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.
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- Legacy and legislation: the legal tool box for handling Cultural Heritage
- The aims and the effectiveness of the national and international laws and conventions.
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- Everything is Full of Gods II: Time and the Divine
- To our very day, “time” is one of the most essential parameters of human life, not only as an economic factor, but even more so as a cultural phenomenon.
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- 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.
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- VivoArts: Art and Biology Studio - Wet Lab Practice and Bio-Art Pedagogy
- This course will introduce science and humanities students to issues and concepts relating to contemporary arts practices dealing with living biological systems.
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- 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.
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- For God’s sake? Bio-medicine, law and religion
- This class will address normative questions at the interface of law, ethics and religion, including artificial procreation, (selective) abortion, brain surgery and euthanasia.
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- Terrorism and counterterrorism
- With particular reference to the Dutch case.
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- Human aging: from brain to society
- Western societies are aging. How do older adults adapt to a changing society, and how does the society accommodate older adults?
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- Federalism, Decentralisation and Multi-Level Governance
- In addition to ongoing federal experiments in the Western world, decentralist political and economic policies are increasingly prescribed by institutions such as the World Bank and IMF in the developing world.
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- 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".
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- 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
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- 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.
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