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Romanian Studies
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SUMMER PROGRAM TO ROMANIA & CENTRAL EUROPE

JULY 5 - AUGUST 5, 2012

HUNGARY, AUSTRIA, THE CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA

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The fourteenth 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. While visiting these capitols, we will have guided tours of four UNESCO World Heritage sites: the Buda Castle Quarter in Budapest, the Historic Center of Vienna, the Palace and Gardens of Schonbrunn, and the Historic Center of Prague.

Poster for 2012 Summer Program is fourthcoming.

 

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 summers.