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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Philomena Murray.
Prerequisite: Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who undertake this subject will emerge with:
- an introductory but in-depth understanding of the politics of European integration;
- an appreciation of the EC/European Union as a unique and evolving political entity;
- a critical knowledge of the 1992 Single Market initiatives and the development of the ECs political and economic power;
- an ability to evaluate the prospects for full European Union after Maastricht;
- an understanding of member states attitudes to the EC/EU and the tension within the EC between national sovereignty and power above the state;
- an understanding of contemporary issues confronting the EC such as enlargement to include Eastern European states, problems of democratic legitimacy and citizenship and the future of Europe since the Maastricht European Union Treaty come into force.
Content:
This subject traces the ECs origins and examines the approaches to the study of the EC/EU. It scrutinises the policies of the EC/EU and the prospects for Economic and Monetary union and asks whether the EC is a polity in the making. It analyses the institutions, participants and drive to institutional and policy reform, in external relations and foreign policy; the significance of 1992 and Maastricht and the relationship between the EC/EU and Australia.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p154) : Next:166-241 | Prev:166-239
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p165) : Next:166-241 | Prev:166-239
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Philomena Murray.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students who undertake this subject will emerge with:
- an introductory but in-depth understanding of the politics of European integration;
- an appreciation of the EC/European Union as a unique and evolving political entity;
- a critical knowledge of the 1992 Single Market initiatives and the development of the ECs political and economic power;
- an ability to evaluate the prospects for full European Union after Maastricht;
- an understanding of member states attitudes to the EC/EU and the tension within the EC between national sovereignty and power above the state;
- an understanding of contemporary issues confronting the EC such as enlargement to include Eastern European states, problems of democratic legitimacy and citizenship and the future of Europe since the Maastricht European Union Treaty come into force.
Content:
This subject traces the ECs origins and examines the approaches to the study of the EC/EU. It scrutinises the policies of the EC/EU and the prospects for Economic and Monetary union and asks whether the EC is a polity in the making. It analyses the institutions, participants and drive to institutional and policy reform, in external relations and foreign policy; the significance of 1992 and Maastricht and the relationship between the EC/EU and Australia.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p165) : Next:166-241 | Prev:166-239
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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