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ATS2520

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 24 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

History

Coordinator(s)

Dr Julie Kalman

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

In 1956, the European Broadcasting Union inaugurated a song competition to introduce a new vision of Europe in the wake of the Second World War. This was the Eurovision Song Contest. If Europeans sang together, could they ever fight again? This unit takes the Eurovision Song Contest as a starting point, to explore the cultural, social and political history of post-war Europe. This unit examines the ways Europe came together and rebuilt itself after the ravages of war. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this unit explores questions of identity and memory. How did nations choose to present themselves in the contest? What did it mean to win? Did former enemies vote for one another?

Outcomes

On completion of this subject students should:

  1. Have a familiarity with, and an understanding of, the values and ideas that shape contemporary Europe
  2. Have knowledge of significant cultural institutions of Europe, as well as government, culture and society in several European countries.
  3. Have an understanding of, and an ability to apply, key terms and concepts relevant to contemporary Europe.
  4. Be familiar with, and able to discuss, relevant documents, including performance and cultural texts
  5. Be able to demonstrate competence in the following skills:
    1. obtaining access to source materials and secondary writings through the library and other resources
    2. writing (including planning, arguing on the basis of evidence, and documenting)
    3. analysis and interpretation of texts, including the application of appropriate terms and concepts for the discussion of content and form
    4. oral presentation of information and argument based on guided and independent reading
    5. discussion of texts and oral presentations
    6. assimilation of information and opinion from various sources for purposes of forming independent judgments
    7. team work.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Julie Kalman

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

International studies

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS3520