Admission requirements
Open to students who have enrolled in the 2026-27 African Dynamics LDE minor.
Description
Building on knowledge accumulated in the first two courses, the online environment employed in this course enables further 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 of this course students will have:
Foundational knowledge and understanding of the:
approaches and role-players to advance the UN and AU development agendas;
various methodologies and strategies in sustainable interventions;
partnerships and policies that support NL-African collaboration;
ongoing growth and development realities on the African continent.
Skills & competencies to:
source information online and learn independently;
apply and evaluate themes introduced in the minor;
build African focused alliances and partnership networks;
envisage the future and develop tools to prepare for and shape it.
Mode of instruction
Online learning & global collaboration
In class, site visits and hybrid sessions with guest speakers
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
If the final mark - established by determining the weighted average is insufficient, some of the assessed components may be able to resubmit within an agreed timeframe. Please note that this does not apply to assessments based on participation or attendance.
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.
Reading list
Prescribed reading available in the syllabus (Strive to use only open source online publications).
Registration
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
For substantive questions, contact the minor coordinator: MinorAfricanDynamics@asc.leidenuniv.nl
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc., contact the Education Administration Office: osz-minoren-fgw@hum.leidenuniv.nl
The lecturers of the course are as follows:
- M.D. Ditmars (LU)
- T.A. Alade (EUR)
- R.J. Lee (TUD)
- M. Barnard (TUD)
- A.W. Kamau (UoN)
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