Teaching Supported by Jean Monnet Chair

The following subjects all benefit from support from the Jean Monnet Chair held by CERC Director Associate Professor Philomena Murray.

Undergraduate Teaching Units

1. European Integration: the Politics of the EU

EU’s origins; theoretical approaches; integration as a contested concept and process. Norms and process of governance; changing nation state and multilevel governance; institutions and participants, including benefits and disadvantages of membership. The SEA; Maastricht; EMU; CFSP; Amsterdam, Nice and the draft European Constitution. Contested issues of EU legitimacy, representation and participation, the democratic deficit and citizenship, ethnicity and gender. EU enlargement and significance of EU as major international actor

2. Dilemmas of European Unity

Historical incentives for EU’s creation; challenges of citizenship, nationality and statehood; EU’s political and economic identity, EU as putative polity and world actor in trade and foreign policy; critical understanding of theoretical underpinnings of integration theory and alternative approaches; analysis of EU governance; EMU, process and problems of Enlargement and transformation of nation state.

3. Managing Identity in Contemporary Europe.

Issues of identity and citizenship in EU and applicant states. Problems of nationalism and the EU ideal. Issues of inclusion and exclusion in Europe. What is Europe? Changing concpts of Europe and the widening of the EU’s boundaries: the implications of Enlargement.

4. European Integration: Politics of the EU

5. Europe: Identities and Citizenship

Postgraduate Teaching Units

1. The EU and Globalisation.

(Masters subject. Supported by EU Jean Monnet teaching award.)

2. Europe and Asia: Competing hegemons?

(Masters subject. Supported by EU Jean Monnet teaching award)

Futher Information

University of Melbourne Arts handbook - European Studies

Postgraduate Supervision

In 2005 Jean Monnet Chair Associate Professor Murray was supervising 7 PhD candidates and a minor thesis supervisor to 2 Masters candidates.