The Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange " Fulbright"
announces its fourth Fulbright International Summer Institute (FISI).
It is an academic and cultural program which offers one- or two-week
intensive courses in a wide variety of subject areas. All courses are
taught in English by distinguished professors from the U.S., Europe and
Bulgaria and are addressed to undergraduate and graduate students,
university faculty and professionals. This year FISI is scheduled to take
place from August 1 to August 13, 2005 in Pamporovo. You can choose
between the following courses:
Business and Economics
Course 1: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Lecturer: Prof. George Siedel, University of Michigan, Business School,
MI, USA
Course 2: Applied Microeconomics
Lecturer: Prof. Ann Fender, Gettysburg College, PA, USA
Course 3: Global Business Strategy: Globalization, Multinational
Corporations, and the Nation-State
Lecturer: Prof. Alexander Billon, University of Delaware, DE, USA
Course 4: Financial Management
Lecturer: Prof. Chenchuramaiah Bathala, Cleveland State University, OH, USA
Course 5: Change Management: Let Your Creativity Escape: Change the Paradigm
Lecturer: John Davie, Vector Management International Ltd., UK
Course 6: Legal Ethics
Lecturer: Dr. Sheila Hochhauser, Kansas State University, KS, USA
Course 7: Business Culture and Business Idiom
Lecturer: Dr. Shtiliana Halacheva-Rousseva, Technical University, Bulgaria
Education and Communication
Course 8: Integrated Interactive International Education
Lecturers: Dr. Leon Richards; Linda Fujikawa, Kapi'olani Community College,
University of Hawaii, HI, USA
Course 9: Professional Communication for Intercultural Times
Lecturer: Dr. Noemi Marin, Florida Atlantic University, FL, USA
Course 10: Advocacy Workshop (Argument and Public Speaking Training)
Lecturer: Dr. Joseph Zompetti, Illinois State University, IL, USA
Course 11: Cooperative Learning and Cultural Sensitivity
Lecturers: Shelley Friend and Dana Goodrich, Northwest Vista College, TX, USA
Course 12: The Art of Leadership, Personal Effectiveness and Power
Lecturer: Prof. Elka Todorova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Course 13: Schools in American Culture
Lecturer: Dr. Marcia Horne, Westfield State College, MA, USA
Politics and International Relations
Course 14: American Foreign Policy and the International System in the Age
of Globalization
Lecturer: Prof. Mark Kramer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Course 15: Transatlantic Security in the Geopolitics of the 21st Century
Lecturer: Dr. Kostadin Grozev, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Course 16: The European Union: Legal Principles
Lecturers: Prof. Jo-Carby-Hall, University of Hull, and Diane Ryland,
University of Lincoln, UK
Course 17: Southeast Europe in the Context of the New Dynamics of the
Euro-Atlantic Relations
Lecturers: Dr. Dinko Dinkov; Stoyan Stoyanov, University of National and
World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Course 18: Aging of the European and North American Societies:
Implications for the Younger Generation
Lecturer: Dr. Timothy Ilg, University of Dayton, OH, USA
Art and Culture
Course 18: Cultural Traditions in Bulgaria and Europe
Lecturers: Team
Course 19: Bulgarian Language Instruction
Lecturers: Team
Course 20: African-American Music and Cultural Globalization
Lecturer: Dr. Claire Levy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Course 21: Visual Literacy: Principles of Artistic Perception
Lecturer: Dr. Boyan Dobrev, Academy of Fine Arts, Bulgaria
Course 22: Classic Novels into Film
Lecturer: Dr. Madeleine Danova, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Course 23: The Culture of Perception: How to Figure out Contemporary Arts
and Discourses and to Have Fun at That
Lecturer: Dr. Dimitar Kambourov, Sofia University, Bulgaria
If you want to participate in this event, please visit www.fisi-bg.info
for practical information and application forms. You can also obtain
general information from:
Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange
17, Alexander Stamboliiski Blvd. Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
E-mail: rkaneva@fulbrsof.bol.bg
Tel.: 359 2 980 82 12
With best regards,
Prof. Dr. Julia Stefanova
Executive Director
Bulgarian-American Fulbright Commission
17 Alexander Stamboliiski Blvd., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel: 359 2 981 85 67
Fax: 359 2 988 45 17
E-mail: jstefanova@fulbrsof.bol.bg
http://www.fulbright-bg.org