Utrecht University

In this hands-on course, students work in interdisciplinary teams to uncover the rich history of Utrecht and share findings with the public. Combining historical, architectural, and societal data, students develop and design an innovative application for the city of Utrecht. In the process, students cooperate across disciplinary borders, take charge of their own learning process, and experimentally assess the added value of new media and ICT. The course accumulates in presentations and interactive demos of the teams’ final prototypes.

This course introduces the digital tools and methods used for research in the Humanities.  The theoretical part of the course focuses on basic concepts that are essential for working with large quantities of humanities data, including corpora and databases, searching techniques, information retrieval, and statistical language models. In the practical part of the course, students learn how to do basic text analysis using the programming language Python.
 

This course is for non-History students only. In this course, the main events and developments in the history of the Netherlands during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are explained, studied, and analyzed. Although the emphasis is on political history, a broad definition of politics is deliberately applied. Relevant social, cultural, and economic aspects are also covered in the lectures and the literature. Literature and primary sources are used alongside the lectures. Students analyze a historical aspect using a source of their own choice and provide a written report. Finally, their knowledge and understanding of the historical evolution are tested in an exam. This course is the equivalent of History of the Netherlands GE1V18004. 

This course examines the major developments in the field of Postcolonial Theory. The course starts with Said's observation that colonialism affected both the colonizing countries as well as the colonized peoples. As such, Postcolonial Theory provides a variety of methodological tools for analyzing literature and culture that are of special relevance in the age of globalization. Students focus on the development of a postcolonial consciousness, the implication of literature and other cultural forms in the colonizing process, and as forms of resistance. Students become familiar with all major issues in the field of Postcolonial Studies and acquire a number of theoretical perspectives that apply to the interpretation of literature and other forms of culture.

This course examines a physics and geomorphology based understanding of the formation and dynamics of rivers and deltas.