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SUMMER PROGRAM 2009 -
JULY 6 - AUGUST 6, 2009
BUCHAREST,
CLUJ, BUDAPEST, VIENNA, PRAGUE,
BRATISLAVA, BULGARIA & THE BLACK SEA
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The eleventh annual summer program in Romania and Central Europe is a four-week session at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, designed to give participants a comprehensive view of the rich and unique cultural history of Pre/Post Communist Central Europe. It combines features of a traditional study abroad program and excursions, with emphasis on language, history, politics, cultural studies, and cultural geography, among other academic disciplines. The classroom work is completed by an intensive program of guided visits to museums, historical sites, and other outstanding centers of European cultural heritage and by a one week cultural trip to the capitals and important cities of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire: Budapest, Vienna, Prague and Bratislava.
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Important announcement: Looking forward to our departure meeting on May 2nd at 3:00. Please check your emails for location because it looks like we might have to look for a different location due to finals being conducted that week. |
ROMANIAN FAST FACTS:
Romania is bound in the north by the Ukraine,
in the east by Moldavia, the Ukraine and the Black Sea, south by Bulgaria,
south-west by Yugoslavia and north-west by Hungary
TOTAL AREA : 237,500 sq.km (91,699 sq.miles)
CAPITAL CITY : Bucharest
POPULATION : 22,755,260 (11,578,870 females;
54.5% urban) 
LANGUAGES : Romanian (official language), Hungarian
(Magyar), German
ETHNIC DIVISIONS : 89.5% Romanian (1992 census
fig) 7.1% Hungarian, 1.5% German, 1.6% Ukrainian, Serb, Croat, Russian, Turk and
Gypsy
RELIGION : 80% Romanian Orthodox 6% Roman
Catholic 4% Calvinist, Lutheran, Jewish and Baptist
GOVERNMENT TYPE : Multiparty provisional
government. The head of state, the President is elected every 4 years by direct
vote, he or she may not belong to a political party
CONSTITUTION : The constitution defines Romania
as a republic where the rule of law prevails in a social and democratic state.
Private property rates and a market economy are guaranteed
ADMINISTRATIVE : 41 counties (judes) of which
the capital Bucharest (Bucureşti) is one.
LITERACY : 98%
EDUCATION : Education is free and mandatory
from 6 to 16, consisting of 8 years of primary school and 2 years of secondary.
Attendance 98%. Further secondary education is available at lycees, professional
schools or advanced technical schools.
TOTAL TV STATIONS : 436 Cable, 66 Local
TOTAL RADIO STATIONS : 135
CLIMATE : Continental climate with a large
annual range of temperature and rainfall, cold, snowy winters and milder, wetter
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