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Current Issues of European Integration - JMM525
Title: Aktuální problémy evropské integrace
Guaranteed by: Department of European Studies (23-KZS)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2010
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (25)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D.
PhDr. Zuzana Kasáková, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : JMM584
Interchangeability : JMM584
Is incompatible with: JMM584, JTM021
Is interchangeable with: JMM584
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Annotation -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D. (29.09.2009)
A compulsory one-term course for the students of the European Studies programme. The aim is to introduce key topics of the contemporary European integration debate in the appropriate context. An own analysis of a problem, a critical review of somebody else's analysis, as well as the defence of one's own opinion will be required from the students.
Literature -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D. (29.09.2009)

Academic literature on European studies, foreign and Czech media sources - according to the given topic.

Teaching methods -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D. (29.09.2009)

WS, 0/2

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D. (03.10.2009)

1. regular and active participation (max 1 absence)

2. analysis presentation (cca 15-20 min. + handout) and opponency of somebody else's analysis (cca 10 min)

3. weekly essay (250-300 words) on the reading

4. review essay

Syllabus -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D. (29.09.2009)

Students will debate the following topics during the semester:

1. Where are the borders of Europe? Europe = EU?

2. What is the role of the nation state in the EU

3. Multiculturalism and immigration policy in the EU

4. Multi-speed Europe ? elements, forms, meaning, impact

5. What role for human rights in foreign policy?

6. What is the role of the US in the EU?

7. What is the role of the EU in the world?

8. Democratic deficit and European citizenship ? who should steer the EU?

9. Development aid ? do we help or harm?

10. What future for the European social model?

11. Is the current European approach to the climate change the right one?

12. What is the optimal level of regulation in the EU

The reviewed book and topic of the essay have to be agreed with the tutor by 6 November 2009. The deadline for both papers: 29 January 2010.

 
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