General information

Course name	Seminar: 08-31-MAEP-M4-2 Polarization: A Multifaceted Phenomenon in the European Union
Subtitle
Course number	08-31-MAEP-M4-2
Semester	SoSe 2025
Current number of participants	35
expected number of participants	40
Home institute	Integrierte Europastudien
Courses type	Seminar in category Teaching
First date	Tuesday, 08.04.2025 08:00 - 10:00, Room: GW2 B1580
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung	Ja
ECTS points	6

Lecturers

Julia Simon

Rooms and times

GW2 B1580: Tuesday: 08:00 - 10:00, weekly (13x)
GW2 B2880: Tuesday, 24.06.2025 12:00 - 14:00

Module assignments

Universität Bremen
- International Relations: Global Politics and Social Theory - International Relations: Global Politics and Social Theory (MPO 2022/2024), 1. Version valid from WiSe 2024/2025
  - Wahlpflichtmodule - MPO 2022/2024
    - 08-POL-MA-IR-5 - Examining Global Political Dynamics (valid from SoSe 2024)
      - MA-IR-5: Seminar 1 - Examining Global Political Dynamics
- International Relations: Global Politics and Social Theory - International Relations: Global Politics and Social Theory (MPO 2022), 1. Version valid from WiSe 2023/2024
  - Wahlpflichtmodule - MPO 2022
    - 08-POL-MA-IR-5 - Examining Global Political Dynamics (valid from SoSe 2024)
      - MA-IR-5: Seminar 1 - Examining Global Political Dynamics

Comment/Description

This course serves as an opportunity for students to aquire conceptual, methodological, and empirical knowledge on the current phenomenon of polarization, its manifestations in Europe and its specificities in the context of the European Union. The course starts by offering an overview of diverse research approaches that enable us to identify and study different forms and types of polarization. We then reflect on polarization as a global phenomenon and on its interrelationships with Western liberal democracy, both in terms of societal processes and institutional variation in European political systems. We then zero in on how polarization has become relevant with a view to European Parliament elections and legislative activity as well as with regard to EU-member state relations. The assignments and learning methods are thereby always designed to equip students with the tools to further develop their analytical and critical thinking skills and their abilities to effectively communicate their reasoning (verbally and in writing) and to conduct their own research.

Registration mode

After enrolment, participants will manually be selected.

Potential participants are given additional information before enroling to the course.

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