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Political Science: International Relations and Organisations (The Hague)

Bachelor

Course registration:

In the first semester, students are registered for all the lectures and workgroup sessions of Academic Skills and Statistics in block I and block II by the Student Services Centre (SSC). All courses are mandatory. It is not possible to change your registration for the workgroups. The workgroup instructor for Academic Skills 1 and 2 will also be your mentor during the first semester.
As of the second semester, IRO students must register for courses themselves in uSis. Registration for all lectures and workgroups in block III and IV is open during the following periods:

Block III: from 6 December 2017, 10:00 hrs until 28 January 2018, 23:59 hrs
Block IV: from 6 December 2017, 10:00 hrs until 25 March 2018, 23:59 hrs.

Please be sure to register for all lectures and workgroups, including the Academic Skills workgroups. Make sure you register in time, as some workgroups may fill quickly.

Exam registration:

IRO students must register themselves for the exams and retakes in uSis. Registration for exams and retakes is possible from 100 days up to 11 days before the exam or retake will take place. If you do not register on time, you cannot take part in the exam or retake, unless you receive special permission from the Board of Examiners to register late.
Tip: Register for your exams when you register for the lectures and workgroups

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Studying International Relations and Organisations is a full-time job; it will take you 40 hours a week on average. Attending lectures, tutorials, and work group sessions will take about 16 hours; these are the contact hours. The rest of the time you will study independently or with your fellow students preparing for the lectures and work group sessions, writing assignments and essays, and reading.

During the first year of the programme, you acquaint yourself with the basics of the political science discipline and international politics. Furthermore, you will study related subjects, such as economics and history. An important part of the programme is reserved for skills courses, where you practice text analysis, debating, and academic writing.

You attend lectures with all IRO students from the same year. The work groups consist of about 24 students, and during the work group sessions you actively work with your fellow students on deepening and processing the knowledge you have gained from the lectures and your reading.

Structure

The academic year runs from early September to July and consists of two semesters, each divided into two blocks. A block covers 8 weeks, with 7 weeks of teaching and one exam week. At the university, we use the European Credits Transfer System (ECTS) to represent the workload of courses. Each year of the three-year programme consists of 60 EC. One EC stands for 28 hours of studying.

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

Block I - IV

Mentoring Sessions

Block I

Academic Skills 1: Text interpretation 3
International Organisations 5
Introduction to International Relations 5

Block II

Academic Skills 2: Argumentation 2
Statistics 1 - Description and Inference 5
Actors in World Politics 5
Economics for Political Scientists 5

Block III

Academic Skills 3: Book Review 2
Statistics 2 - Applied Quantitative Analysis 5
Global History 5
Introduction to Comparative Politics 5

Block IV

Academic Skills 4 - Critical Review 3
Introduction to Political Science 5
Politics of the European Union 5