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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 are obligated to follow at least one Honours Class as an elective. This academic year we offer a choice of over 40 different courses, varying from migration to biomedical technology.

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 Wednesday the 17th of August until Monday the 5th of September for semester 1; the registration period for the second semester is Monday the 7th of November until Sunday the 20th of November.

More information about the Honours Classes, including a colourful overview of the various options from which you can choose, can be found on our website.

Semester 1

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Creative Writing: Het Verrassende Nut van Fictie 5
De Miraculeuze Terugkeer van Blasfemie 5
Jihadisme en Islamitisch Terrorisme 5
Knappe Koppen! Nederlandse geleerden en de ontwikkeling van de natuurwetenschap 5
Learning through Virtual Reality 5
Macht, Leiderschap en Literatuur: Introductie in Grote Boeken 5
Music and Society: The Role of Music in Society through History, from Plato to Pussy Riot 5
Negotiation and Conflict Management 5
Skills Lab I: Argumentative and Rhetorical Strategies 5
Writing Art 5

Semester 2

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
A Historical Perspective on Migration Issues 5
Academisch Ondernemen 5
Chemical Tools in Life Sciences 5
Clinical Technology - Engineer meets Surgeon 5
Cognition, or how the Brain Works 5
Complexity and Networks 5
Controversial Drama: Sex, Politics and the Law in Popular Culture from 1500 to Today 5
Creative Writing: Het Verrassende Nut van Fictie 5
Crises in Biology - Animal Life from the Late Precambrian to the Emergence of Land Life 5
Cultural Heritage and Society in a Global Context 5
Cybersecurity 5
Data Science 5
Death and Dying 5
Delightful Horror. The Sublime in Seventeenth-Century Visual and Decorative Art and Architecture in France and the Dutch Republic 5
De Gelukkige Stad: InnovationLab Leiden-Delft-Erasmus 5
Denktank 'Islam in Nederland' 5
Law, Power and Inequality: Global Perspectives 5
Leren door Doen 5
Motivation 5
Negotiation and Conflict Management 5
Recht, Literatuur en Film 5
Skills Lab II: Public Speech and How to Argue 5
The Academic Life 5
The Creative Mind. A Humanities-Based Approach of the Human Psyche’s Hidden Potentials 5
The Mindfulness Revolution: Zombie Apocalypse or Productive Peace in a Frantic World? 5
The Revolution of Learning in the Digital Age 5
Tradition as a Source of Legitimacy 5
Understanding Imprisonment: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Incarceration 5
Who Owns Life? Ethical, Juridical, and Artistic Encounters with Biotechnology 5
Who Owns Water? Policy and Management of a Vital Natural Resource 5

Summer courses

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Crises in Biology - Animal Life from the Late Precambrian to the Emergence of Land Life 5
Cybersecurity 5
Death and Dying 5
Delightful Horror. The Sublime in Seventeenth-Century Visual and Decorative Art and Architecture in France and the Dutch Republic 5
Law, Power and Inequality: Global Perspectives 5
The Mindfulness Revolution: Zombie Apocalypse or Productive Peace in a Frantic World? 5
Understanding Imprisonment: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Incarceration 5