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.
Course objectives
Upon successful completion students will have:
- 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.
- 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 48 – 51: SPOC
Week 2 - 4: VC
Week 5: Closure
Mode 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
Assessment and weighing
SPOC (Online participation/ Weekly Reflective Learning Journal/ Adaptive Management Plan): 60 %
VC (Blog): 20%
BN (Attendance & Appraisals): 20%
The final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average. To pass the course, the weighted average of the partial grades must be 5.5 or higher.
Resit
A resit is where possible the same subtest as the first, within the given timeframe.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
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 (only applies to LEI students).
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website.
Guest students from TUD and EUR will be helped with their course enrollment.
Contact
Minor Coordinator: Madi Ditmars minorafricandynamics@asc.leidenuniv.nl
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Remarks
Not applicable.