Information of the subject

1. Course details

1.1. Content area

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1.2. Course nature

Optional

1.3. Course level

Máster (EQF/MECU 7)

1.4. Year of study

719 - : 1
737 - : 2
720 - : 1

1.5. Semester

First semester

1.6. ECTS Credit allotment

6.0

1.7. Language of instruction

Español / English

1.8. Prerequisites

-

1.9. Recommendations

No recommendations

1.10. Minimum attendance requirement

1.11. Subject coordinator/s

Ignacio Molina Alvarez Cienfuegos

1.12. Coordinator of other university

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1.13. Competences and learning outcomes

1.13.1. Competences

1  General competences:

• G2. Ability to identify the main ideas of a written text or oral presentation
• G4. Ability to solve problems and make decisions autonomously
• G5. Ability to relate theory to concrete situations in the real world
• G6. Ability to work as part of a team
• G8. Ability to make sound and reasoned judgments, using the language of the study area

2  Basic competences:

• B1. Ability to communicate orally and in public in a correct, clear and reasoned way in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish
• B2. Ability to communicate in writing in a correct, clear, reasoned manner, respecting the formal rules of a scientific text, in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish
• B4. Ability to search, select and analyze information from different sources in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish
• B6. Ability to interpret analysis of relatively complex data

3  Specific skills:

• E6 - Know the behavior and political and democratic attitudes of citizens and political actors, as well as their relational dynamics
• E7 - Know the economic, social and political reality related to political processes.
• E8 - Know the institutions and decision-making processes within the framework of the European Union, as well as the values ​​of peace, democracy and human rights that are in their origin.
• E9 - Know the different techniques of quantitative data analysis used in Political Science.

1.13.2. Learning outcomes

• G2. Ability to identify the main ideas of a written text or oral presentation
• G4. Ability to solve problems and make decisions autonomously
• G5. Ability to relate theory to concrete situations in the real world
• G6. Ability to work as part of a team
• G8. Ability to make sound and reasoned judgments, using the language of the study area
• B1. Ability to communicate orally and in public in a correct, clear and reasoned way in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish
• B2. Ability to communicate in writing in a correct, clear, reasoned manner and respecting the formal rules of a scientific text, in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish
• B4. Ability to search, select and analyze information from different sources in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish
• B6. Ability to interpret analysis of relatively complex data
• E10. Knowledge of the organization and management of Public Administration at its different levels
• E11. Knowledge of the planning, implementation, evaluation and analysis of public policies
• E12. An understanding of the behavior of bureaucrats and other actors that participate in the elaboration and implementation of public policies
• E13. Knowledge of the main instruments of analysis applied in research on public administration and policies

1.13.3. Course objectives

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1.14. Course contents

1. New intergovernmentalism and the "Union Method"
2. The EU as a political system
3. The political process I: the Commission and the European Council
4. The political process II: the European Parliament and the Council
5. The political process III: decision making in the EU
6. The member states and the EU
7. The EU's global agenda
8. The political sociology of the EU governance: actors, processes and theories
9. The professionals of the EU: a sociology of European actors
10. Political, diplomatic and bureaucratic logics in the EU institutions
11. Interest groups in the governance of the EU
12. The formation of public opinion towards European integration
13. The politicisation of the European integration

1.15. Course bibliography

Ban, Carolyn, (2013) From Diversity to Unity? Management and Culture in an Enlarged European Commission, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Crespy, Amandine, & Verschueren, N. (2009). “From Euroscepticism to resistance to European integration: an interdisciplinary perspective”. Perspectives on European politics and society, 10(3), 377-393.

Georgakakis, Didier y Jay Rowell, 2013 (eds). The field of eurocracy: Mapping EU actors and professionals. Palgrave Macmillan

Georgakakis, Didier (2016), The European Civil service in time of crisis. A political sociology of the changing power of eurocrats, Palgrave Macmillan.

Kassim, Hussein et alii. (2013), The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century, Oxford, OUP,.

Kauppi, Niilo y Madsen Mickael, ed (2013), Transnational Power Elites: The New Professionals of Governance, Law and Security, London, Routlege,.

Kriesi, H., Grande, E., Dolezal, M., Helbling, M., Höglinger, D., Hutter, S., & Wüest, B. (2012). Political conflict in western Europe. Cambridge University Press.

Michel, Hélène y Lambert-Abdelgawad, Elisabeth (2014), Le disctionnaire des acteurs de l’Europe, Larcier,

Outhwaite, William (2008). European society. Polity.

Schmidt, Vivien A. (2006). Democracy in Europe: The EU and national polities. Oxford University Press.

Trenz, Hans-Jörg (2016). Narrating European society: Toward a sociology of European integration. Lexington Books.

VVAA (2007) Actes de la Recherche en sciences sociales, ,n° 166-167, mars

Van Apeldoorn, B., Drahokoupil, J., and Horn, L. (Eds.) (2008) Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance Palgrave Macmillan

Vauchez, Antoine, (2013) Lawyering Europe: European Law as a Social Field, Oxford, Hart Publishing,

2. Teaching-and-learning methodologies and student workload

2.1. Contact hours

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2.2. List of training activities

3. Evaluation procedures and weight of components in the final grade

3.1. Regular assessment

Ordinary evaluation

Continuous evaluation: It will consist of regular class participation and presentation of one of the seminars on a program topic, as well as the delivery of a written work on various program topics.

3.1.1. List of evaluation activities

Final test: oral exam on the entire programme with the both lecturers

Outline of evaluation activities

Continuous evaluation: 60%

Regular class participation and delivery of a presentation (20%)

Written paper (40%)

Final test (oral exam): 40%

3.2. Resit

Extraordinary evaluation

In the extraordinary evaluation, students who have completed the continuous evaluation will be able to complete the part of the evaluation that they have not taken.

Those students who have not undertaken the continuous evaluation will be able to take the part of the evaluation that they have not completed, but on a maximum score of 8 points.

3.2.1. List of evaluation activities

Outline of evaluation activities

Written paper (40%)

Final test (oral exam): 40%

4. Proposed workplan