Some of the courses which have taken place in the past are:
International online course Topics in comparative philosophy
“Topics in comparative philosophy" was taught Fall 2022, by comparative philosophers from the following universities: Utrecht university (NL), Tallinn University (Estonia), Pedagogical University of Krakow (Poland), Vilnius University (Lithuania), the University of Hildesheim (Germany), the University of Leiden (the Netherlands), and Sun Yat-sen University (PRC), including University College Utrecht lecturer Chiara Robbiano, who received a Virtual International Collaboration (Virtuele Internationale Samenwerking) grant to organize and co-teach this course.
It presented core topics in social, political, and moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology, and from a variety of cross-cultural perspectives, among which Indian, Greek, Chinese, and Japanese, discussing various models of mind, interdependence, continuous decentering, and interrogate the concepts of morality and law, nation and tradition from a variety of philosophical perspectives, in dialogue with other disciplines such as quantum physics, neuroscience, and politics.
Going Glocal Program
A collaboration with UCR: UCR’s Going Glocal programme is a pioneering effort in education for global citizenship in The Netherlands. It aims to foster education and research geared towards social responsibility and the exercise of critical citizenship among university students. The programme connects UCR and its students with local communities in Africa, Latin America and Asia in order to explore global issues in local contexts, at home and abroad, through cultural exchange, dialogue, sharing, practice, and research. The programme’s framing is grounded on current literature in the fields of democratic citizenship, global justice, and decolonial understandings.
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.
