“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
The European Studies modules listed below will be offered in academic year 2012-2013. Please note that the modules listed may be subject to change and that final module selection will depend on academic approval of your module choice at both the point of application and the academic advising session before Matriculation.
Year Long
This module aims to provide a deeper understanding of the unity and diversity of modern European culture and society. We examine and compare the vision of society, as presented by each of a number of French-, German- and Spanish-language films of the 20th and early 21st Century, relating our study to the exploration of wider socio-political issues and major cultural trends in Europe during this period.
30 credits, Semester 1
This module introduces students to politics in Ireland, focusing on questions of power and policy-making. A critical analysis of the political culture is attempted through an examination of questions and debates surrounding modernisation, secularisation, economic change and gender change.
30 credits, Semester 1
This course explores the nature and development of the EU. It begins with an overview of key historical junctures in the integration process and the basic institutional structure of the EU. It reviews activities in a range of policy areas, including economic and monetary union, common foreign and security policy, justice and freedom. It also explores the implications of key issues in contemporary EU politics, such as the constitutional treaty and enlargement.
Year Long
These courses aim to develop, at an advanced level, practical communication skills, linguistic knowledge and language awareness, cultural awareness and intercultural competence. The study of each individual language and culture is placed in a wider European context through a film component common to all three courses.
30 credits, Semester 1
This option focuses on many of the key problems in what was Spain's most successful period. In 1492 the Moors were at last expelled from Spain and Columbus first sailed across the Atlantic. Thereafter Spain acquired a European and world empire, the first on which 'the sun never set'. This empire endured for more than 300 years but collapsed at the same time as the political, social and religious structures of the old order, or "antiguo regimen", were increasingly called into question in Spain itself.
30 credits, Semester 1
Since the end of the Second World War, German historians have wrestled with the thorny questions of long-term continuities. Did social and political developments in Germany develop in the wrong way during the 19th century, and what was the connection between the Enlightened Absolutism of Friedrich the Great, the authoritarian semi-democratic rule of Bismarck and Hitler's dictatorship? And today, with Germany being a fully democratic country, can historians finally interpret the 19th century as something other than simply the prelude of the horrors to come? Can we study 19th century Germany as a 'normal' country, even if we know what came after?
30 credits, Semester 1
The history of Italy and the way that historians have written about it is a lively and engrossing topic that will enrich your understanding. We will look at the work of social, political, cultural and economic historians in order to gain insights into the past of this intriguing and complex Mediterranean country.
30 credits, Semester 2
The course provides an intellectually challenging agenda that focuses on classic texts and debates within various aspects of political studies. It leads the student to an advanced level of theoretical analysis and discourse focused on the central concept of the state.
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