About the Majors
Whether your interests are in questions of global justice, environmental activism, social psychology, artistic expression, philosophical aesthetics, or strategies of international politics, there is a major@LUC for you.
LUC The Hague offers a broad, flexible and interdisciplinary curriculum, focused on enabling each student to design their own programme of study in accordance with their own personal interests and ambitions. Within this menu of choices there are a number of concentrations that we identity as ‘majors,’ which count for a minimum of 45% of an individual’s programme. Students can assemble these majors as they go along, following their interests as they evolve, or they can target one right from the start.
Because of wide range of choices open to every student, each is assigned an expert and experienced tutor to advise and guide them throughout their time at LUC. The tutors, under the responsibility of our Senior Tutor, help to ensure that student choices match their interests and future ambitions, and also meet the requirements of graduation.
A key role for the tutors in helping students to assemble their majors is to open the various doors to further study (MA/MSc) or employment to which specific majors might lead. Tutors can help in this way by guiding students towards internships with IOs or NGOs as part of their majors, towards periods of study abroad in specialist departments, towards advanced undergraduate research projects under the supervision of leading professors, or simply by providing information.
Majors@LUC have been specially and carefully designed by teams of leading scholars from all across Leiden University to be innovative and cutting-edge. Without exception, they offer a combination of scholarly depth and creative breadth, enabling students to go beyond the normal, disciplinary confines of a regular university programme. Majors@LUC are thematically organized so that students of, say, Global Justice do not only engage in a detailed study of international law, but are also able to consider the ethical, political, historical, aesthetic, and scientific factors that impact on the complicated questions of global justice in the world today. Students interested in sustainability do not only delve deeply into the environmental and natural sciences, but they are also able to critically engage with issues of governance, development, politics and culture.
The majors@LUC are unique, and students who successfully complete them will be eagerly welcomed by graduate programmes and employers all over the world.