From 8 to 11 April 2019 university elections will take place again. As a student you can vote for your representatives in the University Council and the Faculty Council. As a staff member, you can vote for your representatives in the Faculty Council and/or the Employee Council.
Want to help improve your degree programme, the University and the city? Then complete the National Student Survey. You also stand the chance of winning a fantastic prize. And you support refugee students at the same time. The NSE will close on Monday 24 March.
Dr. Sara Brandellero (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society), who teaches Culture Latin America among other courses at International Studies, will lead a research project about urban night life and migration, culture and integration in eight European cities. Together with Dr. Kamila Krakowska and Prof. Frans-Willem Korsten, also researchers at LUCAS and lecturers in our programme, she will collaborate with four other European universities to answer the question how night spaces are dynamically produced, imagined, experienced and narrated by migrant communities in Europe. This way, Night spaces: culture, migration and integraTion in Europe (NITE) aims to support community well being and better integration by taking culture after dark as a central axis of its analysis.
Each year a lot of effort is being put into getting you to fill out the National Student Survey (NSE). In the past you were offered apples, biscuits and this year it includes a donation to charity and if you are lucky a coffee card. You may wonder why that is.
Grading is a delicate subject to discuss. Students most of the time are eager to know the mark for their assignments or exams, so the sooner the results are in, the better. On the other hand, lecturers are less interested in the result, and feel that good feedback is the most important element of the grading process. After all, we only learn from our mistakes if we know what we did wrong. These different viewpoints can clash: faster results can come at the expense of the quality of feedback. High quality feedback will result in longer periods of uncertainty for curious students.
The Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History is sponsored by the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg, and the new position further strengthens the connection between the RIAS and Leiden.
Are you looking for a master's programme that will allow you to further specialise and prepare yourself for a successful career? Perhaps you are not quite sure which master’s is best suited for you, or you have doubts as to whether you’re making the correct study choice for your future? Find the answers at the Master's Open Day!
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 volume we talked to Dennis Bus, tutor at International Studies about his experiences in Chile.
BASIS took the initiative to make our International Studies community more visible throughout the university buildings in The Hague. They designed four new personalized hoodies: The Jeff, Wijnhaven, The Hague and BASIS.
High teaching quality is the main priority of the International Studies bachelor. This is why we have a unique system of evaluating the tutorials as they are running, the so-called midterm evaluations, in addition to the regular course evaluations at the end of the semester. As the tutorial system is one of the corner stones of the programme, tutorials are thoroughly prepared before the start of the semester by lecturers, tutors, and support staff together to guarantee quality.
