Honours Programme 2009-2010

About the Honours Programme

In addition to our standard educational programmes, Leiden University offers extra opportunities, extracurricular, to small groups of students whose performance is excellent and whose abilities and wishes go beyond the standard programmes.


Seeing and Naming

Contemplating works of art: on the interplay between image and language. An interaction between students from Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.


Exploiting the waters

Maritime history studies the ways in which human societies have exploited the waters – the seas as well as the inland waters. Maritime history therefore has a multi-disciplinary character and that is reflected in this series of lectures.


Globalisation

By means of intensive analyses of literature and of case studies participants need to learn to overcome the self-evident Eurocentric world view. Instead, they need to develop a critical attitude towards "globalisation", "modernisation" and "westernisation".


Medicine & Literature

How can illness be understood and examined in literature, encouraging students of medicine and related disciplines to understand human suffering and to incorporate this knowledge into medical care


The Artificial Leaf

An Artificial Leaf does not yet exist, but scientists are looking for it, to accomplish the grand challenge of phasing out fossil fuels.