Prague, Czech Republic
Undergraduate Courses
Undergraduate students must register for 8 points.
Elementary Czech
V91.9201 – Vlasakova – 4 points
Immerses the student in Czech language and culture and includes in-depth study of the essentials of Czech grammar, along with the reading of texts. Students reinforce what they have learned in class in the streets, theatres, and cafés of Prague. Students are tested at the first class to determine proficiency.
Elementary Russian I
V91.9001-001 – Staff – 4 points
Intended to give beginners a speaking and reading knowledge of the Russian language. Involves an introduction to the essentials of Russian grammar and the reading of graded texts, with special emphasis on the acquisition of an idiomatic conversational vocabulary. Combines the traditional grammatical approach with a conversational, inductive method.
Advanced Russian
V91.9108 – Staff – 4 points
The course will address more difficult aspects of Russian grammar, such as Verbs of Motion, Perfective/Imperfective Verbs, Participles, Verbal Adverbs. Students will read and discuss articles relevant to their interests, and modern Russian short stories. Syntax and word formation will be emphasized. Particular attention will be given to developing students' oral proficiency in the language.
UNDERGRADUATE CONTENT COURSES CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH
Modern Central European Literature and Film SYLLABUS
V30.9540 – Staff – 4 points
The Czech novelist Milan Kundera asserts “art must express questions of human existence... which... in Europe in the 20th Century finds its clarity of expression in the aesthetics of non-realism.” The overall aim of the course is to explore Modern Central European Literature and Film in relation to Kundera’s assertion. Each week we will explore a great work of literature, and a film of international reputation and also discuss connections and influences between the literary and filmic genres. To greatly deepen our insights between the chosen works and contemporary Central Europe, the course will be informed y contextual explorations of psychology, politics, history, culture. As much as possible we will also use the city of Prague as our classroom and go on visits to important cultural places. Writers and filmmakers will also be invited to engage with the class. At times, students will work in small groups and give presentations on various aspects of the work studied. Note: Students must have read Kafka’s The Trial and seen Kieslovski’s film Three Colors Blue before the first class.
Central European Politics: European Security
V53.9522 – Bartuska – 4 points
Identical with G53.9580.
This course introduces students to the political systems of the states of Central Europe. Domestic politics and international relations of the countries under consideration are examined. A special attention is paid to the question of European security in the world context.
Russian Expansionism
V91.9170 – Staff – 4 points
Identical with: V57.9170.
This course is an approach to the expansion of Russia from the ninth to the twentieth centuries, with an epilogue covering the recent Russian past. We mean “expansion” very broadly: this state was expansionist by definition, and by tracing the territorial growth of the state we are, in fact, looking at the expansion of a social system, a culture, a system of rule and of government, and an ideology. These, in turn, were in flux; consider the differences between an autocracy based on divine right until 1917, and a republic based on Marxist dialectics until 1991, and the market capitalist federation that remains with us today. Consideration will be given, too, to the perspective of the countries of Eastern and East Central Europe whose fate was so directly affected by the Russian Imperial and Soviet proximity.
GRADUATE COURSES
Graduate students must register for 4 points.
Central European Politics: European Security
G53.9580 - Bartuska – 4 points
This course introduces students to the political systems of the states of Central Europe. Domestic politics and international relations of the countries under consideration are examined. A special attention is paid to the question of European security in the world context.
This graduate level course differs from V53.9522 in that additional assignments are required.
COSTS
8 points are required for undergraduate students to participate in this program.
Undergraduate Tuition
$6504 (8 points)
Graduate Tuition
$1070 (per point)
Program & Activities Fee
$550
International Health Insurance
approximately $70
Housing
$2123 Single Room
$1665 Double Room
$1454 Triple Room
$1268 Quadruple Room
PLEASE NOTE: All students participating in the program are required to live in NYU-provided housing. Students are billed a standard housing rate in the spring. Housing charges will be adjusted at the end of the program based on actual housing assignments, which may result in an additional charge or credit issued in the late summer.
There is an additional registration and services fee of:
$245 for students registered at NYU for spring 2011
$270 for students not registered at NYU for spring 2011