In addition to the European Studies (EURO ST) course offerings and quarterly approved courses, please check the list of General Approved Courses that may be taken for the emphases in the European Studies major.
European Studies courses and non-Humanities courses approved for European Studies emphases this quarter
Winter Quarter (W25)
| Dept
| Course No., Title
| Instructor |
|---|
| EURO ST (W25) | 11 EUROPE | EVERS, K. |
ES 11: Modern Europe: Terror and Redemption
Kai Evers
Winter 2025
This course serves as an introduction to central aspects of European culture and politics from the Enlightenment to today. Since the French Revolution, politics of terror and predictions of doom accompanied in Europe promises of social, economic, national, and cultural redemption. Revolutionaries carried out acts of terror in the name of bourgeois democracy, anarchism, fascism, and communism. This course provides a wide-ranging introduction to competing theories and approaches in the humanities and social sciences that seek to understand the political and cultural context of several such decisive moments and revolutionary movements in European history and society. Next to exploring aspects of the French Reign of Terror, the Russian Revolution, Nazi Germany, and the eastern European Revolutions that brought an end to the Soviet Empire, this course focuses on radical movements in European art, literature and film. This course focuses in its second half on contemporary European issues: the founding and expansion of the European Union (a redemptive culmination of European history?), the rise of European populist movements and its impact on the migrations crisis as well as European debates on global warming. (GE III or IV; VIII. Lectures in English)
Days: TU TH 11:00-12:20 PM |
| EURO ST (W25) | 100C GENERAL ECONOMY | PAN, D. |
European Studies 100C: General Economy
David Pan (dtpan@uci.edu), UCI, Winter 2025
Economics is often understood as the study of the production, distribution, and consumption of material wealth. This understanding does not answer the question of the meaning and goals of wealth. A broader understanding of economics would consider the way in which we relate to nature and to each other in order to guarantee our continuing survival and reproduction. While survival and reproduction are biological goals that we share with other creatures, the particular human aspect involves not just material existence but also the persistence of a culture. This course will consider economics from this wider perspective of the reproduction of human life and culture. How does our work structure our relationships with nature and with others in a way that persists into the future? Readings include works by Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Marcel Mauss, John Maynard Keynes, Georges Bataille, Friedrich Hayek, Karl Polanyi, and Milton Friedman.
Days: TU TH 09:30-10:50 AM |
| EURO ST (W25) | 139W MOBILITY&MIGRATION | BIENDARRA, A. |
ES 139W: Mobility and Migration in Europe
Winter 2025
Prof. Anke Biendarra
In this seminar, we will reflect on the many ways in which the history of Europe has been shaped by migration and mobility. Focusing primarily on the twentieth and twenty-first century, we will explore how migration is represented in literature (prose texts, novels, poetry) and film, as well as political discourse and public art works. By familiarizing ourselves with perspectives from different European countries, our goal is to understand mobilities into, within, and out of Europe.
Students will have a chance to write about and discuss the material in ways that encourage active learning and research topics of their own interest. We will read both primary texts and scholarship and focus on different elements of "craft" through which we can approach how language, argument, and research skills are necessary to compose a compelling and academically credible final paper. As a designated upper-division writing seminar, assignments include focused reading responses, in-class writing exercises, and development of a final research paper or essay of 10-12 pages. Working drafts of the papers will be returned to you with useful feedback for revision. The last two weeks of the quarter will be devoted exclusively to revising and finalizing your papers, with meetings for peer editing as well as individual sessions with the instructor.
The course is open primarily to seniors who need to fulfill the upper division writing requirement. Juniors who want to enroll need to contact the instructor ahead of time and discuss their goals in taking this course.
Days: MW 02:00-03:20 PM |
| EURO ST (W25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | VAN DEN ABBEEL, G. |
No description is currently available. |
| EURO ST (W25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | SMITH, J. |
No description is currently available. |
| EURO ST (W25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | SHEMEK, D. |
No description is currently available. |
| EURO ST (W25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | PAN, D. |
No description is currently available. |
| EURO ST (W25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | LITWIN, C. |
No description is currently available. |
| EURO ST (W25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | EVERS, K. |
No description is currently available. |
| EURO ST (W25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | BROADBENT, P. |
No description is currently available. |
| EURO ST (W25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | BEY-ROZET, M. |
No description is currently available. |
Other Humanities courses approved for European Studies emphases this quarter
Winter Quarter (W25)
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