Undergraduate courses and subjects 2000 - Bachelor of Arts (European Studies)

Bachelor of Arts (European Studies)

General information
Course structure

General information

Course code: 0564 · Coordinator: Professor Brian Nelson
The BA (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.

Course structure

Students are required to complete a double major: one major in a European language selected from French, German, Modern Greek, Italian, Spanish, Russsian or Slavic and the other a three-year sequence in European studies. The European studies major consists of a first-year sequence (EUR1010 and EUR1020), a second-year sequence (comprising two core subjects EUR2010 and EUR2020) and 24 points at third year.

First year

· EUR1010 Contemporary Europe: origins
· EUR1020 Contemporary Europe: East and West

Second year

· EUR2080 Europe today: problems of integration
· EUR2010 Imagining Europe
· EUR2020 Creating Europe
· EUR2100 European economic history since 1945
· EUR2130 Nations seeking statehood
· EUR2340 Contemporary Russian politics: visions and institutions in conflict
· EUR2400 Modernism, sexuality and decadence: politics, culture and society in Europe, c1880-1918
· EUR2450 Contemporary Germany: division and unification
· EUR2580 The Holocaust
· EUR2810 Comparative economic systems: Europe in the world context
· EUR2950 Europe: enlightenment and revolution

Third year

· EUR3010 Imagining Europe
· EUR3020 Creating Europe
· EUR3080 Europe today: problems of integration
· EUR3100 European economic history since 1945
· EUR3130 Nations seeking statehood
· EUR3340 Contemporary Russian politics: visions and institutions in conflict
· EUR3400 Modernism, sexuality, decadence: culture and society in Europe, c1880-1918
· EUR3430 European cultural history: the Spanish Civil War
· EUR3450 Contemporary Germany: division and unification
· EUR3520 Filming the nation: the recent past in European cinema
· EUR3580 The Holocaust
· EUR3620 Contemporary intellectuals and the idea of Europe
· EUR3630 German cinema
· EUR3720 State, markets and monopoly in contemporary western Europe
· EUR3810 Comparative economic systems: Europe in the world context
· EUR3840 Revolution, social change and the making of modern Europe
· EUR3590 Europe: enlightenment and revolution