Core Module Courses
Area
European History, Politics, Culture, Law, Economy
- face-to-face: students attend on campus
- hybrid: T4EU students attend online, home students attend on campus
- blended: the course is largely online (for all students), but there may be face-to-face elements, for instance for project work, at the mobility week or a final exam
- basic course (BC): knowledge in area of expertise
- application course (AC): students apply knowledge to gain experience and generate societal transformative impact in limited scope
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Foundations of Cultural Studies
This course is intended to make students familiar with the various theoretical approaches and practices common to the study of culture. It should introduce students to the intellectual roots and contemporary applications of Cultural Studies, focusing on the theoretical bases for the analyses of meaning and power in the production and reception of texts. While this class will offer various approaches to the study of cultures in the English-speaking world, it should also provide students with an opportunity to do Cultural Studies. In our analyses we will therefore draw on a wide range of cultural material (literature, television, films, and commercials) and explore the ways in which questions of representation are interrelated with issues of identity, in particular racial/ethnic, sexual, class, and regional differences.
Texts:
A course reader will be made available.
Should you require a grade for this course, please notify teaching staff at the start of the course of this.
Please also register via: https://www.lsf.uni-saarland.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=142562&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung&noDBAction=y&init=y.
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European Integration II
In European Integration I, we learned about the meaning of this term and how it came to existence and developed particularly since 1945. We focused on the European Union, which we also introduced as it stands today, taking a closer look as well on its institutions.
In European Integration II this summer term, we will briefly summarise winter term’s contents before diving into the work of the EU institutions, so you may be able to participate even if you have missed European Integration I.
The questions this course deals with are:
What do European institutions do? Who pulls the strings? How powerful are the Member States? Is it all politics or more of an administrative character? How are EU acts adopted – and what effects do these acts have? How does the Court of Justice work?
We will also take a look at some of the most important EU policy areas from which citizens benefit most: the fundamental freedoms but also competition policy.
And, with a view to the future, we’d like to discuss possible developments and reforms of the European Union with you and critically take a look at future EU enlargements.
For students of Saarland University this class will take place in presence on campus.
Students from UniGR- or Transform4Europe-partner-universities will have the possibility to join in hybrid format. More information is available at: https://www.lsf.uni-saarland.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=143426&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung&noDBAction=y&init=y.
Should you require a grade for this course, please notify teaching staff at the start of the course of this.
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Floating between weather and wonde
This course looks at the idea of the cloud as it has gathered in the minds of visual and spatial practitioners, visionaries, critical thinkers, engineers, scientists, and poets over the ages. The course first provides a meteorological overview of actual clouds–how they have been observed, named, and classified. In learning the basics of cloud identification, students will transpose this practical knowledge into a more expansive understanding of symbology and metaphor. What cultural, technological and social meanings have been assigned to clouds, and by whom? The course will cross multiple fields of inquiry, from various forms of artistic production to historical and technological investigations. The class is comprised of lectures, workshops, readings, visiting artists, and field trips. Assignments will integrate with students’ own interests and pursuits.
Following the completion of the course students will be able to identify major cloud genera and species of cloud types as they exist in the skies above us, as well as how they exist in representation around us (art, film, literature etc). Additionally, students will be able to analyze and interpret the various technological, symbolic, historical and metaphorical meanings of clouds in their many forms and contexts. As a result of the course students have analyzed and practiced the use of symbols and metaphors in their artistic expression.
The course is mainly directed to students with art specializations, however, it is opened for all students with artistic interest regardless one’s field of specialization.
The course is carried out as Erasmus+ BIP course and has online session on March 13th and face-to-face mode on March 19th-24th, 2023.
For travelling, please ask Erasmus+ grant availability from your home university*
(*EKA has bilateral Earasmus agreements with the following T4EU universities: Bulgaria, Sofia University of St. Kliment Ohridski; Germany, Saarland Univeristy; Italy, The University of Trieste, Lithuania, Vytautas Magnus University, Poland, The University of Silesia, Slovenia, University Of Primorska)
Registration is opened till February 15th.
The Estonian Academy of Arts | ECTS: 3 | BC/AC | Modality: face-to-face | Language: English
Start date: 13.03.2023 (online session), 19–24.03.2023 Face to face session (full days)
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State and Law Studies
The module aims to acquaint the student with the basic categories describing the state and law. After completing the module, the listener should based on the acquired theoretical knowledge, competently analyze situations occurring in the spheres of law and the state and thus be a fully conscious observer and at the same time an analyst of socio-political life.
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Constitutional Law of the European Union
The aim of the course is to enable the students to understand some basic concepts concerning the EU constitutional law. Students should become familiar with the very concept of EU’s “constitutional law” (ie. principles and institutions, bodies and other EU organs) as well as internal rules governing the composition or competences of EU bodies.
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Artificial Intelligence
The subject relates to ethical, social and legal implications of Artificial Intelligence. It challenges the concept of AI by examining its occurrence in domestic, EU and international frameworks. Specific research areas involve discriminatory algorithms, autonomous weapons systems, AI in courts, data analysis, as well as international approaches to regulating AI.
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Art and Cultural Property
This course studies the emergence of “art” and “cultural property” law as a field of legal inquiry and practice, namely: Law on the protection of cultural heritage; Private law perspective; Art market; Contracts concerning art; Private International Law; Immunity from seizure of artworks on loan; Intellectual Property law in general (visual arts); Intellectual Property law – moral rights of artists, conservationists, fair use; Are images of works of art public domain.
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European Business and Competition Law
The main aim of the course is to present the essential ideas related to business activity and principles of taking up and conducting business activity as well as fundamental aspects of the European Union competition law. The course presents the idea of business activity and its primary features, the notion of the entrepreneur, fundamental principles of conducting business activity, rights and obligations of the entrepreneurs and the issues related to the regulation of business activity in the light of the European Union law and from the comparative perspective. The course also focuses on the presentation of the fundamental issues concerning the European Union competition law. It discusses, in particular, the practices of undertakings, which are prohibited as incompatible with the internal market under the provisions of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union, the concept of unfair business – to – consumer commercial practices connected with business transactions and the idea of private enforcement of the European Union competition law. Legal issues are analysed regarding the provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, European Union directives, judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union and national legislation.
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Major Figures in English Literature I
This subject allows students to come into contact with the cultural foundations of British society and study the most important figures of literature. The subject is devoted to the study of English literature from the end of the 19th century to the present day, as well as the critical analysis of literary discourse and specific texts corresponding to that time. This includes studying the periods and main features of British literature located inside the historical, social, economic, political, and cultural context in which it appears as well as looking at its development and offering a critical appraisal of the characteristics of specific literary discourses.
University of Alicante | ECTS: 6 | BC | Modality: face-to-face | Language: English
Start date: February 30, 2023
For Erasmus students:
subject title
Culture and Institutions in English-Speaking Countries
This subject explores the culture and institutions of the United Kingdom and the United States, examining the main geographical and social features, as well as the events and processes that have shaped the political, economic, social and cultural development of both these English-speaking countries.
University of Alicante | ECTS: 6 | BC | Modality: face-to-face | Language: English
Start date: February 30, 2023
For Erasmus students:
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EU Law and Policies
University of Trieste | ECTS: 9 | Modality: hybrid | Language: English
Start date: From 28th Feb to 30th April 2023: Tue. 9am – 12 noon, Wed. 3pm – 6pm until 30th April (40 hours), From 1st May 2023: Tue. 9am – 1pm; Wed. 2pm – 4pm (20 hours), 2nd semester starts on 27th Feb. and ends on 26th May. Dates may vary from course to course
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Lithuanian Folklore, Traditions, Mythology
This course, taught in English, is specifically designed for foreign and Lithuanian students of different study programmes. It offers an overview of different aspects of the traditional Lithuanian way of living: folklore, festivals, family customs and traditions, mythology, and the main features of material culture. The course focuses on the issues of continuity, transformation, or disappearance of specific traditions as well as on the various forms traditional phenomena acquire in contemporary culture. Moreover, the traditional Lithuanian way of living is compared to those of other European peoples, giving students a possibility to learn about cultural phenomena in a wider context.
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Political Sciences
This is an introductory course, which provides basic knowledge on the phenomenon of politics and political research, about the subject of political science and its development. During the course students become familiar with concepts of Political Sciences: state, political power, political systems, and political regimes. Furthermore, the course examines consolidation and stability of democracy, constitutions and constitutionalism, elections and electoral systems, parties, political organizations and movements; interest groups and lobbies; political campaigns; political culture – its structure and types. Finally, the course takes up history of political thinking – political doctrines and ideologies, theories of international relations and Lithuanian foreign policy.
