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Cursus: GEO3-5001H
GEO3-5001H
HP-Seminars
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CursuscodeGEO3-5001H
Studiepunten (EC)15
Cursusdoelen
The goals of the honours seminar are to provide reflection on studying, developing talent, forming an academic community and developing an interdisciplinary scientific attitude. The student will develop in three areas: (1) academic skills, (2) scientific content and (3) social involvement.
Inhoud
The honours seminar is a common theme within the Geosciences Honours College. Honours students follow most honours components individually or in small groups, but the honours seminar is taken by all honours students together. As long as a student follows honours education, he or she will meet all other honours students almost every week, in order to build a bridge between academic content and academic skills and society; moreover, students work on personal development and professional ambition. Within the honours seminar, students work in mixed groups that include students from all departments and years. In this way they can expand their perspective within the geosciences and share their experiences. Thus, the seminars contribute to the shaping of an academic community.
 
The honours seminars have been structured such that students can develop outside their own discipline. This means that students come into contact with subjects from all disciplines of the geosciences, which play a role in both the scientific and the social debate. Furthermore, during the seminar meetings attention is not only paid to the subjects themselves, but also to the intellectual context of these subjects. After taking a seminar series, the students are expected to see the differences and similarities between the different ‘geosciences fields’ and be able to place these in a wider context. They are also expected to have the skills and knowledge to follow content-based presentations in all these fields and to form a substantiated opinion about them.
 
The meetings are divided into a number of themes (which vary from year to year). One theme will be central for a number of weeks. In this way knowledge is deepened, while the themes across the year ensure a mix of subjects. Supplementing the themes, there are the workshops Talent Topography, which revolve around talent development, and the Academic English workshops. The Talent Topography workshops have a different content for first-, second- and third-year honours students. The Academic English workshop is only offered to first-year honours students.
 
An important characteristic of the honours seminar is that the programme is partly shaped by the students themselves. This becomes apparent in lectures and debates (‘Kennis shots’) that the students organise and in other activities such as the organisation of a study trip and in the honours conference and the conference book. For each of these components the honours students are themselves responsible for selecting a subject and for organising the component. In order to stimulate cooperation and to enable the division of tasks, the honours students are divided into groups of approximately 8 students at the beginning of the year.
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