Interdisciplinary seminar ¿Thinking Europe¿

leusl2050  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Interdisciplinary seminar ¿Thinking Europe¿
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Dumont Hugues; Tousignant Nathalie;
Language
French
Main themes
The interdisciplinary seminar "Thinking Europe" provides an interdisciplinary analysis on both the innovative aspects of European societies and the European integration process. It will put forward representations of and theorizing on, Europe as well as what Europe produces herself. Various paradigms are used, taken from the fields involved in the study programme.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 To get the ability to face different models and paradigms from the theoretical analysis of Europe. To develop a critical and interdisciplinary understanding of European integration representations.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
The workshop articulates critical readings of theoretical texts from sociology, political science, history, anthropology, philosophy, law and economics. The challenge for the student is to get access to those divergent/convergent analyses and to develop his own critical point of view and his capacity to bring out a personal argument on European studies.
Evaluation methods
Oral presentation or written work.
Other information
Language: French (active knowledge) and English (minimum written knowledge). Prerequisite: none. Support: compendium of texts.
Faculty or entity
EURO


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in European Studies