Faculty of Arts

 European Studies

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Convener: Associate Professor Tim Mehigan (Department of German and Swedish Studies)

The Faculty of Arts offers an interdepartmental program in European Studies housed in the Department of German and Swedish Studies. The program provides an integrated approach to the cultures of Europe and their languages, literatures and histories. It seeks in particular to understand and describe those processes and institutions which have given Europe a sense of being a distinct cultural and political entity. The program normally involves the completion of the two First Year subjects noted below plus two years study of a European language (which can be commenced at Second Year), and Second/Third Year studies from a set of designated subjects offered by other departments.

 1. Prerequisites

The European Studies program commences at Second Year. The general prerequisite for entry is the completion of 50 points of First Year from any area of study within the Faculty of Arts.

The recommended path for entry into the Major in European Studies is completion of the First Year subjects 131-011 Reason and the State and 166-008 Managing Identity in Contemporary Europe, and a First Year European language.

 2. Requirements for a Major

A Major in European Studies usually consists of nine 12.5 point subjects, totalling 112.5 points. It comprises:

• two First Year subjects from any area of study (25 points) and;

• seven Second/Third Year subjects from the lists below of European Studies subjects (totalling 87.5 points) and;

• a language study component as outlined below.

 2.1. Language study component

Students should also note that the European Studies Major includes a language requirement. Two semesters of language study (at least 25 points) must be completed at a minimum of intermediate standard over the course of the BA degree. This study may be counted toward the First or Second/Third Year requirement of the European Studies Major.

The European languages that fulfil the language requirement are listed below. Students should consult the relevant area entries of this handbook for the subjects offered at intermediate level and above.

• German

• French

• Italian

• Modern Greek (La Trobe)

• Russian and Slavic Studies (Monash)

• Swedish

• Spanish (La Trobe)

 3. European Studies subjects

First Year subjects
	131-011 Reason and the State
	166-008 Managing Identity in Contemporary Europe
	and studies in a recommended First Year European language.

Students must take seven subjects from List A and/or List B towards their Major in European Studies in any combination, providing that a minimum of two subjects are chosen from list A.

 3.1. List A: European Studies with a trans-national perspective

Second/Third Year subjects
Art History		Semester
	107-058 Theories of European Modernism	Not Offered
Cinema Studies
	107-084 Surrealism and the Cinema	1
French
	116-023 Introduction to Romance	Not Offered
	116-028 European Spectacle 1918-1968	2
	116-031 Culture & Identity in France & Germany	Not Offered
History
	131-052 The Holocaust & Genocide	1
	131-068 Screening the Holocaust	Not Offered
Philosophy
	161-020 Contemporary European Philosophy 1	1
	161-021 Contemporary European Philosophy 2	2
	161-029 Philosophy and Literature	1
	161-032 Philosophy of Cultural Practices	2
Political Science
	166-017 West European Politics	Not Offered
	166-020 Modern Political Thought	Not Offered
	166-025 Conflict & Corruption in Western Europe	Not Offered
	166-030 Transitions in Central & Eastern Europe	1
	166-033 European Integration: Politics of the EU	1

 3.2. List B: European Studies with a national perspective

Second/Third Year subjects
Art History		Semester
	107-024 Victorian & Edwardian Art 1840-1914	1
	107-036 Nineteenth Century French Art	Not Offered
	107-043 French Avant-Gardes	1
	107-053 Attribution, Expertise & Connoiseurship	2
	107-054 Matisse & Picasso 1900-1914	Not Offered
	107-063 Rococo	Not Offered
Cinema Studies
	107-075 International Art Cinema	Not Offered
	107-078 National Cinemas and Cultural Difference	1
	107-095 Film, Modernity and the Avant-Garde	Not Offered
French
	116-018 Classical and Contemporary Novel	2
	116-019 French Theatre from Corneille to Beckett	Not Offered
	116-020 Poetics and Poetry	1
	116-024 Women & Representation in French Society	Not Offered
	116-026 French Cinema 1940 and 1968	Not Offered
	116-027 French, Foreigners and Aliens	2
	116-029 Nineteenth and Twentieth Century France	Not Offered
	116-030 Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century	2
	116-032 Puzzles and Mazes: Experimental Writing	Not Offered
	116-033 Classical and Enlightenment France	1
German
	126-014 German Cultural Studies B	2
	126-023 Historical Grammar of German	Not Offered
	126-024 Introduction to Reading Nietzsche	Not Offered
	126-025 Iphigenia, Penthesilea, Medea	Not Offered
	126-026 Heinrich von Kleist's Prose Fiction	Not Offered
	126-027 Germanic Languages	1
	126-028 Grimm's Fairy Tales	Not Offered
	126-029 Rilke's Poetry and Prose 1900-1914	2
	126-030 German in Academic Communication	Not Offered
	126-031 Modern German Literature and Society	Not Offered
	126-032 East meets West since Unification	Not Offered
	126-033 The Cultural Critics	Not Offered
	126-074 German Cultural Studies A	1
	126-075 German Humour	1
	126-076 The German Enlightenment: Female Images	2
	126-078 Literary Controversies	Not Offered
	126-082 Post-Holocaust Literature	2
	126-083 A Study of Thomas Mann's Goethe Novel	1
	126-084 A Tale of Three Generations	1
	126-085 Translating Literature	2
History
	131-028 Birth of Industrial Society in Britain	2
	131-047 From Great Exhibition to Great War	1
	131-048 Hitler's Germany	2
	131-050 The Russian Revolution 1890-1924	Not Offered
	131-057 Twentieth-Century Britain	Not Offered
	131-058 The Rise & Fall of the German Empire	Not Offered
	131-081 France 1870-1950: Culture and Society	Not Offered
	131-082 Age of Stalin 1924 - 1953	2
Italian
	116-066 Italian 3R: Research Project	1, repeat 2
	116-071 To Hell with Dante	1
	116-072 Dante 2	2
	116-074 Italian Medieval and Renaissance Texts	Not Offered
	116-075 Italian Neoclassicism and Romanticism	Not Offered
	116-076 The Story of Italian	Not Offered
	116-077 Modern Italian Theatre	1
	116-078 Italian Special Subject	2
Modern Greek
	922-120 LaTrobe-MG2/3TH:Modern Greek Theatre	Not Offered
	922-120 LaTrobe-MG2/3TH:Modern Greek Theatre	Not Offered
	922-186 LaTrobe-MG2/3TTH:T'territorial Hellenism	1
	922-190 LaTrobe-MG2/3TGL:20th Century Greek Lit.	2
Political Science
	166-019 Russian Politics and Society	Not Offered
Russian
	109-111 Russian Linguistics A	1
	109-112 Russian Linguistics B	2
	109-115 Introduction to Czech through Russian	2
	109-122 Russian Modernism and Postmodernism	1
	109-123 Gogol and Beyond	2
	109-124 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky	Not Offered
	109-125 Russian 19th Century Lit. and Society	Not Offered
	109-126 Foundations of Slavic Literature	Not Offered
	109-127 Slavic Contrastive Studies	Not Offered
Spanish
	922-015 LaTrobe-2/3SAP:Spanish Study Abroad	Summer
	922-017 LaTrobe-3/4CW: Spanish Women Writers	Not Offered
Swedish
	126-068 Viking Studies A	1
	126-069 Viking Studies B	2
	126-072 The Runes of Scandinavia	1
	126-073 Modern Swedish Culture and Society	2
	126-086 The Nordic Languages in Society	2

 4. Honours

There is no Honours program in European Studies. However, students may choose to focus on Europe in an Honours program within another area of study. Each Honours program has its own prerequisites and minimum standards requirements. For details of these requirements students should refer to the entry under the area of study concerned.

 5. For more information

Associate Professor Tim Mehigan
Department of German and Swedish Studies
Fourth Floor, Babel Building
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Tel: +61 3 9344 5209
Web: http://www.Germanic.unimelb.edu.au

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