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Bachelor Honours Classes

Honours Education

Honours Classes are part of the extracurricular honours programme that Leiden University offers its bachelor students. An Honours Class is a course of high quality that tackles complex scientific and social issues in an interdisciplinary manner.

Honours students who partake in the Honours College programme are obligated to follow at least one Honours Class as an elective.

Second-year and third-year non-honours students are also invited to register for the Honours Classes, if they are interested in following a high-level extracurricular course of 5 EC.

The registration period for the Honours Classes is Tuesday the 21st of August until Thursday the 6th of September 23:59 for semester 1; the registration period for the second semester is Tuesday the 6th of November until Thursday the 15th of November 23:59.

Semester 1

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Narrative care: creatief schrijven als instrument voor zorgprofessionals 5
The Politics of the Past 5
De lens van Van Leeuwenhoek: Nederlandse wetenschapsgeschiedenis in verhalen en collecties 5
Doing REAL research: discover your research talents 5
Effectief besturen 5
Music in Contemporary Society: Its Role, Function and Position 5
Personal flourishing and happiness 5
Recht, Literatuur en Film 5
The Truth Behind Quantified Self 5
Board the Blockchain Train! Understanding and applying a revolutionary phenomenon 5
Negotiation and Conflict Management 5
Learning through Virtual Reality 5

Semester 2

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Leren door Doen: Werken aan maatschappelijke opgaven 5
Argumentative and Rhetorical Strategies 5
Creative Writing: Het Verrassende Nut van Fictie 5
Anthropological Perspectives on Dying and End-of-Life Care 5
Negotiation and Conflict Management 5
The Sounding City 5
Organ Transplantation 5
Vitality and Ageing 5
Metaphor and Rhetoric in Science & Law 5
Vechtscheidingen: kinderen zijn de dupe 5
The Noble Art and Tricky Business of Translation 5
Innovation Lab: De Gelukkige Stad 5
Chemical Tools in Life Sciences 5
LDE Living (World) Heritage Cities 5
The Academic Life 5
Who Owns Life? Ethical, Juridical, and Artistic Encounters with Biotechnology 5
Data Science 5
Motivation 5
Dialogues in Past and Present: Human interaction and the construction of meaning 5

Summer courses

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Delightful Horror. The Sublime in Seventeenth-Century Visual and Decorative Art and Architecture in France and the Dutch Republic 5
Crises in Biology: Animal Life from the Late Precambrian to the Emergence of Land Life 5
The Mindfulness Revolution: Zombie Apocalypse or Productive Peace in a Frantic World? 5
Netherlands Asia Honours Summer School 5