Amsterdam Summer School 2018 :  VU Amsterdam Summer School 2018.pdf

Spend your summer studying a challenging and interdisciplinary topic in the vibrant

UNESCO World Heritage City

of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Summer School offers small-scale courses in a wide range of fields at an excellent
research university, VU University Amsterdam. Participating will give you a great opportunity to study together with a
diverse group of peers and further develop your academic career.

About VU University Amsterdam

VU University Amsterdam is a comprehensive research university, ranked amongst the top 100
universities of the world.

Since its founding in 1880 interdisciplinary research questions from society
have been leading in its education. Throughou the past century, the university has continued to
expand. It now comprises eleven faculties and has teaching facilities for 26,000 students.

Arrival & Housing
Upon your arrival at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport we ensure you a warm welcome by offering a pick-up
service, which will bring you to your accommodation.
After you have settled in there will be a social activity where you can meet your fellow students.
Here we provide you with an orientation programme, a goodie bag and information about the city.
Because we find it important that you can explore the city easily and are well located near the university,
convenient housing is available. There are different housing options to choose from, both on and off campus.

Social Programme & Cultural Activities
The Amsterdam Summer School offers an extensive social programme from which students can make their
own selection of activities. Examples include a visit to the Anne Frank House, a trip to the parliament in
The Hague and a dinner at the Dutch seaside. Most courses also contain one or more cultural activities
included in the tuition fee, such as an excursion to the International Criminal Court and the just recently
reopened and world-renowned Rijksmuseum. Besides the intensive course there will be free time to explore
Amsterdam and the Netherlands by yourself.

Courses
The Amsterdam Summer School offers courses in two consecutive blocks. It is possible to combine two
courses in order to create a four-week programme.

Block 1: 6 - 17 July

- Doing Research with Discourse Analysis: A Discourse Perspective on Making Sense of Social Change (in collaboration with Lancaster University) 
- Anne Frank in Amsterdam and Beyond
- Big Data in Society
- Crisis and Reform in the European Union
- Decolonizing Europe: History, Ideas and Praxis (in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at Brown University).
- Global Health
- International Criminal Justice
- Metropolitan Economics
- Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Clinic to Bench
- Perspectives on Subjectivity
- Reading the Bible in Amsterdam (1): Text and History (one week)
- Reading the Bible in Amsterdam (2): Theological Hermeneutics (one week)
- Religion, Gender and Sexual Issues: Navigating the Complexities
- Causal Analysis of Observational Data

Block 2: 20 - 31 July

- Discover (the) Dutch: Dutch Language and Culture
- Human Movement Analysis 
- Internet, Intellectual Property and ICT: Understanding the Law of the Information Society 
- New Venture Creation/Entrepreneurship
- The Bible in the Syriac Tradition (one week)
- Syriac Christianity in Context (one week) 
- Spatial Crime Analysis

Application
Application will be possible from mid-December 2014 to
1 May 2015. Requirements differ per course. For more
information and how to apply, please visit our website:

www.amsterdamsummerschool.nl.

Fees
The tuition fee for a two-week course ranges between € 950 to € 1.200. 
Students from VU University Amsterdam as well as from exchange partner universities will receive a € 250 discount
Fees for housing will start at € 400. Included are airport pick-up service, orientation
programme, on-site support, 24/7 emergency assistance and a transcript of records after completion
of the course.
The social programme is not included in the tuition fee.

Scholarships and Discount:
An early bird discount of € 100 is available for students who apply before the 1 March 2015
Students from VU University Amsterdam as well as from exchange partner universities will receive a € 250 discount
The Amsterdam Summer School offers twenty scholarships of € 500 for highly motivated students

Scholarships and discounts cannot be combined.

Contact:
I www.amsterdamsummerschool.nl
E amsterdamsummerschool@vu.nl
T 0031 (0)20 5986429