428 Results found for "international studies"
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Choices during your studies
Your choice for the International Studies programme is only the beginning. There are many more choices to make during your studies which will influence your future. Below you will find an overview of the choices to make within the programme. And some tips to help you out with making the decision.
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Alumna Update: Dalila’s journey, approaching challenges through the lens of art and sustainability
We caught wind that Dalila Cataldi won a prize in the Seoul International Meditation Festival Art Exhibition, which is really impressive! Besides being a prize winner, Dalila is also doing a lot of other very cool things: more reasons to catch up! Read about her adventures on exchange in Japan, her Internship at an art museum, her advice to current International Studies students and the selective joint Master Degree "Global Challenges and Sustainable Developments", which she will start later this year.
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Persons behind the programme: meet Anne van Someren
It is hard to meet people during these times: random chats at coffee machines, elevators or desks very rarely occur. To mend this gap a bit, we would like to introduce you to a few people behind the programme, as we do on our Instagram page (follow @ba.internationalstudies). Meet Anne van Someren (32), who is a Student affairs Officer at International Studies and Urban Studies since 2019.
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Extracurricular option: And What About Religion? Critical Terms, Theories and Methods (5182KWAR)
A new introduction to Religious Studies, a first in International Studies.
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Researcher Marte Luesink: ‘I’ve always been interested in crisis situations.’
Alumna Marte Luesink took both a bachelor’s in International Studies and a master’s in International Politics at Leiden University. Very quickly after graduating she was offered a job as researcher at the Leiden Institute of Political Science.
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All information concerning your Board of Examiners in one place
During your studies, you may need to contact the Board of Examiners of the BA International Studies for different reasons, for example to request an exemption or to get an approval for your internship. So far this information was scattered in different places on the website of Leiden University and sometimes not so easy to find.
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The Aesthetics of Resistance in the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora
On 20 November, BA International Studies hosted an event connected to the 2018 Brazil Week, which, since it was first set up by Sara Brandellero and Marianne Wiesebron in 2013, has been organized for six years now by staff and students working in Brazilian Studies in the Latin American Programme at Leiden.
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PRINS 2018…AND THE WINNERS ARE!
PRINS 2018 proved once again that for each and every BA International Studies student, as well as each of the commissioning organisations, this consultancy project is a ‘win-win’ proposition. In the end, six of the 30 participating student teams took top honours in this competition, selected by juries comprising Leiden academics and key members of the participating organisations. And the winning teams for cases from Starbucks, Google, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Transparency International have been invited to the organisations, to present their findings to larger audience.
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21st century skills: Tutors in the Wild, Rosa Vieira de Almeida
In the 21st century skills articles we highlight tutors’ international and intercultural experiences. 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, leadership qualities and digital competences" Most of the tutors have acquired these skills during their studies, fieldwork for their masters or PhD and are happy to share their impressions and experiences. For this article, we talked to Rosa Vieira de Almeida.
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How a region's contradictions shaped Boris Kowalski's career
Sometimes student life merges rather smoothly into a working adult life. This is the case for Boris Kowalski. At International Studies, he chose Russian as his language and Eurasia as his region of specialisation, he obtained his Master’s degree at Oxford in Russian and Eurasian studies, ended up in Ukraine during the presidential elections and now he works at a think tank in Poland, where he can put into practice everything he has learned. ‘The region’s internal contradictions appeal to me the most.’