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<TITLE>INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY EUROPE: POLITICS, IDENTITY, CULTURE A</TITLE>
<POINTS>12.5 1st year
<COORDINATOR>Philomena Murray and Leslie Holmes.
<SEMESTER>First semester
<CONTACT>Two 1-hour lectures and one tutorial a week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students completing this subject should:
<ul>
<li>understand and be able to identify major issues confronting Europe today, at a time of great change, in the Post-Cold War, post-Maastricht, post-USSR era;
<li>be able to identify the problems related to issues of identity and nationalism in general and apply them to selected countries of Western and East/Central Europe as well as the threat of racism and neofascism;
<li>be able to discuss who has power and who abuses it in European countries, with examples of corruption in Italy and Eastern Europe;
<li>be able to research whether European citizenship is a myth of reality in the context of the European Community/European Union;
<li>demonstrate a knowledge of migration in Europe, a problem exacerbated by the refugees from Eastern Europe to Western Europe;
<li>have an enriched knowledge of the place of the study of identity in terms of how Europe is conceptualised, from both within Europe and beyond.
</ul>
<CONTENT>This subject introduces students to issues confronting contemporary Europe, East and West, in a time of rapid transformation and political change. Explores themes of identity, nationalism, racism, neofascism, corruption and inclusion and exclusion in European society.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 4,000 words.
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<POINTS>12.5 1st year
<COORDINATOR>Philo Murray.
<SEMESTER>First semester
<CONTACT>Two 1-hour lectures and one tutorial a week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students completing this subject should:
<ul>
<li>understand and be able to identify major issues confronting Europe today, at a time of great change, in the Post-Cold War, post-Maastricht, post-USSR era;
<li>be able to identify the problems related to issues of identity and nationalism in general and apply them to selected countries of Western and East/Central Europe as well as the threat of racism and neofascism;
<li>be able to discuss who has power and who abuses it in European countries, with examples of corruption in Italy and Eastern Europe;
<li>be able to research whether European citizenship is a myth of reality in the context of the European Community/European Union;
<li>demonstrate a knowledge of migration in Europe, a problem exacerbated by the refugees from Eastern Europe to Western Europe;
<li>have an enriched knowledge of the place of the study of identity in terms of how Europe is conceptualised, from both within Europe and beyond.
</ul>
<CONTENT>This subject introduces students to issues confronting contemporary Europe, East and West, in a time of rapid transformation and political change. Explores themes of identity, nationalism, racism, neofascism, corruption and inclusion and exclusion in European society.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 4,000 words.
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<TITLE>INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY EUROPE: POLITICS, IDENTITY, CULTURE A</TITLE>
<POINTS>12.5
<COORDINATOR>Philomena Murray and Leslie Holmes.
<SEMESTER>First semester.
<CONTACT>Two 1-hour lectures and one tutorial each week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students completing this subject should:
<ul>
<li>understand and be able to identify major issues confronting Europe today, at a time of great change, in the Post-Cold War, post-Maastricht, post-USSR era;
<li>be able to identify the problems related to issues of identity and nationalism in general and apply them to selected countries of Western and East/Central Europe as well as the threat of racism and neofascism;
<li>be able to discuss who has power and who abuses it in European countries, with examples of corruption in Italy and Eastern Europe;
<li>be able to research whether European citizenship is a myth of reality in the context of the European Community/European Union;
<li>demonstrate a knowledge of migration in Europe, a problem exacerbated by the refugees from Eastern Europe to Western Europe;
<li>have an enriched knowledge of the place of the study of identity in terms of how Europe is conceptualised, from both within Europe and beyond.
</ul>
<CONTENT>This subject introduces students to issues confronting contemporary Europe, East and West, in a time of rapid transformation and political change. Explores themes of identity, nationalism, racism, neofascism, corruption and inclusion and exclusion in European society.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 4,000 words.
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