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While few undergraduate fellowships are available through area
studies centers, IES, through its Portuguese Studies Program, annually
awards
Fellowships for undergraduates majoring in topics related to Portugal.
IES also provides significant funding and sponsorship for undergraduate
courses on European topics. Since 1995, the University has offered
at least two undergraduate courses per year on European integration
funded by the programs of the Institute. These courses focused
on
topics as general as an overview of the European Union, and as
specific as European Environmental Policy and Regulation, the Adaptation
of Institutions to the "Deepening" of the EU, and EU
Social Policy. CGES was pivotal in the development of the undergraduate
Minor in
European Studies at Berkeley in 1996. It serves to encourage undergraduates
majoring in the Social Sciences to take focused courses dealing
with Europe.
The principal option for undergraduate area students,
especially those in the social sciences, is the major in Political
Economy
of Industrial Societies (PEIS). The program in PEIS addresses issues
relevant to the political and economic institutions of advanced
societies, focusing on problems of both domestic and international
policy. The former Centers played an active role in the development
of the curriculum of the PEIS program; the faculty who serve as
Coordinators and Faculty Advisors for the PEIS major include the
Centers' former Chair, Richard Buxbaum, Advisory Board members
and
core faculty. The undergraduate population is further served by
the European Studies Undergraduate Association (ESUA). This student-run
forum, first introduced by the Centers, and actively supported
by
IES (with the co-sponsorship of the Institute for Slavic and Eastern
European Studies), allows for informal exchanges among undergraduates
from a range of disciplines as well as the opportunity to sponsor
formal events such as film series, art exhibitions, and lectures.
IES academic staff meets regularly with students to offer assistance
in ESUA planning activities. In 1999, ESUA co-sponsored several
public lectures that commented on the present state of Europe (e.g.
"Perspectives on the European Labor Movement," by EU
Representative, Baroness Crawley). IES has funded other extracurricular
interests
and activities that focus on undergraduate participation in Europe-focused
activities. In the past, the Centers have earmarked funds for undergraduate
participation in the nation's oldest annual conference on Celtic
Studies, which alternates between Berkeley and UCLA. IES also encourages
undergraduates to explore the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP).
EAP has Western European program is 10 countries at 56 schools
and
approximately 46% of all Berkeley EAP students study in this world
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