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EUST3007: Ideas of Europe
2020 unit information
What is Europe? A geographical region? A political project? Where does it begin and end? What are its characteristics? These questions have occupied thinkers within and beyond Europe for millennia. The answers they have found shape our ideas of Europe today. This unit introduces students to ideas of Europe from antiquity to the present day. Reading texts by figures from Aristotle to Immanuel Kant, Napoleon Bonaparte, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Winston Churchill, it provides an overview of European history of ideas by examining the history of the European idea itself.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
European Studies
| Code | EUST3007 |
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| Academic unit | European Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 2000 level in the European Studies major |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the diverse ways in which Europe has been conceived historically as a geographic, cultural, political and intellectual entity
- LO2. analyse how competing ideas of Europe have influenced and been influenced by real-world events
- LO3. compare, contrast, and contest the ways in which 'Europe' has been understood and framed
- LO4. develop an in-depth critical commentary on a text dealing with the idea of Europe
- LO5. demonstrate a thorough grasp of the topic and material by researching for an essay that deals synthetically or comparatively with several perspectives on an aspect of the European idea
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