Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Regional and Social Policy of European Union Member States
Course Code
SZF_050
Branch of Science
Governance and Administration; Political science
ECTS
6.00
Target Audience
Political Science
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Tatjana Muravska
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
This course aims at deepening students’ knowledge of the EU competences in regional policy and EU approach to the social dimension and competences of Member States in social policy.
The task of the course is to offer insight into the concept of regional and cohesion development and social models in the EU. The regulatory environment and implementation of the Cohesion policy will be studied. Attention will be given to labour market policies and models as well as and public health models.
Special attention will be given to students’ discussions and debates.
Preliminary Knowledge
European economic integration.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Students will gain awareness about EU regional and social policies, their social, economic, legal and regulatory aspects; knowledge about facts, concepts and theories that support understanding of the course subject, as well as dynamics that shape EU regionalism and social trends in the EU and its Member States.
Skills
1.Students will acquire skills to: • assess and explain socio-economic events and their development in EU regional and social policy areas; • analyse EU regional policy using a variety of analysis methods; • make suggestions for the necessary improvements to EU social including public health policy.
Competences
1.Students are able to perform independent, critical analysis, apply economic methods in the planning and implementation of the EU Regional Policy and Social Policy, perform the assessment of economic parameters of regional and social systems.
Assessment
Individual work
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• Work with literature. • Search, summarising and analysis of data. • Case study.
In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal.
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Examination
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The report should answer a question or task related to one of the course topics. It must contain the reasoning behind the problem. Students should seek to submit or discuss different views on the subject and develop the author’s opinion based on reasoning and evidence.
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• Activity during the interactive lectures – 60%. • Solving situational tasks in classes – 40%.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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2
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Raising regionalism in Europe
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Raising regionalism in Europe
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EU Regional and Cohesion Policy: development progress
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EU Regional and Cohesion Policy: development progress
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EU Regional and Cohesion Policy: development progress
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Role of cohesion policy in promoting the development of the EU
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Role of cohesion policy in promoting the development of the EU
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EU budget: focus on cohesion
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EU budget: focus on cohesion
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Investing in regions in the European Union
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Investing in regions in the European Union
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Investing in regions in the European Union
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Digital Single Market in the regional context
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Digital Single Market in the regional context
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EU social dimension and indicators of social progress
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EU migration policy and immigration to the EU
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EU migration policy and immigration to the EU
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EU migration policy and immigration to the EU
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EU policies and activities in public health
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EU social dialogue and social partners
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EU social dialogue and social partners
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
6.00
Contact hours:
46 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
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Visa literatūra ir angļu valodā un piemērota gan latviešu, gan angļu plūsmas studentiem
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Jānis Aprans. EU Region Policy (2014). Teaching Material. Edited by Tatjana Muravska. Riga, University of Latvia Press, - 64p.
3.
EU Social Dimension – An Innovative and Reflective Society (2014). Teaching Material. Edited by Tatjana Muravska and Biruta Sloka . Riga, University of Latvia Press, - 84 p.
4.
An Agenda for a Reformed Cohesion Policy. A Place-based Approach to Meeting EU Challenges and Expectations (2009), Report by Fabrizio Barka, - 218p.
Additional Reading
1.
European Structural and Investment FUNDS and European Fund for Strategic Investments Complementarities. Ensuring Coordination, Synergies and Complementarity (2016), European Union. – 24p.
2.
Permanent Revolution in Cohesion Policy: Restarting the Reform Debate (2018). European Policies Research Centre, United Kingdom, European Policies Research Paper No. 93.- 43p.
3.
Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (2016). Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi. OFCE-Centre de recherche en économie de Sciences Po.- 291p.
4.
David Elkins. (1995). Beyond Sovereignty: Territory and Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge, 2009, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, - 308p.
5.
Andreas Faludi. (2018). The Poverty of Territorialism. A Neo-Medieval View of Europe and European Planning, Delft, University of Technology, the Netherlands.- 200p.
Other Information Sources
1.
Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion. European Union.
2.
Andreas Faludi. ESPON Seminar Video
3.
Regional policy. European Union.