Central European University - Curriculum Development
Workshop "University Teaching about Corruption and Anti-
corruption", March 21 - 26, 2005, Budapest, Hungary
Application deadline: February 1, 2005
Center for Policy Studies and the Curriculum Resource Center of
the Central European University announce a curriculum
development workshop "University Teaching about Corruption and
Anti-corruption". The workshop is intended for university
teachers and/or professionals teaching (part-time) in the Social
Sciences and Humanities who would like to revise or develop
courses on corruption. It will take place at the Central
European University, Budapest. The event will take place as part
of CRC's 'Topical Issues in Curriculum Development' series. For
selected participants from Central and Eastern Europe, the
former Soviet Union or Mongolia all costs related to travel and
accommodation during the sessions will be covered by the CRC.
Participants from outside the region are also welcome on a self-
financing basis.
There is new international concern with the old problem of
corruption, and new demand for teaching and training people
involved in controlling it. Economic approaches to understanding
corruption have become influential in international
organisations. Other social science disciplines frame the
problem of corruption in different ways. What counts
as 'corruption', and approaches to dealing with it, also depend
on particular historical, regional and national contexts.
The workshop will consider issues of audience, curriculum,
teaching materials and methods, assessment, accreditation,
funding and the alignment of teaching and research. Critical use
will be made of the internet resources now available on the
subject of corruption. Material from the workshop will be posted
on a website for use by participants afterwards.
Team-taught by international faculty with long-standing
experience in teaching and researching the subject, the workshop
will adopt a deliberately cross disciplinary approach to
understanding corruption, and attempts to control it. The
organisers would like to attract participants from different
disciplinary backgrounds (law, economics, sociology, political
science etc) and people involved in professional training as
well as university education. The workshop will also consider
how academic curricula can be adapted to training needs of
government officials, or activists, and at how anti-corruption
agencies and activists may contribute to the design, delivery or
funding of courses.
The main regional and historical focus will be on post communist
Eastern Europe, but the workshop will adopt a strongly
comparative approach, and participants from outside this region
would be welcome.
More information
Website: http://www.ceu.hu/crc/crc_visit_appl.html
Location: Hungary
Deadline: Feb 2005
Website: http://www.ceu.hu/crc/crc_visit_appl.html
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