1. Understand major historical, political, legal and socio-economic features of European integration process and development of the European Union; 2. Differentiate the roles and functions of the main EU institutions; 3. Comprehend basic legal aspects of European integration and interpret founding EU treaties; 4. Understand the main features of the policy-making process at the EU level and demonstrate understanding of the major theoretical and conceptual approaches to European integration; 5. Present and debate major current issues concerning the European Union.

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1. Regular class attendance - at least 70% of class attendance; 2. Fulfilled obligations of seminar presentation and teamwork; 3. Achieving a minimum of 35% of grade during classes within assigned course activities - cumulatively achieved by seminar presentation, teamwork and midterm exam.

Continuous evaluation of student’s work through:

1) Course activities: seminar presentation, teamwork and midterm exam; 

2) Final written exam (min. 50% of correct answers is needed to pass the final exam).

Continuous evaluation of student’s work leads to the total grade assessment based on 100 points:

sufficient (2) 50-64 points;
good (3) 65-79 points;
very good (4) 80-89 points;
excellent (5) 90 and above points.

How to earn points:

a) Course activities - 70% of the grade:
1) seminar presentation - max. 20 points.
2) teamwork - max. 20 points.
3) midterm exam - max. 30 points.

b) Final exam - 30% of the grade:
4) Final exam - max. 30 points (written exam - min. 50% of correct answers is needed to pass the final exam, i.e. it is required to earn at least 15 out of max. 30 points).