Netherlands

This course describes food production and preservation technologies that are relevant to the food industry. The course includes food production methods, traditional preservation processes, fluid flow, thermal preservation kinetics and methods (heating, cooling, freezing) as well as novel preservation technologies. Important processing principles (such as residence time, and heat transfer) and the consequences for products (shelf life and product quality) are discussed and quantified for various processes and products.

This skills training course familiarizes students with skills and knowledge concerning human anatomy and histology. The histology part entails a practical introduction to virtual microscopy, followed by microscopic studies of the histology of blood vessels, individual cell types, and structures in diverse tissues of the circulatory, urinary, respiratory, and digestive tract where the computer serves as the microscope. All “virtual microscopy” and anatomy sessions have to be prepared at home using either a digital histology atlas (provided) and a PowerPoint manual with internet links to the sections and tasks, or an interactive online manual, also provided. Preparation takes between 2 to 4 hours per session. The histology sessions take place online. The macroscopy/anatomy sessions take place on campus and entail an introduction to the autopsy room. Students perform observatory studies on corpses, models, and human plastinates guided by a list of tasks and questions, part of which needs to be studied in advance at home. Preparation of each anatomy manual takes at least 2 hours. This course is designed to be taken in combination with SCI2009 Human Physiology.

A decision support system (DSS) is a model-based or knowledge-based system intended to support managerial decision-making in semi-structured or unstructured situations. A DSS is not meant to replace a decision-maker, but to extend his/her decision-making capabilities. It uses data, provides a clear user interface, and can incorporate the decision-maker’s own insights. This course reviews decision support systems, their use, and important components which leads to a group designed and developed DSS that facilitates decision-making through specific selection criteria and constraints.  Students learn how to code in the programming language Excel VBA, develop and improve skills in algorithmic thinking, create userforms, and use tools provided by the toolbox. Essential programming techniques and constructs such as loops, subs, functions and macros are taught. Prerequisites for the course include a basic mastery of Excel, or an alternative spreadsheet application: cell referencing, building formulas, and use of logical functions. This does not require mastery of VBA for Excel, training in VBA programming is part of the course.

This educational psychology course covers how humans learn and remember information. Topics are approached from the perspectives of Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and Constructivism. Using different learning theories, the course discusses the most effective ways to learn and the best ways to build educational material. How people process information is covered, along with how people develop over time, how they behave in different learning situations, and the differences between beginners to experts. The course has both historical and current perspectives.

Business administration studies economic problems within the firm and relates to problems in the fields of marketing and logistics, finance, accounting, information management, and organization and strategy. Business administration aims to provide an integrated view of all the various (sub) disciplines. This course introduces basic topics that are related to business administration. The course centers around a real-life management simulation: Market Place live.

The course focuses on the role of religion in the modern and contemporary Middle East and will cover four main parts: an introduction to Islam and its relations to the other monotheistic religions, namely Christianity and Judaism; Islamic thinkers and their reactions to modernity, including modern reformist movements, modernist, and Islamist thinkers; Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East; and Jewish-Muslim relations. Here the focus is on the effects of the creation of the state of Israel and its impact on Jewish-Muslin relations. 

This course provides students with a thorough understanding of major topical areas in financial management, including an overview of the most recent developments and the ways they are integrated into corporate practice. Students learn how to evaluate major strategic corporate and investment decisions and to understand capital markets and institutions from a financial perspective.  Topic coverage includes asset valuation, real options, capital structure, cost of capital, Hybrid Financing, corporate liabilities, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As), and Sustainable Finance. Throughout the course, practical applications of financial concepts and techniques are carried out with the use of cases. Building on earlier, more fundamental courses in corporate finance and investments, the scope of the Sustainable Financial Management and Policy course drifts away from the simple technical analysis of corporate financial decisions to a high-level discussion of their strategic implications for the profitability and sustainability of the company. Prerequisites include a second-year course in finance.

This historical introduction course concentrates on two branches of philosophy: ontology or metaphysics, and epistemology thus exploring the development of Western thought. A wide range of notions are dealt with, e.g. substance and accident; existence and being; subject and object; idea, knowledge, and certainty; causality, necessity, and freedom. 

This course develops competencies in the planning and performance of experiments and the evaluation of results using common techniques in molecular genetics and cell biology. The skills training starts with an introductory lecture providing information on the assignments as well as an introduction to Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and Safe Laboratory Practice (SLP). Students perform experiments on several different topics including Immunocytochemistry; Immunofluorescence and advanced imaging (confocal and STED microscopy); Western blotting; and Electron microscopy. This course is designed to be taken in combination with SCI2037 Cell Biology. Students who wish to take this course should concurrently enroll in SCI2037 Cell Biology prior to enrolling in SKI2077.

This course provides an introduction to contemporary philosophical debates about core concepts of justice, liberty, equality, community, and democracy in modern liberal-democratic societies. Students become familiar with the work of some of the leading political philosophers of today, like Thomas Hobbes, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Rawls, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Frantz Fanon, Martha Nussbaum, and Achille Mbembe. Since conceptual analysis is the core business of philosophy, students learn to analyze concepts, clarify moral ideas, and how tensions between moral ideas can be made explicit. They also learn how to apply these concepts in current political debate and practice.