General entry requirements + Civics 1b / 1a1 +1a2. Or: Civics A, English B
Merit rating is calculated based on Swedish upper secondary grades achieved, according to specific entry requirement 6/A6.
This education is organised as a systematic inter-disciplinary progression, with European Studies as the main field of study. The programme combines perspectives, theories and issues from political science, history, geography, urban studies, political economy, law, culture and literature studies. In most cases the main field courses combines these perspectives and disciplines in relation to themes of importance for European Studies. Progression within the main field of study in the programme takes place during terms 1, 2, 3 and 6. The connection between the separate courses and their progression is described below.
Year one of the programme contains the first two steps of the main field of study, European Studies I and European Studies II. European Studies I, contains two 15 credit courses. The first course – European Studies: Europe as a Field of Knowledge and Europe as an Idea – combines introductions to academic studies and academically based texts and oral presentations, with a basic introduction to the history of European political thought, the emergence of Europe as concept and reality, and the interaction between them.
The second 15 credit course – European Studies: Organizing European Space – From Early Modern Europe to the European Union – is a historical overview where social, political and cultural processes are studied, with focus on borders, regions, nations, state building, citizenship and social groups. The emergence and structure of the EU is also introduced and placed in its historical and contemporary political context.
European Studies II is the first of two profile terms and also step 2 in European Studies as the main field of study. During this term, the students will deepen their knowledge about the European Union. It consists of the courses:
- European Studies: Historical and Institutional Perspectives on the European Union, 15 credits,
- European Studies: European Union Law 7,5 credits and
- European Studies: EU as a Global Actor, 7,5 credits.
In these courses, the EU’s organisation, function and history will be discussed, as well as the theoretical perspectives that have been developed to understand and explain the emergence, structure and action of the EU in Europe and at a global level. The progression takes place on two levels – the knowledge about EU’s historical development is deepened and there is also an expanding theoretical knowledge linked to the analysis of European integration processes and European politics.
Term 3 of the programme is also step three of the main study field’s core – European Studies III – and, like term 1, contains two 15-credit courses.
The first course is European Studies: European Political Cultures. Here, the main focus is on the development in different parts of Europe during the 20th century linked to previous historical contexts. Within the framework of this course a number of perspectives, introduced during term 1, will be expanded and problematized. Themes discussed in the course include memory and the role of the use of history, questions concerning democracy, fascism, communism, populism, and how political programmes and movements affect and are affected by aesthetic valuations and programmes. During this course, students also develop theme suggestions for the upcoming minor thesis in the following course. Here, the progression includes a more complex knowledge about European policy, culture and memory, as well as the skill to produce scientific problem formulations.
The second 15-credit course in European Studies III is European Studies: Research Methods and Minor Thesis. This course combines teaching and training in scientific methods with the writing of a minor individual academic work, which is defended at a minor thesis seminar.
Term 4 is a term with elective options, when the students can choose between exchange studies, internship, or study relevant courses at Malmö University or any other Swedish university.
Term 5 is the second profile term. It begins with the course Political Representation, 7,5 credits. This course treats themes about participation, citizenship, legitimacy and democracy, linked to the European Union and Europe in a wider sense.
The following course, Applied Analysis of Regionalisation and Urbanisation, has its main focus on the development of concepts and methods, linked to case studies in regionalisation and urbanisation in Europe. High emphasis is put on analysis work, using geographical concepts and the tool Geographic Information System (GIS).
The second haft of term 5 consists of two parallel half-time 7,5 credit courses. One of them has the title Project Development and Project Management (7,5 credits). This course gives students education and practical training in planning, implementing and reflecting upon a real situation project, related to themes developed together by the students, teachers, researchers and the surrounding society.
Parallel to the course described above runs a 7,5 credit course named Urbanity, Urbanisation and Globalisation – Cultural and Social Perspectives. This course takes the Öresund region and the Malmö/Copenhagen area as its point of departure, comparing the region with other urban clusters/border regions in a time of Europeanisation and Globalisation. It also addresses cultural representations of the city, to deepen the understanding of crucial theoretical concepts.
Term 6 is the final term of the programme, as well as of the main field of study, European Studies IV. It contains two courses, of which the first is European Studies: Epistemological Approaches and Research Design 15 credits. This course enhances knowledge in the main field of study, and is a continuation of the method and minor thesis courses from term 3. The course also build the foundation for the final exam thesis, where the students write an independent academic work in the second course of the term, European Studies: Bachelor Thesis (15 credits). The bachelor thesis is defended at a final seminar.