Faculty of Arts

 European studies

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Convener: Associate Professor Tim Mehigan (Department of German and Swedish Studies) and Dr Philomena Murray (Contemporary Europe Research Centre and Department of Political Science)

The Faculty of Arts offers an interdisciplinary program in European studies housed in the Department of German and Swedish Studies and the Contemporary Europe Research Centre. Students will become skilled analysts of the processes and institutions that have formed the distinct cultural and political entity that is Europe. Students are able to undertake a special combination of electives to concentrate on an area of chosen interest and will have the opportunity to study a European language. Students who specialise in European studies will benefit from the flexibility and portability of the skills they will acquire and the broad career options available to them upon graduation. An articulated structure of higher degree options in European studies at the University of Melbourne is provided for students interested in expanding their interests and knowledge in the discipline.

European studies addresses contemporary Europe in frameworks of analysis that provide an integrated approach to the various European cultures, languages, literatures and histories. The discipline has a strong interdepartmental foundation and offers subjects taught by the Departments of History, cinema studies, Philosophy, Art History and political science, as well as a comprehensive range of specific European language and literature subjects.

 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

• Russian and Slavic studies

• Swedish

• Spanish

 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

The usual prerequisite for entry to a third/fourth year subject is 37.5 points at second/third year in that area.

Second/third year subjects
Cinema studies		Semester
	107-084 Surrealism and the Cinema	Not Offered
English
	106-060 Decadence	2
	106-048 Travel Writing: Zones of the Imagination
	106-036 Postmodernism
French
	116-023 Introduction to Romance	Not Offered
	116-028 European Spectacle 1918-1968	Not Offered
	116-031 Culture & Identity in France & Germany	2
History
	131-031 The Crisis Zones of Europe	2
	131-052 The Holocaust & Genocide	1
Philosophy
	161-020 Contemporary European Philosophy 1	1
	161-021 Contemporary European Philosophy 2	Not Offered
	161-029 Philosophy and Literature	2
	161-032 Philosophy of Cultural Practices	Not Offered
Political science
	166-017 West European Politics	Not Offered
	166-020 Modern Political Thought	2
	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

Third/fourth year subjects
Art history		Semester
	107-058 Theories of European Modernism	Not Offered

 3.2. List B: European studies with a national perspective

The usual prerequisite for entry to a third/fourth year subject is 37.5 points at second/third year in that area.

Second/third year subjects
Art history		Semester
	107-024 Victorian & Edwardian Art 1840-1914	Not Offered
	107-036 Nineteenth Century French Art	1
	107-043 French Avant-Gardes	Not Offered
	107-054 Matisse and Picasso	Not Offered
	107-063 Watteau and 18th Century Art 1700-1770	2
Cinema studies
	107-075 Art House Cinema & Film Festival Culture	1
	107-078 National Cinemas and Cultural Difference	Not Offered
French
	116-018 Classical and Contemporary Novel	Not Offered
	116-019 French Theatre from Corneille to Beckett	1
	116-020 Poetics and Poetry	Not Offered
	116-024 Women & Representation in French Society	1
	116-027 French, Foreigners and Aliens	Not Offered
	116-029 Nineteenth and Twentieth Century France	1
	116-030 Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century	Not Offered
	116-032 Puzzles and Mazes: Experimental Writing	2
	116-041 French Cinema Since the New Wave	2
	116-033 Classical and Enlightenment France	Not Offered
German
	126-014 German Cultural Studies B	2
	126-074 German Cultural Studies A	1
History
	131-028 Birth of Industrial Society in Britain	Not Offered
	131-047 From Great Exhibition to Great War	Not Offered
	131-048 Hitler's Germany	Not Offered
	131-050 The Russian Revolution 1890-1924	1
	131-057 Twentieth-Century Britain	Summer
	131-058 The Rise & Fall of the German Empire	1
	131-081 France 1870-1950: Culture and Society	2
	131-082 Age of Stalin 1924 - 1953	2
	131-105 Modern & Contemporary Ireland Since 1790	2
	131-118 Becoming Italian: Modern Italy 1860-2000	2
	131-083 The Decline & Fall of the Soviet Empire	Not Offered
Italian
	116-066 Italian 3R: Research Project	1, repeat 2
Modern Greek
	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.	Not Offered
Political science
	166-019 Russian Politics and Society	1
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	2
	109-123 Gogol and Beyond	Not Offered
	109-124 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky	1
	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
Swedish
	126-068 Viking Studies A	1
	126-069 Viking Studies B	Not Offered
	126-072 The Runes of Scandinavia	Not Offered
	126-073 Modern Swedish Culture and Society	Not Offered
	126-086 The Nordic Languages in Society	2

Third/fourth year subjects
Art History		Semester
	107-053 Attribution, Expertise & Connoiseurship	Not Offered
German
	126-023 Historical Grammar of German	1
	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	Not Offered
	126-028 Grimm's Fairy Tales	1
	126-030 German in Academic Communication	Not Offered
	126-031 Modern German Literature and Society	Not Offered
	126-032 East meets West since Unification	2
	126-033 The Cultural Critics	1
	126-035 The Bible, the Devil & Martin Luther	2
	126-036 German as a Foreign Language	2
	126-075 German Humour	Not Offered
	126-076 The German Enlightenment: Female Images	Not Offered
	126-078 Literary Controversies	Not Offered
	126-082 Post-Holocaust Literature	Not Offered
	126-083 A Study of Thomas Mann's Goethe Novel	Not Offered
	126-084 A Tale of Three Generations	Not Offered
	126-085 Translating Literature	Not Offered
Italian
	116-071 To Hell with Dante	1
	116-072 Dante 2	Not Offered
	116-074 Sex and Power in the Renaissance	1
	116-075 Italian Neoclassicism and Romanticism	2
	116-076 The Story of Italian	2
	116-077 Modern Italian Theatre	Not Offered
	116-078 Italian Special Subject	1
Spanish
	922-017 LaTrobe-3/4CW: Spanish Women Writers	1

 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
Sixth Floor, Arts Centre
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Tel: +61 3 8344 5209/5204
Email: t.mehigan@language.unimelb.edu.au
Web: http://www.Germanic.unimelb.edu.au

or

Dr Philomena Murray
Contemporary Europe Research Centre
Level 2, 224 Queensberry Street
Carlton, Victoria 3053
Tel: +61 3 8344 9505/9502
Email: p.murray@politics.unimelb.edu.au
Web: http://www.cerc.unimelb.edu.au

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