Annotation:

This course offers an introduction to European integration studies to students of the „History and Area Studies“ undergraduate programme at IMS FSV UK. The module is also open do undergraduate students incoming in the framework the Erasmus+ programme, who have not studied European integration before.

In turn, the course covers the history, institutional, legal, economic, political and security dimensions of European integration. In introduces the students into key concepts in the theoretical reflection of European integration and, throughout the term, it reviews selected current issues in the EU.


Aims of the Course:

Upon completing the course, the students will have mastered the fundamentals of the historical development and contemporary functioning of the European Union. They will understand the its institutional design and decision-making procedures, the specifics of its political culture, the impact of its internal diversity, and the limits and current challenges to the integration process.