Hartwick college

Seventy years of communist rule in the Soviet Union and 40 years in Czechoslovakia left their mark on entire societies. With the collapse of communist regimes between 1989 and 1991 and the dissolution of the USSR and Czechoslovakia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic had a range of difficult economic, political, and social issues to address. They had to improve, and possibly privatize, outdated, inefficient factories run by sclerotic bureaucracies. Property law and property rights needed to be extensively revised. Democracies didn't automatically spring into being, but needed to be reestablished or created, with varying success. The communist regimes had kept a lid on ethnic tensions, which now found room for expression. The course will use visits with political actors, business people, and academics, as well as varied readings, to investigate these two countries' post-communist experience and learn broader principles of economics and political science.

Course: ECON 350 or POSC 350
Location: Czech Republic and Ukraine
Prerequisite: ECON 101or 102 or POSC 105 or 108
Instructors: Karl Seeley, Amy Forster Rothbart
Curricular Requirement: EL
Cost: $3,190
Length of program: 18 days
Meals: Two meals a day included

Prices listed on the off-campus J Term Web site are ESTIMATES. If there are factors such as fluctuations in currency exchange rates, fuel prices, etc. that affect the final cost of a program, a fee adjustment will be announced October 10, 2011.