Admission requirements
Mandatory course for students enrolled in the bachelor’s programme Security Studies.
Description
Skills Lab 3 builds on Skills Labs 1 & 2, and aims to further train academic and professional skills. In the backdrop of different disciplines students will work on developing a variety of skills: application of theory, critical thinking, teamwork, leadership, academic writing, debating and presenting. In addition, students will get acquainted with different safety science tools to study safety challenges and learn how to analyse media sources.
Through the Explore-Understand-Do method Skills Lab 3 also aims to bring about a deeper understanding of the corresponding core course ‘Case Study Fukushima’ by explaining, discussing and practising the course content.
Each student will also have a mentor meeting with his/her tutor.
Various assignments will be used to monitor and assess the students’ skills development and study progress. Students will regularly discuss and reflect on their progress with each other and their tutor.
Course objectives
At the end of the course students will be able to:
Apply theory to study and analyse safety challenges;
Construct a rudimentary media analysis to assess and compare international media coverage of the Fukushima disaster;
Apply safety science tools to the Fukushima case;
Identify and analyse decision making processes at the individual, organisational and political level;
Evaluate and apply leadership skills needed in crisis management and communication;
Debate the ethical safety and security challenges involved in nuclear energy use;
Define and apply core concepts of the corresponding course ‘Case Study Fukushima’; and
Use the concepts, lenses and methods of one or more disciplines to explore and understand complex safety challenges
Timetable
On the right side of programme front page of the E-guide Bachelor Security Studies you will find links to the website and timetables, uSis and Brightspace.
Mode of instruction
The course includes 14 lab sessions, which will employ various active teaching methods.
Attendance of the course labs is mandatory. If you miss more than 3 sessions you fail the course and won’t obtain a final grade.
Total study load of 140 hours:
Lab hours: 42
Self-study hours: 98
Assessment method
Participation, 15% of final grade
Written group assignment, 25% of final grade
Written assignment, 30% of final grade
Group presentation, 30% of final grade
All grades (participation, group presentation and both assignments) will be collected in a portfolio which makes up for 100% of the grade. The calculated grade of all portfolio parts has to be at least 5.50 in order to pass the course.
Resits
Students with a calculated grade lower than 5.50 for their portfolio are eligible for a resit of a maximum of 2 of the portfolio’s components. It is impossible to resit the 15% participation grade.
Transitional Arrangement
Grades obtained for this course in previous academic years are no longer valid in academic year 2020-2021.
Reading list
A selection of books and articles, to be announced on Brightspace.
Registration
Register for every course and workgroup via uSis.
Registration in uSis is possible from four weeks before the start of the course. Some courses and workgroups have a limited number of participants, so register on time (before the course starts). In uSis you can access your personal schedule and view your results.
Leiden University uses Brightspace as its online learning management system. Important information about the course is posted here.
After enrolment for the course in uSis you are also enrolled in the Brightspace environment of this course.
Contact
Course coordinator drs. Celesta Kofman c.j.kofman@fgga.leidenuniv.nl