| Course Name | Governance in the EU |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| PSIR 661 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | Third Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Course Objectives | This course aims at analyzing EU Governance in detail and policymaking in the EU. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | Policymaking in the EU has been shaped by rules and procedures that developed in a fifty-year period. Today, nearly all possible policy areas are covered by the EU, either based on exclusive or shared competences or merely on a coordinative role at the EU level. The main objective of this course is to analyze these varieties in European Union’s governance. The course is structured into two parts: The first part presents different ways of policymaking in three main policy dimensions (agenda setting, decision making and policy implementation). In the second part, the obtained conceptual perspectives will be analyzed through their implementation to a couple of policy areas (such as single market, social and environmental policies, CAP, migration and asylum policy and foreign policy). This course requires students with strong background knowledge of the roles of EU institutions and their functions. |
| Related Sustainable Development Goals |  |
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| Core Courses | X |
| Major Area Courses | ||
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | European Integration Theories | Hoyland and Schieritz (2004) Theories of European Integration, Neill Nuggent (2006) The government and politics of the European Union, chapter 21; Jensen (2010) Neofunctionalism, in M. Cini et. al., European Union Politics, ch. 5, Cini (2010) Intergovernmentalism, in Cini et al. European Union Politics, ch. 6, Bache/Bulmer (2006), chapter 2 |
| 3 | History of EU Integration I | Bache/George (2011) Politics in the EU, chapter 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 |
| 4 | History of EU Integration II | Bache/George (2011) Politics in the EU: chapter 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 |
| 5 | Institutions of the EU | Richardson/Mazey (2015), ch. 4,5,6 |
| 6 | EU Governance: Agenda Setting and Decision Making | Versluis, E., van Keulen, M. and Stephenson, P. (2011) Analyzing the European Union Policy Process (Palgrave Macmillan), Chapter 5: 107/131 and Chapter 7: 154/179. |
| 7 | EU Governance: Implementation and Evaluation | Richardson/Mazey (2015), ch. 16: Implementation |
| 8 | Midterm Exam | |
| 9 | Key controversies in EU Governance I | TBA |
| 10 | Key controversies in EU Governance II | TBA |
| 11 | Key controversies in EU Governance III | TBA |
| 12 | Key controversies in EU Governance IV | TBA |
| 13 | Presentations | |
| 14 | Conclusion Assessment of EU governance | TBA |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Reading Material and power point presentations. All course readings are available at the University Library and as open sources. |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 30 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 15 |
| Project | 1 | 15 |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 5 | 100 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 2 | 25 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 35 | |
| Project | 1 | 30 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 45 | |
| Final Exams | |||
| Total | 250 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to improve and deepen the theoretical and conceptual proficiencies on Political Science and International Relations. | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to evaluate critically and analytically the relationships between various factors in the discipline of Political Science and International Relations such as structures, actors, institutions and culture at an advanced level. | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to determine the theoretical and empirical gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature and gain the ability of questioning at an advanced level. | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to gain the ability to develop innovative, leading and original arguments in order to fill the gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature. | |||||
| 5 | To be able to gather, analyze, and interpret the data by using advanced qualitative or quantitative research methods in Political Science and International Relations. | |||||
| 6 | To be able to develop original academic works and publish scientific articles in refereed national or international indexed journals in the field of Political Science and International Relations. | |||||
| 7 | To be able to describe individual research and contemporary developments in Political Science and International Relations in written, oral, and visual forms. | X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to take responsibility in an individual capacity and/or as part of a team in generating innovative and analytical solutions to the problems that arise in relation to the politics in daily life. | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to develop projects in determining the institutional and political instruments for conflict resolution in national and international politics. | |||||
| 10 | To be able to prepare an original thesis in Political Science and International Relations based on scientific criteria. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to follow new research and developments, publish scientific articles and participate the debates in academic meetings in Political Science and International Relations through a foreign language. | |||||
| 12 | To be able to have ethical, social and scientific values in the stages throughout the processes of gathering, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data relevant to Political Science and International Relations. | X | ||||
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