Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of the territorial make-up of the EU 27 (from fully federal countries to centralised unitary ones);
- Provide an overview of mainstream studies on (and explanations of) the role of regions in EU politics;
- Provide an insight into the key debates related to multi-level governance and European integration in their territorial dimensions;
- Demonstrate capability/willingness to read and understand research using different analytical methods, be they more qualitative or quantitative;
- Present strong skills in the critical reading of a variety of texts and the academic scholarship based upon those texts;
- Display ability to think critically but constructively;
- Demonstrate capacity to construct a coherent essay. Students must show awareness of the benefits and pitfalls linked to conceptualisation, hypothesis generation, variable operationalisation, choice of measurement indicators, as well as the choice of method to test for association.
Form: Lectures
Hours per veke: 2
Number of weeks: 10
Spring - irregular (offered in spring 2017)