Intensive Course “European Institutions and Politics”

The Institute of Economics offers an intensive seminar this May for students of the Master programme Development Economics and International Studies.

The course about “European Institutions and Politics” will be taught by Prof. Thomas Hoerber Ph.D. from the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d’Angers. These are the dates of the seminar:

  • May 22, 2017, 5.00pm to 7.00pm, Kochstraße 4, room 05.054
  • May 23, 2017, 4:00pm to 8.00pm, Kochstraße 4, room 05.054
  • May 24, 2017, 9.00am to 12.00 noon, 6.00pm to 8.00pm, Kochstraße 4, room 05.054
  • May 26, 2017, 10.00am to 2.00pm, Kochstraße 4, room 05.054
  • May 29, 2017, 5.00pm to 7.00pm, Kochstraße 4, room 05.054
  • May 30, 2017, 4.00pm to 8.00pm, Kochstraße 4, room 05.054
  • May 31, 2017, 9.00am to 12.00 noon, 6.00pm to 8.00pm, Kochstraße 4, room 05.054

The topics of the seminar are:

  1. Introduction
  2. The institutional framework and the decision-making process
  3. Post war Europe
  4. The emergence of the institutions of the European Union
  5. Institutional Reform
  6. Enlargement and Treaties
  7. Case Study: European Energy and Environmental Policy
  8. Case Study: European Space Policy
  9. What is Europe?

Further information about this course is available in the StudOn course or can be found in the module description.

Interested students should contact Mr. Weber (christoph.weber@fau.de) regarding their choice for topic of the research paper.