VU Amsterdam Summer School

During the month of July (2021) we offer 2-week online courses, and 2-week on-campus courses held at the campus of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Below you can find which courses are taught online and which are taught on-campus.

Most courses are multi-disciplinary and are taught at various levels, from Bachelor to Master. The program is suitable for graduate and undergraduate students as well as for Ph.D. staff and professionals. The following entry requirements are set:

• Bachelor: at least enrolled in 1st year of Bachelor studies
• Advanced Bachelor: at least enrolled in 2nd year of Bachelor studies
• Master: at least enrolled in the final year of Bachelor studies – professionals need to have a Bachelor diploma

SESSION 1: 3 JULY – 17 JULY 2021

Courses On-Campus (at VU Amsterdam)
These courses are taught on-campus: you will attend lectures in a classroom with other students. 

• Global Health
• Governing Climate Change: Theory and Practice
• Hand-on Anthropology and Ethnographic Storytelling
• International Criminal Justice
• Interpersonal Neuroscience: Connecting People Through Their Bodies and Brains (also offered online)
• Nature and Nurture: Twin Research and Human Genetics
• Neurodegenerative Diseases: Foundation, Tools and Perspectives
• The City Through a Philosopher’s Eye
• The Economics of Urbanization

Online Courses
These courses are taught online: you attend lectures through our online learning environment.

• Creativity and Innovation (with Cardiff University)
• Data Analysis in R
• Digital Marketing and Technology for Commerce
• Disruptive 4.0 A Multidisciplinary Approach of Artificial Intelligence
• How to Evaluate Psychological Interventions Through Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
• International Management
• Interpersonal Neuroscience: Connecting People Through Their Bodies and Brains (also offered on-campus)
• Introduction to Business
• Organizational Behaviour Management
• Qualitative Health (Education) Research 
• The Global Energy Transition in a Fossil World

SESSION 2: 17 JULY – 31 JULY 2021

Courses On-Campus (at VU Amsterdam)
These courses are taught on-campus: you will attend lectures in a classroom with other students. 

• Corporate Leadership
• Feeding the Billions: Challenges and Innovations in Food and Water Security
• Law and Governance in Contemporary China (1990s-now)
• New Venture Creation in The Amsterdam Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
• Operations Research: A Mathematical Way to Optimize Your World
• The Beautiful Mind: Global Perceptions of Mental Health
• Using Logic as a Tool for Modelling (one-week, 17-24 July)

Online Courses
These courses are taught online: you attend lectures through our online learning environment.

• Discover (the) Dutch: Language and Culture
  
• Exploring Religious and Global Identity in Africa
• Fintech and Emerging Financing Models in a Dynamic World
• How to Conduct a Meta-Analysis Using Open-Science Software
• Human AI: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of Adaptive Human Mental, Social and Health-Related Processes
• Kick start your Career: Academic Skills During and After Grad School 
• The Political Economy of Terrorism and Counterterrorism