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Global Connections Central Europe – Session I Opening small group exercise Introduction to course, blackboard, syllabus

Global Connections Central Europe – Session I Opening small group exercise Introduction to course, blackboard, syllabus Trip itinerary Group formation Miscellaneous logistical and other issues Historical timeline for central Europe and target countries.

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Global Connections Central Europe – Session I Opening small group exercise Introduction to course, blackboard, syllabus

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  1. Global Connections Central Europe – Session I • Opening small group exercise • Introduction to course, blackboard, syllabus • Trip itinerary • Group formation • Miscellaneous logistical and other issues • Historical timeline for central Europe and target countries

  2. Global Connections Central Europe – Session I Small group exercise

  3. Global Connections Central Europe – Session I Syllabus / Blackboard Useful Links Trip Itinerary Other Practicum Projects Briefing groups

  4. Global Connections Central Europe – Session I In-class briefing group formation Practicum Project group formation

  5. Hungary Facts • Democratic republic (parliamentary system), market economy • Population: approx 10 million people • GDP per capita: about $20,000 US (very low Gini coefficient) • EU member 2004 • Capital: Budapest • Language: Magyar (Hungarian) • Currency: Forint

  6. Hungary EU Countries Non-EU

  7. Czech Republic Facts • Democratic republic (parliamentary system), market economy • Population: approx 10 million people • GDP per capita: about $14,000 US (low Gini coefficient) • EU member 2004 • Capital: Prague • Language: Czech • Currency: Czech koruna

  8. Czech Rep. EU Countries Non-EU

  9. Global Connections Central Europe – Session I • Czech Republic • Parliamentary system • President: • Prime Minister • Hungary • Parliamentary system • President • Prime Minister

  10. Timeline – Central Europe 900s Wenceslas rules Bohemia (Czech lands=Bohemia and Moravia 1000 Founding of the Hungarian state (St. Stephen/Istvan) 1300s Hussite rebellion in Bohemia 1400s King Charles IV rules Czech kingdom 1500s Habsburgs now rule Czech lands 1680s Habsburgs help Hungarians expel Ottoman conquerors 17th and 18th c. Habsburgs (Austro-Hungarian Empire) rule both Czech lands and Hungary until WWI 1919 Formation of Czecholslovak Republic; Hungarian Republic 1938-45 Nazi control First experience with democracy

  11. Post War Period 1945 End of WWII 1947 Communist takeovers in CR and Hungary 1957 Hungarian uprising 1968 Prague spring 1989 Velvet revolution (CR) 1990 Fall of Hungarian communists 1993 Velvet divorce 2004 Hungary and CR join European Union Soviet style planned economy

  12. Global Connections Central Europe – Session I Next Time: History of central Europe Guest speaker: Dora Piroska, on Hungary

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