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Academic Core Programme

Academic Core in a nutshell:

  • Understand Global Challenges as problems that need more than one discipline to find a solution
  • Gain and develop skills in (interdisciplinary) academic research, collaboration and communication
  • Gain experience in developing and managing projects
  • Orient yourself within LAS, start formulating scholarly goals, start planning your programme

The Academic Core accounts for 55 ECTS in total.

Year 1

30 ECTS

Exploring Challenges of Modern Society 1 & 2

10 ECTS

Academic Skills

5 ECTS

Introduction to Academic Research

5 ECTS

2 Core Electives:

Choose from:

  • Culture: the Building Blocks
  • Disease
  • This is the Sea
  • How Things Work
  • People, Places and Cultures in a Global Context
  • Love
  • War
10 ECTS
Project Year 1 (Interdisciplinary Communication & Collaboration)
5 ECTS

Year 2

15 ECTS

Philosophy of Science

5 ECTS
Year 2 Project (Research)
10 ECTS

Year 3

5 ECTS

Year 3 Project (Leadership)

5 ECTS

Last modified:25 September 2023 3.58 p.m.