In the new rubric, Highlighted Publication, we share an article published by of our International Studies colleagues.
Under this rubric we want to report on our tutors’ international and intercultural experience. Leiden University strives to enable students to develop so called “21st century skills” which are defined as “the ability to work in teams, international and intercultural skills, entrepreneurship and leadership qualities and digital competences”.
International Studies has quite some new tutors for this year! We’re very happy to welcome them in our team. Want to find out who they are? Below, they introduce themselves and share what challenges they think will be coming up. But of course, they already have plans for the solutions as well…
As this world map reveals, our first-year students represent a whole bunch of different backgrounds and identities. Some of them currently living in The Hague, some of them elsewhere in the Netherlands or abroad. How can we try and make use of the situation and create a community…online?
Save the date!
A message from the Coordinators of Studies.
Curious about what you want to do after graduation?
Read the Word of Welcome from the Chair of the bacherlor's programme International Studies, Professor Giles Scott-Smith.
International Studies has started a new academic year, welcome to 2020-2021 everyone! This year we have about 540 new first year students, with 54 different nationalities! This number is similar to previous years, and that’s really something to be proud of in these Covid-19 uncertain times. Last Friday, on the 18th of September, we celebrated the Opening of the Academic Year a bit differently from past years, in that it was held both on-campus and online. Although we missed having a large crowd in the lecture hall, it was still a celebratory occasion!
Starting this semester, Things That Talk will venture into the BA International Studies program. ‘Things’ (be it objects, tools, or artifacts of everyday life) are the material expressions of the human experience, and therefore deserve a strong voice within our research and studies. This Faculty of Humanities-made platform is a place for learning the language of things. Their voices may corroborate, complement or challenge all the information that we consume through the written and spoken word. The main storytellers are students. This academic year, already more than twenty courses within our faculty will use Things That Talk to build a durable, living archive of stories that are of direct relevance to the courses!