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Contact

The programme leader is Gillina Bezemer. For any questions or comments about the Graduate Honours Interdisciplinary Seminars you can contact her via honourscollege@uu.nl.

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Student experiences

Discussions and assignments constantly stimulated me to think, to be critical and innovative

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Bogdan Sisca, Master's student Infection and Immunity

GHIS deeply enriched my Master’s experience and pushed me outside of my comfort zone. I had the amazing opportunity to be taught by experts on digital society, climate change and stem cells and thus uncover novel topics beyond my own discipline. Besides that, through all the discussions and assignments, GHIS constantly stimulated me to think, be critical and innovative. In small interdisciplinary groups we had to come up with solutions to some of the greatest issues facing our society, such as climate change, fake news, or even the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This truly made me feel that my work could have a real-world impact.

I have learnt to breach the gap between me and other disciplines

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Babette de Wolff, Master Mathematical Science

During the debates in class I had to learn to connect my knowledge to that of other students and to throw my point out there. This is an important skill to have, but not a thing I learnt among my fellow degree students. I was also confronted with preconceptions other people have of me and my discipline and I had to learn to breach that gap. The diversity of people leads to different dynamics every time. People from other countries and studies provide me with insights I never thought of myself, and open up fields of study I will not easily encounter otherwise. The teachers also help in achieving this; allowing me to learn things beyond my own discipline.

I am now able to solve a problem in a much more effective way

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Charlie Blunden, Research Master Philosophy

GHIS helped me to understand where links between disciplines are. By being able to communicate with people from other disciplines better, I am now able to solve a problem in a much more effective way. I have never realized how deeply engaged people are in their own tracks. It turned out that there is a lot of stuff that I just completely hadn’t heard of, but that is in fact really interesting. The teachers are very interested in your thoughts and questions, which often come from a completely different background than the teacher is used to.