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Meet the student mentors of Archaeology: ‘I like this opportunity to meet new people’16 September 2020All first-year bachelor’s and master’s students at the Faculty of Archaeology have been assigned a student as a mentor to help them find their way aro...
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Introducing our new Student Assessor Zoë van Litsenburg26 August 2020Starting on the 1st of September is our new Student Assessor Zoë van Litsenburg, current Research Master's student at our Faculty. Zoë will succeed Ro...
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Introducing our new Student Ambassador Vera van Heel26 August 2020Starting on the 1st of September is our new Student Ambassador Vera van Heel, current Bachelor's student at our Faculty. Vera will succeed Jan Dekker ...
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Aris Politopoulos: ‘I use games as a teaching method'19 August 2020In his lectures Aris Politopoulos combines archaeology with video games. He is one of the three nominees for the 2020 LUS Teaching Prize. 'A good teac...
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Electives of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: ‘You can really get a closer look at the subject matter’03 August 2020Are you interested in ancient Egypt, the rich cultural heritage of Mesopotamia or bliblical Hebrew and Aramaic? Students of all faculties can follow e...
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Working in the archaeological ceramic lab in times of corona15 July 2020BA 3 student Dasha Derzhavets is one of the first students to be back in the lab at the Faculty of Archaeology. She is conducting experiments in the c...
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Meeting Learning Designer Esther Struijk: ‘The assistance I provide depends on the needs of the lecturer’15 July 2020The first semester of 20-21 will be characterised by hybrid education: remote because we can, on campus if we can. Since this will have a tremendous i...
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Share your experiences of online teaching. Register for the University webinar26 June 2020Thanks to the corona crisis, you as a lecturer at Leiden University now have over three months experience of remote teaching. If you would like to sha...
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Archaeology student Grace left a lockdowned Leiden for her home country: ‘We jumped on one of the last remaining tickets’08 June 2020International Archaeology student Grace Alonzo went back to her home country when the coronavirus situation developed. Now she is living at her parent...
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Aris Politopoulos lectures like an Assyrian king: ‘Video lectures need to be ten times more engaging’20 April 2020There are some lecturers who are better equipped to provide remote education than others. And then there is Aris Politopoulos, who already owned profe...
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Rachel Schats is preparing an archaeology course from home: ‘Do what you can and don’t make it yourself too difficult’26 March 2020As a lecturer of a block 4 course, osteoarchaeologist Dr Rachel Schats is preparing to give her education remotely. For this she uses Kaltura, Leiden ...
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Join staff and students on the World Archaeology Minecraft server19 March 2020The VALUE Foundation has found a creative way to let staff and students connect on archaeology, albeit remotely. Witness the launch of the VALUE Herit...
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The future of experiencing the past11 March 2020The Faculty of Archaeology experiments with innovating their teaching methods, using 3D scans and visualisation technology to enable active learning. ...
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Archaeology students vlog at Castellum Hoge Woerd08 January 2020For the bachelor's course Past and Future, Archaeology students visited Castellum Hoge Woerd (Utrecht), a modern interpretation of the Roman fort that...
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Webinar Week: reaching out to prospective master's students09 December 2019Not all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, ...