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Who are Europeans?
What is Europe and what defines a European? This free course, Who are Europeans?, looks at the development of identities within Europe and the European Union. You will assess the mechanisms through which a new identity commitment is being formed and the limitations of and oppositions to this process. Can a genuine European identity ever be created in an expanding multicultural European Union?
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- recognise that 'European identity' is a socially constructed attribute
- appreciate the basis for the unities as well as the divisions among Europeans
- understand the ways European identities are assessed and measured
- appreciate the key role of 'culture' in the organisation of a common European identity
- understand that European identity could be a bottom-up process as well as a top-down one.
First Published: 10/08/2012
Updated: 03/03/2016
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