Course
Course 15 credits • EUHR11
This is the first and introductory course for Master of Arts Programme in European Studies.
Teaching – autumn semester of 2020
Due to the announcement from the Swedish Government issued May 29th, that returning to campus-based education is possible from June 15th, the following applies to teaching at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology during the autumn semester:
- Due to the ongoing corona (COVID-19) pandemic and the restrictions that have been issued, the courses taught this autumn will have a limited number of meetings on campus, depending on the availability of suitable lecture rooms. The major part of the teaching will take place online. Detailed information on what is the case for your course will be given below.
- If the teaching is campus-based, there will be assigned entry and exit passages for each teaching room regarding stairwells, corridors and entrances (doorways). Please be considerate and follow the instructions to the point. Hand disinfectant will be available in all lecture halls and group rooms.
Please pay attention to the start time of your teaching. The stated time in your course schedule is valid.
The course explores, both theoretically and empirically, the meaning of Europe, understood in its historical, cultural and normative developments. The course will survey the existing definitions of specifically European features or processes, such as humanism, the Enlightenment, the recognition of the intrinsic value of the individual and his/ her rights and duties, and the normative definition of freedom, tolerance, and equality.
One of the special interests of the course will be to compare the various definitions that such specific characteristics in their historical development and to ask whether there is something particularly European about them. The course will end by opening the debate about the appropriation of such specific values as democracy, freedom, tolerance etc. by a European intellectual tradition. Are these values the result of Europe-specific cultural developments or can they be extrapolated to include other regions of the world or humanity as such?
Programme affiliation: Part of Master of Arts Programme in European Studies
Study period:
autumn semester 2020
Type of studies:
full time,
day
Language of instruction:
Swedish
Introductory meeting: Monday, 31 August at 13.15 – 16.00 in SOL:L201
Teachers:
Eleonora Narvselius,
Mattias Nowak,
Sanimir Resic,
Tomas Sniegon