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IMPORTANT: this module includes a compulsory field trip to Brussels which entails additional cost to the student听and may require you to apply for a Visa in good time (see below).听

This module complements the academic study of European politics and policy with practice-led learning. It is taught through a curated programme of moderated conversations with guest speakers who are practitioners in their fields, combined with skills-oriented elements or sessions led by experienced professionals and centered on the production of formats of analysis or communication as they are used in practice.听A key part of the module takes place during a three-day study trip to Brussels in Reading Week*. This is complemented by three to five two-hour sessions in London, spread out over the term.听

Students will engage with skilled and experienced professionals at different stages of their careers, who are enlisted from the UCL European Institute鈥檚 network. The module is structured around these professionals鈥� specific respective expertise, and topics will vary from year to year depending on the speaker line up. Policy areas and themes, in any given year, may range for example from climate, sustainability and energy policies, over the UK-EU relationship, EU-China relations, trade negotiations, EU foreign policy to political messaging, opinion making and media reporting.

In our skills sessions, students will have the opportunity to try their hand at preparing effective background memos, developing policy briefs and writing for a general audience.听These sessions also prepare them for their assessed assignments.

This module will be taught through a combination of three types of teaching elements, detailed below. These are framed by classroom sessions taught by the convenors covering cross-cutting skills or themes such as the actors involved in EU policymaking across the policy cycle or the overall policy agenda.

1. A鈥痗urated series of 鈥減ractitioner鈥痗onversations" with guest speakers鈥痵uch as parliamentarians, EU and national civil servants, civil society representatives, think鈥痶ankers,鈥痚tc. Sessions vary in format, depending on the guest professional鈥檚 preference and abilities, but they will often include three elements: a moderated conversation; a practical, interactive task such as a lightning drafting exercise or a role-play simulation 鈥� which may be done in breakout groups where appropriate; and time for questions.听
2. Practical 鈥渟kills鈥� sessions: These task-based sessions make use of group work and peer feedback to allow students to practice the production of specific formats of analysis used in听practice such as policy briefings and journalistic blogs. They prepare the students for their assessed听assignments for the course.听
3. Site visits include the European institutions in Brussels, and possibly other institutions such as Europe House London and the House of European History in Brussels. Where possible and appropriate, meetings with guest speakers take place on site at their places of work or organisations.
4. Participation in the Brussels trip is compulsory for this module*. This involves extra cost to students 补苍诲听it is the students鈥� responsibility to apply for a visa in good time. The trip will take place during Reading Week. The UCL Visa office has recommended applying two or three months in advance. Tier 4 students taking the field trip will not be in breach of their visa conditions.

*听Contingency planning will be made in case the Brussels trip as a whole cannot take place for reasons outside of our control, such as a pandemic.