It's a one- year intensive program that'll
give the capacity to find your niche whether
economic or foreign policy and give the capacity
to understand EU institutions.
It's a very multinational experience.
It's really a global experience and our students,
as a result, come out of the program with
terrific skill.
The EUPS program prepares you...
prepares you very well for life after academics
and that's why I chose this masters program.
Caterina Paulucci who's our program director
has been holding seminars with us where we
go over, sort of, job-hunting techniques.
We put a lot of emphasis in the summer term
into developing the capacity of the students
to market themselves.
Walking away with a degree from JMU and that
degree has been earned on the ground in contemporary
Europe.
It is wonderful that students can spend a
while year here because not only will they
have the opportunity of studying the EU on
paper, on documents, but also they can smell
they can taste; they can immerse themselves
in the European culture.
The history and culture of Europe is... so...
always about you.
It's always around you.
From walking down an alley in Firenze and
looking at a house you can see the history,
you can feel it.
It's really interesting I get to go to lots
of art exhibits, meet a ton of awesome Italian
people on the street and it's like a community
so it's really nice.
The location of where the Palazzo Capponi
is, it's one of the best in Florence.
I have friends here studying abroad who live
far outside of the city, here all the main
sites are five, ten minutes walk away.
Florence is justifiably known as one of the
true cultural gems of Europe, one of the true
cultural gems of the world.
To learn in a foreign environment is truly
and incredible opportunity and our students
who study come back and have a real, new appreciation
for who they are.
This programs has been so exhilarating, so
thrilling and just, it allowed me to be a
more independent person.
It's an incredible, inspiring kind of experience.
There is no program that gives you such specialized
and applied skills, hands on skills.
And as the program has been around now for
some time it's terrific to see employers on
both sides of the Atlantic coming to know
our program, coming to respect our students,
and really coming to value the kinds of skills
that their able to bring to the table and
the fact that they are really able to hit
the ground running from the very first day
they start working for their organizations.
