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IES provides a wide range of opportunities for
graduate students to enhance their coursework, support their,
individual research,
and create a community of Europeanists. Central to the IES effort
is the proseminar, which brings together UC and European
faculty
members to co-teach a graduate course.
In these Proseminars, visiting
European and host professors co-teach semester-long graduate courses.
This is an effective means to
develop cross-national relationships between faculty, as well
as between students and faculty. Indeed, the point of origin for
a number of dissertations has been the proseminar. The European
visitor is also available for short-term exchanges throughout
the Bay Area and California. In the past, three of these proseminars
have focused on the European Union: "European Integration and
Regional Disparities," "The Control of Transnational Crime Problems
within an Enlarging Europe," and "Democratic Institutions and
their Governability in Europe and in the United States." The
latter two courses were taught at Berkeley. These proseminars
have also
been successful in both integrating Western European Studies
into the curriculum of the professional schools and increasing
the
number of students in professional schools with expertise in
Western Europe. The proseminar introduces students from a variety
of disciplines
and schools to a wide range of topics and methodological perspectives
from which they often plan their individual dissertation topics
or modify existing research. As part of its outreach program,
IES organizes public lectures related to the proseminar.
IES offers
a range of fellowships for graduate and undergraduate students.
Entering Graduate Student Fellowships of $10,000 each
are awarded to students in all departments who propose to focus
on European topics in their graduate studies. The award is renewable
for a second year. Pre-dissertation Grants in the amount of $3,000
are awarded each year through CGES to 25 graduate students embarking
on pre-dissertation research on topics broadly related to European
issues. The funds are applied to travel expenses associated with
a pre-dissertation trip to Europe. Such grants allow graduate
students to lay groundwork for later field or archival research,
to develop a network of contacts, explore potential host institution
arrangements, and look into various European research programs.
Students emerge from these trips more focused and confident about
writing their dissertation proposals. The Portuguese Studies
Program
offers three country-specific pre-dissertation grants of $3,000
per year. These grants are directed towards graduate students
researching Lusophone communities and issues.
Graduate students
funded by IES have gone on to receive Bosch Fellowships, Humboldt
Fellowships, Fulbright Fellowships, MacArthur
Fellowships, Mellon Fellowships, and many others. Graduate students
who have completed substantial parts of their dissertations on
a subject related to the thematic mission of the Institute, and
who have been invited to present their work at scholarly conferences
or at host universities, may apply for Dissertation Presentation
Grants of up to $1,000 toward travel and lodging expenses. Ten
of these grants are available annually. IES also performs its
role as an institutional liaison for visiting European exchange
students and scholars. It utilizes its extensive network of formal
institutional ties for its students and encourages them to take
advantage of the special relationship that Berkeley has with
its
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