Honours
What you need to qualify for doing Honours:
In order to qualify for entry into fourth year Honours in European Studies, you are required either to have completed a BA (European Studies) with a minimum credit standard at Level III or to have completed a BA with a major sequence in European Studies at credit standard at Level III.
In either case, you are normally required to have at least one year of a European language, though this requirement may be waived in special circumstances.
What you are required to complete in your Honours year:
A thesis of approximately 15,000 words, whose topic would normally be drawn from the central themes explored in European Studies at undergraduate level, and would be supervised by a staff member teaching in any area of European Studies. The thesis is worth 50%.
Two seminar courses in the area of European studies. Two seminar papers, each of approximately 5000 words, are worth 25% each.
Combined Honours in European Studies:
It is possible to do combined Honours in European Studies and other disciplines.
Whom do I contact?
Students wishing to do either Honours in European Studies or combined Honours should in the first instance contact Associate Professor John West-Sooby, to discuss thesis topics and seminar options.
Honours seminars vary from year to year according to the expressed interests of the group of honours students. Some of the past Honours seminars in Europeanm Studies have been:
- ‘The Poetic Imagination',
- ‘Classics of State Theory',
- ‘Classics of Modern European Literature,'
- Dante's Divine Comedy ,'
- ‘European Spiritualities.'
- In 2003 2 semesters were devoted to a subject entitled
- ‘ Self-Mastery and Imagination: Alchemy, Politics and Art.' Authors as divers as Hermes Trismegistus, Proclus, Paracelsus, Ficino, Machiavelli, Bacon, Swedenborg, Kant, Hegel, Blake and Bataille were studied.
