Courses
The
courses we offer in this program are
specially designed and they focus on issues of global importance.
Each course is both interactive and challenging.
The
transcripts are issued by Megatrend University of Applied
Sciences,
the oldest and lthe argest private university in South East
Europe.
Multiculturalism
This course reviews the main
issues of multiculturalism and interactions in multicultural
societies with a special focus on social
scientific study of intercultural communication.
There are three objectives to this course. The first is to introduce the student to several important
theories of the process of communicating across cultural groups. The second is to examine examples of empirical research
generated by these diverse perspectives. The third is to consider how this information can be
applied in our personal and professional lives, with the goal of
promoting positive intercultural interactions. This course is intended for undergraduate and graduate
students, and involves a good deal of reading, writing and
independent study (i.e., it is a heavy course load).
Globalization
and
Development
The course
on Globalization will provide an introduction to this phenomenon
and analyze the most important spheres that are affected by this
process. We will explore further the links between globalization,
democracy and economic development. The process of globalization
implies a growing transcendence of borders, with social relations
becoming less linked to national and territorial frameworks.
Globalization offers new possibilities and threats for the
economic advancement of developing countries. In this course, we
will investigate the constellation of factors and forces that will
allow developing countries to reap the benefits of globalization
or to fall further behind in the development process.
We will analyze how national conditions, policies, and the forces
of globalization interact so as to foster or thwart economic
development, and we will explore necessary changes in these
interactions so as to increase the benefits of globalization for
developing countries.
International
Relations- Diplomacy
This course
will explore historical development of international relations and
diplomacy as well as its major trends and principles. It will
start with giving the notions of "diplomacy",
"international relations", "foreign/ domestic
policy" and "major actors". Then it will
give a very
brief outline of proto-diplomatic history starting with the Greeks
and
the Chinese, then to Romans-Celts and medieval Europe. Here will
be given more attention to the treaty of Westphalia and the first
system
of international relations. Students will discuss "the long
15th
century" and the reasons of European breakthrough. Then -
rise and fall of
hegemons (Portugal, Spain, Holland, England). A
bit more attention will be paid to the period around 1890-1920.
After
the history of diplomatic relations has been introduced, the
course will dig in really deep into different aspects of diplomacy
-
economic, military, political, cultural. Students will be given
several case studies and asked to study and research all aspects
of it - from
etiquette to psychology, from personal relations to wide political
context,
influence of domestic issues on policy makers, impact of ideology,
even
matters of ethnic self-identification. Discussion of different
paradigms will be integrated into historical
context - for example, wilsonian liberalism fits in well with the
period
of his presidency and will be discussed again when talking about
Franklin Roosevelt. We will be talking about events in diplomatic
history and analyze them from different positions.
At the end we will
speak about threats and challenges diplomacy has to
face in the 21st century and the changes that globalization
brought
into this field.
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