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Courses 2024
Arcane Worlds: New Frontiers in the Study of Esotericism
The study of esotericism is a broad and many-faceted field. In the past, it has been described as 'othered knowledge', and esotericism has often been treated as a fringe pseudo-sci...
Global Health
top courseIn a globalizing world, health challenges transcend national boundaries and are becoming more complex. To face these challenges, including those posed by pandemics like COVID-19 an...
Feeding the Billions: Challenges and Innovation in Food and Water Security
top courseThere are 7.8 billion people to feed today, and this number is expected to increase to about 10 billion by 2050. More food is needed, and more food means more water for crops and l...
Conflict Resolution in a Globalised World
top courseThis course examines contemporary issues surrounding international and interfaith conflicts in the modern world (e.g. the War in Ukraine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict) and a...
Data Analysis in R
top courseWith the increasing use of statistical languages like R in data analysis, now is the time to get to grips with them! This course focuses on understanding statistical models and ana...
Building Brands and Influencing Behaviour
Steven Forbes, founder of Forbes magazine, once stated “Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business”, as it persuades customers to pay more, pu...
Environmental Justice in Theory and Practice
top courseThis summer course will introduce students to environmental justice from a variety of perspectives. We will engage with philosophical attempts to identify normative standards for w...
Placemaking: Sense, Space & Strategy
This three-week programme will explore the web of relationships between people and place. This innovative and interdisciplinary course borrows from human geography, experimental- a...
Climate Change
top courseThis course is about one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change. What are the latest insights of the science of economics into its causes and potential solutions? H...
Multilateralism, Globalization & Corporate Diplomacy
Does climate crisis spell the end of human civilization or a chance for a major breakthrough in global cooperation and multilateralism? Is the resurgence of nativist attitudes a tr...
Statistical and Econometric Analysis of Network Data
top courseLearn about recent econometric methods to analyse network data. Networks play an increasingly dominant role in many social, business, and economic environments. Moreover, networ...
Mindfulness and Compassion-based Interventions
As our world becomes busier and more interconnected, people's lives take different trajectories towards new futures. This socio-cultural shift also affects our well being. But has...
Introduction to Business and International Management
top courseA basic understanding of business concepts is useful for people pursuing any type of career. Learning the foundations about the most important aspects of business such as how are b...
Pre-University Honours Programme: Sustainable Thinking
Working towards a sustainable society means learning to live in harmony with our natural environment whilst consciously making changes which allow future generations to flourish. Y...
Deep Learning
top courseThis one-week Deep Learning course covers theoretical and practical aspects, state-of-the-art deep learning architectures and application examples. The lectures will introduce t...
Research-Creation: Critique, Care, and Collaboration through Creative Practice
top courseResearch-creation is an approach to research that engages artistic expression, scholarly investigation, curiosity, and experimentation. In practice, this means that research topics...
Creative Coding
top courseProgramming literacy has become an essential skill for the society we live in these days, and this is also important in arts because programming has become an artistic medium for e...
Advanced Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society
During this four-week advanced programme, participants will build on their existing knowledge of sexuality as it is contextualized by issues of ethnicity, nationality, class, and r...
The Moral Organization
top courseScandals in public and private organizations are an everyday occurrence. Money laundering by banks, sexual abuse by employees of NGO's, the marketing of unsafe products, are just a...
UNISCA: MUN of Amsterdam
UNISCA is not a regular university course. It is a two-week Summer Course consisting of two parts. The first week of this course focuses on theoretical knowledge of the United Nati...
Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Theory, Evidence, and Outlooks
top courseThis course considers modern-day terrorism from a theoretical and especially from an empirical perspective.
Planning the Cycling City
This graduate level programme unravels urban cycling from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective. We draw on historical and current events and thinking and engage with top Du...
Fintech and Emerging Financing Models in a Dynamic World
top courseDuring this course you will deal with real-life cases and projects while honing your creativity, flexibility, professional insights and social skills in Lean (start-up) projects an...
Global Energy Transition in a Fossil World
top courseDo we need to phase down or to phase out fossil fuels for a successful energy transition? Meeting the Paris climate goals is far from a done deal. While the need for a global trans...
Power to the People: Activism and Grassroots Organising
In this three week programme, participants will examine bottom-up initiatives ranging from protest movements to self-organised communities as they to disrupt established top-down i...
Introduction to Sexuality Studies
Sexuality and gender define what it is to be human: they are at the core of our existence. But how does society define and reinforce these concepts? In this summer school, we will...
Interface of Cultural Rights and Climate Change Law
top courseThis is a unique opportunity to look at the potential development of climate change litigation in the context of cultural rights. Culture exists all around us and is part of who we...
Urban Studies: Planning and Living in Cities
Housing and urban issues have come to the forefront of social, economic and environmental debates in recent years as metropolitan modes of living have become even more widespread a...
Human AI
top courseHuman processes of all kinds are complex and adaptive. Mental, social, and health-related processes can all change and adapt over time with human behaviour. Thought-based processes...
Ignorance, Power, and Politics: Perspectives from Feminist and Political Epistemology
top courseIn recent years, the study of ignorance has developed into a dynamic field that spreads across many subdisciplines of philosophy. What ignorance is, what its normative, ethical, an...
Urban Changemakers
Cities such as Amsterdam are commonly densely populated and heterogeneous. The melting pot of cultures and varied backgrounds of city residents create the vibrant urban spaces that...
Mental Health, Youth and Society
With unprecedented levels of mental distress and addiction reported globally, recent events exposed fissures within our social and health care systems. Behavioral health, focused o...
The Circular City: Towards a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem
Due to their environmental impact, cities play a crucial role in the transition towards sustainable societies. Despite the fact that they occupy only 3% of the global terrestrial s...
Applied Quantitative Methods to Analyse Business Data
top courseThe course focuses on quantitative applications to real-world business data, teaching students econometric methods (principles of statistical testing, multiple linear regression, l...
Gender in Society
top courseThis summer school aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the connection between gender and society. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore various trends and...
International Criminal Justice
top courseThis course aims to introduce students to the complex nature of international crimes, its perpetrators and the reaction of the international community. This Summer School on Intern...
Pre-University Honours Programme: Journalism
The 2020s are poised to be challenging years that will grapple with massive topics that touch the lives of people across the globe. The role of journalism and media will without a...
The Entrepreneurial Mind: Strategising for a New Venture
top courseIn this course, students learn what it means to be an entrepreneur from a psychological perspective. The student also learns to think about a venture creating a strategy for their...
New Venture Creation in the Amsterdam Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
top courseThe creation of new ventures is one of the most important economic issues of this time, all over the world. It is not limited to start-ups only, but also applies to the development...
Logic as a Tool for Modelling
top courseLogic is the study of different types of reasoning. Logic is also a technology, a tool for elegantly modelling diverse phenomena. The aim of the course is to introduce you to this...
The Economics of Urbanization
top courseOver half the world's population now live in cities and, within a few decades, the population of urban areas will exceed the entire global population today. Ongoing urbanization pr...
Football Behaviour Management
top courseHow does one become a scout? Or a technical director of a football club? There really isn’t a course you can take for that. That is what we want to change with our Football Behavio...
Creative Writing: From Inspiration to Craft
Unlock your creativity: Join our immersive creative writing course and embark on a transformative literary journey. Dive into the art of storytelling and hone your skills in crafti...
Transnationalism in Contemporary Society
top courseThis multidisciplinary course delves into the intricate realm of transnationalism, exploring its practices and strategies for intervention. Tailored for students specialising in or...
Governing Climate Change: Theory and Practice
top course"Climate change may well be the most pressing environmental challenge facing humankind. A complex global web of institutions, instruments and actors is being created seeking to gov...
The Circular Economy as a Social Innovation
top courseWhat is the circular economy, and what can it mean for our life, study, and work? In this course, you will engage in active and creative workshops and excursions, next to lectures...
Introduction to International Anti-Money Laundering Law & Compliance
top courseThis course caters to law students and legal professionals, offering a comprehensive understanding of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance. The curriculum covers legal principles...
The Attachment Nest: Development and Care within a Spectrum of (A)typical Socioemotional and Cognitive Development
top courseThis course offers an integrative and inclusive approach to understand human attachment development and its role across a large spectrum of (a)typical functioning and across differ...
Addressing Conflict: Peacebuilding in Theory and Praxis
How do we relate to conflict around us? What are the challenges and opportunities for constructive engagement within intergroup conflict? How can we – ultimately – transform confli...
International Business Leadership
top courseThis course equips students with leadership skills for international business environments. It uses an innovative teaching method that includes a custom-made leadership movie.
Machine Learning for Business
top courseThe course aims to minimize the gap between modern statistical theory and practical application in business environments, where many statistical tools are underutilized. The curric...
Statistical Methods for Causal Inference
top courseThere is great interest among students and practitioners today to understand the causal mechanisms underlying major events. Identifying cause-and-effect relationships is important...
The Beautiful Mind: Global Perceptions of Mental Health
top courseTo look broader than just diagnostic criteria for the mental health illness. We will discuss the concept of culture and its importance How young is too young to diagnose a child...
International Development: Global Trends via Local Cases Perspectives
top courseUpon completing this course, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of international development in various development domains. As the world changes and becomes more...
Organisational Networks in Healthcare: Theory and Analysis
top courseHealthcare is currently faced with a myriad of issues. An aging population requires more complex healthcare provision. This increased complexity challenges the affordability, acces...
New Media and the Digitalisation of Everyday Life
The topic of digital media in the context of modern society is ever-evolving. We often wonder how new media shape our social world, how it affects us at an individual level, how di...
UNISCA: MUN of Amsterdam
UNISCA is not a regular university course. It is a two-week Summer Course consisting of two parts. The first week of this course focuses on theoretical knowledge of the United Nati...
Comprehensive Introduction to Research Methodology and Design
online courseThis course aims to lay a solid, diverse and integrated foundation for conducting first-rate qualitative and quantitative research, and for embedding it in effective and feasible m...
Past courses
Migration and Integration: Refugees, Rights & Realities
online courseThis two-week online winter course will look at legal, political and human ramifications of displacement around the world. In our online international classroom, we will discuss th...
Visions of the Occult: Introduction to Western Esotericism
online courseThe goal of this course is to offer an introductory overview of the study of Western esotericism. In this two-week online winter course, we will investigate the key thematic aspect...
Key Topics in Urban Studies
online courseThis online winter course can be completed at your own pace, and will introduce you to the field of Urban Studies through a series of pre-recorded lectures by our team of experts....
Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges for the New Workplace
online courseOrganisations are increasingly deploying AI technologies to run their everyday business. This technological shift is creating a new workplace where changes are occurring as to how...
Bootcamp: Ethnography and Design
online courseAre you familiar with ethnographic research and curious about how you can turn your insights into action and pitch your research to an interested organisation? Are you interested i...
Courses 2023
Networks in Micro- and Macro-Economics
top courseNetworks play an increasingly dominant role in many social, business, and economic environments. Moreover, network data becomes increasingly important and available due to the rise...
Space Law & Artificial Intelligence Summer Course
blended courseArtificial intelligence challenges our status quo due to its multiple benefits but also due to the risks posed by an active implementation of this advanced technology in our daily...
Humour as a Leadership Skill: How to Lead with Laughter
top courseDeveloping humour skills (from humour appreciation to curating, producing, improvising, and knowing when to abstain from humour) is becoming a key interpersonal competence for acco...
Behavioral Macro and Complexity
top course online courseThis course provides a state of the art overview of complex economic systems with boundedly rational heterogeneous agents. The leading paradigm in macroeconomics assumes that econo...
Political Economy
online courseTo what extent does the economy determine the type of policies a government pursues? And how much sway over the economy does a government have? The fields of politics and economics...
Courses 2022
BioBusiness Summer School 2022
BioBusiness Summer School is a five-day course for academics who are contemplating about a career switch to industry and young professionals in their first industry jobs. This cour...
Sustainable Pattern Cutting & Construction
This course is meant to create more awareness regarding the sustainable use of fashion for individual purpose. Shaping a garment requires patience and a good eye for detail, with f...
Fashion Design Portfolio Development
Immerse yourself in Fashion for 2 weeks (10 days) on campus and follow an easy, step-by-step supervised project on how to create a fashion portfolio you can use as a ticket to appl...
Fashion Business Portfolio Development
Immerse yourself in Fashion for 2 weeks (10 days) on campus and follow an easy, step-by-step supervised fashion project. Learn how to plan, produce, execute and complete a fashion...
Courses 2021
The Identification and Monitoring of Vulnerable Groups in the Labour Market
online courseThe European Union describes vulnerable groups as those that experience a higher risk of poverty and social exclusion than the general population. These groups include, for instanc...
BioBusiness Summer School
Discover the fascinating world of BioBusiness BioBusiness Summer School will help you obtain an overview of what career options there are in BioBusiness, gain understanding of t...
Courses 2020
Intensive Dutch Language Course
online courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, this 29th Intensive Dutch Language Course will be offered as a distance learning course, and can be studied from anywhere across the globe. The teach...
BCF Grant Application Course
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or starting group leader and do you want to enhance your career prospects in academia? Do you wish to improve one of the most vital skills of succeed...
BioBusiness Summer School 2020
BioBusiness Summer School is a five-day course for academics who are contemplating about a career switch to industry and young professionals in their first industry jobs. This cour...
Security Governance & Conflict Resolution
[Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this programme has been cancelled for summer 2020. If you are interested, please visit the programme website and send us an email. We will keep you p...
Courses 2019
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Law: Human Rights and Beyond
This summer school focuses on the emergence of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) and intersex issues in different areas of international law, such as human rights law,...
BioBusiness Summer School
BioBusiness Summer School is a five-day course for academics who are contemplating about a career switch to industry and young professionals in their first industry jobs. This cour...
Migration Challenge Summer School
Would you like to learn how complex international challenges can be approached through cross-cultural collaboration and design? Then join our fun, impactful and insightful “Migrati...
DSOPM Summercamp
Het Summercamp van DSOPM vindt plaats van maandag 22 t/m vrijdag 26 juli in de Q-Factory in Amsterdam. Elke dag wordt er van 10:00-18:00 een divers programma afgewerkt, met onder a...
Courses 2017
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Law
This summer school offers a unique opportunity to learn from established academics from Leiden University, as well as from world-renowned practitioners who have been involved in te...
Model-based Neuroscience
Tthe fourth Model-Based Neuroscience Summer School will be hosted at the University of Amsterdam. The summer school will provide students with hands-on experience in both cognit...
Film Summer School
Do you want to spend this summer in a creative way and do you want to discover Amsterdam and learn everything about film? Amsterdam Summer School is the place to be. We have an...
Courses 2016
Business English Intermediate Amsterdam
This course emphasizes speaking and writing while stimulating confidence and stretching your boundaries. With a charming classroom in the heart of Amsterdam, experience small group...
Business English Intermediate Amsterdam
This course emphasizes speaking and writing while stimulating confidence and stretching your boundaries. With a charming classroom in the heart of Amsterdam, experience small group...
Financial Management for Non-Financials
An introduction to the fundamentals of finance and accounting, given by our top lecturers from Nyenrode New Business School Cees Koomen and Herman van der Meulen. Use our summer...
Courses 2015
Ent-Ex Summer School in Amsterdam
Ent-Ex is a four-day workshop-style programme which helps you to develop essential entrepreneurial (and intrapreneurial) skills. We don’t promise a magic formula to develop your b...
Nudge Global Leadership Challenge
How can we achieve a sustainable society? What kind of leadership is needed? Who are the leaders of the future? How do we identify these leaders? What tools can we provide to enabl...
Courses 2014
Entrepreneurship Experience Programme - Amsterdam
Ent-Ex is a 4 days training programme based on a practical, interactive approach. Participants will discover real insights into what characteristics make a successful entrepren...