European Integration - JTB120

• Title: European Integration
• Czech title: Evropská integrace
• Guaranteed by: Department of European Studies (23-KZS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 16 / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• 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: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Pre-requisite : {Skupina prerekvizit pro BP_HAS - 2. ročník}
• In complex pre-requisite: JTB122, JTB123, JTB124, JTB125, JTB126, JTB127, JTB128, JTB129

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (05.02.2024)

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.


The Moodle platform for the course can be accessed at (https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4468), enrollment key JTB120.

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (05.02.2024)

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.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (05.02.2024)

Grading is based on the Dean's Measure Directive SO 002 17/2023.

• 91 % and up    => A – Excellent
• 81-90 %          => B – Very Good
• 71-80 %          => C – Good
• 61-70 %          => D – Satisfactory
• 51-60 %          => E – Sufficient
• 0-50 %            => F – Fail

More in DIRECTIVE S_SO_002 Organization of examination dates, assessment of study, and the use of A–F grading scale at FSV UK

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The final evaluation comprises a midterm test, a two-part final exam and a summary mark for short written assignments submitted ahead of each class, starting in week 4. In each of the three parts of the evaluation, a prescribed minimum number of points must be gained in order to pass the entire course. Both, the mid-term test and the final exam, will take place in class.

 

1) Mid-term test (multiple choice + open questions) (5 April 2024, absences only allowed for confirmed medical reasons) – maximum 20 points, the student must obtain at least 10 points to to qualify for the final exam. Students are allowed one resit. The test covers classes 1 to 4 plus assigned reading.

 

2) Coursework – students will be asked  to submit one very short written assignment, based on assigned reading, ahead of each class, starting on 15 March. A summary mark from these assignements will account for 40 per cent of the final grade. Students must gain at least 51 per cent of marks available from these assignments in order to qualify for the final exam.

 

3) Final exam (multiple choice + open questions) – maximum 40 points, the student must obtain at least 20 points to pass the exam. The exam covers classes 5 to 12 plus assigned reading.

 

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (29.02.2024)

Compulsory literature

1)      Textbook - McCormick J., Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction (Red Globe Press, 8th edition 2020)

 

2)      Reader – Articles, book chapters and documents assigned for individual lecture topics, accessible from the Moodle

 

 

General reading list

 

Baun M. and Marek D., The Czech Republic and the European Union (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011)

 

Beach D., The Dynamics of European Integration: why and when EU institutions matter (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan 2005).

 

Berend T. I., Against European integration: The EU and its discontents  (Abingdon/NY: Routledge, 2019).

 

Berend I., The History of European Integration. A New Perspective (London, Routledge 2016)

 

Brix E., Busek E., Central Europe Revisited: Why Europe’s Future Will Be Decided in the Region (Routledge, 2021)

 

Bulmer S. a Lequesne Ch. (eds), The Member States of the European Union (Oxford: OUP 2013)

 

Dedman M., The Origins & Developments of the European Union 1945-2008: A History of European Integration (2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2010)

 

Dinan D., Europe Recast: A History of European Integration (2nd edition Lynne Rienner, 2014)

 

Dinan D., Nugent N. a Paterson W. (eds.), The European Union in Crisis (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

 

Griffiths R., Thank you M. Monnet: essays on the history of European integration (Leiden University Press 2014)

 

Hansen P. and Jonsson S., Eurafrica: the untold history of European integration and colonialism (London: Bloomsbury Academic 2014)

 

Hodson D., Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It (Yale University Press 2023)

 

Loth W., Building Europe. A History of European Integration (De Gruyter, 2017)

 

McCormick J., European Union politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2015)

 

McCormick J. a Olsen J., The European Union: politics and policies (5. vydání Boulder: Westview Press, 2014)

 

Nelsen B. a Stubb A., The European Union: readings on the theory and practice of European integration (4th edition Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

 

Nugent N., European Union Enlargement (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan 2004)

 

Schimmelfennig F., Winzen T., Ever looser union? Differentiated European integration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)

 

Webber D., European Disintegration? The Politics of Crisis in the European Union (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

 

Zimmerman H a Dür A. (eds.), Key controversies in European integration (3^rd edition Red Globe Press, Macmillan, 2021)

Teaching methods

Last update: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (05.02.2024)

In the opening part of the module, classes will consists predominantly of lectures followed by Q&A. As we progress, more time will be allocated to discussions based on reading and short writing assignments and/or current affairs.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (08.02.2024)

Programme of lectures in Summer Term 2024

(1) 23 February – Organization and requirements. “The nature of the beast”: Introduction into the study of the European Union. Very short introduction into European integration theory.

 

(2) 1 March - History of European Integration – overview. Part I: from the beginnings to 1990

 

(3) 8 March - History of European Integration – overview. Part II: 1990-2024

 

(4) 15 March - Enlargement of EC/ES – past and future. Brexit.

 

(5) 22 March - EU institutions.

 

There will be no class on 29 March (Good Friday)

 

(6) 5 April – Midterm test. EU legal system. The courts. Rule of Law issues.

 

(7) 12 April - The Single Market.

 

(8) 19 April – The Economic and Monetary Union – history, crisis and the future of the Eurozone.

 

There will be no class on 26 April

 

(9) 3 May – Money: EU budget, funds, policies.

 

(10) 10 May - Democracy and Solidarity in the EU. Civic participation. Differentiated patterns of integration within the EU.

 

(11) 17 May - EU in the World: foreign, security and defence policies.

 

(12) 24 May - EU the contemporary crises: the Covid pandemics and the war in Ukraine. What future for the EU? Current debate on EU reform.