Admission requirements
Admission to the MA International Relations, track European Union Studies.
Description
The course analyses the problems confronting Europe since the process of European cooperation started to take shape at the end of WWI through some of the major treaties and policy choices. It also seeks to explain why supranational, European solutions were deemed necessary to resolve them (and whether they did so). It combines international and economic history with transnational approaches as well as ideas conceived and developed by political scientists.
Course objectives
Students will understand a range of concepts linked to discussions on the history of European integration and the on-going historical debate on this subject.
Timetable
Mode of instruction
Lectures and simulation
Course Load
Total course load for the course: 5 EC is 140 hours.
Hours spent on attending lectures: 2 hours per week x 9 weeks = 18 hours
Time for studying the compulsory literature and preparation for the lectures: 3 hours per week x 12 = 36 hours
Preparation for the paper: 50 hours
Preparation for the negotiating strategy and game: 30 hours
Negotiating game: 6 hours
Assessment method
End term paper 60%
Negotiating strategy 20%
Participation 20%
Retake paper: resubmit January 2015. In order to be eligible for the retake paper, students have to have participated in the negotiating games and have to have failed the course.
Blackboard
Yes, see Blackboard.
Reading list
D. Dinan, Europe Recast: A History of European Union (2004)
Reader
Registration
Via uSis.
Contact information
The co-ordinator of studies: E.J. Walstra