Possible Areas of Focus for Independent Learning Projects by Domain

Note: The following are merely suggestions; the student's particular interests should drive the choice of topic, in conference with her/his committee and the course instructor. The focus of the competences can be on Poland or Romania, or on a cross-cultural understanding which compares both societies.

• Environmental issues
• The development of technology
• Medical issues (abortion, AIDS, etc.)
• Alternative medicine (herbal; spas; homeopathy; etc)
• Geography and quality of life

• Revolutionary literature
• Transition from censorship to a free press
• Theological and spiritual transformations and issues
• Changing lifestyles
• Popular or folk art

• Ethnic relations and conflict (e.g., Romani (gypsies), Hungarians, Germans, Ukrainians, Jews)
• Women's roles in societal transformations
• Psychological implications of societal changes
• Oral histories
• Activism in the newly forming societies
• Political or economic analysis of the societies

These will obviously depend on the student's defined area of concentration for the World of Work; a few possibilities include:

• Free enterprise in the societies
• Women and work
• International business

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