1999 Arts Handbook - Bachelor of Arts (European Studies)

Bachelor of Arts (European Studies)

General information
Objectives of the BA(European Studies) degree

General information

Course code: 0564
Coordinator: Professor Brian Nelson

Objectives of the BA(European Studies) degree

Students completing the BA (European Studies) will be expected:

to have learned a European language other than English to a level which allows them direct access to the culture of Europe;
to have acquired a knowledge of the way European society, institutions and political and economic structures have evolved since World War 2 and particularly in the late twentieth century;
to have achieved an understanding of contemporary developments in Europe.

The Bachelor of Arts (European Studies) offers students a comprehensive range of high quality subjects and aims to encourage as many students as possible to pursue a systematic education in European Studies, preferably by taking a major sequence leading to a full honours degree.
Through the major sequence and the honours degree, students are expected to develop:

a sound knowledge of both the diversity and the unity of Europe's culture;
an awareness of the factors influencing the development of Europe's institutions, policies and political life;
a sense of Europe's international dimensions, including the factors influencing the structure and development of the current world order;
the capacity to identify and appraise value systems, including their own;
an ability to construct and evaluate arguments and interpretations intelligently and fairly;
the range of intellectual and practical skills necessary for obtaining suitable professional employment.

First-year subjects seek to reach the foundational level of these objectives; second and third-year subjects seek to reach them on fuller and broader levels, especially conceptually; and honours subjects seek to reach them on a level of critical and imaginative sophistication and self-reflection.