Admission requirements
Mandatory course for students enrolled in the bachelor’s programme Security Studies. Only students of the Bachelor Security Studies can take this course.
Students must have passed Integrated Project 1 before the start of Integrated Project 2.
Description
Integrated project 2 centres around real life challenges and practices, engages students in ‘doing security’ via ‘policy-advising’ tasks and trains and assesses their professional skills. Students will consult on a real life security or safety challenge presented to them by organisations and practitioners from the security domain.
Students will work in think tank groups on a security and/or safety challenge introduced and explained by a practitioner. Each group is expected to apply the three step approach of ‘explore, understand and do’ in order to respectively collect facts and contextual information on the case at hand (explore), deepen their understanding of several elements of the case by applying disciplinary lenses (understand) and merge these insights to assess and design policy recommendations to address the challenge at hand (do). This will result in a policy advice report in which each group presents their security and/or safety challenge, adopts several disciplinary lenses, integrates their findings and formulates recommendations for further action. Moreover, students will present their findings and recommendations to solve security and safety issues to the organisations.
Course objectives
After this course students are able to:
1. Demonstrate knowledge and understand a real-life safety/security challenge by using interdisciplinary analysis.
2. Demonstrate knowledge and understand the relevant interdisciplinary academic and policy-oriented background literature related to the topic provided by the policymaker.
3. Formulate an in-depth individual research paper and a comprehensive group policy report, including policy recommendations to address the safety/security challenge posed by the policymaker.
4. Reflect on governance strategies and recommendations to tackle a policy problem in terms of feasibility, implementation, stakeholders, and ethical dilemmas.
5. Demonstrate an open, academic attitude, characterized by accuracy, individual and group reflection, academic curiosity, and ambition for life-long learning.
6. Reflect critically on individual contribution to the group and role in the group, including strengths, weaknesses, and potential for improvement throughout the project.
7. Demonstrate and apply professional, transferrable skills such as professional presentation and communication skills, project management, group work, networking, and working with the required conventions and approaches of think tanks/policy advisors.
Timetable
On the right side of the programme front page you will find links to the website and timetables, uSis and Brightspace.
Mode of instruction
Plenary lectures and course labs.
Attendance of the course labs is mandatory. If you miss more than 1 course lab you fail the course and will not obtain a final grade.
Assessment method
Individual Policy Paper
50% of final grade
Grade must be 5.50 or higher
Resit of a fail is possible
Resit will take the similar form
Final Group Paper
50% of final grade
Grade must be 5.50 or higher
Resit of a fail is possible
Resit will take the similar form
*To pass this course students must receive at least 5.50 for both the individual paper and the group paper.
Individual paper resit
Category 1 : If a student has not handed in an individual paper, they will be given a new assignment wherein you are allowed to use your existing research/topic.
Category 2: If a student fails their individual paper, they may improve the original paper following all the stipulated requirements. The grade for this improved paper will be capped at 70%.
NOTE: If you fall in Category 2, you may choose to the new assignment as mentioned in Category 1. In this instance, your grade will not be capped.
Group paper resit
If the entire group fails the paper, they will have to improve the original group paper following all the stipulated requirements. The grade for this improved paper will be capped at 70%. If an individual fails the group paper (due to e.g. “free-riding”, absence or illness) they will be given a new group assignment.
Transitional Arrangement
Passed partial grades obtained in year 2023-2024 remain valid during year 2024-2025.
In the case of written assessment methods, the examiner can always initiate a follow-up conversation with the student to establish whether the learning objectives have been met.
Reading list
A selection of books and articles will be announced on Brightspace.
Registration
Register yourself via MyStudymap for each course, workgroup and exam (not all courses have workgroups and/or exams).
Do so on time, before the start of the course; some courses and workgroups have limited spaces. You can view your personal schedule in MyTimetable after logging in.
Registration for this course is possible from TBA. Registration and allocation for a workgroup is done by the programme.
Leiden University uses Brightspace as its online learning management system. After enrolment for the course in MyStudymap you will be automatically enrolled in the Brightspace environment of this course. Furthermore, announcements and modifications will be communicated via Brightspace. Students have the responsibility to stay informed and are thus advised to regularly check Brightspace for updates.
More information on registration via MyStudymap can be found on this page.
Please note: guest-/contract-/exchange students do not register via MyStudymap but via uSis.
Contact
Daan Weggemans d.j.weggemans@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
Remarks
For exceptions, please contact the Board of Examiners.