SLL20030

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
-Demonstrate an understanding of a range of key developments in the process of European integration over the twentieth century;
-Analyse some of the main concepts that inform the idea of Europe in the European and extra-European imagination;
-Critically assess the realities of language policy and multilingualism in Europe today;
-Be able to assess a range of relevant primary and secondary source material;
-Develop study, writing and communication skills commensurate with Level 2.

Indicative Module Content:

Europe in politics, culture and the imagination; language policies in Europe; minority languages in Europe; rememberance and the World Wars.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Teaching and learning will take place in the form of interactive lectures, reflective learning, task-based learning, group work, presentations, blended learning, seminars, discussions. No use of AI for learning purposes within this module.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students will receive written feedback and have the opportunity for face-to-face feedback on all completed assessments.

Weeks 1-3: The Concept of Europe

- Zsinka, László. “The Roots Of Western Societal Evolution: A Concept of Europe by Jenő Szűcs.” Society and Economy 36, no. 2 (2014): 185–97. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43774199.

- Llobera, J. R. (2003). “The Concept of Europe as an Idée-force. Critique of Anthropology”, 23(2), 155-174. https://doi-org.ucd.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0308275X03023002003

- Andrii Falkovskyi, Olga Dzhezhik, “Formation of the Modern Concept of Europe in the Context of Social Neo-Institutionalism”, Baltic Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2019


Weeks 4-6: 20th-century Europe between two global wars

- Jan Vermeiren (2017) “Notions of solidarity and integration in times of war: the idea of Europe, 1914–18”, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 24:6, 874-888, DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2017.1349739

- Alexandr Sych (2019), “Post War (WWI) Central and Eastern Europe: Time of Civilizational Choice”, Codrul Cosminului, XXV No. 1.

- Hanshew, Karrin. “Cohesive Difference: Germans and Italians in a Postwar Europe.” Central European History 52, no. 1 (2019): 65–86. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26733012.


Weeks 7-9: European Culture

- Dumancic, Marko. "The Cold War's Cultural Ecosystem: Angry Young Men in British and Soviet Cinema, 1953-1968." Cold War History 14, no. 3 (2014): 403-422.

- Marie Orton (2021) Migration cinema and Europe’s ‘unguarded door’, Studies in European Cinema, 18:2, 176-187, DOI: 10.1080/17411548.2019.1686891

- Reiss, Timothy J. “Introduction.” PMLA 108, no. 1 (1993): 14–29. http://www.jstor.org/stable/462849.

- Remenyi, Joseph. “Art and Twentieth Century European Literature.” College Art Journal 11, no. 1 (1951): 20–26. https://doi.org/10.2307/772792.



Weeks 10-12: European Languages

- Sokolovska, Z. (2017). Languages in “the united nations of europe”: Debating a postwar language policy for europe. Language Policy, 16(4), 461-480. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-016-9417-z

- Hosani, Naeema Al. "Language Maps from Africa to Europe: Multilingualism, Colonialism and New Approaches to Geographical Linguistics/Jezikovni Zemljevidi Od Afrike do Evrope: Vecjezicnost, Kolonializem in Novi Pristopi k Geografski Lingvistiki." Acta Neophilologica 55, no. 1-2 (2022): 133.

- Sebestyén, Krisztina, Katarzyna Jagielska, and Nadine Comes. "Multilingualism in Europe among to some Theoretical and Empirical Examples – Introduction to a Thematic Issue." Hungarian Educational Research Journal 13, no. 3 (2023): 319-327.

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