ECTS:
3
Syllabus
Learning outcomes:
LO 1: During this course, students will be participating in a series of online activities on the
milestones of European integration with students from other countries.
This will allow you to improve your knowledge about this process from just the national or
regional (e.g. Western / Central Europe) ones taught in your previous secondary school or
university courses and you will become aware of the cultural dimension of the history of the EU.
LO 2: During this course, students will be working in international teams.
This activity will help you acquire skills related to the critical and creative thinking about
intercultural differences and how to manage them in teams in an online context. After having
taken part in the course, you will be able to match proper tools according to online collaboration
and partners needs, and the topic you will be developing. You will also improve your
communication skills in English.
LO 3: During this course, students will refl ect in a team about the causes and consequences of
differentiated perceptions on selected milestones of their choice of the EU integration process.
It will be reflected in the way you will verbally and visually exchange online more than single
stories in your team and give feedback to students from another country. This activity will allow
you to improve and widen your reflection on the influence of national stories on contemporary
European issues.
Course content:
Ice Breaker Activities: Who I am and what is the EU for me. Where I am from and how does my
place connect to the EU. Important people in the integration process.
The fi rst part of the course deals with 2 weeks of various online activities during which students
will have to complete tasks that will allow them to get to know each other and the tools that can
be used during the virtual exchange. Already in this fi rst part, there is a synchronous discussion
on topics introducing students to the issue of perceiving the EU from an international and
intercultural perspective.
Comparison and analysis: Ideas of European Unity. Treaty of Rome and the four freedoms.
The second part of this course consists of 2 weeks where students start to write and present a
short opinion on the chosen problem connected with European history according to their
perspective. In addition, students will discuss, in small teams, recent EU media coverage in their
respective country. Students will jointly prepare opinions and comments on the results of other
groups work. During the synchronous session, students will have the opportunity to exchange
observations and experiences gained during this stage of work.
Collaboration (4 weeks work in small groups): Milestones of EU history. Contemporary
perception of EU issues.
In the third part of the course, students will be working in international teams on the topic they
chose in the previous part of the course. The project should give students the ability to share
their experiences so far and learn from each other. Exchange of the students will take place
online and during a virtual synchronous session. Results will be presented and discussed on the
virtual forum.
This course is engaging, interactive, and student-centred: students verbally and visually
exchange opinions working in small groups and altogether during synchronous sessions. During
this course student input contributes to curriculum development. Students prepare a list of
people, places and events they want to talk about, and are asked to comment the inputs of their
classmates.
This course will foster multilingualism by exchanging and presenting certain press texts in their
original languages.
Module aim
The course deals with the milestones of the European integration process, from the aftermath of WW2 up to the enlargement in 2004-2007, bringing together and confronting different historical and cultural perspectives.
It is based on experiential learning: it aims to make students reflect upon the reasons and consequences of the diversity of perspectives across the European continent by sharing their views and learning from each other in the frame of virtual exchange. Students will be asked to co-create the content of the course by preparing in teams a shared approach based on the aforementioned analysis of the contrasting historical and cultural perspectives to milestones of the European integration process. This virtual exchange may be complemented with physical mobility in one of EPICUR’s university campuses.
Information
Year: 2020/2021
Semester: Summer
Hours: 30
Language: English
Building:
Room:
Tips:
Topic: European integration history from a transnational perspective
Module: 18-EIHfTP-PIE
Prerequisites
Module Lecturers:
Dr. Lucyna BLAZEJCZYK-MAJKA, associate professor in Department of economic history, Adam
Mickiewicz University in Poznan (majkal@amu.edu.pl);
Dr. Sabine MENU, associate professor at EM Strasbourg Business School, University of
Strasbourg (sabine.menu@em-strasbourg.eu)
Format and dates: 10 weeks online project work
Prerequisites: basic knowledge about the process of European integration
Open to students: bachelor’s level, 2nd or 3rd year
Teaching period: Pre-Block + WS 20/21
Max. enrollment: 16 students from 2 universities (UAM & UNISTRA) for an online course taking
place in February and March 2021
Workload/presence, credit points: 30 (online course with online synchronous sessions),3
ECTS
Components of assessing:
• individual work connected with small tasks each week of classes (30%);
• participation in discussions during synchronous sessions (30%);
• presentation of the results of the work done in small groups: a short study on the selected
milestone, its importance in the process of European integration, taking into account the
international and intercultural perspective (40%).
Lecturer
dr Lucyna BLAŻEJCZYK-MAJKA, dr Sabine MENU
Academic title: Professor
Email: majkal@amu.edu.pl; sabine.menu@em-strasbourg
Reading list
• Amato, Giuliano, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, and Gianfranco Pasquino. 2019. The history of the
European Union: constructing utopia. Oxford: Hart.
• McCormick, John. 2017. Understanding the European Union: a concise introduction.
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Dinan, Desmond. 2016. Origins and evolution of the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780199570829.001.0001.
