Global Citizenship

The courses in the Global Citizenship (25 EC) component offer you various options to develop your cross-cultural communication and reflection skills, and increase a student's appreciation of cultural and social diversity. This can be done by learning another language or by studying the literature, art, or linguistics of a particular region. Both paths aim to increase the understanding of and communication with people from other cultures.

Areas of Theory (5 EC)

The Global Citizenship component of the programme stimulates students to study areas of the world and fi elds of knowledge in a variety of ways. To initiate students into the theoretical and methodological frameworks necessary to consider their place in the modern world from multiple, sophisticated disciplinary perspectives, all students will take at least one course from the Areas of Theory cluster. These include, for example: Cultural Theory & Area Studies, Literary & Linguistic Theory, Social, Legal & Political Theory, and What is Scientific Theory?

Language (10 EC per course)

Students can complete this section of the curriculum by studying a language other than English or their mother tongue*. The languages on offer are the official languages of the United Nations (besides English): Chinese, Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish. Language courses are offered as semester courses for 10 EC in order to avoid disruptions in the learning process

* the Language course is only available from students in their second and onwards

World Culture (5 EC per course)

The World Culture courses are chosen and designed to introduce you to various aspects of cultures (other than your own). This includes literature, art, linguistics and media studies. All courses share a common goal: you not only learn about the topic of the course, but also about the culture it represents. The courses include all regions of the world.