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European Societies and European Integration
University of the Aegean
Department of Sociology
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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,000 - | ||
| Location: | Mytilíni / Greece / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 18 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English French | ||
Location of University of the Aegean
The aims of the MA Program are: * the training of new professionals, researchers and scholars able to instigate and conduct research programs tracing the social dynamics and tensions that exist among centripetal and centrifugal social forces vis-
* the introduction of the students to interdisciplinary research concerning the European societies, and the multiple challenges citizens of the European Union face - political, institutional, cultural, and economic
The intentions of the MA Program are: * to combine scientific knowledge of social sciences with the technocratic knowledge of the structures, institutions, and processes of the European institutions
* to formulate a basic framework of approaching the European culture allowing thus the graduate students who wish to follow a professional career at the EU institutions to possess a comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the relationships and interactions between the national and European administration and citizens
* to bridge the gap between the institutional and social approach to European studies and to study the structures that contain today´s European cohesion
The interdisciplinary and international character of the MA program
The new MA program will have an international identity, it will be interdisciplinary and part of an international network of post-graduate studies. This prospect should be seen as a useful means to meet the challenges the European educational system faces. Among these challenges we consider as crucial (a) the process of convergence of the academic structures leading to the obtainment of post-graduate degrees, and (b) the competitive enhancement of the European educational system on a world level, and especially of the regions that surround European Union.
Special attention is paid to collaboration with academics and institutions specializing in the study and analysis of European Studies in social, economic and political sciences, and law. The relevant cooperative schemes are formed in the framework of national and European research and teaching programs and legislation concerning international academic collaboration.
Furthermore, the MA curriculum will allow the development of strong academic structures across cultural and geopolitical borders. In effect, the common Greek-English-French proposal aims to prepare the students from EU and beyond (irrespective of whether their country of origin is formally linked to the European cohesion plan or the implementation of the European neighbouring polity) that will choose this MA program, to develop their abilities in a society based upon knowledge and open to global challenges.
MA Program
The MA program is divided into three semesters. There are five modules in each of the first two semesters from which a student must choose four modules per semester, eight modules in all for both semesters. The third semester is assigned to the writing of the MA Thesis.
Each semester consists of thirteen weeks of obligatory attendance.
Modules are in English and/or French. Each student may choose the language of his/her MA Thesis and declare his/her preference to the secretariat of the MA program. Seven and a half credits-ECTS will be allocated to each module. Teaching time of each module is three hours weekly. Thirty credits will be allocated to the MA thesis.
At the end of the MA program a student should have obtained ninety credits - ECTS in all.
Contents
Structure of the MA programFirst (Fall) Semester Modules
Students must choose four out of the five modules:
* European Demography and European Migration Patterns
* Professor Kostas Rontos, University of the Aegean
* Professor Byron Kotzamanis, University of Thessaly
* Professor Theodoros Iosifides, University of the Aegean
* Professor Vessilis Gavalas, University of the Aegean
* European Law (European Institutions, European Competition Law and European citizenship)
* Professor Jan Winter, Free University, Amsterdam
* Professor Jean Paul Jacqu, , University Robert Schuman Strasburg
* Professor Konstantinos Stefanou, Panteion University
* European Polities - European Administration - Factors of European Integration: European political elites, public space and economic factors
* Professor Burghart Schmit, University Montpellier III
* Professor Iro Nikolakopoulou - Stefanou, Panteio University
* Professor Lucica Matei National School of Public Administration, Bucarest
* Professor Panagiotis Grigorioy, University of the Aegean
* Systemic Approach of Local and Regional Polities in Europe
* Professor Ioannis Kallas, University of the Aegean
* Antonis Papakostas, Director, Department of Political Research and Analysis. European Commission
* European Identities and European Cultures
* Professor Robert Miller, University Queen´s at Belfast
* Professor Nikos Nagopoulos, University of the Aegean
Second (Winter) SemesterStudents must choose four of the five modules:
* European Economy and the International Economic Environment
* Professor Napoleon Maravegias, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
* Professor Jean - Marie Boisson, University Montpellier I
* Professor Achilles Mitsos , University of the Aegean
* Europe and Developing Countries
* Professor Panagiotis Grigoriou, University of the Aegean
* Dr Didier Billion, Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratgiques, Paris
* Professor Catherine Flaesch-Mougin, University of Rennes
* Professor Stelios Perrakis, Panteion University
* Global Integration and Geopolitical Balance of Power
* Professor Manos Marangudakis, University of the Aegean
* European States and European Ethnicities
* Professor Manos Marangudakis, University of the Aegean
* Dr Ioannis Armakolas, Oxford University
* Civil Society and International Protection of Human Rights - Comparative Legal Systems and Human Rights
* Professor Bernard Durand, University Montpellier I
* Professor Christos Rozakis, Athens University, Vice-chair of the European Court of Human Rights
* Professor Peter Leuprecht, University UQAM, Montreal, Former Surrogate General Secretary of the European Committee
A yearly series of visiting academics and researchers from both Europe and beyond, experts in their field of work, will guarantee continues updating of the curriculum of the MA program.
Third (Fall) Semester
* MA thesis
* Preliminary seminar on MA thesis (9 hours)
* Award of the MA Degree requires the full attendance and successful completion of all the requirements of the modules, the successful completion of all the research and teaching activities of the program, and the successful completion of the MA Thesis:
* Completion of 90 ECTS credits (30 credits per semester).
* Award of a PhD degree requires writing of an original PhD thesis in the field of "European Political Sociology".
Input from people actively working in the EU apparatus
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
The requirements the candidates need to submit are: * Bachelor Degree
* Curriculum Vitae
* Certification of proficiency in English and/or French
* Two reference letters
Please note that there is the possibility to be asked to bring additional requirements according to the student´s country of origin.
The MA program accepts students with a degree in Sociology, Law, Economics, Politics or other relevant social sciences either from Greek or accredited universities abroad, that wish to participate in interdisciplinary studies and research activities on Europe and the common future of its people.
In particular, the MA program welcomes students who wish to focus on the following subject-matters: * European civil society
* European political structures
* European economy and global economic exchanges
* Consequences of the EU acquis communautaire to third countrie
* Consequences of the EU enlargement to the political, economic and social structures and processes of the European countries
* Europe as Western Civilization and restructuring of civilizational patterns
* European identities and European identity
* Immigration patterns and cultural formations
Accreditation
The postgraduate degree awarded is :
Postgraduate MA Diploma “European Societies and European Integration”.
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