition 2000
> The CRC invites applications to the Course Development Competition in the
following subject areas:
>
> Gender and Society
> We welcome applications for courses which seek to combine socially
relevant issues in the gender field either from your district, country or
micro-region with a solid methodological approach from any discipline which
gender studies touches. For example: Sociology, Political Science,
Ethnicity/Nationalism, Cultural Studies, History, Public Policy etc.
Applicants may use cross-disciplinary or interdisciplinary approaches. You
may use 'Gender Studies' to apply to issues which are 'gendered' or raise
questions about the nature or our understanding of gender, women's studies
or men's studies.
>
> Literature
> Applications may be in any one of the following fields:
> Comparative European Literature
> Contemporary * with an emphasis on the questions raised by the comparative
aspect
> Innovative and original Literary History and Scholarship of any period
> The question of periodisation from a comparative viewpoint
> The question of canons from a comparative viewpoint
> Literature as a site for interdisciplinarity
> Contemporary Literary Theories with an applied perspective
>
> Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research
> Courses should cover the purpose, design and analysis of quantitative and
qualitative approaches to research in social sciences and the relevance of
these methods to social theory and micro or macro level changes in
post-communist countries. Topics could focus on case studies carried out by
using one of the following research techniques: participant observation,
ethnomethodology, biographies, conversation analysis, narrative inquiry,
phenomenology, etc., or statistical computer packages, cluster and factor
analysis, regressions, comparative methods, public opinion polls, etc.
>
> Public Policy
> We welcome applications for courses in Public Policy, Public
Administration, Public Administration for Non-Government Organization (The
Third Sector), Public Sector Analysis and Educational Policy and Analysis.
Whilst the methodologies applied should be both rigorous and systematic, the
topics to be discussed should be problems relevant to your society. If
possible, the course should be based on original research into problem
fields. Finally, we encourage the use of the Case Study Method.
>
> Comparative Historiography
> Applicants should consider one of the following areas:
> Contemporary trends in Historiography
> A survey of Historiography from a comparative viewpoint
> Applied Contemporary Historiography
>
> Labour / Private Law
> Proposals in the field of labour law should be aimed at the renewal of the
content and method of teaching labour and employment law in the region. It
should address the main challenges in this field, that is the analysis of
the new relationship between private and labour law in the transitory market
economies, the broadening legal and social forms of employing human labour
and, not in the least, the changing forms and methods of workers'
representation and interest protection in the context of the new
constitutional order and fundamental rights. Inherent international as well
as interdisciplinary aspects are expected to be covered.
> Applicants in the field of private law should address the methodological
and scientific problems of the changes  and enlargement in the relevant
field of legislation and jurisprudence. Preference will be given to courses
that build up an up-to-date and viable teaching project covering the various
fields of private law - beyond developing detailed teaching material in one
specific field of private law (primarily in the field of rights of the
persons, contracts, and liability.
>
> Social and Political Theory
> We encourage applicants to design courses that deal with the fundamental
changes of the main perspectives (paradigms) of social and political thought
and offer the history of ideas that significantly influenced contemporary
sociology and political science. Attention could be given to the analysis of
the genealogy of the main categories and ideas of social and political
theory: crisis, society, justice, social and political order, legitimacy,
power, identity, open society, natural law, social contract, progress,
science, objectivity, rationality, etc. Courses could also examine the
thought of certain great pathfinders whose ideas had an important impact on
contemporary sociological and political debates.
>
> How to Apply
> Applications must be presented in English on CRC Course Development
Competition forms (photocopied forms are acceptable).
> For individual proposals, the application form must be accompanied by a
description of the proposed course, preliminary bibliography of materials to
be used in preparation and teaching, a presentation plan, a curriculum vitae
(also highlighting research activity), a letter of recommendation and a
letter of endorsement from the host university. The letter of endorsement
should include the host university's commitment to allowing you to teach the
proposed course, and should clearly indicate the period when the course will
be taught.
> For group proposals, the application should be submitted by the project
leader. In addition to the above it should contain a list of the individuals
involved in the project, their CVs, institutional affiliations, contact
information and a letter from each individual stating their willingness to
be involved in the project. For group projects letters of endorsement must
be submitted from all the institutions that will host the course (Please
feel free to duplicate the letter of endorsement form if necessary).
> Application forms can be obtained from your local Soros Foundation free of
charge, from the Curriculum Resource Centre at Central European University
or from our website, http://www.ceu.hu/crc/cdc/. Applications must arrive to
CRC by 10 April 2000 (to the address: CRC * Central European University,
1051 Budapest, Nador u.9, Hungary). Applicants will be informed about the
results in mid-May. Preparation should begin in June and courses should be
taught during the first and/or second semester of the 2000/2001 academic
year.
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