These courses are:
History of the World since 1300 (instructor: Aliaksandr Kalbaska);
Social Entrepreneurship (instructor: Natalya Mikhailova).
To learn more about the courses, please see the descriptions below:
- The registration deadline for the course “History of the World since 1300” is September 10, 2024.
- The registration deadline for the course “Social Entrepreneurship” is September 1, 2024.
To enroll in the courses, please use the following form.
NB: Each student can choose only one course.
The courses are free for all EHU students! Please see details on requirements to enroll in each course in descriptions, provided below.
Please note that OSUN Network Collaborative courses are obligatory for the students, who are planning to apply for an academic exchange program at Bard College. The OSUN Network Collaborative courses are taught by the faculty from EHU and OSUN Network of partner institutions, this semester including: Al-Quds Bard Partnership, American University in Central Asia, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, Bard College Berlin, BRAC University, and Central European University.
History of the World (HOW) since 1300
Course duration: Fall 2024, September – December.
Modes: online.
Credits: 6 ECTS.
Course summary: This course takes you on a voyage into the past. Like many of the explorers you will meet along the way, you will travel across time from when Chinggis Khan’s armies conquered Beijing and Baghdad in the 13th century and the Black Death scoured the Eurasian world – and the course will end with reflections on globalization and its discontents in our times. Do earlier modes of integration and disintegration help us to understand our own age? Along the way, we consider the economic, military, scientific and cultural forces that brought the world together – and drove it apart – for the past seven centuries. This course invites as to learn globally. It connects you to students elsewhere in the world. Across 22 locations around the world, between Bangladesh and Lebanon, between France and Nigeria, between Argentina to Afghanistan, students are taking the same course simultaneously and posting and sharing their ideas on the course Gallery site. By listening and exchanging with each other, you will learn different perspectives and co-create knowledge about the global past.
Case Studies in Global History
A vital part of this course is collaborative teamwork on historical case studies and sharing your ideas with other teams around the world on the course Gallery.
The goals are:
- To enable teams to learn history better by learning together. More minds at work will make better work.
- To open up channels of communication between you and students in the rest of the world taking the same course on the Gallery; global history can thereby be learned globally.
- To allow you to be the creators of historical knowledge – interpreting events in a way that engages other readers. Where does it say that university education means that students have to work on papers that only their professors read?
The semester’s cases are divided into three thematic streams. They are: “science, medicine and global health,” “statelessness,” and “war and diplomacy.” Each team will be allocated a theme for the semester and explore that theme for the duration of the course. They will learn about the other themes by interacting on the Gallery.
Criteria for participation:
- genuine interest in collaboration and creation of community projects;
- English B2 (written and spoken);
- projects in progress are highly welcomed to be continued, as well as ideas for new projects to be developed and implemented within the class!
For questions regarding the curriculum, feel free to contact Professor Aliaksandr Kalbaska at aliaksandr.kalbaska@ehu.lt. For questions regarding registration, contact coordination_osun@ehu.lt Registration for the course is made until September 10, 2024 inclusive.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Course duration: Fall 2024, September – December.
Modes: online.
Credits: 6 ECTS.
In the fall semester, EHU, together with the Open Society University Network, continues a joint 6-credit Social Entrepreneurship course dedicated to socially responsible entrepreneurship.
The course is part of the Bard College MBA in Sustainability program and is a unique combination of engaged learning and project-based learning methods. After completing two additional courses, a certificate can be earned.
Classes will be held until mid-December in online mode twice a week (1 for all students of OSUN member universities, 2 – separately with EHU students). At the end of the course, student groups will participate in a December pitch competition to present their own projects and receive $1500 in funding to implement them.
Prior entrepreneurship experience is not required, only English at the B1-B2 level and a desire to try to develop their own business ideas in the field of social problems.
For questions regarding the curriculum, feel free to contact Natalya Mikhailova at natalya.mikhailova@ehu.lt. For questions regarding registration, contact coordination_osun@ehu.lt
Registration for the course is available until September 1.