Brno, Czech Republic

Central Europe: A Birthplace of Modernity

when 2 July 2017 - 21 July 2017
duration 3 weeks
credits 6 EC
fee EUR 1700

The program of the summer school consist of daily seminars, lectures, a cultural program, excursions, and field trips.
The full program consists of forty-eight seminar hours (typically two-double periods in the morning), three afternoon/evening lectures on selected topics; two film-viewing sessions; two-day trips to Prague and Vienna, a guided tour through Brno, a visit to Brno’s unique UNESCO sight, the Villa Tugendhat, half-day trips to the battlefield of Austerlitz, the Lednice and Valtice UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the caves of the Moravian Karst; and visits to concerts and exhibitions depending on what is offered in the city.

Course leader

Don Sparling
Don Sparling is a Canadian who attended the Universities of Toronto and Oxford before coming to Czechoslovakia in 1969. Here he has lived and taught in Brno and Prague, working in language schools and then at Masaryk University in Brno, firs

Fee info

EUR 1700: Tuition Fee (OECD countries): € 1700,-
Partial Tuition Waivers (MU Partner Universities): € 1200,-
Participants from non OECD countries and Mexico: € 1000,-
EUR 1200: Tuition Fee (OECD countries): € 1700,-
Partial Tuition Waivers (MU Partner Universities): € 1200,-
Participants from non OECD countries and Mexico: € 1000,-