Introduction to European Studies:
EUS 305 (32215): Fall 2002TTH 2-3:15 in BAT 302
Prof. Guy P. Raffa, Dept. of French and Italian, HRH 3.114B; 471-5531Description:
Open to all students, this is the core course for the Liberal Arts Concentration in European Studies, which offers a transnational, multidisciplinary perspective to students whose coursework involves the study of Europe. Organized historically and thematically, the course examines the myths, ideas, and socio-political realities that underpin the intellectual and cultural construction of Europe. Throughout the semester we will also examine the so-called "New Europe" that aspires to greater political and economic unity while facing the challenges of cultural, ethnic, religious, and racial diversity. Students will be encouraged to use this course as an opportunity to identify and explore issues across disciplinary and national boundaries.
Assignments and Computation of Grade:
Most weeks you are required to write a one to two page summary / analysis of the reading or a European event in the news. Totaling approximately 10 pages (typed), these assignments will determine 15% of your final grade. A short essay (3-4 pp.) will account for another 10%. The remaining 75% will be evenly distributed between quizzes, a final research paper (7-10 pp.), and informed class participation (more than 3 absences will automatically lower your participation grade).
Contains a Substantial Writing Component. No final examination.
Required Texts (books at COOP)
HP = Timothy Garton Ash, History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s
DC = Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
Course Packet (I.T. Copy, 214 M.L.K. Blvd: at Lavaca and M.L.K., phone: 476-6662): Barzini, "The Elusive Europeans" (The Europeans); Drakulic, "Café Europa" and "Invisible Walls Between Us" (Café Europa: Life After Communism); Anderson and Zinsser, "The Women's Liberation Movement" (A History of Their Own); Waever, "Europe Since 1945: Crisis to Renewal" (The History of the Idea of Europe)
Film: Lamerica by Gianni Amelio (1994)
On Reserve (PCL library use): copies of required texts, books used for the packet.
"The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-4641 TTY."
European Studies 305: Fall 2002
EN = Euronews (1-2 pg. summary / analysis of reading or current European event)
8/29: Introduction
9/3: Barzini and Drakulic (packet); HP 3-20 (maps after xxv and 445)
9/5: DC 361-94
9/10: HP 21-49; EN1 (event)
9/12: DC preface, 3-40; Quiz 1
9/17: HP 50-86; EN2 (reading)
9/19: DC 41-75
9/24: HP 87-109; EN3 (event)
9/26: DC 76-103; Quiz 2
10/1: HP 109-46; EN4 (event)
10/3: DC 104-37
10/8: DC 138-81; EN5 (reading)
10/10: HP 248-77; Quiz 3
10/15: Levi 9-122
10/17: Levi 123-73
10/22: Peer Editing (draft of essay)
10/24: Short Essay Due
10/29: DC 182-249
10/31: HP 161-93; EN6 (reading)
11/5: Research Topic Due; DC 286-326
11/7: Women's Movement (packet); EN7 (event)
11/12: Bibliography Due; HP 224-47; 318-39; Quiz 4
11/14: HP 378-403; EN8 (event)
11/19: HP 402-32; DC 395-403
11/21: European Union (packet); HP 278-95; EN9 (reading)
11/26: No class; view Lamerica in FAC 327, 7-9 pm
12/3: EN10 (Film Review), Quiz 5
12/5: Final Paper Due
Department of
French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin