Some of the courses which have taken place in the past are:
Sustainability Game
The aim of this course is the development of a number of sustainability games that allow first year students of Utrecht University to engage with the topic of sustainability. Honours students from Utrecht University’s BSc Honours programmes collaborate with Games and Interaction BSc students from the HKU Academy of the Arts.
Sister Republics
A cooperation between honours students from University College Utrecht together with the wider Utrecht University Honours community, and Rutgers University, New Jersey. Together, via a series of parallel lectures, as well as transatlantic student visits, students explore common themes in history, heritage, governance and societal issues related to the United States and the Netherlands.
Global Governance
A course that runs simultaneously between honours students from University College Utrecht, together with the wider Utrecht University Honours community and Yale NUS (Singapore), addressing global governance systems, and making use of modern distance-learning facilities and international student cooperation
Data Computation
A collaboration between University College Utrecht, CLARIAH (Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) and the Utrecht University Department of Linguistics (UilOTS), to provide a multilevel module on understanding how to manage big data, with participants at undergraduate level, graduate level and from the research community itself.
Cultural Encounters - The big climate movement (2.5 ECTS)
The Virtual Exchange course ‘Cultural Encounters - The big climate movement’ focused on key debates around climate change. Students of universities of the Mediterranean area discussed in small groups topics related to questions such as: what is the impact of climate change on the planet, political action and the movement of people? The focus was on climate-driven migration. Participants were provided with a lecture series with audiovisual materials from expert academics and practitioners. In addition, nine weeks long participants met online in their intercultural dialogue groups to discuss the themes and engage in interactive skill-building activities.
