This summer, Utrecht University for Applied Sciences offers you a challenging introduction to conflict resolution and mediation skills. Most studies and professions require a vast amount of cooperation. In their cooperation people frequently differ from opinion and hold different priorities.
This course provides you with an overview of international development using a small number of key concepts to explore the understandings of development. While it is not a comprehensive review of the development-related issues, it focuses on a smaller set of concepts covering poverty, growth,
This intensive summer course is designed to help both researchers and activists gain new insights into the role which civil society can play in advocating for free expression online and communication policy change, and will highlight the potential of technology and online tools for mobilizing and
From 26 June till 4 July of 2011 the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen and the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) will organize the interdisciplinary summer school Collecting and Preserving in Rome. Central to the summer school are questions concerning the reasons individuals
From 26 June till 3 July of 2011 the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen and the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) will organize the interdisciplinary summer school Collecting and Preserving in Rome. Central to the summer school are questions concerning the reasons individuals
Climate change is a major topic on the global environmental agenda. It threatens not only the environment but, in many parts of the world, people's livelihoods. The burning of fossil fuels to provide energy for economic growth and our modern way of life are major contributors to climate change.
This course traces the development of British children's literature, examining the ways in which literary representations of children and for children correspond to changes in cultural understandings of childhood. From Dickens, Kingsley and Carroll, to Dahl, Rowling and Pullman, societal anxieties
We are all born into a social world to which we must adapt. Social development is the changing nature of relationships with others over the course of life. This course emphasises concepts of social development and examines social relationships throughout infancy, childhood, and adolescence using an
What do we mean when we say that a house bears gothic features? In what ways do we define a novel or a poem as gothic? How is fashion or make up influenced by gothic fiction? What do ghosts, vampires, haunted castles, werewolves, women in distress and mad scientists tell us about our own anxieties?
Why do we seek out certain types of romantic partners? Is there a difference between what a woman wants in a man and what a man wants in a woman when decisions on long-term partners are made? Are the ways that we act when we are in groups influenced by our evolutionary past? These questions, among
