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Course Offerings (GSAS Bulletin)
Courses offered by the Center are open to students in all departments and professional schools. New program offerings are developed in response to major political, social, and economic issues as they arise and complement existing disciplinary courses on Europe. The following is a sampling of course offerings.
Political Economy of Contemporary Europe
G42.1100 Staff. 4 points.
Provides students with models, interpretations, and empirical evidence to analyze recent changes in the labor market and industrial relations system occurring during the European integration process.
20th-Century France
G42.1210 Identical to G46.1620. 4 points.
What Is Europe? A Cultural Approach
G42.2301 Staff. 4 points.
Examines the formation of the European nation-state starting with the French Revolution. Provides an overview of key issues, including citizenship, exclusion, immigration, identity, nationalism, security, and the creation of the European Union and its policy formation.
France in Europe
G42.2424 Identical to G46.2424. 4 points.
East European Politics
G42.2580 Staff. 4 points.
Analysis of postcommunist Eastern Europe, focusing on main theoretical explanations of democratic survival, developments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in comparative perspective, and single-country studies.
The Mediterranean in Historical Perspective
G42.2660 Santarelli. 4 points.
Trains students in the history of the Mediterranean and provides them with insights into the theories and interpretations of the Mediterranean. Analyzes the ways in which the Mediterranean has been identified not only as a geographical region, but also as a cultural, political, and social one. Examines the reshaping of cultural, political, and social borders across the Mediterranean.
A Modern Mediterranean Region: Myth or Reality
G42.2670 Santarelli. 4 points.
Examines major political, cultural, and social trends of the region during the past two centuries, focusing on whether it is correct to locate these developments as particularly “Mediterranean” or not.
Graduate Seminar in European Studies
G42.3000 Staff. 4 points.
Trains European studies graduate students in approaches to research and in the sources and uses of research materials on Europe. Students start work on what will eventually become the master’s thesis. Topics of discussion include how to select an appropriate topic, how to formulate a question about it, and how to design and develop the argument at the core of the thesis.
The European Union: History and Politics
G42.3502 Staff. 4 points.
The development of the European Union; expansion from 6 to 15 member nations; industrial, agricultural, and social policies; economic and monetary union; and relations with the former East and Central European countries.
European Economy in a Globalized Market
G42.3506 Staff. 4 points.
Investigates theoretical and empirical work that has been published, looking first at historical and macro levels of analysis, and then at the institutional and sector impact of agent and structure explanations. The EU has gained considerable competence, yet it remains the victim of political dispute among 15 rival governments. Some sovereignty has been ceded to federalist agencies in Brussels, to the European Court, and to the EU Central Bank (ECB), but the power transfer is far from complete.
Politics of Immigration and Integration in Western Europe
G42.3507 Maier. 4 points.
Analysis of the histories and philosophies of immigration in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, their minority integration regimes, the principal theories of multicultural accommodation, key issues in minority integration, and the tension between cultural sensitivity and women’s rights.
Topics in European and Mediterranean Studies
G42.3901 Staff. 4 points.
Recent course topics: Comparative European Politics, Advanced Topics in European Politics, European Citizenship, Eastern Europe, Southern European Cinema, The EU and Its Global Role, Religion and Democracy—Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, The European City and the American City
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