Today Courses
Weekend Intensive Courses
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).
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:
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 Download flyer here.
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