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Graduate Diploma in European Studies

Course code: 3097 + Course abbreviation: GradDipEuropStud + Total credit points required: 48 points + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

The course encourages students to acquire knowledge, not only of Europe, but of the present-day world in the context of a knowledge of Europe’s cultural and intellectual formation, much of which has become part of the cultural and intellectual heritage of the globe. The course is designed for students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including business and economics, law, medicine, the natural sciences, engineering and the humanities and social sciences.

Course structure

Students are required to complete the equivalent of a major (48 points) in European studies. Students take two prescribed units at level one: EUR1100 (European culture and ideas: modernity and enlightenment) and EUR1200 (European culture and ideas: modernity and romanticism), followed by core units and electives from levels two and three. Students admitted to the graduate diploma negotiate a suitable program of study in consultation with the Monash European and EU Centre.

Core units

  • EUR1100 European culture and ideas: modernity and enlightenment (6 points)
  • EUR1200 European culture and ideas: modernity and romanticism (6 points)
  • EUR2090/EUR3090 Culture and conflict: Europe in the 20th century (6 points)
  • EUR2080/EUR3080 The identity of Europe today (6 points)

Elective units

  • ECC3570 The international economy since 1945 (6 points)
  • EUR3520 Filming the nation: (re)configuring European national myths (12 points)
  • EUR3620 Contemporary intellectuals and the idea of Europe (12 points)
  • HSY2400/HSY3400 Imperialism, sexuality and modernity: politics, culture and society in Europe, c 1880–1918 (6 points)
  • HSY2440/HSY3440 The rise and fall of Nazi Germany (6 points)
  • HSY2580/HSY3580 The Holocaust (6 points)
  • HSY2950/HSY3950 Europe: enlightenment and revolution Slavery, Freedom and Revolution: the Enlightenment and the French Revolution (6 points)
  • HSY2860/HSY3860 The Renaissance in Florence (12 points)

Refer to the unit listing in the undergraduate handbook for a description of these units.

Elective units are subject to staff availability. Students are advised to contact the centre prior to enrolment.

Exit points

There are no alternative exit points from this course.

Articulation

For further study options please contact the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics or visit www.arts.monash.edu.au/prospective/course/postgraduate

Course coordinator

Dr Natalie Doyle

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