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Study in Poland
Varia - Center of Polish Language
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski- Szkola Letnia
Learn Polish in Poland contest - win a free summer course in Warsaw at The Centre for Polish Studies
Polish Studies Scholarship
It is with great excitement that the University of Washington Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is accepting applications for the annual UW Polish Studies Scholarship for UW students interested in studying in Poland between June 2009 and May 2010. Scholarships, offered by the UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee were made possible through the generosity of supporters and friends of the UW Polish Studies.
Priority will be given to students traveling to Poland to study the Polish language, but support may be also provided to students who would like to pursue other aspects of Polish studies.
Awards of up to $1500 will be offered toward airfare, lodging and/or tuition for students enrolled in an accredited program in Poland.
To apply submit the following required materials:
- 2-page essay, in which you explain your intended academic plans and how these funds will assist you (double-spaced, 12 font, Courier, Arial or Times New Roman), with 1-inch margins on all sides;
- budget outlining your expenses;
- one faculty letter of support; and
- unofficial copy of your transcript.
Applications are due March 30, 2009. A decision will be made by April 15, 2009.
Please send application materials to:
Shosh Westen
Slavic Department, Box 353580
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3580
Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Righteous Among the Nations
Righteous Among the Nations are non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. This title also refers to the secular award by the same name given by the State of Israel to those who rescued Jews. To learn more about the Polish Righteous, visit the Museum of the History of Polish Jews’ website
Gilman Scholarship 2010
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program Spring 2010 and Summer 2010 Application Open - Deadline: October 6, 2009
The Gilman International Scholarship Program is pleased to announce the opening of the Spring 2010 online application and the launch of a pilot summer award cycle for students participating in Summer 2010 study abroad programs. A limited number of summer awards will be available to students majoring in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math field who meet the program's standard eligibility criteria listed below.
- Enrolled as an undergraduate student at a two or four-year U.S. Institution
- United States citizen
- Receiving a Federal Pell Grant at the time of application or during the term of study abroad
- Participating in a study abroad program that is no less than 4 weeks and no more than an academic year
- Receiving academic credit
- Study in any country not currently under a U.S. State Department Travel Warning or Cuba
Spring 2010 & Summer 2010 applications are now being accepted online and are due October 6, 2009. For more information about the Gilman Scholarship, application deadlines & timeline, and application process, please visit the Gilman website at www.iie.org/gilman, contact the Gilman Program at 713-621-6300 ext. 25 or email gilman@iie.org.
CIVITAS SUMMER PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP
2009 CIVITAS SUMMER PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IN WARSAW, POLAND (June 1 - July 31, 2009) in ENGLISH.
http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/
The summer internship program organized by Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland includes 25-30 hours of internship per week, credited academic and internship seminars and Polish language course.
INTERNSHIPS (IN ENGLISH)
The program offers a unique opportunity for a limited number of students to undertake full-time summer professional internships in various profit, public and non-profit organizations in Warsaw, Poland that focus, among others, on:
- Arts & Culture,
- Human Rights, Migration, Refugees,
- European Integration, International Politics, Diplomacy,
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs,
- Media, Media Advertising, Journalism,
- Civil Society and Local Community Development, Civic Education,
- Public health,
- Jewish history & culture,
- Economics, Business, Finance,
- Transparency in public administration, anti-corruption policies,
- Environment.
A sample list of internship areas and organizations can be viewed at: http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/organizations/InternshipOrganizations.html
ACADEMIC PROGRAM and CREDITS
During the internship program students receive credits for:
- academic seminar (IN ENGLISH) on democratization, transition, the EU integration with a special focus on Central Europe;
- internship seminar (IN ENGLISH) that provides an intellectual forum for the students to reflect upon their internship experience;
- optional Polish language class.
Students can earn an equivalent of up to 6 American credits awarded by Collegium Civitas. For more information about the academic program visit: http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/academic/AcademicProgram.html
APPLICATION & DEADLINE
Graduate and Undergraduate students can apply. Civitas Summer Internship Program has a rolling admission and interested applicants are invited to submit their applications to the program anytime until March 16, 2009. Application forms are available here: http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/apply/HowtoApply.html
CONTACT
Inquiries about the program can be directed to Olena Tregub, Executive Director, Global Educational Leadership, at contact@globaleducationleadership.org or tel. 646 670 6089.
For more information about the program, application form and costs visit: http://www.globaleducationleadership.org
Related Courses at UW
2009 SPRING QUARTER COURSES at the UW
SISJE 490 POLSH 420 SLN 16977 JEWS AND HOLOCAUST IN POLISH LITERATURE AND CINEMA (VLPA 5 credits)
Instructor: Przemyslaw Chojnowski, PhD. Place, time: JHN 026, WF 12:30-2:20
Before World War II about 3.5 million Jews lived in Poland. Over centuries, they had become a significant element of the Polish social landscape and their culture flourished. The Nazi regime brought about the annihilation of this culture and since then Poland has ceased to be a cultural melting-pot. The objective of the course is to discuss the attitude of Jews and Poles toward Jews and Jewish causes, as reflected in wartime and post-war Polish literature and cinema. In particular, the following topics will be dealt with: Czeslaw Milosz’s poems from the WWII period; Warsaw Ghetto and Polish “guiltiness”; Tadeusz Borowski's testimony about everyday life in the Auschwitz death camp; Janusz Korczak's Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto; Ficowski's search for the disappeared world; Hanna Krall’s literary reportage and autobiographical writings on Polish Jews.
The following films on the Polish Jews will be shown and discussed: Last Stage (1948) dir. Wanda Jakubowska (a classic, picturing life in the Auschwitz death camp, based on Jakubowska's own experience); Border Street (1948) dir. Aleksander Ford (the struggle daily life in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation; the Ghetto Uprising, the coexistence of Poles and Jews; questions about anti-Semitism); Passenger (1963) dir. Andrzej Munk ('Victim' and 'oppressor' in Auschwitz); Landscape After the Battle (1971) dir. Andrzej Wajda (the prisoner's psyche, the abnormalities of an extermination camp and their consequences); Kornblumenblau (1988) dir. Leszek Wosiewicz ('biologism' in Auschwitz); Korczak (1990) dir. Andrzej Wajda (life in the Warsaw Ghetto); Requiem for Five Hundred Thousand (1963) dir. Jerzy Bossak (documentary on the Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw); Europa Europa (1988) dir. Agnieszka Holland (Jews in Central and Eastern Europe).
POLSH 403 1st Year Polish MTWTHF 11:30-12:20 RAI 116
Instructor: Katarzyna Dziwirek
The first-year sequence in Polish language is designed as a completion of the formal study of the grammar of the language, supplemented by extensive readings from a variety of areas, emphasizing cultural and ethnic heritage. emphasis is placed upon oral and compositional skills. The student is expected to write brief reports and to prepare oral classroom presentations. Prerequisites: POLSH 402 or permission of instructor.
SLAV 351 History of the Slavic Languages (5) VLPA
Instructor: Katarzyna Dziwirek
External and internal history of Slavic literary languages from the beginnings to the present time, including the development of writing systems, external attempts at reform, and the development of vocabulary.
HSTEU 220 Introduction to East European Studies (5)
Instructor: James R Felak
I&S Introduction to the history of post-1945 Eastern Europe focusing on political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic issues. Countries surveyed include Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Offered: jointly with EURO 220.
SLAV 423 East European Film (5, max. 15) VLPA
Instructor: Gordana Crnkovic
Survey of major East European film makers. Compares East European and Western production of those directors who worked partially in the West, e.g., Polanski, Forman, Holland, Makavejev. Topics include film in socialist versus market economy, politics, gender, sexuality.
EURO 494 East European Politics:
Instructor: Arista Cirtautas
Lives in Transition From the imposition of communist rule to the Revolutions of 1989 and the transition to liberal capitalism, the countries of Eastern Europe have undergone tremendous political, social and economic changes since WWII. Not surprisingly, these processes have been the subject of multiple histories and social science works that have, for the most part, documented the transformations from the top down, examining changes in regimes and institutions. While not neglecting the broader institutional context, this course will, however, focus on how these changes have affected the individuals involved. By reading memoirs, eyewitness narratives and anthropology works, we will gain insight into both the ordinary routines and the extraordinary events that have continuously shaped and re-shaped modern east European political development from the bottom up. Such a perspective should enable an ‘empathic understanding’ of the challenges east Europeans have faced; an understanding that often gets lost or obscured by the tendency to study this part of Europe more in terms of over-arching “-isms” (e.g., nationalism, communism, post-communism) than in terms of distinct states and individual lives.
HSTEU 440 History of Communism
Instructor: Scott A. Brown
This course will explore several themes pertaining to the history of communism. We will compare the theory of communism, as espoused in canonical texts from Marx, Lenin and others, to attempts at its implementation in the Soviet Union, China, Latin America and elsewhere. This course will also examine the factors behind the rise and fall of Communist regimes, searching for explanations for why communism took root not in the industrially developed countries of Western Europe, as Marx had predicted, but in less industrialized, largely agricultural societies, such as Tsarist Russia and China. We will read a variety of primary sources and memoirs that describe how individuals experienced Communist societies. Finally, we will try to put all these facets together in order to explain why communism failed in Eastern Europe, yet managed to survive and even adapt elsewhere.