Highlights of Hungarian Literature, Cinema, and Art

02.12.2022.

The course fee for 2-week courses - that includes tuition fee, accommodation (student residence halls with shared rooms 2-3/ room), meals (breakfast and lunch), local transport and the cost of the leisure time programs - is 750 EUR. All applicants are required to pay 100 EUR (out of this 750) as registration fee within 10 days of submitting their application. The registration fee is non-refundable.

Credits: 6 EC
Our course offers ECTS points, which may be accepted for credit transfer by the participants' home universities. Those who wish to obtain these credits should inquire about the possible transfer at their home institution prior to their enrollment. The International Strategy Office will send a transcript to those who have fulfilled all the necessary course requirements and request one.

Venue: ELTE Faculty of Humanities, (Trefort Campus), 1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4/A, Building A, Room: 150, subground floor

Venue on the last 3 days will be different, it'll be the same building, just a different room: ELTE Faculty of Humanities, (Trefort Campus), 1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4/A, Building A, Room 34

Opening Ceremony venue: ELTE Faculty of Humanities, (Trefort Campus), 1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4/A, Building A, Faculty Council Room, ground floor

Application:

For students who do not need a visa to travel to Hungary: /en/highlights-bsu2023

For students who need a visa to travel to Hungary: /en/highlights-bsu2023-visa

For students applying through DAAD scholarship - available only for students studying in Germany : /en/highlights-bsu2023-daad

Course description

This course is designed to offer a comprehensive introduction to Hungarian culture through some representative literary and art works. Students will be acquainted with some of the most fascinating manifestations of Hungarian art and will be invited to look into the social and historical circumstances under which they were created. Participants of the course will read short stories and poems by renowned Hungarian authors in English translation and will watch and discuss the most influential and captivating movies of the past few decades. Representative works of Hungarian painting, photography, and music will also be integrated in the investigation, and some of the emblematic sites of Hungarian culture in Budapest will be visited to give a wide range of perspectives. While the course is designed to reveal art against the backdrop of historical and social processes, the discussions will also explore the internal world of art and the ways in which works are constructed and linked. Ethical and aesthetic questions raised by the works will be highlighted as well. Besides, placing the literary texts and films into relevant regional and European contexts will contribute to their deeper understanding. The joint examination of the autonomous yet interconnected art forms – literature, cinema, the fine arts, and music – and the combination of theory and practice will enable students to immerse in aspects of Hungarian culture and explore the culture of a Central European nation.

The course is open to all who are studying or graduated in the humanities or social sciences, and also to anyone interested in the culture of the Central European region with a focus on its literature, film, and other arts.

Academic leaders:
János Kenyeres, associate professor
Katalin Szlukovényi, senior lecturer