Gender is, and always has been, a topic of debate. This course examines key concepts, theories, and developments of gender as played out in German history from the late 18th to the 21st centuries. Viewed through a constructionist lens, analyzing...
This literature course introduces students to Dutch literature from the seventeenth century to the present. It offers a wealth of highlights of Dutch literature in relation to women’s writing, gender, race and sexuality, while contextualizing these...
This course is designed to introduce the students to the problematic questions related to gender and gender issues in North African societies in general, but with a particular focus on the Moroccan context. It exposes students to foundational gender...
This course introduces students to the study of gender and sexuality. The Netherlands is a particularly appropriate location for such a course, since it has an international reputation as a sexually liberal country, a characterization that is...
This course introduces students to the study of gender and sexuality. The Netherlands, and especially Amsterdam as a relative small scale city, is a particularly appropriate location for such a course. While the Netherlands lives up to its liberal...
Western gender-critical thinkers such as philosophers, sociologists and anthropologists have been studying the ways in which gender ideologies influence the male/female, nature/culture and mind/body dichotomies in scientific and medical knowledge...
We live in a world where science is an intricate part of human societies: Whether it is a new pandemic, a genome editing, advances in space exploration or in artificial intelligence, our lives are inevitably affected by scientific and technological...
The course provides an overview of economics and social sustainability issues in the global economy. This course will provide students with theoretical concepts and models with respect to sustainability as well as hands-on experience in the new era...
If a country is defined by a color, it is Ireland. Ireland is known as the Emerald Isle, a green country of fields and wild landscapes. Ironically, Ireland has the highest CO2 emissions per person in the EU, mainly due to the agricultural industry...
This course studies human development in a social context marked by rapid social, technological, and ecological change, migratory movements, globalization, and generalized forms of inequality. It focuses on central issues surrounding difference...