Skip to main content.
OSUN Menu
Education sub-menu
Education
OSUN Courses
Faculty
Graduate Programs
Certificate Programs
Mobility
Teaching
Birkbeck Summer School
Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy (CLASP)
Developing Teaching Professionals
Experiential Learning Institute
Global History Lab
Global Teaching Fellowship Program
GLOBALED
Curricula
CORUSUS
Economic Democracy Initiative
Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network
Global Studies
Hannah Arendt Humanities Network
Human Rights Program
Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative
Policy Labs
Professional Development Program for University Administrators
Strengthening the Core
Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice
Research sub-menu
Research
Research Projects
Community Engaged Research
The Democracy Institute
Economic Democracy Initiative
GEOHUB
Global Institute of Advanced Study
OSUN Forum on Democracy and Development
Research Creation Initiative
Senior Projects
Fellowships
Chatham House Academy Fellowships
Global Scholars Academy
Past Projects
Global Observatory on Academic Freedom
Open Society Research Platform
Access sub-menu
Access
Teacher Education
Enhanced Network Teacher Education Capacity
Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives
Education Pathways
Collaborative for Liberal Education for Adolescents
Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison
Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives
Microcollege for Just Community Leadership
Civic sub-menu
Civic Engagement
Student Engagement
Get Engaged Conference
Global Commons
Global Engagement Fellows
Engaged Learning
Certificate in Civic Engagement
Community Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences
Community Engaged Research
Engaged Senior Projects
Experiential Learning Institute
OSUN Science Shop
Solve Climate by 2030
Academic Freedom sub-menu
Academic Freedom
Initiatives
AltLiberalArts
Invisible University for Ukraine
Smolny Beyond Borders
Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative
Institutional Partners
American University of Afghanistan
Parami University
News sub-menu
News + Opportunities
Newsroom
Current News
News Archive
Events
Current Events
Events Archive
Opportunities
For Students
For Faculty
Archive
Student Fellows and Ambassadors
Resources sub-menu
Resources
OSUN Resources
Academic Technology Guides
Blended Learning Toolkit
Digital Collection
Digital Case Studies
Digital Course Collection
Student-Produced Videos
About sub-menu
About
About OSUN
Our Vision
Who We Are
What We Do
Member Institutions
Themes
Annual Report
Branding
Search
Search
News & Events Menu
News & Events Menu
Newsroom
Current News
News Archive
Events
Current Events
Events Archive
Opportunities
Current Opportunities
Opportunities Archive
OSUN News
View all news
CEU Summer University 2021 Features New Collaborative Courses With OSUN
This story originally appeared on
Central European University's website
.
Since 1996, CEU’s
Summer University (SUN)
has been bringing academics and professionals together in Budapest to learn from CEU professors alongside leading scholars and experts from universities and international organizations worldwide. This year, SUN has collaborated with the
Open Society University Network (OSUN)
yielding new interdisciplinary course offerings designed through the framework and values of the network.
“OSUN and SUN have a shared mission and interest in promoting civic engagement in higher education, encouraging intellectual curiosity and fact-based research in training academics and professionals,” comments CEU SUN Executive Director Eva Gedeon. Having become part of a larger network, she notes that SUN has benefited from access to a wider range of new collaborations for courses in the program, which include both research intensive courses as well as policy and training courses.
“CEU faculty have found this new opportunity exciting and convened or joined the teaching teams of thirteen courses for 2021 within this framework. OSUN, on the other hand, has found in the CEU summer program a partner to serve the thematic and skills-building needs of OSUN colleagues and students and provide a platform for debate and collaboration across the sectors of education, policy, practice, and activism,” remarks Gedeon.
Along these lines, SUN also provides space for experimenting with new topics and initiatives and can work as a smaller-scale pilot project for larger OSUN collaborations in the planning phase. “As a next step, I can foresee the summer courses more closely aligned with some larger OSUN projects as, for instance, either an exploratory phase at the beginning or a dissemination channel at the end of a project,” adds Gedeon.
A great part of SUN’s attraction comes from the course design. This year, several offerings, such as
Confronting the Crisis of Expertise
,
Disruptive Narratives
and
Liberalism Infected
, explore the crisis of liberal democracies and the backsliding of democracies globally in a post-truth world from various disciplines. Another cluster of study focused on education and pedagogy illuminates topics of higher education policy and design through
The Quality of University Education
and
Designing a Collaborative and Connected Liberal Arts Classroom
. While courses deploy CEU expertise and research that can be expanded in specialized areas, SUN ventures into related, but interdisciplinary territory, for example, with courses such as
Feminist Political Economy
, and
Commoning Art and Culture
, as well as those that focus on
music as intangible cultural heritage
and
literary journalism
.
In 2021, the SUN courses will be delivered digitally. While acknowledging that online courses cannot fully replace the in-person experience, Gedeon is confident that the experience will be lively and engaging for participants: “Our courses are not solo performances conducted by one professor but there is a team of faculty, an ensemble performing together for the course audience. This in itself contributes to the intellectual variety and diversity of perspectives that students are confronted with, helping to keep them stay fully tuned in and actively participate in the online sessions.”
In 2020, SUN received an overwhelmingly positive response to the first ever online courses, which were taught digitally due to pandemic constraints, with over 150 students from more than 50 countries. The intensive courses employ a range of modes: short, live faculty presentations and pre-recorded lectures, alternating with both facilitated and independent small group discussions in breakout rooms, followed up by plenary sessions, one-on-one consultations with faculty, individual or group assignments and presentations, digital fieldwork, and more.
Those who want to participate in this year’s SUN program can still apply to
several SUN courses accepting applications
. Additionally, faculty interested in teaching next year can reference the
2022 Call for Course Proposals
.
Post Date:
04-12-2021