Courses offered by the Center are open to students in all departments and professional schools. New program offerings are developed in response to major political, social, and economic issues as they arise and complement existing disciplinary courses on Europe. The following is a sampling of course offerings.

Political Economy of Contemporary Europe
G42.1100 Identical to G53.2516 and G31.1510. Staff. 4 points.
Provides students with models, interpretations, and empirical evidence to analyze recent changes in the labor market and industrial relations system occurring during the European integration process.

20th-Century France
G42.1210 Identical to G46.1620 and G57.1210. Berenson. 4 points.
Examines the transformation of French society since the turn of the century as a result of economic crisis and growth, political upheaval, and war. Topics include nationalism, socialism, labor conflict, student uprising, and regional and ethnic militancy.

What Is Europe? A Cultural Approach
G42.2301 Langan. 4 points.
Examines the formation of the European nation-state starting with the French Revolution. Provides an overview of key issues, including citizenship, exclusion, immigration, identity, nationalism, security, and the creation of the European Union and its policy formation.

France in Europe
G42.2424 Identical to G46.2424 and G53.3500. Schain. 4 points.
Since French policy-making has been gradually transformed by the evolution of Europe, examines the system of European governance through the prism of the French political process.

East European Politics
G42.2580 Staff. 4 points.
Analysis of postcommunist Eastern Europe, focusing on main theoretical explanations of democratic survival, developments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in comparative perspective, and single-country studies.

Health System Reform: The United States and Western Europe—Comparative Perspectives
G42.2867 Identical to P11.2867. Offered at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Rodwin. 4 points.
The problems of cost, access, equity, and quality of health care in the industrialized world. Study of concrete proposals for health care reform in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany.

Graduate Seminar in European Studies
G42.3000 Staff. 4 points.
Trains European studies graduate students in approaches to research and in the sources and uses of research materials on Europe. Students start work on what will eventually become the master’s thesis. Topics of discussion include how to select an appropriate topic, how to formulate a question about it, and how to design and develop the argument at the core of the thesis.

The European Union: History and Politics
G42.3502 Identical to G31.1509 and G53.3502. Staff. 4 points.
The development of the European Union; expansion from 6 to 15 member nations; industrial, agricultural, and social policies; economic and monetary union; and relations with the former East and Central European countries.

European Economy in a Globalized Market
G42.3506 Staff. 4 points.
Investigates theoretical and empirical work that has been published, looking first at historical and macro levels of analysis, and then at the institutional and sector impact of agent and structure explanations. The EU has gained considerable competence, yet it remains the victim of political dispute among 15 rival governments. Some sovereignty has been ceded to federalist agencies in Brussels, to the European Court, and to the EU Central Bank (ECB,) but the power transfer is far from complete.

Topics in European and Mediterranean Studies
G42.3901 Staff. 4 points.
Recent course topics:

The Mediterranean in Historical Perspective
A Modern Mediterranean Region: Myth or Reality?
Comparative European Politics
Advanced Topics in European Politics
European Citizenship
Nationalism in Greece and the Balkans
Eastern Europe
Transatlantic Security Relations
Southern European Cinema
Political and Economic Crisis in the EU

Sociology of Contemporary Ireland
G42.9520 Identical to G93.9520. Lee, O’Dowd. 4 points.
Teleconference course that aims to provide a sociological survey of the main issues confronting contemporary Ireland, North and South. These include the transformation of the economy and culture of the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland since 1970 and the nature and the resolution of the 30-year conflict in Northern Ireland.

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