The seminar is organised the idea of an inverted or flipped classroom. Contrary to traditional teaching in class, I will offer the lecture and content delivery part of the seminar before our meetings. This will typically be one or two introductory texts for your own reading and a lecture video shared via Moodle roughly three days before each session. For you, this approach has two key advantages. First, it allows you to learn about the key contents of each session at your own speed. Second, it frees up in-class time for joint, active learning: together we will deepen the key contents of each session on the basis of your questions, group discussions and debates, as well as presentations of more advanced topics. To realize these advantages all participants should take both their own preparation phase as well as our joint in-class work seriously along the following seminar participation steps: Start the preparation by reading the guiding questions provided for each session. Read the obligatory introductory text(s) for the session and mark this task as completed on Moodle. Watch the lecture video (~30 mins) offered for the session and mark this task as completed on Moodle. Assess whether you have understood the key concepts listed for each session and how they help you in sketching answers to the guiding questions. Note down your questions, discussion points, or research ideas into the shared document provided for each session on Moodle. This will be the first input for our group discussions in class. Any factual, political or methodological question as well as ideas for tackling the guiding questions empirically is welcome here! Participate actively and regularly during the in-class discussions and activities and cooperate with your fellow students. We will frequently work with the “Think–Pair- Share” (TPS) method where you can make up your own mind, discuss in smaller groups, to then engage in the plenum. If you have to miss an individual session, please notify me briefly via email beforehand. Take up one of the active participation roles specified for each individual seminar session. Students wishing to collect at least 4 ECTS for this seminar have to take up one of these roles at least once during seminar. A respective booking tool will be offered via Moodle. Schließen

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This seminar should help students in acquiring an in-depth understanding of the contemporary functions and functioning of the European Union, building on both recent empirical research in the political sciences and on group work in the seminar. The seminar contents are structured along three blocks. In the first block, we will look at the traditional explanations of European integration and political co-operation in the EU. We then together assess whether these classical explanations still hold when we think about the different crises the EU has lived through in the last two decades. The second block will then zoom in on the functions and functioning of the key institutions in EU legislative politics, most notably the European Council and the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament, as well as the European Commission. Students will learn about and discuss the internal decision-making logics of these institutions and their relative influence in the EU as a whole. The third block finally focusses on the interactions between European decision-making and national politics. We will especially investigate the public politicisation of EU affairs in the member states to then review empirical research studying how different EU institutions respond to and deal with such controversial public debates. Throughout these three blocks, students will thus encounter the key questions in the current scientific and political debates about the EU and European integration and will train how to think and discuss about them on their own. Throughout the individual sessions, the seminar will provide many pointers to relevant literatures as well empirical data sources and research methods for students wishing to pursue specific questions further. Schließen

Specific literature – typically one or two recent studies on the topic of the session – will be provided in the syllabus provided at www.christian-rauh.eu/teaching around one week prior to the start of the semester. If you want to acquaint yourselves with the topics and type of research covered in the seminar, I can recommend the following textbooks for good introductions: De Vries, C. E., Hobolt, S. B., Proksch, S.-O. and Slapin, J. B. (2021) Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach, Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. Hix, S. and Høyland, B. (2022) The Political System of the European Union, 4th Ed., London?; New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Schließen