Admission requirements
This course is part of the BSc Science for Sustainable Societies (SfSS). The course is an obligatory course for students who are admitted to the BSc Science for Sustainable Societies. It has no further requirements.
Description
In the three-year Learning My Way blended trajectory, you enhance your personal and professional development by building your own online portfolio. You will acquire skills to clarify your mission (what you would like to bring to the world), employ your talent and competences effectively, and learn how to maintain resilience when facing challenges. The course fosters autonomy and focusses on your unique quality in relation to others, your environment, and your potential.
The seminars help you engage in guided self-exploration to understand your motives, what you are passionate about, your values, and vocation. You will gain clear insights into your strengths and weaknesses, particularly within collaborative settings. We will over the years focus on identifying and developing your core competencies, monitoring their growth, and applying your talent confidently in professional teams and contexts. You will also learn to recognise and manage your own hindering behavioural patterns that might obstruct progress.
Learning My Way aims to help you make deliberate study and life choices, ensuring professional interests align with your personal insights. Craft a coherent personal narrative encompassing past, present, and future aspirations. This narrative strengthens your ability to motivate your chosen direction, commit to envisioned goals, and confidently pursue your preferred future path.
Learning My Way is a three-year course. The first-year focusses on two seminars: Compass on Purpose and Sea of Possibilities.
Course objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, you are able to:
Understand how resilience is related to self-transcendent and self-preservative motives, and how to apply this knowledge to your benefit.
Distinguish and explain the concepts of passion, mission, competences, and roles in relation to your own functioning and a projected future.
Envision your direction and professional path through your BSc studies.
Concretely relate/embed your curricular activities in your broader life situation and development.
Timetable
In MyTimetable, you can find all course and programme schedules, allowing you to create your personal timetable. Activities for which you have enrolled via MyStudyMap will automatically appear in your timetable. Additionally, you can easily link MyTimetable to a calendar app on your phone, and schedule changes will be automatically updated in your calendar. You can also choose to receive email notifications about schedule changes. You can enable notifications in Settings after logging in. Questions? Watch the video, read the instructions, or contact the ISSC helpdesk.
Mode of instruction
This course has in-person lectures and uses online preparatory and concluding questionnaires through the Learning My Way portfolio system.
Preparation before classes and active participation in classes are fundamental for the success of our programme. In Science for Sustainable Societies we stimulate discussions and participation in classes so that everyone can bring and share their experience, values, and opinions with their peers. For this reason, there is a mandatory attendance. Please see the course manual on Brightspace for the specific rules concerning attendance in this course.
If you have medical, family, or other personal circumstances that make it difficult to attend class, please contact the study advisor.
Assessment method
Assessment
To pass the course you need to be present at 100% of the seminars and have completed 100% of the preparatory and concluding online questionnaires. The course uses a pass/fail system.
More information about these assessments will be provided on Brightspace.
Course materials
Reading materials
Learning My Way handbook, provided on Brightspace.
Science Skills Platform
Some of the Science for Sustainable Societies courses make use of the Science Skills Platform. The Science Skills Platform is a digital skills learning environment on Brightspace. With more than 100 skills modules available, you can work on the academic and transferable skills you encounter during your studies whenever and wherever you want. In some of our courses, the modules on the platform will be part of the course materials. You can find the platform on Brightspace.
Registration
All first-year bachelor students will be registered by the Student Services Centre (SSC) for the lectures, tutorials, and the exam (excluding re-sits) of the courses offered in the first semester. For the second semester courses and all re-sits students must register themselves for all course components (lectures, tutorials, exams, and re-sits) in MyStudyMap. You can register up to 5 days prior to the start of a course and up to 10 days prior to an exam or re-sit.
In this short video, you can see step-by-step how to enrol for courses in MyStudyMap.
For more information about the procedures and deadlines, see the enrolment procedure.
Please note:
It is mandatory to enrol for all activities of a course that you are going to follow.
Your enrolment is only complete when you submit your course planning in the ‘Ready for enrolment’ tab by clicking ‘Send’.
Not being enrolled for an exam/re-sit means that you are not allowed to participate in the exam/re-sit.
Brightspace
Brightspace is the digital learning environment of Leiden University. Brightspace gives access to course announcements and electronic study material. Assignments will also be submitted in Brightspace. Students are advised to check Brightspace daily to remain informed about rooms, schedules, deadlines, and details of assignments. Lecturers assume that all students read information posted on Brightspace.
Please log in with your ULCN-account and personal password. On the left you will see an overview of My Courses.
You need to be enrolled for the respective courses to access them on Brightspace.
Contact
Course coordinator: Justin Sijtsma and Marc Cleiren
Study advisors: Kiki Boomgaard and Marisa Beunk
Remarks
BYOD and software
The BSc Science for Sustainable Societies has a ‘Bring Your Own Device’ policy. The Faculty of Science uses the software distribution platform Academic Software. Through this platform, you can access the software needed for specific courses in your studies. For some software, your laptop must meet certain system requirements, which will be specified with the software. It is important to install the software before the start of the course. More information about the laptop requirements can be found on the student website.