Honours

Explore the impact of digitisation on society by working with big data. You'll gain experience in data visualisation, algorithms, and machine learning.

• Course description: SA.001.B en SA.001.M
• When: in period 3 on Tuesdays between 5 and 7 pm
• not open to USE students

Explore how governments use digital technologies, including their opportunities and risks. You’ll develop a vision for a specific application and present it orally at the end of the course.

• Course description: SA.002.B and SA.002.M
• When: in period 4 on Tuesdays between 5 and 7 pm
• only open to students from the faculty of Law, Economics, and Governance

Learn what good preparation looks like, and what you can do during meetings to keep them as efficient as possible.

• Course description: SA.003B and SA.003M
• When: in period 3 Wednesday 12/2 and 26/2 from 5-7 pm, on Wednesday 12/3 from 5-8 pm , on Monday 24/3 and Wednesday 9/4 from 5-7 pm

This module focuses on turning research into visuals to engage a broader audience. Learn to summarize complex information in images and communicate effectively through visuals, no drawing skills required.

• Course description: SA.006.B en SA.006.M
• When: in period 4 on Wednesdays between 5 and 7 pm

Strengthen your ethical awareness and capacity to judge and act on that awareness. The focus is on your personal, social, and professional role in an open and inclusive society.

• Course description: SA.008.B and SA.008.M
• When: in period 4 on Tuesdays between 5.15 and 7.45/8 pm
• primarily designed for students enrolled at the faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, but also open to students of all disciplines

With the rise of misinformation, disinformation, and fake news, Open-Source investigation methods are crucial. Learn open-source investigations skills and how they are being used to address global challenges ranging from environmental harm to human rights violations and conflict-related research.

• Course description: SA.009.B and SA.009.M
• When: in period 4 on Wednesdays from 5 – 7 pm

The focus of this module is to equip you with the ability to apply basic financial and accounting principles in various professional situations to stay in control of your budget. Excel is used for this as a powerful tool.

• Course description: SA.010.B and SA.010.M
• When: in period 3 on Tuesdays between 5 and 7 pm

This module will familiarize you with the skill of “futuring”; the process of active future-making. Learn several futuring techniques like scenario planning, modelling, science fiction, back casting and experiential futuring.

• Course description: SA.013.B SA.013.M
• When: in period 4 on Mondays between 5 and 7 pm

The Conflict Management and Negotiation module teaches you to recognise your conflict and negotiation preferences and understand negotiation dynamics. You'll apply this knowledge in a simulation involving multi-party negotiations.

• Course description: SA.014.B SA.014.M
• When: in period 4 on Tuesdays between 5 and 7 pm

This module helps you master public speaking skills and enjoy the process. It goes beyond basic tips like "speak clearly" to cover various aspects of effective speaking. By the end, you'll present on a topic of your choice.

• Course description: SA.015.B SA.015.M
• When: in period 4 on Mondays, time will follow

In deze (Nederlandstalige) module leer je wetenschappelijke informatie helder en aantrekkelijk te presenteren. Je oefent verschillende schrijftechnieken en krijgt inzicht in hun effect op lezers. Ook werk je aan het verbeteren van je schrijfvaardigheid, bijvoorbeeld door nieuwsartikelen, columns en opinieartikelen te schrijven.

• Cursusbeschrijving: SA. 016.B SA. 016.M
• Wanneer: in periode 3 op donderdagen tussen 17.00 en 19.00 uur

Design Thinking is a way of working that ensures creativity in finding new and innovative solutions across a broad range of fields. This module will teach you to understand the design thinking methodology principles and mindset, and how to apply design thinking to a particular case or challenge.

• Course description: SA. 017.B SA.017.M
• When: in period 4 on Tuesdays between 5 and 7 pm

Today’s issues require a multidisciplinary approach. By learning Connective Thinking, you'll analyze complex problems using systems analysis, moving beyond simple cause-effect reasoning to predict outcomes like policy impacts or climate change.

• Course description: SA.018.B SA.018.M
• When: in period 3 on Thursdays from 5 and 7 pm

This module uses a systems-psychodynamic approach to uncover the hidden emotional dynamics in organizations, helping you understand (group) dynamics beyond formal agendas and rules through experiential learning.

• Course description: SA.019.B, SA.019.M
• When: in period 4 on Wednesdays between 5 and 7 pm (with the exception of the meeting on 04/06 which takes place between 5 and 8 pm)

In today’s tech-driven world, constant access to databases impacts how we read and connect information. This module teaches four reading strategies—slow practice, speed reading, connective thinking, and diffractive reading—to help you navigate vast information effectively.

• Course description: SA.020.B, SA.020.M
• When: in period 3 on Tuesdays between 5 and 7 pm

This module will train you in using digital ethnographic research tools, to analyze the interactions you have had in digital media. You will be able to use (research) tools and techniques such as participant observations, digital ecosystem mapping and multi-media storytelling.

• Course description: SA.021.B, SA.021.M
• When: in period 4 on: Tuesday 22/04; Thursday 24/04; Tuesday 13/05; Tuesday 20/05 and Thursday 22/05 between 5 and 7 pm 

In this module you will be introduced to the research skills needed to practice professional journalism in a modern digital world. Through lectures, newsroom meetings and role-plays you will be able to investigate, design and produce innovative news stories for the Dutch and global market.

• Course description: SA.022.B, SA.022.M
• When: information will follow

In this module, you'll learn to create engaging data visualizations on sustainability and analyze visuals from bodies like the IPCC. Using tools like Flourish and Python, you'll create your own visuals for a group report on a sustainability topic of your choice.

• Course description: SA. 023.B, SA.023.M
• When: in period 3 on Tuesdays between 5 and 7 pm
• not open for students who have taken the course Integrated Assessment of Climate Change (GEO4-2340)