4 ECTS credits
100 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 8024080HNR voor alle studenten in het 2e semester met een verdiepend niveau.

Semester
2e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Niet mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Institute for European Studies
Onderwijsteam
Jana GHEUENS (titularis)
Brendan Moore
Onderdelen en contacturen
50 contacturen Zelfstudie en externe werkvormen
Inhoud

This course provides a comprehensive overview of EU climate policy. It first discusses the evolution of EU climate policy from the 1990s onwards, and ties it to developments on the international level. Additionally, the course zooms in on key aspects of climate governance. It discusses the use of democratic innovations and science-based policymaking to further its climate progress, the importance of sectoral legislation to implement economy-wide emission reduction objectives, and the EU’s efforts to limit increasingly visible climate impacts. After completing the course, students will hence be able to contextualize EU climate and energy governance, and to discuss challenges and opportunities for the EU’s transition to a low-carbon society.

The reading material includes: book chapters, articles, and official documents.

The course consists of six modules:

  • Module 1: Setting the scene: The history of EU climate governance
  • Module 2: Leading the way: The EU as a global climate actor
  • Module 3: A transformative turn: The European Green Deal
  • Module 4: Broadening the debate: Democratic innovations and science-based policymaking
  • Module 5: Zooming in: transport decarbonization
  • Module 6: Beyond emission reductions: Climate adaptation
Studiemateriaal
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Aanbevolen) : This course is provided digitally, The IES Structure on-line Canvas platform
Bijkomende info

This course is provided digitally on the IES Structure on-line Canvas platform. 

Leerresultaten

Knowledge and Understanding

After completing the course, students should be able to:

  • Contextualize EU climate governance through a better understanding of its evolution, and of the EU’s role in the international context;
  • Give an overview of the main trends in EU climate policymaking;
  • Understand the complexity of EU climate governance.

 

Transferable/Key Skills

Transferable/Key Skills and other attributes 

Upon completion of this module, students will have had the opportunity to: 

 1. learn to manage time pressure, and make concise explanation of their arguments through the essay research and writing process, which also provides students with the opportunity to:  

a. demonstrate the development of research skills; 

b. demonstrate subject specific research techniques; 

c. apply a range of methodologies to complex political problems. 

2.develop their critical capabilities to assess both political and documentary evidence, and to make written arguments in a coherent, structures and persuasive way; 

3. develop their IT skills (word processing and the use of the internet for research purposes); 

4. perform their cultivated inter-personal skills and oral and written communication skills through seminar participation (in the standard teaching format), and increase their confidence in making oral arguments and giving short presentations before an audience. The seminar format will further encourage discussion and debate of differing viewpoints; 

5. In the distance learning format of online tutorials, students will have had the opportunity to: 

a. Perform inter-personal skills with a long-distance medium;

b. Enhance their written communication skills. 

6. Identify and define the information required on a given topic and use research skills to identify relevant information resources.

7.Manage and critically evaluate the information found and reference appropriately. 

 

 

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Mondeling bepaalt 70% van het eindcijfer

Examen Andere bepaalt 30% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Mondeling dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Oral Exam met een wegingsfactor 70 en aldus 70% van het totale eindcijfer. Dit betreft een tentamen.

Binnen de categorie Examen Andere dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Other Exam met een wegingsfactor 30 en aldus 30% van het totale eindcijfer. Dit betreft een tentamen.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

The students will be expected to submit two brief reflection papers each on a module of their choosing. After successfully accomplishing an assignment, a student receives maximum 15 points (a maximum of 30 points). Upon the end of the six modules, the students take a final exam. The final exam is 70 points. The total is therefore 100 points (or 100%)

Toegestane onvoldoende
Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Postgraduate Certificate European Policy Making: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)