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Program

East European Studies Online provides its students with knowledge of Eastern Europe. The advanced graduate degree program teaches the requisites necessary for an employment of East European concern, but also prepares students for further scientific work.

The full-time program consists of four different components:

1. four one-week in-house classes spread evenly over the two years
2. the online modules offered via internet (for a sample unit see section on e-Learning)
3. the internship or study project
4. the Master's thesis.

The complete Online Master's program accounts for 120 ECTS. The duration amounts to two years. Three runs already completed the program. The fourth run started in October 2006, the fifth run in October 2007. The sixth run will start in October 2008.

At the moment, tuition fees amount to 4,450.00 € per year of study plus the regular registration fees of the Freie Universität Berlin, namely 176.36 € per year (cf. our regulation on fees). Costs arising from the in-house classes must be paid by the students themselves (travel expenses, room and board).

The Master's degree will be awarded if all in-house classes have been attended, all modules have been completed successfully, a report on the internship or study project has been handed in and a Master's thesis has been completed. Moreover, advanced language skills in an East European language have to be proven.

Without knowledge of at least one East European language, access to the different mind-sets and cultures within Eastern Europe is hardly possible. Thus, basic linguistic proficiency in one of the national languages of Eastern Europe has to be proven as part of the admission requirements. Moreover, during the years of completing East European Studies Online, an augmentation of this language ability has to be achieved. No credit, however, is earned for the fulfillment of this language requirement, since this language requirement is a necessary tool for this type of interdisciplinary area studies. UNIcert I and II are approved certificates of linguistic proficiency. As sufficient offers for language learning exist, the online learning course itself does not supply them. Assistance in the search for suitable opportunities is available.

Here are the official regulations:

• Regulation concerning Admission:
• German version  --  English version on request
• Regulation concerning Studies and Exams:
• German version  --  English translation
• Revision of the Regulation concerning Studies and Exams:
• German version  --  English translation
• Tuition Statute
• German version  --  English translation
• Revision of the Tuition Statute
• German version  --  English translation

After you completed East European Studies Online, you become part of the EES Online alumni network. You continue to receive our bimonthly newsletter with news about the program as well as articles on the region. You keep access to Freie Universität Berlin databases. And, of course, you stay in contact with all the people you met during your two EES Online years.