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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 hans o

Aug 29, 2017

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

By Anil S Y

Apr 26, 2021

This course gave me a broad sense of understanding the EU affairs. Well designed and presented. Well done.

By Monika

Jan 6, 2018

An amazing course! I was impressed by the tutors and the perfectly structured lectures! Thank you!

By AH29

Feb 26, 2017

An excellent course that will truly help you understand what the EU means.

I highly recommend it!

By Maria R P

Oct 17, 2017

I really enjoyed this course. It was a great overview of the EU and its benefits.

By Котвицька Ю В

Oct 20, 2020

Very informative and well-structured course! Had a great time completing it.

By Jairam R P

Sep 27, 2020

Loved it...covered A-Z of the EU. Inspiring to be part of EU and live there.

By Raphael Y

Mar 23, 2016

Nice Mentor and totally through understanding about general aspectsof Europe

By Agnese D

Sep 12, 2018

Very well explained basics about the EU. Really good course. Thank you!

By K S

Oct 23, 2022

I've learned a lot since starting this course . Good quality.

By Sebastien O

Mar 27, 2016

Excellent course about how the EU works, highly recommended :)

By MUHAMMAD C

Jan 27, 2020

Excellent course about European Union politics and economics.

By Savary d B R

Oct 15, 2023

Very exhaustive course, and demanding. High quality.

By Olga Y

Oct 20, 2020

GREAT! WONDERFUL! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Muhammad I R

Sep 14, 2020

Indeed an amazing opportunity of learning!

By B. O

Dec 30, 2015

Very useful course, thank you!

By ALAA A B

Apr 10, 2021

i really enjoyed this course

By Alihan G

Oct 15, 2020

Exams are very difficult

By Ahmer J K

May 15, 2017

Excellent course!

By Elena G

Jan 30, 2017

Excellent course!

By Mukharbek O

May 20, 2016

Useful course!

By Nader J

Oct 10, 2016

Great!

By Sergei T

Dec 27, 2015

Interesting course! Gives a good initial notion of how the EU works.

Two written peer-graded assignments are cool: it's very interesting to read peers' submissions from all over the world (I got ones from Spain, China and US).

A major drawback: the slides are mostly bright pictures. It would be nice to make the slides more informative and available for download.

By Jamila C M B

Oct 5, 2020

This course allowed me to understand the European Union better and in a very engaging manner too. The instructor and the guest speakers are really experts in their field and I had a lot of fun learning from them. However, I am giving 4 Stars because the course content is not updated to reflect current and actual information.

By Ludivine D

Sep 23, 2017

Le cours est top !!

S'il manque une étoile, ce n'est que lié au fait qu'HEC ne fait pas participer aux évaluations, les étudiants qui ne payent pas. Les autres grandes écoles mondiales jouent le jeu, je trouve que cela dessert HEC à plusieurs titres...