Department of Government

Short Programs Department of Government, Georgetown University

The Department of Government organizes or co-organizes numerous short programs and workshops—one day to six weeks in duration—for a variety of domestic and international clients including the U.S. Department of State, foreign universities and other national and local governments. The department often partners with Georgetown University offices such as the Center for Intercultural Education and Development (CIED) and the School for Continuing Studies (SCS). We also utilize many of the university’s other academic and intellectual resources and have worked with individuals from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI), the Walsh School of Foreign Service, the Security Studies Program, the McDonough School of Business, the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM)—among others.

Department of Government short programs combine three of Georgetown University’s unique strengths: world-class faculty experts; access to government and non-governmental practitioners in and around Washington DC; and our Jesuit heritage of learning and service. The department provides academic design and content: lectures, seminars, leadership and policy workshops, field and site visits, briefings with policy practitioners, and participant assessment. Our university partners provide logistic, legal and administrative support. In addition to bringing practitioners to campus, we set up site visits with governmental agencies (Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Reserve), Congress, think tanks (Brookings, Carnegie, CSIS, the German Marshall Fund of the United States) and non-governmental institutions (Transparency International, Ashoka International, the DNC and RNC).

For further information please contact Professor Eric Langenbacher (langenbe@georgetown.edu).

2008 Programs

• U.S. Department of State, Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative, Undergraduate Student Leaders Program; July 1-August 13, 2008 (co-organized with CIED); students from over 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa

• Public Policy and Emergency Management; June 9-27, 2008 (co-organized with CIED); participants from Guangzhou, China

• Salzburg School of Management, Executive MBA in Public Management, Washington DC Module; April 21-25, 2008.

• Competitiveness, National Security and Strategy; September 21-27, 2008 (co-organized with CIED); participants from Romania

• Police Leadership Training; July 28-August 1, 2008 (co-organized with CIED); participants from Turkey

• Summer American Politics and Public Affairs Workshop: The 2008 Campaign, July 20-27, 2008 (co-organized with SCS); high school students from across the U.S. and worldwide

• Summer Workshop: National Security and Counterintelligence, August 3-10, 2008 (co-organized with SCS); high school students from across the U.S. and worldwide

• Roundtable Discussion: “Facility Preparedness in the National Capital Region,” October 22, 2008 co-organized with Washington Headquarters Services in conjunction with the U.S. Navy, Center for Asymmetric Warfare

Previous Programs (selected)

• “Public Policy in the United States,” two-week program for visiting officials from China, October 2006, December 2007

• “Security and Society,” co-hosted with Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, June 17-30 2007

• “Ethics and Public Policy in the United States of America,” two-week program for visiting officials from Guangzhou, China February-March 2006; October 2007

• “The American Culture Industry,” three-week program for visiting officials from Beijing, China October-November 2005; October 2006

• “Democratic Governance in the United States of America: Institutions, Processes and Rights,” two-week summer academic program for visiting students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 2002, 2004, 2005