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ECES Certificate

The Center for European Studies (CES), cooperating with participating academic units, offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate Certificate in East-Central European Studies (ECES) with two primary goals. First, it provides students with the opportunity to study the region of Central and Eastern Europe from an interdisciplinary perspective that incorporates both area and language studies. Second, by requiring a third semester of language study (beyond the two-semester CLAS language requirement), students have the opportunity to enhance language proficiency beyond the introductory level. Or students could choose to study another language to broaden their international horizon. In either case, students have the chance to engage in study abroad programs related to the CES.

A certificate in ECES provides an organized course of study for less and least commonly taught languages that do not offer stand alone majors and where two semesters of study is not sufficient for students to perform adequately in the target language (Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Russian). Furthermore, an area studies certificate that includes less and least commonly taught languages as core requirements fills a niche since there are no comparable programs in the state of Florida. The ECES Certificate is open to all UF undergraduates.

The requirements for the undergraduate ECES Certificate are commensurate with certificates currently offered by other CLAS departments and centers, including the EUSP certificate offered by the CES. A minimum of 12-14 credits is required. In addition to one semester (3-5 credits; the number of credits varies by language and level of instruction) of a language beyond the CLAS language requirement, the ECES certificate also requires, 1) 3 credits from the required curricula; 2) 6 credits from the electives (for both see ECES Curriculum). A maximum of 6 credits may be double-counted with a major or minor.

Please contact Brano Kovalcik, CES Academic Programs Coordinator, at 392-8922, by email for further information.

To apply for the ECES Certificate or if you want to join the ECES listserv please email or submit the online sign-up form.