Practicum on European Politics Research

Major: International Relations
Code of subject: 7.291.01.M.017
Credits: 5.00
Department: Political Science and International Relations
Lecturer: Zoriana Zazuliak, PhD in Political Sciences, Assistant Professor. Oleh Tsebenko
Semester: 2 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: knowledge of basic concepts and ideas that underpin European integration; knowledge of the content of regulations governing the shaping and implementation of common European policies; ability to search for, use, and analyse official EU documents; ability to assess the role and significance of various institutions and centres of power in developing and implementing European policies; ability to identify specific problems in the field of common European policy and outline their solutions; ability to identify means and mechanisms for approaching of Ukraine to the EU standards in the context of European integration.
Required prior and related subjects: Prerequisites: European Union Law. International and European Security. Сo-requisites: Regional Policy and Integration.
Summary of the subject: Foundations of European policy. The origins and development of European integration. The Single market of the European Union. Common trade and customs policy of the European Union. European agricultural policy. European competition policy. European energy policy. European environmental policy. The social policy of the European Union. European consumer protection policy. European educational policy. European cultural policy. European information policy. The common foreign policy of the European Union. European security policy.
Assessment methods and criteria: Formative assessment (100%): oral questioning, essays, presentations.
Recommended books: Yevropeiskyi Soiuz: polityka, ekonomika, pravo: navch. posibnyk / N. V. Antoniuk, M. M. Mykiievych, N. A. Romaniuk ta in. – Lviv, 2005. – 532 s. Kopiika V. V. Yevropeiskyi Soiuz na suchasnomu etapi: strukturni zminy ta stratehiia rozvytku / V. V. Kopiika, M. A. Myronova, T. I. Shynkarenko. – K.: Znannia, 2010. – 94 s. Musys N. Use pro spilni polityky Yevropeiskoho Soiuzu / Nikolas Musys / Per. z anhl. – K.: K.I.S., 2005. – 466 s. Pravo zovnishnikh znosyn Yevropeiskoho soiuzu: knyha tretia / V. I. Muraviov, M. M. Mykiievych, I. H. Keukeleire S. The Foreign Policy of the European Union / Stephan Keukeleire, Tom Delreux. – New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. – 408 p.