4 ECTS credits
100 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 8024080HNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (H) Postgraduate - advanced level.
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:
This course is provided digitally on the IES Structure on-line Canvas platform.
After completing the course, students should be able to:
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.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 30% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
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%)
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Postgraduate Certificate European Policy Making: Default track