210040 LK BAK6: The Austrian Political System and the EU (2021W)
(engl.)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Studierende, die der ersten Einheit unentschuldigt fernbleiben, verlieren ihren Platz in der Lehrveranstaltung.Achten Sie auf die Einhaltung der Standards guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis und die korrekte Anwendung der Techniken wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und Schreibens.
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Studierende, die der ersten Einheit unentschuldigt fernbleiben, verlieren ihren Platz in der Lehrveranstaltung.Achten Sie auf die Einhaltung der Standards guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis und die korrekte Anwendung der Techniken wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und Schreibens.
Plagiierte und erschlichene Teilleistungen führen zur Nichtbewertung der Lehrveranstaltung (Eintragung eines 'X' im Sammelzeugnis).
Die Lehrveranstaltungsleitung kann Studierende zu einem notenrelevanten Gespräch über erbrachte Teilleistungen einladen.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 06.09.2021 08:00 to Mo 20.09.2021 08:00
- Registration is open from We 22.09.2021 08:00 to We 29.09.2021 08:00
- Deregistration possible until Fr 22.10.2021 23:59
Details
max. 50 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Thursday
07.10.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
14.10.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
21.10.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
28.10.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
04.11.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
11.11.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
18.11.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
25.11.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
02.12.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
09.12.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
16.12.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
13.01.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
20.01.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Thursday
27.01.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Students are required to attend classes and come prepared (i.e., having done and thought a bit about the readings). In addition, there will be three types of assignments that together make up the final grade.- First, for two sessions of their choosing, students need to write short response papers (half a page) that reflect on the readings and end with a question for the class. This will make up 25% of their grade. The response papers are meant to not merely summarize the reading but pick up on of or two key arguments and critically reflect on them. This can be done by connecting them to other readings, recent events in the news, or by criticizing their assumptions or conclusions. Questions should ideally emerge from the preceding reflection, i.e. the reflection is meant to set the stage or prepare the question. Also, remember that questions end with a question mark.- Second, students are required to deliver a very short input presentation (around 5 minutes) for one session as well as prepare some discussion points for the class (e.g., questions, empirical examples). This will also make up 25% of their grade. It is important to state that the input presentation is not meant to be a comprehensive summary of the text (or the section of the text you were assigned within your presentation group). Rather, it is meant to pick up on key arguments, present and ideally discuss them critically. The discussion points are meant to kick off the discussion. The presentations can be really short, they don't need to be longer than 5 minutes per person.- Lastly, students need to write a relatively short term paper on a topic related to the course (2000-3000 words). This will make up 50% of their grade. The paper can be theoretical or empirical and is meant to hone in on one particular question that the students can pick themselves (although they should briefly discuss this with me in advance).
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
You need to submit all the required assignments to pass the course. Your final grade will be the weighted average of these assignments. What is important to me when it comes to grading are two things. First, stick to the task at hand. If your presentation is meant to be 5 minutes, make it no more than 6. It's almost a dad thing to say, but these skills are important not just at a university, but pretty much everywhere you want to end up at. Second, put a bit of effort into it, or at least make it look that way. Have some decent formatting, but also: try to be clear and crisp, which is often harder than writing long and convoluted sentences. Try to prepare a presentation that you yourself would like to listen to. Short, simple points, and make it clear if you found something unclear. You don't need to understand everything, have read a ton of additional literature, or write in a fancy way to get a very good grade. Just stick to the task and try to make sense.
Examination topics
Reading list
Syllabus will be available on moodle in due time.
Association in the course directory
Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:19
Policies
Course Description: Climate change and digitalization undoubtedly pose two of the most important challenges for the European Union. They will, as Commission President von der Leyen put it, affect us all, wherever we live, whatever we do?. Global warming is expected to cause (and is already causing) unprecedented disruptions to the earth's climate and may ultimately render parts of the globe inhospitable to human life. Digitalization, meanwhile, is transforming the ways we work, dwell, travel, consume, communicate, and inform ourselves; and promises - or threatens - to usher in even more fundamental changes. The EU has reacted to these challenges with a slew of policies and policy initiatives. The European Green Deal wants to make Europe climate neutral until 2050; the General Data Protection Regulation is meant to push back against `surveillance capitalism' and make EU law the gold standard for data protection globally; and the Digital Services and Markets Acts are an attempt to rein in Big Tech. In this course, we will take a closer look at the EU's digital and environmental policies. After briefly familiarizing ourselves with how the EU works, we will discuss recent political science research on the challenges of digitalization and climate change and on how the EU reacts to them. Specifically, we will look at how we can understand digitalization and climate change from a political science perspective, the challenges they pose for (European) policymakers and why responding to them is so challenging politically.Learning Outcomes: The course aims to familiarize students with developments in the EU's climate and digital policy. At the end of the course, students should be able to- identify and describe the nature of and policy dynamics of the 'twin transition';- summarize and critically assess central theoretical and empirical insights of the political science research on the EU's digital and environmental policies;- apply these insights to make up their own mind on two of the most important challenges of current (EU) policymaking.