Director: Professor Alastair Davidson
Graduate coordinator: Professor Alastair Davidson
The Centre for European Studies provides a focus for multidisciplinary teaching and research in European studies and serves as a forum for conferences, seminars and special events connected with Europe.
PhD
The degree of PhD in European studies is taken by the submission of a major thesis (of 60,000-90,000 words) on a topic approved by the director of the centre. Candidates qualified for either the degree of Bachelor of Arts with honours class 1 or honours class 2 division A, or the degree of Master of Arts (H2A equivalent) in a relevant discipline, are eligible for admission.
Members of staff and their fields of special interest
Pavlos Andronikos Modern Greek identity; the Cyprus problem.
Philip Ayres Nationalism and separatist movements.
Alastair Davidson Citizen and human rights in Europe and Australia.
David Garrioch Eighteenth-century France; comparative urban history.
Alun Kenwood Contemporary Spanish culture and society; contemporary Spanish cinema; eighteenth-century Spanish literature.
Peter Lentini Contemporary Europe (especially Eastern Europe).
Brian Nelson French culture and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Kevin O'Connor Economic geography; regional structure and development.
Marko Pavlyshyn Contemporary post-Soviet, and especially Ukrainian, literature and culture.
David Roberts Twentieth-century German history, politics and culture; contemporary social theory; European unification.
Geoff Spenceley Australian relationships with the European Economic Community since 1963; the economic history of Nazi Germany.
Walter Veit European literature and culture; European-Australian relations; role of intellectuals in society.
Ian Ward Soviet economic system; economic systems method; economic policy in Australia.
Denise Welch International business management.
Steven Wright Workplace culture and politics in Europe, especially Italy.
MA in modern European studies
Entry requirements
Students with a pass degree with at least twenty-four credit points (of which sixteen must be at third-year level) in European studies or a related discipline will be eligible to undertake the MA, comprising a total of ninety-six points (Parts I and II, two years full-time, part-time normally four years).
Students with an honours degree with a grade of H2A or better, or the equivalent, may be admitted directly to Part II of the program, comprising forty-eight points (one year full-time, part-time normally two years). Not all subjects will necessarily be available every year.
MA Part I
Students with a major in a European language will take a selection of approved subjects totalling forty-eight points. All students must complete successfully four of the following semester subjects (subjects marked with an asterisk are not available to students who have already successfully completed EUR3240.08, EUR3320.08, EUR3430.08, EUR3520.08, EUR3620.08 and EUR3720.08):
* EUM4000.12 Research project in European studies
* EUM4240.12 The impossible dream of European unity*
* EUM4320.12 Paris, Berlin, Vienna: the city and modernity, 1870-1918*
* EUM4430.12 European cultural history: the Spanish Civil War*
* EUM4520.12 Reading the past: European cinema, history and national identity*
* EUM4620.12 Contemporary intellectuals and the idea of Europe*
* EUM4720.12 State, markets and monopoly in contemporary Western Europe*
Students may replace some of these subjects with Part II subjects at the discretion of the director. Where the student has no knowledge of a European language, one of these must be replaced by a 12-point language subject (EUM5000.08/12 Language). This would be typically FRN1010 and FRN1020. Students may replace this by alternative forms of tuition when this has been approved by the director of the centre or his nominee but they must sit the common end-of-year examination.
MA Part II
Core subject
All candidates must complete EUM5080.08/12 (European economic integration).
Candidates with no knowledge of a European language must take EUM5000.08/12 (Language) as one of the required subjects, if not already taken in Part I. Further language study may be undertaken by candidates with a knowledge of a European language by taking EUM5000.08/12 (Language) as one of the required subjects. For details of EUM5000 (Language) see the entry under MA Part I.
Coursework
Coursework degree candidates take four 12-point fifth-year level subjects, including EUM5080.12
Research
Research degree candidates take two 8-point fifth-year level subjects, including EUM5080.08 and a thesis of 25-35,000 words worth 66 per cent.
* EUM5010.08/12 Europe today
* EUM5030.08/12 Modern Europe: a regional study
* EUM5040.08/12 International business
* EUM5050.08/12 The international business environment
* EUM5080. 08/12 European economic integration
* EUM5090.08/12 Interpreting East and Central Europe
* EUM5110.08/12 European integration: the legal dimension
* EUM5120.08/12 Australia and Europe
* EUM5150.08/12 Transition to democracy in Europe: civil societies to civic cultures
* EUM5530.08/12 Modernism and politics
* EUM5600.08/12 Strategic studies and international security
Students may choose only one of EUM5040.08/12 and EUM 5050.08/12
Inquiries should be directed to the administrative officer, Centre for European Studies.