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About School Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis is a high-quality educational center specializing in the liberal arts. It occupies newly refurbished facility in the downtown of Prague.:
Classrooms, a study hall, a full equipped computer room (e-mail and internet services provided), and a library are on students disposal on CHP premises. For CHP Study Center tours click here. Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis (CHP) is directed by Zdenek Stary, Associate Professor of Charles University. Alzbeta Wranova is Program Coordinator, Anna Smetanova is Administrative Associate Manager, and Vaclav Buchbauer is Office Assistant. CHP instructors are drawn from a variety of Czech universities, the Czech Academy of Sciences and other research institutions. Affiliated universities are encouraged to send scholars to Prague on a regular basis. The faculty is selected on the basis of research excellence and pedagogical ability. Regular teaching evaluations of instructors by students are mandatory.
The College is named after a Czech Mediaeval philosopher, preacher, and religious reformer Hieronymus Pragensis (Jeronym Prazsky, Jerome of Prague). Jerome of Prague was Master of universities in Paris, Prague, Heidelberg, and Köln am Rhein. He was the first to bring writings of John Wickliffe (Wyckliffe) from Oxford to Prague in 1409. Jerome of Prague was persecuted for his views, sentenced to death by the Council of Constance, and finally burned at the stake (together with Jan Hus) in Constance in 1416.
CHP was established in the Czech Republic as a high-quality educational center specializing in the liberal arts. The College provides foreign students with the opportunity to interact with Czech faculty and students, and enables local students to experience academic procedures and standards prevailing in similar institutions abroad.
Foreign institutions affiliated with CHP The College currently cooperates with the Brown University, Columbia College, Connecticut College, Honors Program of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, Pomona College which brings students from other four Claremont Colleges (Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Scripps, and Harvey Mudd Colleges), and Swarthmore College. Nevertheless CHP is open to cooperation with other universities of comparable standards.
The core of the Academic governance of CHP is The Academic Board (AAB). It consists of representatives of CHP affiliates. Each affiliate is usually represented by a faculty member and by an administrator (usually the director of the study abroad operation of the respective school). The Board is chaired by an Academic Chair and an Administrative Chair. In this term, the Academic AAB Chair is Professor Steve Erickson (Pomona College); the Administrative Chair is Professor Bob Miles (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). The AAB is an advisory body to the Director of the College and is charged with supervision of all aspects of academic life.
Students enrolled with CHP receive academic credit from their home institutions on basis of CHP's Official Academic Record. The records are using the usual American letter grading system.
Each student has to be enrolled in the core course, intensive conversational course of Czech language (i.e. in both components of the core course session) and four regular courses, one of which is the regular course of Czech. Two or three day-long field trips are organized to visit important historical sites outside Prague.
CHP regularly offers ten to fifteen courses per semester in the humanities and social sciences such as: comparative literature and art, Czech language and literature, economics, history, Jewish studies, European civilization, philosophy, political science, gender studies, sociology, clinical psychology, geography, and environmental studies. Besides these the College organizes programs with a regional or disciplinary foci (for instance Central European, European, or Slavic studies; comparative linguistics etc.) the nature of and frequency of which is determined both by the interest of visiting scholars and the needs of students.
Czech coordinator and students' assistants (StA's) are available to help students to adjust to life in Prague. StA's, natives of Prague, provide students daily assistance for cultural activities, directions for mundane needs such as grocery shopping, laundry facilities, etc. Students are accommodated in Dum Jeronyma Prazskeho/Jerome House. This CHP dorm is a newly renovated historical building with 24-hours seven days a week reception service. It is located in a quiet area of the New Town, a 14th century historical quarter of downtown Prague. The dorm is a five-minute walk from the CHP main campus. Students stay in suites of four or five singles (each suite has two bathrooms and a kitchenette) and in single or double rooms (each with a private bathroom and a shared kitchenette). Each room is also equipped with a computer outlet and a phone for incoming calls (outgoing calls can be made with AT&T, MCI and Sprint calling cards). The address is: Dum Jeronyma Prazskeho / Jerome House V Jircharich 13 phone: ++(420) 224 933 207
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