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Subject: [artbox] Cultural Policy Studies at CEU, Budapest
From:    "Dessy Gavrilova" <dgavrilova la redhouse-sofia.org>
Date:    Mon, December 22, 2008 11:01
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CEU Department of Public Policy Adds a Cultural Policy Stream





The CEU Department of Public Policy offers a one-year MA in Public Policy
with an optional specialization in the field of cultural policy. Since its
launch in 2004 the department attracted a high number of applications from
students in the CEE/FSU region and around the world. Graduates from the
program have become government officials and policy experts in their home
countries. Many of the students trained in the MA in Public Policy program
are early or mid-career professionals who already bring professional
experience to the program. The MA program offers different areas of
specialization to its students. Upon successful completion of a particular
stream of specialization students receive a diploma supplement to their MA
degree.


The Cultural Policy Stream

Cultural policies of national states, and later of regions and cities, have
evolved in Europe after World War Two as part of comprehensive public policy
articulation in many other fields, including health, housing, education etc.
and reflected the emancipation program of the welfare state in Western
Europe and the common ideological framework in the former communist
countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Huge political and socio-economic
changes sweeping across Central and Eastern Europe since 1989 have only in a
limited way affected the cultural policies of post-communist countries in
transition. Across Europe, the present dilemmas of cultural policy reflect
the key challenges of public policy, thorn between the traditional
prerogatives of the national state and European integration, national
interests and forces of globalization, government regulation and the
reliance on the market, and such major new issues as intensive migration,
ICT revolution, and a prominent policy making role of the cities and
regions. In this stream culture and cultural policy are considered not as a
self-enclosed public sector but in a transversal perspective, thus closely
connected with other aspects of public policy making, in education, urban
development, foreign affairs, integration of the migrants, cultural
diversity and tourism.

The aim of the stream is to provide the understanding of cultural policy
making, its protagonists and their interests, and to examine the broad
palette of policy instruments applied, their rationale and effects, in a
strong comparative perspective. Students are expected to analyze the policy
interventions of public authorities against the needs and expectations of
culture professionals and audiences and to evaluate them in relation to
accelerated cultural, political, technological and economic changes.


Credit requirements for the one-year Master's Program in Public Policy (MA)

34 course credits; 6 credits master thesis; internship.


Courses specific to the Cultural Policy Stream

Stream students are required to complete a minimum of 6 credits in courses
on cultural policy.





Financial aid

Students of all nationalities can apply for CEU financial support and a
limited number of tuition waivers.

For more information please visit:  http://www.dpp.ceu.hu/admiss/aid.htm
<http://www.ceu.hu/dpp/admiss/aid.htm>
<http://www.ceu.hu/dpp/admiss/aid.htm>


Center for Arts and Culture

In addition to the courses offered in the context of the MA in Public
Policy, the CEU Center for Arts and Culture provides further academic
synergies to students bringing in artists, experts and distinguished
scholars for guest lectures, debates, screenings, performances and
conferences in the field. The center also offers connectivity with the rich
cultural infrastructure of Budapest and contacts with European cultural
networks, observatories and consortia.

For more information please see http://www.cac <http://www.caccmcs.ceu.hu/>
.ceu.hu <http://www.caccmcs.ceu.hu/> .





Open Society Institute Arts and Culture Network Program (ACNP)

This program operates from the OSI Budapest office and focuses on Eastern
Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, and also covers the cultural component of
the OSI Roma program. ACNP provides the CEU DPP cultural policy stream
students with opportunities to work as interns in the cultural organizations
receiving OSI grants. For more information please see
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/arts .


Visiting and Exchange Students are welcome

Courses in the field of cultural policy are also open to visiting students.
Their completed coursework will be recognized in their transcripts at the
end of their studies, and the credits earned at CEU may be counted towards
their final degree at their home university. Visiting students typically
apply for one or two teaching terms and have the same opportunities as
regular CEU students to get involved in the academic, professional and
social life of the department and the university.


Application

In addition to meeting the general CEU admission requirements
(http://www.ceu.hu/admissions_apply.html) applicants to DPP cultural policy
stream should submit one sample of written work demonstrating their
analytical and argumentation skills in English, as well as a 500-word
statement of purpose outlining their  interest in the stream of
specialization the candidate is applying to.


Deadline of application: March 16, 2009



On-line application form: https://apply.embark.com/Grad/CEU/65/



Inquiries: Ms. Klara Papp, MA& PhD Coordinator; email: Pappk la ceu.hu  phone:
+36 1 235 6114.