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Collaboration Africa

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2024-2025

Admission requirements

Admission to the Minor. See Target Group.

Description

Building on knowledge accumulated in the first two on-campus courses, the online environment employed in this course enables partnering with peers from African higher education institutions in a Small Private Online Course (SPOC) and a Virtual Collaboration (VC) project. During these online exchanges, students also attend webinars and excursions with stakeholders and practitioners who inform EU-Dutch-African relations.

Jointly exploring transdisciplinary and innovative sustainable approaches, students gain insight into real-life scenarios, develop their critical and creative thinking skills, cultivate intercultural communication abilities and establish future partnership networks.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion students will have:

  1. Knowledge & understanding of:
  • Various role-players that advance the achievement of the SDGs;

  • The significance of numerous approaches and strategies in sustainable interventions;

  • Strategies, policies and partnerships that support NL-African collaboration;

  • Current growth and development realities on the African continent.

  1. Skills & competencies to:
  • Source information online and learn independently;

  • Observe and evaluate the realities of themes introduced in the minor;

  • Build African focused strategic alliance and partnership networks;

  • Connect with African academics to strengthen their international networks.

Timetable

Week 47 – 51: SPOC
Week 2 - 4: VC
Week 5: Closure

Modes of instruction

Online learning & global collaboration
In class, site visits and hybrid sessions with guest speakers

Course load

15 EC x 28 hours= 420 hours

  • Online SPOC: 312 hours

  • Building Networks: 28 hours

  • Integrated Assignments: 80 hours

Assessment method and weights

SPOC (Online participation/ Weekly Reflective Learning Journal? Podcast): 40 %
VC (Adaptive Management Plan): 30%
BN (Appraisals & Blog): 20%

Resit, inspection and feedback

Same subtest as the first (where possible), within given timeframe.

Brightspace

Leiden University Brightspace platform will be used for:

  • Announcements

  • Timetable

  • Course information

  • Online LMS

  • Submitting assignments

  • Grades

  • Calendar

Reading list

Prescribed reading available in the syllabus (Strive to use only open source online publications).

Registration

See Target Group.

Enrolment through MyStudymap is mandatory.

Registration à la carte and contract education
This course is part of the African Dynamics LDE Minor and can only be taken within the framework of participation in the minor.

Contact

Minor Coordinator: Madi Ditmars minorafricandynamics@asc.leidenuniv.nl

Back to African Dynamics homepage.

Remarks

Not applicable.