Programme Structure
The Liberal Arts & Sciences approach to learning is aimed at training students to deal with the complexity, diversity and change of present-day society. Students gain broad knowledge of the wider world, but also study one area of interest more deeply.
The study programme (PDF) at LUC The Hague takes three years of two semesters each. Each of the six semesters consists of two blocks. LUC The Hague courses are typically 5 EC and are usually completed in one block. Some large courses are 10 EC and take two consecutive blocks to complete.
Programme Components
The Liberal Arts & Sciences approach to learning is aimed at training students to deal with the complexity, diversity and change of present-day society. Students gain broad knowledge of the wider world, but also study one area of interest more deeply. Liberal Arts education also trains academic and citizenship skills. Within the framework provided by the institution, the students have the responsibility to compose their own individual programme. At LUC The Hague this approach to learning is reflected in the various components of the curriculum.
General Education
This part of the curriculum is compulsory for all students and starts in the first semester. It consists of four courses on Global Challenges: ‘Peace’, ‘Sustainability’, ‘Justice’ and ‘System Earth’. These courses not only introduce the two main themes of the programme in an interdisciplinary way, students also train academic skills. The courses allow the students to pursue their own interests within the topics of the course. The third course in General Education is taken in one of the first two semesters: Disciplinarity and Beyond’.
Academic Skills
The development of Academic Skills is an essential part of the LUC The Hague curriculum. All students learn to present and write in Academic English, they work on their quantitative and qualitative research skills, their mathematical skills are also trained. Students typically take one skills course per block. In the second year two more research methodology courses are taken as part of the major.
The Major
Specialisation happens in the major. Next to the introduction of the various fields of study in the Global Challenges courses, students also take more specialized courses to explore new fields in more depth. At the end of their first year students declare one of the LUC The Hague majors which they continue to study for the next two years. All majors finish with a so-called capstone experience in the final semester: this can be an individual Bachelor Thesis, an academic internship or a larger group project.
Global Citizenship
Students at LUC The Hague come from a great variety of cultural backgrounds and they study topics, challenges and problems related to a globalizing world. The Global Citizenship component of the programme challenges them to reflect and act upon their own position and background in this world. In the first year all students take the ‘Introduction to Area Studies’ course after which they either continue with language study (Chinese, Arabic, French, Spanish, Dutch) or with the study of culture, linguistics, literature or art from all over the globe.
Electives
Electives are courses that students can choose themselves: they can decide to take more courses in the field of their major, or go on exchange, or do a minor or to spend more time on learning a new language.