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European Studies
Bachelor of ArtsMinorYear: 2017
European Studies
Contact information
Coordinator
Email: benbow@unimelb.edu.au
Email: lewisa@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Overview
European Studies is a cross-disciplinary program that focuses on European culture, society and languages. Students complete core European Studies subjects and can also choose to take subjects from areas such as history, literary studies, languages, philosophy, politics and art history.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this minor, students will be able to:
- engage critically with national and comparative perspectives on Europe’s cultures;
- communicate knowledge effectively about Europe’s present and past, and its traditions in oral and written form; and
- demonstrate a broad knowledge of the interdisciplinary field of European Studies; and
- develop research skills in the constituent disciplines of languages, history, cultural studies, literary studies, film studies and memory studies that are applied with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values; and
- demonstrate an awareness of Europe’s historical and contemporary relationships to other regions such as Asia, the Americas, the Middle East and Australasia; and
- acquire critical insights through their engagement with Europe that prepare them for becoming good global citizens; and
- work with independence, self- reflection and creativity to meet goals and challenges in the workplace and personal life; and
- work effectively in groups to meet a shared goal with people whose disciplinary and cultural backgrounds differ from their own.
Last updated: 30 January 2024
Structure
50 credit points
European Studies is available as a minor sequence. The minor comprises 75 points of study (25 points at level one, 25 points at level two, 25 points at level three).
Level 1
- EURO10002 Eurovision; and
- One
Code Name Study period Credit Points Arts Foundation subject No longer available
or
25 points of a European language at level 1 (if not also credited to a language major/minor)
Level 2
- One Group A elective
- One elective (Group A or Group B)
Level 3
- One Group A elective
- One elective (Group A or Group B)
Total 75 points
Subject Options
Level 1 Compulsory Subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
EURO10002 | Eurovisions | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Group A Elective Subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
EURO20007 | A Taste of Europe: Melbourne Intensive | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EURO30006 | A Taste of Europe: Melbourne Intensive | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EURO20006 | Europe: Making and Breaking of Nations | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EURO30005 | Europe: Making and Breaking of Nations | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EURO20002 | European Modernism | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EURO30003 | European Modernism | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EURO20003 | Memory & Memoirs of 20th Century Europe | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
EURO30002 | Memory & Memoirs of 20th Century Europe | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
EURO20005 | Screening Europe: Image and Identity | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
EURO30004 | Screening Europe: Image and Identity | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
EURO20001 | Language and Society in Europe | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
EURO30001 | Language and Society in Europe | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
Group B Elective Subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
AHIS20016 | Art and Revolution | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
AHIS30003 | The Age of Golden Ages: Art in Europe | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENGL20020 | Romanticism, Feminism, Revolution | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENGL20022 | Modernism and Avant Garde | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENGL30016 | Decadent Literature | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20060 | Total War: World War II | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20069 | Modern European History 1789 to 1914 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
PHIL30024 | The Foundations of Interpretation | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POLS30018 | European Integration: Politics of the EU | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI30001 | Contemporary Sociological Theory | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
AHIS30021 | The Medieval Image: Art and Culture | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENGL30013 | Gothic Fictions | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20068 | The French Revolution | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30006 | The Renaissance in Italy | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30010 | Hitler's Germany | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LING20010 | Language, Society and Culture | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
PHIL20008 | Ethical Theory | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20052 | Venice and Cultures of Consumption | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30051 | Venice and Cultures of Consumption | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
PHIL20038 | Nietzsche and Critics | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
Links
http://languages-linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/european-studiesLast updated: 30 January 2024