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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Understanding Europe: Why It Matters and What It Can Offer You by HEC Paris

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About the Course

Regardless of where you live, the European Union not only affects your life, but may also transform it. By learning how Europe works, a new world will open up to you and discover new jobs you never heard of. The European Union has a large, yet often unnoticed, impact on many aspects of everybody’s life. We will analyze what the EU is doing for YOU regardless of where you live. We will also look at what YOU can do for and in Europe. Whether you are traveling, eating, working, doing business, shopping, surfing the Internet or breathing, all these activities are largely shaped by the EU. As a result no global citizen, business leader, lawmaker, lobbyist or student can effectively operate in Europe or in the world without a solid understanding of this unique laboratory of integration. While the EU is often depicted as a monstrous bureaucratic creature, condemned to irrelevance by the emerging economies, in 50 years it accomplished what other countries took centuries to realize. The EU remains the most accomplished experiment of economic, social and political integration in human history. Given its inherent complexities, this Course aims at empowering you on what Europe can offer and will enable you to discover jobs and opportunities you were not aware of. Indeed, throughout the whole course, participants will be confronted with real-life examples of EU action. EU affairs professionals will share their personal EU experiences and tell us about their EU jobs. You will also be able to interact with the instructor and other participants, share your opinions, question the instructor’s assumptions and hence shape the course’s content....

Top reviews

SG

Oct 15, 2017

Absolutely loved it. I now feel that I know the basic structure and working of the EU, which is very useful to me considering I'm going to pursue my masters in France next year.

HO

Aug 28, 2017

if you like to know more about the EU , its institutions this is a good course to understand its inner workings

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By Christian R J K

Dec 19, 2021

It is a fine course, but of my opinion there is too much video lectures like 98% of the lectures. It will be more nice if it where a more mix of videos and readings.

By Faris Z

Apr 24, 2016

In a clear and easy-to-understand way to introduce the basic concept and major functions of the EU. Very useful and practical for the real life.

By Claudia A T R

Sep 15, 2020

Great course to understand the generals of the EU. Needs to update to 2020. Thank you, Alberto!

By Edmund B

Jul 15, 2016

Very comprehensive. Good materials and presentations. Relevant to the current topic of Brexit.

By Paul C

Jun 20, 2016

Some of the exams are hard so you need to be on your game for this one.

By Sahil K

Jun 22, 2019

Great course to gain an insight of the European Union

By Jacob M

Oct 20, 2017

The information was clearly transmitted to students.

By Jose M K P

Mar 15, 2017

It is a course made in 2014

By Pauline F T

May 1, 2017

Good overview of the EU but you cannot do the quizzes unless you pay.

By Philipp M

Aug 7, 2017

no critical approach, just an advertisement. hard to watch.

By Patricia L

Oct 19, 2015

This is just blatant propaganda for the EU. It's like a big commercial. I'm surprised that Coursera allows this tripe on their website. Awful!

By Enrique V

Mar 5, 2016

Terrible english

Quite diffuse content

No reading texts

By Михайло В

Nov 9, 2020

дайте інфу с*ка нову а не за 18 сторічча(рік)