Admission requirements
Mandatory course for students enrolled in the bachelor’s programme Security Studies.
Description
In your future job as an academic or as a professional in the safety and security domain you will be confronted with economic dimensions of safety and security. For example, professionals, politicians, media, and citizens regularly put forward economic arguments regarding safety and security. Also, governance strategies and policy measures are adopted or rejected based on economic grounds. Further, safety and security challenges have economic causes and/or consequences. Therefore this course aims to provide you with basic economic knowledge and skills.
We will study the economic dimensions of a diverse set of safety and security cases such as disasters, pandemics, and wars.
Course objectives
After this course students are able to:
Understand the economic dimensions of safety and security in terms of cause, effect, and impact on individual, group, and societal level.
Acquire basic knowledge and understand economic dimensions of governing security and safety in terms of governance strategies, practices and dilemmas.
Apply basic economic concepts to security and/or safety challenges and governance strategies.
Identify and evaluate the economic dimensions of security challenges and strategies and construct a logical judgement about these.
Construct informed arguments on economics of security in both academic and professional contexts.
Timetable
On the right side of programme front page of the E-guide you will find links to the website and timetables, uSis and Brightspace.
Mode of instruction
7 plenary lectures.
4 course labs in smaller groups.
Attendance of the course labs is mandatory. If you miss more than 1 course lab you fail the course and won’t obtain a final grade.
Total study load of 140 hours
Contact hours: 33
Self-study hours (including assignments): 104
Examination: 3
Assessment method
Assignment 1
25% of final grade
Grade must be compensated
Resit not possible
Assignment 2
25% of final grade
Grade must be compensated
Resit not possible
Final Written Exam
50% of final grade
Grade must be 5.50 or higher to pass the course
Resit of a fail is possible
Resit will take the same form
Transitional Arrangements
Passed partial grades obtained in year 2019-2020 remain valid during year 2020-2021. Students who did not meet the course lab attendance requirements in 2019-2020 are required to attend the course labs in 2020-2021.
Reading list
A selection of books and articles, to be announced on Brightspace.
Registration
Register for every course and workgroup via uSis.
Registration in uSis is possible from four weeks before the start of the course. Some courses and workgroups have a limited number of participants, so register on time (before the course starts). In uSis you can access your personal schedule and view your results.
Leiden University uses Brightspace as its online learning management system. Important information about the course is posted here.
After enrolment for the course in uSis you are also enrolled in the Brightspace environment of this course.