This course welcomes MA students from different national and disciplinary backgrounds, including students who train to become teachers and want to deepen their understanding of the functioning of the European Union.
The seminar offers students the opportunity to improve their understanding of academic and political discussions on the concept of actorness and to foster their knowledge on political institutions, procedures and processes in the European Union. They engage in the analysis of political and institutional opportunity structures, focusing on the new terms of the European Parliament and the European Commission, looking into current policy fields and the debate on Treaty change as a condition for further enlargement. Students are supposed to develop own projects in teams specialising on their areas of interest in the realm of the EU Commission’s upcoming portfolio.
The course includes an excursion with a bloc seminar at UC Louvain and site visits to Brussels as a contribution to the Circle U. alliance.
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