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The four-semester track of TAM includes Sceiences-Po and the VU University Amsterdam. For more information about the latter, please see http://www.vuamsterdam.com/about_the_VU/ • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has an eminent record in public education. It is the nation’s first state supported university, and the only public university in the U.S. to award degrees in the 18th Century. Situated near the Research Triangle Park, in a state that ranks 4th in the nation in European investment, UNC is acutely aware of its obligation to international education. UNC-CH reflects the best of the new American South, with cutting edge research in medicine, computer technology, engineering, political science, business and economics. The UNC libraries are ranked among the top research libraries in North America, and Duke’s nearby Perkins Library serves as a European Documentation Center. The Center for European Studies at UNC-CH (CES) is one of only five centers in the US currently recognized and funded both as an NRC and as a European Union Center funded by the European Commission. Our offerings are a testament to the strength of our programs in WE studies and to the research productivity of our WE faculty. Our Center promotes original research and data collection among faculty members and graduate students, funding the development of new WE undergraduate and graduate courses in the Arts and Sciences as well as in the professional schools, and contributing to the nation’s supply of specialists by organizing summer PhD workshops, a Languages Across the Curriculum Program, and curriculum development on Islamic Societies in Europe. • University of Washington, Seattle Founded in 1861, the University of Washington (UW) is the oldest state-assisted university on the Pacific coast. The campus commands magnificent views of Lake Washington, Mount Rainier and the Cascade Mountains. The university has 3,500 faculty members, including four Nobel laureates. The UW Library ranks among the top research libraries in North America and features a European Documentation Centre. UW hosts one of the seven federally funded National Resource Centers for European Studies and one of the ten EU-funded European Union Centers. It is the only university on the West Coast to feature both. Seattle boasts a profusion of international cultural facilities. The headquarters of both Microsoft and Boeing, it is also a vibrant centre of hi-tech industry. • Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Berlin has long been one of the most exciting cultural centers in Europe. The two participating Universities reflect the history of the previously divided city: the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) was founded in 1948 as a rival to the communist-dominated University in the eastern sector of the city. Its Otto Suhr Institut has been the home of critical political science for over 40 years. Following the radical changes of 1989/90, Humboldt Universität (HUB), in the historical heart of the city, underwent an ambitious program of restructuring. The newly-founded Faculty Institute of Social Sciences, which is highly professional and has a strong empirical base brings together political science and sociology . FUB and HUB cooperate closely on the Euromasters and Transatlantic Masters programs. • Università degli Studi di Siena The University of Siena, founded in 1240, is one of the oldest universities in Europe. Situated in the heart of one of the most beautiful and best preserved medieval towns in Italy, the university is now highly cosmopolitan but has retained its personal dimension in a country in which many universities have become rather impersonal. The Euro-masters courses, designed exclusively for a small number of incoming students, draw on staff from the Faculties of Law (which includes the Department of Political Science), Letters and Economics, and also host specialist Faculty drawn from other institutions. The university library is one of the best-stocked in Italy. • Universidad Carlos III, Madrid The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, named after the reform-minded Bourbon king of the 18th century, is a young public university of 10,000 students. The Getafe campus, with almost 7,000 students, contains the School of Law and Social Sciences, and the School of Humanities and Communication, as well as the President's office. Getafe is 12 kilometres south of Madrid on the highway to Toledo. It has frequent bus and rail connections to central Madrid. A combination of sound renovation of 19th century buildings and contemporary architectural design make Getafe, site of the TAM and Euromasters Modules,a particularly pleasant place to study. Faculty from Madrid's other main universities, Complutense and Autonoma also participate in the teaching of Euromasters modules. • Charles University, Prague The oldest university in central Europe, Charles University was founded in 1348 by Charles IV, then Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia. After the liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945 the university began to develop rapidly in all its aspects. University life was soon, however, to be disrupted and distorted by the effects of the Communist putsch in February 1948. The putsch meant purges, the end of academic freedoms and harsh repression of all expressions of disagreement with the official ideology. As a result of the role of teachers and students in the Prague Spring of 1968, a new and especially painful wave of purges hit the university and its faculties in the period of so-called normalisation at the beginning of the seventies. Only after the revolution which began on 17th., November 1989, was there real change in a situation which had lasted more than forty years. The appointment of new representatives of a free academic community was legalised in January 1990;this marked the beginning of a systematic effort to remove the forty-year inheritance of deformation in the life of the university as an educational and academic institution. • University of Bath Bath is the only city in Britain to be designated a United Nations World Heritage City. It is one of the most beautiful sites in Europe, famed for its Georgian architecture and its complex of Roman Baths.The University of Bath has always been renowned for the exceptionally high quality of its student intake and its teaching programmes. Bath is ranked seventh in the UK for the quality of its research. European Studies is a major strength, as recently recognized by the European Union in designating Bath a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence - one of only five such centres in the UK. The University Library, open 24 hours a day, features a European Documentation Centre receiving all the official publications of the EU. • Sciences Po, Paris Sciences Po was founded in 1872 and since then has undertaken to train a merit-based elite for leadership. Its campus is composed of seventeenth and eighteenth century mansions, located in the heart of Paris close to the Assemble Nationale. Students are also exposed to the strong cultural flavour of the St-Germain district. Sciences Po attracts many applicants from overseas each year for various courses offered at different academic levels. The university has approximately 800 foreign students out of a total student body of 4000. In 1984 Sciences Po became one of the first institutions admitted to the category of Grand Etablissement, ratifying a century of pursuit of the best professional education. As such, it enjoys the freedom and resources consistent with its expanding role and vision and at the same time includes important elements of a university: a cluster of research centres, a major library and documentation facilities, and an active university press.
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Transatlantic Masters (TAM) photos taken at sites across US and Europe
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