Admission requirements
Open to all international students. Regular Dutch Studies student may follow this course extracurricular only.
Description
When you choose to study in the Netherlands, this course will definitely be an enrichment of your Dutch experience. This series of lectures will give you a broad overview of Dutch history and contemporary society. Topics (amongst others): Dutch cities, history, government and politics, the people, the language, and art. A city trip and a film will also be part of the program. To stimulate students to see more of the Netherlands than just Leiden and Amsterdam, an individual fieldtrip to a Dutch town is part of the course. This assignment is done in pairs and rounded off with a City Report (2000 words).
To extend your knowledge of the Dutch Culture, combine this course with the Introduction to the History of the Netherlands, the Highlights of the Literature of the Netherlands (both in the 2nd semester) or Dutch Painting (in the 1st semester).
Course objectives
This course aims at giving a broad overview of today’s culture and society of the Netherlands, and its historical backgrounds.
Timetable
The timetable is available on the Dutch Studies website
Mode of instruction
Lectures
Excursion
Literature study
Course Load
Total study load for this class is 140 hrs.
Class meetings 20 hrs
Field Trips 15 hrs
Class Preparation 40 hrs
City Report 20 hrs
Novel 20 hrs
Test preparation 23 hrs
Test 2 hrs
Assessment method
Assessment and Weighing
City Report 25%
Written examination on class materials and required readings 75%
Resit
Students with a result for this exam lower than 5, may resit the exam in June.
Exam review
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.
Blackboard
The Blackboard site provides the complete program, texts, slideshows, quizzes that help to prepare for the test, and links to interesting pages on the internet. Please enroll. This site will be available as of two weeks before the start of the semester.
Reading list
Emmeline Besamusca en Jaap Verheul (eds.), Discovering the Dutch: On Culture and Society of the Netherlands. Amsterdam University Press, 2014.
Harry Mulisch: The Assault. Translated from the Dutch by Claire Nicolas White. Pantheon Books, New York. Also translated in many other languages.
Registration
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available in [English])http://hum.leiden.edu/students/study-administration/usis-english.html) and Dutch
Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs
Choose from the options below:
Registration Studeren à la carte
Registration (Contractonderwijs](http://www.hum.leidenuniv.nl/onderwijs/contractonderwijs/)
Contact
You can contact the lecturer Ms. Dr. O. van Marion about the contents of the course, for other general and practical matters, turn to the student adviser, ms. I. Zagar and for administrative matters, for instance if you have problems with registering in usis, the administration of Dutch Studies.
Remarks
Not applicable.