Dear colleagues and students,
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Utrecht University is busy reforming the
Master’s programmes to make them even more appealing,
recognisable, and challenging and to improve studiability.
The programmes will receive a greater international profile,
will be firmly entrenched in strong research, have an
increasing focus on career orientation and become selective.
Read the complete framework for our faculty’s renewed range
here (in Dutch only). The changes
will enter into force as per September 1st, 2016. All
information about the renewed Master’s programmes will be
ready in May 2015.
You can read which certification proposals we will be
sending to the Executive Board in this extra edition of the
newsletter |
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You can read which certification proposals
we will be sending to the Executive Board in this extra
edition of the newsletter. |
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With kind regards, |
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Certification proposals
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The Faculty Board will submit certification proposals for
the Master’s programmes, listed below, to the Executive
Board on January 5th. We are confident of submitting a
strong and well-substantiated palette of programmes, which
will convince the Advisory Committee for certification and
finally the Executive Board. We expect to be able to
announce all the information about the new range of Master’s
after the Board’s decision, no later than May 2015. |
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The list of programmes proposed for
certification: |
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Philosophy and Religious Studies |
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One-year programmes:
- Religie en samenleving (formerly: Religie in
hedendaagse samenlevingen)
- Applied Ethics
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Two-year programmes (Research Master):
- Religious Studies (new)
- Philosophy
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History and Art History |
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One-year programmes:
- Conflict Studies and Human Rights
- Geschiedenis van politiek en
maatschappij/History of
Politics and Society (formerly: Politiek
en maatschappij in historisch perspectief)
- International Relations in Historical Perspective
- Modern Europe: History, Culture and Globalisation
(formerly: Cultuurgeschiedenis)
- Kunstgeschiedenis
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Two-year programmes (Research Master):
- Modern History
- Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Media and Culture Studies |
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One-year programmes:
- Film- en televisiewetenschap
- Gender Studies
- Arts and Society (formerly: Kunstbeleid en
–management)
- New Media and Digital Culture
- Contemporary Performance: Theater, Dance and
Dramaturgy (formerly: Theatre Studies)
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Two-year programmes (Research Master):
- Gender Studies Research (formerly: Gender and Ethnicity)
- Media, Art and Performance studies (formerly: Media
and Performance Studies)
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Language, Literature and
Communication |
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One-year programmes:
- Communicatie en organisatie
- Interculturele communicatie
- Literature Today (formerly: Literatuur en
cultuurkritiek)
- Neerlandistiek [full-time] (formerly:
Nederlandse taal en cultuur, part-time)
- Professioneel vertalen (formerly: Vertalen)
- Meertaligheid en taalverwerving (formerly: Taal, mens
en maatschappij)
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Two-year programmes (Research Master):
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Literair vertalen
- Linguistics
- Nederlandse literatuur en
cultuur (formerly:
Nederlandse letterkunde)
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Certification proposals for the following round
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We are presently looking into a possible collaboration with
the UvA for the one- and two-year Master’s programmes in the
fields of muziekwetenschappen/musicology and the
two-year Master’s programmes in kunstgeschiedenis/art
history. We will also be submitting a certification proposal
to the Executive Board as soon as we have detailed the
options. We have agreed an extended deadline for submission
in consultation with the Executive Board, namely early
spring of 2015. |
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The Graduate School of Teaching will submit
the Master of Education programmes in May. |
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Programmes
not being submitted for certification
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The faculty framework for the revision of the Master’s
programmes means that certification proposals will not be
submitted for a number of existing programmes. Students will
be able to register for these programmes for the last time
in 2015-2016. This concerns the one-year Master’s in
American Studies, the one-year Master’s in Middeleeuwen
en Renaissance studies, the one-year Master’s in
Wijsbegeerte (full- and part-time) and the part-time
Master’s in Nederlandse taal– en cultuur. We will be
announcing this decision in mid-December through the
Master’s prospectus website and the student website, so that
students and prospective students will be informed in time. |
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Students starting one of these programmes
in 2015/2016 (or before) will have until August 31st, 2018
to complete the Master’s programme. |
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Students wanting to start a course in 2016
or later, in or related to the programmes we are phasing
out, have the choice of one-year Master’s degrees at the
University of Utrecht in the fields of International
Relations in Historical Perspective, Modern Europe: History,
Culture and Globalisation, Applied Ethics, Literature Today
or two-year Master’s degrees in the fields of Modern
History, Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
Philosophy and Nederlandse literatuur en cultuur.
Additionally, we are contacting American Studies Master’s
courses at other Dutch universities for offering an
alternative to students, including those from the Bachelor
TCS or LAS with the major Amerikanistiek. |
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Minors and majors TCS/LAS
The closure of the Master American Studies means that the
minor Amerikanistiek in 2015-2016 will replaced by
the minor Atlantic Europe.
The hoofdrichting Amerikanistiek will be offered for
the last time in the academic year 2015-2016, for students
TCS/LAS with hoofdrichting Amerikanistiek will be
sufficient courses available in 2015-2016. For them, it will
still be possible to write the Bachelor thesis in 2016-2017.
This means that the current first-year students can still
choose and complete this hoofdrichting. |
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The closure of the other Master’s
programmes has no consequences for the other minors/hoofdrichtingen. |
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Students
wanting to start a Master’s programme in 2015-2016
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Nothing will change for students starting a Master’s
programme in 2015-2016, or who have already started their
Master’s programme. Students can start with the Master’s
programmes listed on
www.uu.nl/masters.
Students will have until August 1st, 2018 to complete
Master’s programmes that are commencing for the final time
in 2015-2016. |
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Questions or more information?
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Students
can ask questions in various ways: |
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- Contact your Study Advisor;
- Come to the Master’s evening on February 4th;
- Read the education newsletter for students (register
at
studentassessor.gw@uu.nl);
- Come to the information meeting for first- and
second-year BA students in May. This meeting, aimed at
supporting students with their choices of packages and
minors and to orientate to the Master’s programme, will be
organised by the Study Advisors per department/school and
in partnership with the Master’s coordinators and the
Faculty Board;
- Come to the Master’s evening in October 2015;
- Go to
www.uu.nl/masters or to your
course website for the programmes starting in 2015-2016.
The programmes starting in 2016-2017 will be online in the
summer of 2015.
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Staff
are very welcome at the information meeting on January 20th
from 9.00-10.30 am in the Sweelinckzaal at Drift 21. If you
wish to attend, please register before January 19th with
Githa Tobben (g.tobben-dejonge@uu.nl). |
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We will provide a further update of the
state of affairs in the following education newsletter. |
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E X T R A E D
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This issue
reforming the Master’s programmes |
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Reference (in Dutch only) |
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Archive (in Dutch only) |
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