Mini Courses
BRICS Today
To meet student interests and time constraints, The University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University collaborate to offer intensive courses on topics of interest, taught by expert faculty, with lectures from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon, followed by a research paper. The courses are 1 credit hour or 3 units for CMU students, with about 14 hours of lectures and an expected 30 hours of work for the paper.
The courses have focused on countries with emerging economies Brazil, India, China and Russia (BRICs). South Africa will be included in the Spring of 2013.
Register for these weekend courses as you would any other course. The course numbers are included on weekend-today course descriptions. Since weekend-today courses are offered jointly, students register for University of Pittsburgh or Carnegie Mellon course numbers, depending on their affiliation. Registered students are required to complete specified follow up assignments to receive full credit.
The courses offered so far:
- India Today; October 26-28, 2012.
- RUSSIA Today: Economy, Technology, and People; March 23-25, 2012.
- BRAZIL Today: Economy, Technology, and People September 30 - October 2, 2011.
- CHINA Today: Economy, Technology, and People March 18-20, 2011.
- INDIA Today: Economics, Technology and People October 22-24, 2010
- RUSSIA Today: Energy, Economics, Public Policy in Transition March 19-21, 2010
- BRAZIL Today: Ethnicity, Economy and Environment Fall 2009
- CHINA Today: Ethnicity, Economy and Education Spring 2009
- INDIA Today: Industry, Innovation and Education Fall 2008
Muslims in a Global Context
Muslims in a Global Context is a semi-annual workshop/mini-course series that brings together faculty experts and practitioners with members of the business and cultural community, teachers, and university students for one weekend each fall and spring term. The workshops consist of presentations on topics of critical importance to the understanding of countries with significant Muslim populations. Each workshop focuses on a single cluster of countries; the most recent workshop (March 2012) examined Arab Spring in countries across the Middle East.
The upcoming workshop series, beginning in fall 2012, is anticipated to run through spring 2015, for a total of six workshops/courses. Future workshops planned include:
- Spring 2012: The Arab Spring
- Fall 2012: Pakistan, India, Afghanistan
- Spring 2013: Gulf States and Iran
- Fall 2013: Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
- Spring 2014: Central Asia and Turkey
- Fall 2014: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Spring 2015: The Americas and Europe
