INFORMATION GUIDE & UNDERGRADUATE COURSE LIST FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS

2018-2019

COME STUDY AT VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM!

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM AN EXCHANGE AT VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM?

EXCHANGE PROGRAMME

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has established partnerships with more than 250 universities all over the world. In Europe, we are part of the Erasmus+ programme. Every year we welcome around 700 exchange students to our Amsterdam campus, giving them the opportunity to study alongside Dutch peers and students from every continent.

As an exchange student, you will remain enrolled at your home university while studying with us in Amsterdam for one or two semesters. You will pay your regular tuition fees to your home university but are exempted from paying tuition fees to us.

If you wish to take part in our exchange programme, the first step is to visit the International Office of your home university as they will have to nominate you. Upon receiving your nomination, we will send you detailed information about our online registration system.

The VU International Office will arrange your visa (if necessary) and offer you a room at one of our student locations, for instance at our VU Uilenstede Campus. We also offer a pick-up service from Schiphol airport, an extensive introduction programme, a buddy programme and free wifi throughout the university campus.

More information about our exchange programme can be found at www.vu.nl/exchange.

If your university is not an exchange partner of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, you may still be able to study with us for a semester. Please consult www.studyabroadinamsterdam.nl.

Studying abroad is a personal and academic enrichment. It is a valuable addition to your studies and can give your career prospects a positive boost. You will study alongside students from different parts of the globe, with different views on life and fields of study. This will not only enrich your network, it will also broaden your horizon and give you an international perspective. Founded in 1880, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is a top-150 research university based in the Netherlands. With around 3,000 international students and 25% of all 4,500 staff members coming from abroad, we are a diverse and internationally-minded university. As an exchange student, you can either choose one of our minor programmes or assemble your own course list from hundreds of English-taught exchange courses.

The minors offered at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam are cohesive packages of undergraduate courses that have a duration of one semester (30 ECTS credits). Most minors are open to students from other disciplines, and enable students to broaden the scope of their educational programme to fit with their interest and possibly prepare them for a Master’s degree programme. All minors are taught in the first (Fall) semester. Please note that the course list is subject to change.

Academic calendarFALL SEMESTER 2018-2019

Period 1 classes Period 1 exams Period 2 classes Period 2 exams Period 3 classes Period 3 exams

3 Sept. - 19 Oct. 22 Oct. - 26 Oct. 29 Oct. - 14 Dec. 17 Dec. - 21 Dec. 7 Jan - 25 Jan. 28 Jan. - 1 Feb.

SPRING SEMESTER 2018-2019

Period 4 classes Period 4 exams Period 5 classes Period 5 exams Period 6 classes Period 6 exams

4 Feb. - 21 March 25 March - 29 March 1 April - 24 March 27 May - 31 May 3 - 21 June 24 June - 28 June

A normal workload for one semester is 30 ECTS credits. Most courses are 6 ECTS credits. Exchange students are allowed to leave after period 2, completing a 24 to 30 ECTS course load before Christmas.

Application deadlinesFALL SEMESTER OR ACADEMIC YEAR

SPRING SEMESTER

Nominations 1 April 1 October

Applications 15 April 15 October

SCIENCES FACULTY OF EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCES

Semester 1 (Fall)Adaptation to Human EnvironmentsBehavioural BiologyClimate ScienceClinical Trials and Health CareCommunity-based Health InterventionsDesigning Solutions for Glob.

SustainabilityDouble Burden of DiseaseDrivers of Change in Global HealthEcosystem ModellingEnvironmental ToxicologyEvolutionary GeneticsExperimental Cell Biology I & IIFrom Protein to CellFuture Challenges in Global HealthGeobotanyGeographic Analysis and VisualisationGovernance of Global SustainabilityHistorical Geology and SedimentologyInfectious Diseases and Vaccine

DevelopmentIntroduction to BiogeosciencesIntroduction to Environmental SciencesIntroduction to Planetary ScienceIsotope GeochemistryKey Strategies in Disability and NeuropaLand Use ChangeMolecular Cell BiologyMolecular Principles of Brain DisordersNeuronal Networks and BehaviorPetrology of System EarthPublic EconomicsRegional Structural GeologyResearch Seminar Spatial EconomicsSedimentary EnvironmentsSustainability and Env. ChangeTailoring Medicine and TelemedicineThe Adaptive BrainTransport and Environmental Economics

Semester 2 (Spring)Bachelor Thesis Biology: Part 1Decisions, Power and ControversiesInternational Public HealthPhilosophy of Science and EthicsSystems Biology and Medicine

Minors (Fall only) Biomedical and Health InterventionsBiomedical Topics in Health CareBiomolecular & Neurosciences track

Biomolecular SciencesBiomolecular & Neurosciences track

NeurosciencesBrain and MindEarth Surface track Earth SciencesEarth Surface track Earth Sciences and

EconomicsEvolutionary Biology and EcologyFive Big Issues in HealthGlobal HealthTopics in Biomedical SciencesNational GEO Information minor

FACULTY OF SCIENCESSemester 1 (Fall)Advanced ProgrammingBusiness SimulationCalculus 1Calculus 2Chaotic Dynamical SystemsCollective IntelligenceCompiler ConstructionComputational thinkingConcurrency & MultithreadingData Structures and AlgorithmsData WranglingDifferential GeometryDiscrete Mathematics and Graph TheoryDrug Design & SynthesisEquational ProgrammingHeuristicsInformation ManagementInformation RetrievalIntelligent SystemsIntroduction Information, Multimedia and

ManagementIntroduction Lifestyle InformaticsIntroduction Computer ScienceIntroduction to Business AnalyticsIntroduction to Mathematical ModellingIntroduction to Programming (Java)Knowledge and DataMathematical Systems and Control

TheoryMeasure TheoryNumber TheoryOpen Innovation in ScienceOperating Systems

Physical ComputingPrinciples of BioinformaticsPrinciples of Systems BiologyProject Business Analytics 1Research Questions in BioinformaticsSecure ProgrammingService LogisticsService ScienceSets and CombinatoricsStatistical MethodsStatisticsStochastic ModelingSystems ArchitectureSystems ProgrammingTheories of Technology Venture Creation

Semester 2 (Spring)Applied Analysis: Financial MathAutomata and ComplexityBachelor Project Computer ScienceCombinatorial OptimizationComputer NetworksCurrent Topics in Mechanistic ToxicologyDatabasesSustainable Energy: Sun, Water and WindDynamics and ComputationHistory of ScienceHuman-Computer InteractionLinear AlgebraLogic and ModellingMachine LearningMathematical AnalysisMathematical Modelling of Dynamical

SystemsNetworks and GraphsNumerical MethodsOperations ResearchPartial Differential EquationsPhilosophyProbability TheoryProgramming for EconomistsProject Application DevelopmentProject Big DataProject Business Analytics 2Risk ManagementSoftware DesignSoftware Project ManagementStatistical Data Analysis

Minor (Fall only)Deep ProgrammingTechnology Entrepreneurship

ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS Semester 1 (Fall)Academic SkillsAgriculture for Food and Nutrition

SecurityApplications in Economic Policy: Policy

Analysis, Formulation and EvaluationApplications in Food and Nutrition

Security Analysis Behavioural Finance and Real Estate Big Risk Experience Business Cycles and Stabilization PolicyBusiness Information SystemsBusiness Intelligence and AnalyticsBusiness Model AssessmentBusiness Model InnovationBusiness ProfessionalsBusiness Project Calculus 1Calculus 2Challenges of Food and Nutrition

SecurityColloquium IConsumer Science for Online Commerce Data Analysis 1Development of Macroeconomic ThoughtE-Commerce Supply Chain Management Econometrics IEconomic Assessment of Health CareEconomic ChallengesEconomics and Politics for Food and

Nutrition SecurityEconomics for the Global EraEmerging Technologies for E-Business

and Online Commerce Enterprising Behaviour Ethics of AlgorithmsFilming Entrepreneurship Finance Financial Management in Health Care

OrganizationsFood and Quality of LifeFoundations of Business AdministrationFoundations of Forms of

Entrepreneurship Foundations of MicroeconomicsGrand Challenges for SustainabilityHealth Care ManagementHealth EconomicsInformations Systems in E-Business and

Online Commerce Integrative Practical

International Business LawInternational StrategyIntroduction to Data ScienceIntroduction to Digital InnovationIntroduction to E-business and Online

Commerce Intro to Econometrics, Operations

Research and Mathematical EconomicsJudgment and Decision Making Leadership: Mobilizing PeopleMacroeconomics IIManaging Negotiations: Getting to YesMarketing IMarketing Sustainable InnovationsMathematical Economics IMicroeconomics INew Developments in Risk Management New Venture Creation New Ways of WorkingNudge: Influencing BehaviourOperations Analytics Operations Research IOrganization TheoryOrganizational Behavior - Human

Resource ManagementOrganizing Sustainable InnovationProbability TheoryQuantitative ResearchRisk Management for Financial

Institutions Risk Management in Banking Shared Value CreationStrategic Management of Technology and

InnovationStructural PolicySupply Chain Dynamics Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementTransport and Distribution Planning

Semester 2 (Spring)Advanced PracticalAcademic Skills: Probability and

InferenceAccounting Accounting Information SystemsAccounting in Multi-National Enterprises AuditingBusiness Intelligence and AnalyticsBusiness Processes Business Research Methods I -

Quantitative & QualitativeBusiness Statistics Colloquium IIConsumer BehaviourContemporary Perspectives on HRM

TheoryContemporary Perspectives on OB:

Leading Change

Corporate Finance in Emerging Economies

Cross Cultural Marketing Debates in ManagementDigital Innovation and Virtual Organising

in a Global Setting Digital Marketing and MetricsEconomics and Management of

OrganisationsEconometrics II & IIIFinance IFinancial EconometricsFinancial EngineeringFinancial Markets and InstitutionsFinancial Modelling and DerivativesFoundations of Strategic ManagementGlobal Supply Chain Management Human Capital Across the Life CycleHuman Resource Management

Practices: A Global Perspective Inclusive Growth and SustainabilityIndustrial OrganizationIntegrative Research Project International Financial ManagementInvestmentsKnowledge ManagementLinear AlgebraMacroeconomics IManaging and Improving QualityMarketing in Emerging Economies Mathematical Economics II & IIIMicroeconomics IIOperations Research II & IIIProcurement and Supply ManagementPublic EconomicsSmall Business DevelopmentStatisticsStrategic Management from a Practice

Perspective Supply Chain Management in Emerging

Economies

Minors (Fall only)Accounting, Organizations and SocietyApplied Econometrics: A Big Data

Experience for AllBusiness AdministrationE-business and Online CommerceEconomicsEntrepreneurshipGlobal Food SecurityHealth Care ManagementManaging Digital InnovationSustainability and InnovationUnderstanding and Influencing Decisions

in Business and Society

HUMANITIES FACULTY OF HUMANITIESSemester 1 (Fall)American FilmAmerican Literature 1914-presentAmsterdam Jewish CultureAmsterdam: A Historical IntroductionAmsterdam: Comparing Heritage

ProjectsAmsterdam: Global Historical

PerspectivesAnalysing Text and TalkAncient History I & IIAncient PhilosophyCritical Perspectives on ScienceCurrent Themes in Migration StudiesDecolonizing EuropeDemocracy and its HistoryDigital Humanities in PracticeDigitization: from Life to DataDigitization: from Object to DataDutch History in European ContextDutch Literature, Golden AgeEpistemologyEthicsEuropean History 1500-1800European History 500-1500Exhibition MachinesExploring the Field of Digit. HumanitiesFilm and Media HistoryFrom Cell to SocietyGeneral HistoryGenre and Literary AnalysisGenre and Literature Analysis (blended)Global EnglishGreat CitiesGreek and Latin Patristic LiteratureHermeneutics and Source Criticism Historiography of MediaHistory of EmotionsHollywood Science: Art, Science and

FilmImagining the Dutch: themes Dutch

HistoryIntroduction Migration StudiesIntroduction to American StudiesIntroduction to Communication ScienceIntroduction to LinguisticsKey Texts in HistoryLanguage, Media and Communication

Literary TheoryLiterature, Culture and SocietyMedieval Literature and CultureMedieval PhilosophyMigration, Ethnicity and the EconomyMinor English: English my DisciplineMinor English: Grammar and Writing 1Minor English: Pronunciation and PresMinor English: Writing 2Oral History & BiographyOrientation Literature and Society 1Orientation Module CIS 1Philosophy and NeuroethicsPhilosophy CIS-L&S-MADAProgramming for Humanities & Social

SciencePronunciationSkills: Argumentation and LogicSocial History of the United StatesText Mining for Digital HumanitiesThe History of Collecting and ExhibitingThe Personal is Political: BiographyTransatlantic ConnectionsTransatlantic Travel WritingUrban Culture and Public SpaceUrban History: Bruges, Antwerp,

AmsterdamVisualizing HumanitiesWorld History 500 – 1800Writing 2

Semester 2 (Spring)Academic WritingAdvanced English Language SkillsArabic PhilosophyCommodity Chains and ConsumptionContemporary Art: The Postmedium

ConditionContesting ImagesContinental PhilosophyCreative Writing and Publishing IndustryCreative Writing L&SCurrent Debates in Global HistoryDigital Literary StudiesDiscourse AnalysisEarly Christian StudiesEmpires and States in Globalizing WorldEnglish: International CommunicationEuropean History 1800-presentFirst Language Acquisition & ImpairmentFrom Empire to BrexitGames: Analysis and Theory

History of KnowledgeHistory of Water and EnvironmentHollywood Science: Art, Science and

FilmHolocaust: History & MemoryImagining the Dutch: themes Dutch

HistoryIntercultural CommunicationInternational OrganizationsInternational Relations from BelowKey Texts in PhilosophyLanguage and InteractionLiterature and GlobalizationLiterature in a Changing World 1, 2, 3Literature in a Visual Culture 1 & 2Media Use in Organizational ContextsModern PhilosophyNovel and Identity: Women WritersOrientation Literature and Society 2Orientation Module CIS 2Persuasive CommunicationPhilosophy TodayPsycholinguisticsSeminar Bachelor ThesisShakespeare and ContemporariesShakespeare on FilmSkills: Academic EnglishSocial PhilosophySpanish Linguistics: SociolinguisticsStijlen II AnalyticText MiningText Production and TranslationThe Structures of EnglishWhat Nations RememberWorld Heritage and ConflictWorld History 1800-present

Minors (Fall only)American StudiesAmsterdam Urban HistoryDigital Humanities and Social AnalyticsEuropean History and Culture 1200-1800Gender & DiversityHistoryMigration StudiesMinor EnglishPhilosophy of Freedom

MEDICINE

FACULTY OF MEDICINEMinors (Fall only)Cardiovascular Research ChallengesChild HealthcareClinical Neuroscience: Life of Brain

Death and Dying: clinical, scientific and ethical challenges

Global Health, Diversity & ConflictHot Topics in PsychiatryImmunology-Infection-Cancer

ConnectedInternal Medicine

Peri-operative Care and AnatomyPersonalized MedicineResearch Minor: Science in MedicineSex, Reproduction and InnovationSports, Orthopaedics, Rehabilitation

STUDYING IN AMSTERDAM

With approximately 800,000 inhabitants, Amsterdam is a relatively compact yet highly diverse capital city. We have tons of interesting tourist activities, including the Anne Frank House, Museum District, the Nine Streets, and of course the seventeenth-century canal rings, part of UNESCO World Heritage list.

Eat, drink and dance at the former shipyard NDSM in the North, listen to music or barbecue at the Westergasfabriek in West, or take in the city’s laid-back atmosphere in the famous Vondelpark.

LAWFACULTY OF LAWSemester 1 (Fall)Big Data, H. Rights and H. SecurityBioethics, Technology and LawClimate Change LawCurrent Issues in Migration LawCurrent Issues in Transnational LawData Analytics and PrivacyEU Internal Market LawEuropean and International LawGov. and Reg. of Emerging TechnologiesHist. Introd. to Eur. Legal ScienceHuman Rights and CitizenshipHuman Rights and the BorderIntern. Criminal Courts and TribunalsInternational Company Law

International Tax LawInternet GovernanceLaw and Ethics of Repro. Techn.Migration and Legal RemediesMigration Law Clinic Public International LawRefugee and Family Migration LawRobot Law and Artificial IntelligenceTechnology LawTransnational Human Rights and

Globalization

Semester 2 (Spring)Competition LawCorporations, Conflict and Int. CrimesDoc. Film, Int. Law and World PoliticsE-Commerce LawEU Anti-Discrimination LawEuropean Consumer Law in a Dig. Society

Fundamental Rights in EuropeHuman Rights Protection in EuropeInternational Intellectual Property LawInternational Labour LawInternational Weapons LawIrregular MigrationLegal EnglishLaw and Ethics on Robots and AIMigration Law Clinic Philosophy of Int. Law and MigrationPrivate International LawVictimology

Minors (Fall only)Law and Global Society: Internet,

Migration and Climate ChangeTechnology, Law and Ethics

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCESSemester 1 (Fall)CComparative Political ResearchConflict and Peace Building: Global and

Intersectional PerspectivesCore Themes in AnthropologyDevelopment and GlobalizationEnvironment and DevelopmentEU Governance in an International

ContextGlobal Political EconomyHistory and Theory of AnthropologyIdentity, Diversity and InclusionInternational Relations and Global

GovernanceMedia EntertainmentNation and MigrationOrganizational Culture and ChangePhilosophy and Ethics of Political

ViolencePolitical and Economic AnthropologyPolitical Violence and the Human

ConditionPublic Relations and Reputation

Management

Research Project Political ScienceState, Power and ConflictThe Law and Politics of Fencing the Use

of ForceUrban Studies

Semester 2 (Spring)Challenges of the 21st CenturyContemporary Social and Political

PhilosophyDigital AnthropologyDiversity 1 + 2Global ReligionGlobalization 1 + 2History of Political ThoughtNetworks 1 + 2New Media ChallengesPolitical Participation and ProtestSex Work in the times of Anti-trafficking:

From a Global Perspective Minors (Fall only)AnthropologyDevelopment and Global ChallengesPeace and Conflict StudiesPolitical Science

FACULTY OF BEHAVIOURAL AND HUMAN MOVEMENT SCIENCES

Semester 1 (Fall)Analyses ToolboxCognitive NeuroscienceEducation and the Good lifeEvolutionary PsychologyGenes in Behaviour and HealthGroup Dynamics Mind Brain and EducationPsychophysiological and Cognitive

ApplicationsResearch Toolbox

Semester 2 (Spring)Behaviour and the Brain part 1Behaviour and the Brain part 2B-thesis GHGCognition and EmotionCooperation and CompetitionEmotion and Social CognitionHuman Resource DevelopmentMethodology 3 and start B-thesisMolecular GeneticsSensation and PerceptionStress and HealthSensation and Perception

Minor (Fall only)Genes, Brain and Behaviour