Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Steve Wood
Contact via steve.wood@mq.edu.au
W6A 430
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MIntRel or PGDipIntRel or PGCertIntRel or MIntCommMIntRel or MIntBusMIntRel or MIntRelMIntTrdeComLaw or MTransInterMIntRel or GradCertIntRel or GradDipIntRel
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit is for students interested in contemporary Europe and the European Union. The unit incorporates historical background and analysis of how these entities are related and differentiated. Developments in and theoretical perspectives on European integration, EU enlargement, member states and institutions, the 'Euro Crisis', key policy areas, important external actors, strategic challenges and questions of identity are among the other themes. Reading, thinking and engagement are required. At Masters level a high standard of analysis, research, referencing, organization and presentation is expected. The unit aims to enhance these skills and enable a broad and critical understanding of Europe and the EU in the world. There are opportunities for intensive inquiry across a range of topics.
NB: This unit includes an invigilated exam held on campus in the designated exam period. External students also have to be available for this exam. Those outside Sydney may attend another approved examination centre in Australia.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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essay #1 | 15% | 9 September, 12:00 noon |
research essay | 40% | 4 November at 12:00 noon |
exam | 45% | tba |
Due: 9 September, 12:00 noon
Weighting: 15%
1500 word essay on one of the designated ‘debates’ (see Weeks 3, 4, 6)
The questions are as listed in the ‘debates’:
Debate #1: Is the EU a military power, or will it become one?
Debate #2: Will the Euro survive; can the EU survive without the Euro?
Debate #3: Is the EU a ‘normative power’? How far does its normative agenda extend?
Essays should transmit an argued position with sources drawn on referenced in proper scholarly manner.
Due date is 9 September at 12:00 noon
Ensure that your essay has a signed and dated cover sheet
Upload to the designated turnitin link on the unit iLearn site
Due: 4 November at 12:00 noon
Weighting: 40%
40%: one 3000 word research essay (word count is text only - references and bibliography are additional)
Essay topics are listed in the Detailed Unit Guide at the unit iLearn site. There are 20 to choose from. Please do not alter the wording or invent new questions.
The due date is as late as possible. No extensions are necessary. Submit by the due date as the exam may follow relatively soon after.
Due: tba
Weighting: 45%
45%: 3 hour exam
ALL students, internal and external, must attend the exam on campus, or, for those outside the Sydney metropolitan area, at an approved examination centre in Australia.
Exam content could be drawn from the entire unit.
The exam will occur in the exam period. The date will be announced when known.
Lectures will be delivered in person employing power point. Presuming that all technical means are functioning properly, audio will be available via Echo. An iLearn site has been set up. Access will be made available early, possibly as soon as 11 July - check when you can.
At the iLearn site a more Detailed Unit Guide will be available.
Power point slides will be placed on the unit iLearn site, usually after the lectures, sometimes before. There will be links to turnitin on the unit iLearn site. Appropriate technology will (hopefully) be available for student presentations and other pedagogic or research purposes
Readings will be posted on iLearn. Some will be there from 11 July.
There is no set textbook for this unit. Students might find
Steve Wood and Wolfgang Quaisser The New European Union: Confronting the Challenges of Integration (Boulder: Lynne Rienner 2008)
useful but it is not essential.
Material for Week One will be placed on the unit iLearn site BEFORE Week One. Please access and read before the Week One lecture and seminar.
S2 Day lectures are on Tuesdays at 14:00 to 15:30 starting 2 August. A seminar will follow from 15:30 to 17:00. Depending on enrolments, the seminar may be repeated from 18:00 to 19:30.
The schedule listed below indicates Tuesday dates for Semester 2, 2016
There is a quite a lot of reading for Week 1. This is because it is relevant for most of the unit.
Some can be read later but please read at least some BEFORE THE WEEK ONE SEMINAR
Week One – 2 August: What is Europe? What is the European Union?
Week Two – 9 August: European Union Enlargement
Week Three – 16 August: Foreign Policy, Security, Defence
Debate #1: Is the EU a military power/will it become one/does it need to be?
Week Four – 23 August: Economy and Crisis
Debate #2: Will the Euro survive; can the EU survive without the Euro?
Week Five – 30 August: Europe’s Refugee/Migrant Crisis
Week Six – 6 September: Normative Power Europe?
Debate #3: Is the EU a ‘normative power’? How far does its normative agenda extend?
Week Seven - 13 September: Energy and Environmental Challenges
MID-SEMESTER BREAK September 19th to 30th
Week Eight – 4 October: Transatlantic relations: The EU and the USA
Week Nine – 11 October: The EU and the Post-Soviet space
Week Ten – 18 October: The EU and Turkey
Week Eleven – 25 October: The EU and other actors: Africa, the Middle East, China
Week Twelve - 1 November: no lecture or seminar – more time to finish and submit essays
RESEARCH ESSAY DUE: 4 November, 12:00 noon - Date is as late as possible - no extensions
Exam – in the exam period (precise date and time to be announced)
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