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ABC: About Building Cells
As laymen, and as scientists, we have always pondered upon the questions, "What is life? Can we create life-like systems?". Recent years have seen a tremendous interest from divers...
course - 3 ECTS
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ADS: Applied Data Analysis and Visualisation
What puts former criminals on the right track? How can we prevent heart disease? Can Twitter predict election outcomes? What does a violent brain look like? How many social classes...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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ADS: Fundamental Techniques in data science with R
**Content** Regression techniques are widely used to quantify the relationship between two or more variables. In data science, linear and logistic regression are common and powe...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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AI for Medical Imaging
**Period (from – till** ): 10 November 2025 - 30 January 2026 (BMS_P2_A), Part-time. This course can be followed together with Diffusion MRI BMB4709022, the schedules do not overla...
course - 2.5 ECTS
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Academic Skills for Biologists
Students become further familiar with information resources (library, internet sites and portals) in the field of biology, with specific emphasis on university library network reso...
course - 3 ECTS
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Access to Justice in a Changing Society
De kernvraag in deze cursus is: heeft iedereen in Nederland wel in gelijke mate toegang tot het recht? In formele zin is die gelijkheid in de wet wel gewaarborgd, maar de praktijk...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Action, Learning and Impact
This is a double language course NL/EN **Course Content:** In this course, you will learn how to generate impact in a complex societal context using the Action Research (AR...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Administrative Law
Inhoud De overheid neemt een belangrijke plaats in de hedendaagse samenleving in. Zij bemoeit zich met allerlei aspecten van het maatschappelijk leven. Via belastingheffing wordt...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Adolescent Development
The lectures in this course focus on the intra- and interpersonal changes that occur during the adolescent period, including changes related to biological, socio-emotional, cogniti...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Advanced (Bio)analytical Chemistry
Analytical chemistry plays a key role in numerous areas of life sciences, including the assessment of food safety, studies of food metabolism or agricultural production, but also i...
course - 3 ECTS
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Advanced (Bio)analytical Chemistry 2
Analytical chemistry plays a key role in numerous areas of life sciences, including the assessment of food safety, studies of food metabolism or agricultural production, but also i...
course - 3 ECTS
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Advanced Behavioural Economics
***Students who are not enrolled in the research master Multidisciplinary Economics should contact the course coordinator for enrollment in this course.*** The core theory us...
course - 5 ECTS
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Advanced Biomolecular NMR
**Description of content** The nuclear spin is the ultimate spy. Nuclear magnetic resonance exploits the spin’s special properties to study molecular structure an...
course - 4.5 ECTS
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Advanced Bioresources
The Advanced Bioresources course builds on the basis knowledge taught in the Bioresources course and aims to develop new systems that are better adapted to a Circular and Biobased...
course - 6 ECTS
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Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
This course deals with inorganic chemistry, discussing the presence and role of inorganic elements in coordination complexes, biological systems and novel nanomaterials. Focus is o...
course - 3 ECTS
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Advanced MR Physics 1
**Period (from – till** ): 10 November 2025 - 30 January 2026 (BMS_P2_A) **Course coordinator:** Dr. ir. Wilbert Bartels. **Lecturers** Dr.ir. Wilbert Bartels, UMC Utrech...
course - 5 ECTS
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Advanced MR Physics 2
**Period (from – till** ): 2 February 2026 - 10 April 2026 (BMS_P3_A) **Course coordinator:** Dr.ir. J.C.W. Siero ([j.c.w.siero@umcutrecht.nl](mailto:j.c.w.siero@umcutrecht.nl...
course - 5 ECTS
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Advanced Management and Marketing
The focus of Advanced Management and Marketing (AMM) is on strategic management and marketing. During your career you will deal with strategy and marketing plans; be it in a privat...
course - 6 ECTS
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Advanced Omics: from Single-Cell to Meta-Omics Approaches
Omics technologies have revolutionized our ways of looking at the relationship between genotype and phenotype of living organisms. Those technologies are nowadays widely applied to...
course - 6 ECTS
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Advanced Optical Imaging & Single-Molecule Biophysics
In this intensive course, students will learn and apply the working principles and concepts behind various advanced imaging and single-molecule techniques that have revolutionized...
course - 6 ECTS
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Advanced Python Programming
In this course, the student is taught how to build interactive applications. Building interactive applications in Python is widespread in industry, research and education. For this...
course - 6 ECTS
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Advanced Qualitative Research Design and Data Collection Methods
The course's educational activities comprise workshops with both lecturing and interactive learning, pre- and post-session exercises to practice and reflect on specific methods and...
course - 6 ECTS
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Advanced Sensory Methods and Sensometrics
How does reformulating a product to reduce, e.g., its fat or sugar content, will affect consumer acceptance? Which sensory attributes explain best a consumer liking or healthiness...
course - 6 ECTS
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Advanced Statistics
This course covers several more advanced statistical models and associated designs, and techniques for statistical inference, as relevant to life science studies. The main topics a...
course - 6 ECTS
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Advanced Systems Biology
Are you curious to understand how a biological system operates? Are you interested in knowing which elements of the system are responsible for certain characteristics that are expe...
course - 6 ECTS
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Advanced functional programming
This course builds upon knowledge gained in the introductory courses on functional programming and languages and compilers. Using Haskell as our language of choice, several advan...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Advanced research methods and statistics for Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
In deze cursus maken de studenten kennis met onderzoeksmethoden en (statistische) technieken voor data-analyse in een sociaalwetenschappelijke context. Aan de orde komen correlatio...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Agent-Based Modelling
This course presents the fundamental principles of agent-based modeling, empowering students to construct simulations that mirror the behaviors and interactions of individual agent...
course - 6 ECTS
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Agricultural Water Management: Water,- Society and Technology Interactions
Worldwide, a variety of processes puts increasing pressure on water resources. Global climate change causes temperatures to rise and precipitation and rainfall patterns change. An...
course - 2 ECTS
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Analysing Sustainability of Farming Systems
The sustainability of our agricultural systems is hotly debated. Real and/or perceived crises are everywhere (nitrogen, climate change, biodiversity, soil degradation, and so forth...
course - 6 ECTS
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Analysis
In de cursus Inleiding Analyse worden enkele fundamentele onderwerpen uit de analyse op **R** n behandeld. Sommige van deze onderwerpen zijn reeds aangeroerd bij de colleges Infini...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Analysis in several variables
Dit vak is een keuzevak voor wiskundestudenten. Het vak behandelt diverse aspecten van de anlyse in meerdere reële variabelen. Het is voorkennis voor de richtingen differentiaalmee...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Analysis on manifolds
Manifolds are the main objects of differential geometry. They give a precise meaning to the more intuitive notion of “space”, when “smoothness” is important (in comparison, when in...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Animal Behaviour
This course introduces students to the field of Animal Behaviour, considering the four questions of Tinbergen, i.e. causation, development, function, and evolution of behaviour. St...
course - 3 ECTS
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Animal Behaviour in Conservation
**To join the 100% course you need to enroll through Osiris. You can access the course through Brightspace 'SPOC: Animal Behaviour in Conservation'** Animal Behaviour in Conservat...
course - 1 ECTS
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Animal Ecology
The course will provide a deeper understanding of animal-animal, animal-food and animal-environment interactions at various levels. At the lowest integration level we will deal wit...
course - 6 ECTS
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Animals and people in the Anthropocene
Opkomende zoönosen, de klimaatcrisis, dalende biodiversiteit, het wereldwijde voedselvraagstuk en dierenrechten: de grote uitdagingen van dit moment hebben te maken met de relatie...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Anthropology and Sustainability: Contemporary Fault Lines
Sustainability has become a vantage point for addressing, debating, and negotiating multiple challenges of the contemporary world, such as climate change, environmental pollution o...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Antropologie of death
De dood lijkt terug van weggeweest. Vooral in geïndustrialiseerde samenlevingen is de dood in de loop van de twintigste eeuw steeds meer verdwenen uit het dagelijks leven. Dankzij...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Applied Biocatalysis
The purpose of this course is to get insight in the possibilities and the problems concerning the application of biocatalysts for the preparation or conversion of chemicals and (bi...
course - 6 ECTS
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Applied Cognitive Psychology
Aan de orde komen de relevante theorieën over bijvoorbeeld aandacht en waarneming, steeds met de nadruk op hun relevantie voor praktische problemen zoals die zich overal voordoen i...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Applied Information Technology
Information and communication systems nowadays play a vital role in our society. The course elaborates on designing and managing these information systems, a major challenge for th...
course - 6 ECTS
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Applied Pedagogical Practice: Clinical Communication, Diagnostics, and Treatment
**Content** In this course ‘A broader perspective on psychosocial development”/“Een bredere kijk op psychosociale ontwikkeling’ you will learn skills that can be used in clinica...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Applying Research Methods and Statistics (SOC)
**Inhoud** - Correlationeel onderzoek - Methodische aspecten van verschillende veel voorkomende onderzoeksontwerpen zoals survey - Validiteit en betrouwbaarheidsanalyse - Correlati...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Applying research methods and statistics (ISS)
Deze cursus biedt een verdieping van kennis van en begrip over de drie hoofdvormen van sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek (kwalitatief, correlationeel en experimenteel), zoals die...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Artificial Intelligence
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI), emphasizing the characteristics, types, and functionalities of AI agents and their applications in...
course - 6 ECTS
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Artificial Intelligence for Food and Health
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI), emphasising the characteristics, types, and functionalities of AI agents and their applications in...
course - 3 ECTS
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Atmospheric Composition and Air Quality
The objective of this course is to show how simple principles of physics and chemistry can be applied to describe a complex system as the atmosphere, and how one can reduce the com...
course - 6 ECTS
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Automated Learning and Testing with Synthetic Biology
Please be aware that the name of this course will change in 2026-27 and this course guide reflects the new course design. The new course name will be: Advanced Bioengineering. The...
course - 6 ECTS
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Automation in Food Manufacturing
Automation in factory-based food production and processing focuses on food quality and safety quantization and automatic process control. Sensors have been installed to automatical...
course - 3 ECTS
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BSc Minor Agricultural Business Management
This BSc minor provides an overview of the main marketing, management, and financial concepts and methods in agriculture. By studying the economics of agribusiness, students obtain...
minor - 24 ECTS
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BSc Minor Animal Sciences
The focus of Animal Sciences is on animals that are kept by humans for specific reasons, such as for food production, companionship, education, sports, etc. The general aim of Anim...
minor - 24 ECTS
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BSc Minor Freedom from Hunger
Freedom from Hunger is a core element of Freedom from Want, defined as one of the four fundamental freedoms defined by President Roosevelt as the foundation of human rights. Nevert...
minor - 24 ECTS
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BSc Minor Nutrition and Health
Human nutrition and our health are closely related. For studying the relationship between human nutrition/human diet and our health, one can look at many different scales. In this...
minor - 24 ECTS
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Basic Cell Factory Design
Rapid advances in biology allow us to design and construct cell factories, i.e. cells which are tailored to our process. The complexity of the biochemical reaction network in a cel...
course - 6 ECTS
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Basics in Food Safety
Everyday reports of food scandals and recalls are published. One day reports mention scary bacteria in meat, and another day dangerous pesticides in fruits. According to some, meat...
course - 2 ECTS
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Basics of Immunotechnology
This course overlaps with CBI20803. Therefore, combining this course with CBI20803 is not allowed. This course is aimed at students with an interest in the immune system. Each or...
course - 3 ECTS
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Basics of Infectious Diseases
Emerging infectious diseases of humans and animals make it into the headlines of the news on a daily basis (e.g. malaria, TBC, norovirus). This multidisciplinary course approaches...
course - 6 ECTS
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Bayesian Data Analysis
Classical statistics offers a powerful toolbox for data analysis. This toolbox, however, may not always be sufficiently flexible for modern data situations. For example, some situa...
course - 6 ECTS
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Becoming a Teacher 3
Becoming a Teacher 3 is a follow-up course for students who already successfully finished all the courses of the minor education and want to professionalize themselves as a teacher...
course - 12 ECTS
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Behavioural Ecology
The course Behavioural Ecology provides insight into how evolution through natural selection shapes behaviour of animals (domestic or wild, vertebrate or invertebrate). The course...
course - 6 ECTS
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Behavioural Endocrinology
Behavioral endocrinology refers to genetic, molecular, cellular, psychological, and social influences on behaviour. This course reviews the current state of knowledge at the interf...
course - 6 ECTS
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Better science with less animal experimentation
This course will consist of five modules, all of which focus on a different aspect of research and innovation in animal-free methods. The course will include regulatory and communi...
course - 4.5 ECTS
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Big Data
Big Data usually refers to data sets with sizes beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, curate, manage, and process within a tolerable elapsed time. With the...
course - 6 ECTS
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Bio Inspired Design Challenge
This course will teach you to design using the biomimicry design method. The course is built up by individual and group work. The course will start with a series of workshops that...
course - 9 ECTS
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Bio-Tech-Med Interdisciplinary Team Training
**Period (from – till):** 10 February - 04 April 2026 (BMS_P3_A)**Faculty** drs. R.R. de Jonge, course coordinator. S. ter Meulen-de Jong, UMCU and GSLS. B. Arets, SUMMA,...
course - 3 ECTS
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Bio-Tech-Med Interdisciplinary Team Training
**Period (from – till):** 10 February - 26 June 2026 (BMS_P3_A)**Faculty** drs. R.R. de Jonge, course coordinator. S. ter Meulen-de Jong, UMCU and GSLS. B. Arets, SUMMA,...
course - 5 ECTS
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BioNanoTechnology; Nanomedicine
Building on the foundations laid in BioNanoTechnology; an Introduction, this course will focus on applications of nanomaterials in medicinal applications. Nanomedicine is a most in...
course - 6 ECTS
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Biobased & Circular Business
The aim of this course is familiarize the student with the principles, practices and potential of realizing (small or large)-scale biobased and circular business; How and what firm...
course - 6 ECTS
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Biobased Materials Science
Introduction with incentive/context Biobased materials play a crucial role in the transition towards phasing out fossil resources. These materials can be made from many different...
course - 6 ECTS
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Biological Processes for Resource Recovery
The subject of this course is the exploration of microbiological opportunities to recover resources within Environmental Technology, thereby closing material cycles with minimal lo...
course - 6 ECTS
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Biomimetics
In biomimetics, the structure and function of biological systems are studied to inspire the design of materials, surfaces, instruments, buildings, processes etc. This course addres...
course - 6 ECTS
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Bioresources
This course deals with recent developments in the agronomy of biomass production, methods for classical and marker-assisted plant breeding, and metabolic engineering of biosyntheti...
course - 6 ECTS
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Black holes
In this course, we learn some elementary facts about black holes, both from the theoretical side, as well as from the astrophysical side.On the theory side, we discuss aspects of t...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Brain and environment: optimize the first 1001 days of development
De eerste 1001 dagen in de ontwikkeling van een kind worden door veel wetenschappers gezien als een cruciale periode voor de verdere ontwikkeling. Dit is een periode van versnelde...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Brain, Hormones and Metabolism
During the course Brain Hormones and Metabolism different aspects of brain function will be discussed, with specific emphasis on the physiological aspects. The course is subdivided...
course - 6 ECTS
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Breeding for Quality
Note 1: This course is offered online and it takes about 20 hours to complete the weekly task. There are assignments with deadlines and non-synchronous interaction with teachers an...
course - 2 ECTS
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Calculus and Linear Algebra 1
**Docent** Viktor Blåsjö (Infinitesimaalrekening) Barbara van den Berg (Lineaire algebra) **Vakinhoud** Dit vak bestaat uit de behandeling van twee verschillende basis...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Calculus and Linear Algebra 2
**Docent** Robbin Bastiaansen (Infinitesimaalrekening) Barbara van den Berg (Lineaire algebra) **Vakinhoud** Dit vak is een vervolg op het vak Infinitesimaalrekening...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Capita Selecta: Making sense of "degrowth"
This Capita Selecta introduces students to the concept and theoretical underpinnings of "degrowth". What is degrowth? Is degrowth the solution for an environmentally and socially s...
course - 4 ECTS
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Catalysis and Sustainable Bio-organic Synthesis
Catalysis as a phenomenon is in the core of metabolism, evolution and life itself. As a synthetic tool, catalysis was utilized starting from the XIX century, and nowadays it is imp...
course - 6 ECTS
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Chemical Biology
The field of chemical biology lies at the interface of chemistry and biology. It uses chemistry, chemical principles, and notably molecules to study and solve important issues in b...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Circular Economy
The transition towards a circular economy is one of the biggest challenges to realize a more sustainable (biobased) society. This transition requires an interdisciplinary approach,...
course - 6 ECTS
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Claim Culture: Mass Litigation and Fault Liability
The course presents a selection of topics of non-contractual liability (tort law) in the Netherlands, the US and a few other national law systems. Statutory rules of tort law are t...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Climate change in context
This course focusses on the Earth’s climate system and the various (non-linear) feedbacks between its different components (atmosphere, ocean, land and ice). The global energy (im)...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Climate dynamics
Het klimaat op aarde verandert als gevolg van natuurlijke processen en door de invloed van de mens op de samenstelling van de atmosfeer. Dit college behandelt de vele facetten van...
course - 7.5 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 200 days
Climate-Resilient Crops: an Interdisciplinary Challenge
Crop development in the current changing climate faces different challenges, including meeting global demand, becoming more sustainable, meeting farmers' demands, and promoting fai...
course - 6 ECTS
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Clouds in Present and Changing Climate
Clouds are a key component of weather and climate. The formation and decay of clouds depends on the synoptic conditions, surface fluxes and cloud microphysics. The aim of this cour...
course - 6 ECTS
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Co-creating Sustainable Cities (MOOC for Credits)
Around the world, major challenges of our time such as population growth and climate change are being addressed in cities. Here, citizens play an important role amidst governments,...
course - 3 ECTS
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Coaching and training: theory and practice
Coaching and training is all about facilitating learning for individuals and groups/teams. The knowledge and skills that are necessary for coaching and training are important for a...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Colonialism and Slavery in World History
Calls for 'decolonization' have grown louder and more pervasive in recent years. Demands for the recognition of past involvement in historical slavery have equally gained traction....
course - 6 ECTS
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Commensal and Pathogen Host-Microbe Interactions in the Intestine
The course aims to teach students the concepts involved in research on host microbe interactions rather than a detailed technological training in the field, which may be taught in...
course - 6 ECTS
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Communicating for Sustainability and Responsible Innovation
Sustainability is one of the most intractable, daunting and 'wicked' challenges of our generation. It is 'wicked' because it has multiple interrelated causes and no simple solution...
course - 6 ECTS
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Comparative Biology and Systematics
Many questions in biology need an evolutionary or phylogenetic perspective, for instance to distinguish convergent evolution from independent, divergent, evolution. This course foc...
course - 6 ECTS
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Comparative Health Problems and Policies
This course provides a critical, sociological perspective on public health issues and the ways in which they are understood and addressed in society. Topics change each year, but h...
course - 6 ECTS
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Complexity in Ecological Systems
The course aims at increasing knowledge on the functioning of complex ecological systems as well as at a further development of a critical attitude towards science. The central the...
course - 6 ECTS
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Computational Biology
The availability of large amounts of high throughput omics data gives us new insights and a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of life. This course revolves around tw...
course - 6 ECTS
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Concepts of programming language design
There exists a multitude of programming languages, and the top ten list of most popular languages keeps changing continuously. However, the set of basic building blocks on which...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Constitutional Law
De cursus constitutioneel recht borduurt voort op het staatsrechtelijke deel van de cursus Inleiding Staats- en bestuursrecht. Hiertoe wordt een aantal leerstukken voorzien van ver...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Constitutional Law of the European Union
This course addresses the constitutional foundations of the European Union with a special focus on the layered structure of European constitutional law. The relations between the d...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Consumer Law
The Consumer Law course guides you through the intricate world of consumer rights and business responsibilities in light of current and proposed EU legislation. The course uniquely...
course - 6 ECTS
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Conversions in Biobased Sciences
To keep our planet inhabitable for future generations we should use its resources in a sustainable manner. We also want to keep (or increase) our standard of living. Therefore we n...
course - 6 ECTS
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Cooperatives, family firms, and social enterprises
This course deals with the evolution, strategy, finance, stakeholder relations, and internal governance of cooperatives, family firms, social enterprises, steward-owned enterprises...
course - 6 ECTS
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Crops, Physiology and Environment
The abiotic environment (light, temperature and wind, CO2 concentration, drought and salinity) strongly influences plant growth and crop production. In this course the focus is on...
course - 6 ECTS
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Cultural Anthropology 4: globalization and sociocultural complexity
Although transnational connections, the movement of people and the exchange of capital, goods and ideas, have long colored social life and cultural processes across the world, the...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Cultural diversity: policy, care and education in multicultural societies
In this course students learn to recognize, understand and analyze the cultural nature of settings of childrearing and education relevant to multicultural societies. They learn to...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Cybercrime
Content of the course: The digital revolution changed almost every aspect of modern life. It changed the way people work, communicate, acquire goods and services as well as s...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Data Analysis and Visualization
Much data is quantitative, and there is a wide range of methods available for the analysis of such data. After a brief introduction to data types and normalisation, a number of vis...
course - 6 ECTS
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Data Analysis for Plant and Animal Breeding
Data analysis is central to both plant and animal breeding, and the size and complexity of phenotypic and genomic data sets continue to increase. Thus, the ability to analyze and i...
course - 6 ECTS
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Data Driven Discovery in the Life Sciences: Hypothesis Generation from Omics Data
Across the life sciences, scientists utilize omics data to study biological phenomena in humans, plants, animals and microbes. This results in large and heterogeneous data sets tha...
course - 6 ECTS
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Data Driven Supply Chain Management
Research and education in the field of Operations Research (OR) and supply chain management (SCM) is spurred by the growing availability of data in supply chains and interest on ho...
course - 6 ECTS
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Data Management
This course covers database design and the use of databases in applications, with a focus on applications in the life sciences. Topics include the relational model, database design...
course - 6 ECTS
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Data Science Applications for Food and Consumer Science
Data on food and consumer behavior are complex in nature due to an interplay between product characteristics (e.g., nutritional properties, food quality attributes, labeling, packa...
course - 3 ECTS
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Data Science Concepts
The amount and variety of data in the domains of living environment, food, health, society and natural resources increases very rapidly. Data thus plays an ever more central role i...
course - 6 ECTS
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Data Science Ethics
Information technology has been the core of the third industrial revolution. With big data, artificial intelligence, and automated systems -- combined with other technologies robot...
course - 3 ECTS
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Data Science for Ecology
Advancements in technology and information processing are rapidly changing many fields of plant sciences, animal sciences and ecology, including research, agriculture and conservat...
course - 6 ECTS
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Data Science for Healthy Lifestyles
Data science plays an increasing role in healthy lifestyle research. Big data, AI, machine learning and data science techniques are gaining importance both for a better understandi...
course - 6 ECTS
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Decision making in Global One Health
This course focuses on socio-economic aspects of the decision-making process in the field of Global One Health. The overall aim of the course is to appraise the wider impact of dec...
course - 6 ECTS
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Decolonizing Science and Technology
What is decolonization? How and why decolonization relate to history of colonialism? And how history of colonialism is not about distant past but how it shapes the present? This...
course - 6 ECTS
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Design of Learning Situations - advanced: 4C/ID-model
Deze cursus ‘Ontwerpen van Leersituaties’ gaat over *Instructional Systems Design* (ISD). Binnen ISD kunnen vijf fasen onderscheiden worden, namelijk de analyse-, ontwerp-, ontwikk...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Design of Learning Situations - introductory
Tijdens deze cursus maak je kennis met onderwijswetenschappelijk ontwerp- en ontwikkelwerk. Het ontwerpen van leermateriaal op basis van grondige onderwijswetenschappelijke analyse...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Development of assessment and evaluation instruments for education
In de cursus Assessment en Evaluatie staat de vraag centraal hoe je geschikte indicatoren voor pedagogische en psychologische kenmerken kunt bepalen, die in het onderwijs een rol k...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Development, learning and behavior
Why do children do what they do? How do they think? And how did they acquire these skills? The course *Development, Learning & Behavior* will focus on: 1. Physical development, inc...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Developmental Biology of Animals
This course prepares you for being a researcher in the field of developmental biology of animals. Drawing from a range of vertebrate and invertebrate model species, it covers a bro...
course - 6 ECTS
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Developmental Psychopathology
When is it normal that a child is just being shy and when does it become a problem? When does “a problem” go from being part of normative emotional and behavioral development to pa...
course - 7.5 ECTS
Enrolment period not yet defined
Diffusion MRI
**Period (from – till** ): 08 December 2025 - 30 January 2026 (BMS_P2_A). This course can be followed together with AI for Medical Imaging BMB4708022, the schedules do not overlap....
course - 2.5 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 66 days
Digital Food Marketing
The fast-changing digital landscape offers new ways to approach and engage consumers. We need to understand the consumer behaviour in the digital environment (e.g., digital buying,...
course - 6 ECTS
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Digitalization and the Rule of Law
***Digitalisering en de rechtsstaat*** In de voorbije decennia zijn we in steeds sneller tempo geëvolueerd naar een digitale informatiesamenleving. In bijna alle domeinen van...
course - 7.5 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 102 days
Disease Ecology
The overarching aim of the course is to offer a current and comprehensive view of the causes and consequences of infectious disease at the levels of individuals, populations, commu...
course - 6 ECTS
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Dispute Resolution in a Historical and Contemporary Perspective
The topic of the course is – in a nutshell – the history of dispute resolution from a comparative perspective and contemporary socio-legal reflections on dispute resolution against...
course - 7.5 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 116 days
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health and Sustainability: From Theory to Action
*Do you want learn about how inequity, injustice, and discrimination shape access to healthy lifestyles, sustainable diets, and equitable health outcomes for people and the planet?...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Drainage of Agricultural Lands
In this course, the role of drainage in agricultural water management will be treated. Worldwide, about the same percentages of agricultural lands are irrigated (17%) and drained (...
course - 4 ECTS
Enrolment open
Drones for Agriculture: Advanced Sensing and Analysis
In this course you will explore how to gather precise, timely information about crops using Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones. Drones have become useful tools for optimisin...
course - 3 ECTS
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Drones for Agriculture: Prepare and Design Your Drone (UAV) Mission
We are all getting familiar with the image of a drone in the sky. Although flying a drone is fun, drones are not toys. More and more UAVs or drones are used by governments and comp...
course - 3 ECTS
No current offerings
EU Asylum Law and Fundamental Rights
Refugees have the right to international protection. But when is a person a refugee and what are the rights and obligations refugees have? This course covers the core issues of Eur...
course - 7.5 ECTS
Enrolment period not yet defined
Eating, Customs and Health
Health crises, food insecurity, and sustainable food practices are significant societal challenges today. This course teaches students to analyse these pressing issues, beginning w...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Ecological Aspects of Bio-interactions
The course focuses on biological interactions between invertebrates (arthropods, nematodes), micro-organisms and plants, and between beneficial organisms and pathogens and their ho...
course - 6 ECTS
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Ecological Methods
Students learn how to analyse hypothesis-centred ecological field research projects on plants, animals, and their environment, with emphasis on the appropriate choice and applicati...
course - 6 ECTS
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Economics of Agribusiness
Agribusiness is an important economic sector. It includes primary agriculture, food processing industries, and input-delivering industries. This course provides a description and a...
course - 6 ECTS
No current offerings
Economy and Management in Biotechnology
The biotechnology companies needs people who take decisions on when and how to make a business of a scientific novelty developed in the lab. This course teaches you how to make suc...
course - 6 ECTS
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Ecophysiology
In their struggle for survival, organisms have to adapt continuously to changes in their abiotic and biotic environment. This course focuses on the molecular mechanisms and consequ...
course - 6 ECTS
No current offerings
Education and Information Communication Technology
Applications of 'Information and Communication Technology' (ICT) are evolving rapidly, and are finding their way into various educational settings. There is cause for both optimism...
course - 7.5 ECTS
Enrolment period not yet defined
Educational Design and Teaching for Sustainability
This course enables students to understand, design, facilitate and experience sustainability-oriented teaching, learning and capacity-building processes. It is targeted towards stu...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Educational Psychology
In this course we study almost everything that is related to education and learning. How do we learn and remember information? Why do students differ in their proficiency? We look...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Eerstejaars onderzoeksproject
**Taal van het vak:** Het vak wordt in het Nederlands gegeven.
course - 7.5 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 116 days
Embodied Ecologies
Bodies are often thought of as bounded entities, separate from each other and the world; however, our bodies are in and of our ecologies -- our environments make us up, in the fles...
course - 6 ECTS
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Empowerment in Sustainability
In a world where socio-ecological concerns escalate, a question arise: How can we empower ourselves and others to shape sustainable futures? This is a challenging question when con...
course - 6 ECTS
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Engaging and modelling with stakeholders to solve environmental problems
Environmental systems are complex involving many actors with a wide range of interests and perceptions. This course aims to enhance students' understanding and practical abilities...
course - 6 ECTS
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Environmental Assets for Health
In this course we take an interdisciplinary approach to environmental determinants of health. Health promotion, disease prevention, urban planning and decision-making come together...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Environmental Data Collection and Analysis
Environmental scientists work on complex problems where data from different temporal and spatial scales have to be collected and linked to each other. It is the aim of this course...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Environmental Economics for Environmental Sciences
The course provides an introduction to environmental economics and is developed for students of non-economic study programmes. It is also suitable as an introduction to environment...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Environmental Economics in Practice
This course prepares BSc students for a BSc thesis at the ENR group. Students are introduced to the core themes of the ENR group: climate change, social-ecological systems, and env...
course - 6 ECTS
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Environmental Education and Learning for Sustainability
Education and learning, citizen participation and whole system innovations are considered important tools in developing people's environmental and sustainability interests, concern...
course - 6 ECTS
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Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Development
The present-day political and economic systems are not sustainable and we are heading for global environmental disasters (ecocide). The notions ‘sustainability’, ‘development’ and...
course - 7.5 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 39 days
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a legal instrument used to measure and manage the impacts of a proposed development on the environment and society. EIA was first implement...
course - 7.5 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 116 days
Environmental Management and Industry
Central in this course are the main trends with regard to environmental management in the industry. The most important tools and concepts in environmental management, such as pollu...
course - 6 ECTS
No current offerings
Environmental Psychology
Environmental psychology studies the interactions between humans and the environment from a psychological point of view, that is, taking the individual mind as the primary unit of...
course - 6 ECTS
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Environmental Toxicology
This course gives an overview of different aspects playing a role in the challenging field of environmental toxicology. Toxicology itself already is very interdisciplinary, but env...
course - 6 ECTS
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Epidemiology and Public Health Policies
This course is one of the core-courses for future public health professionals aiming at a career in the public and private sector. In this course students learn how public health p...
course - 3 ECTS
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Essential Law for the Living Environment
This course provides students without legal background with the essential legal concepts that allow them to understand the role of law in our living environment. The course lays th...
course - 3 ECTS
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Essentials of Neuroscience - Online
**Period (from – till):** Essentials of Neuroscience **Online** course: 10 November 2025 - 23 January 2026 (**BMS_P2_A** ). **Faculty** Ramakers, Adan, Burbach, Pasterkamp...
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 66 days
Evaluation of Public Health Interventions
This course is part of the MSc program 'Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health', and particularly relevant for students aiming at a career in the public and private sector. In...
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment open
Evolutionary computing
Evolutionary algorithms are population-based, stochastic search algorithms based on the mechanisms of natural evolution. This course covers how to design representations and vari...
course - 7.5 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 116 days
Experimental Design and Data Analysis of Breeding Trials
Note 1: This course can not be combined in an individual programme with ABG30806 Data Analysis for Plant Breeding and Genetics (DAPAB) and the course MAT33306 Data Science for Plan...
course - 3 ECTS
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Exploring Regenerative Cultures for Sustainability
This course provides a space for students to explore perspectives and educational practices for regenerative cultures in the context of major societal and environmental challenges...
course - 3 ECTS
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Exploring the Future of Farming and Food
Record temperatures around the world are adding urgency to the need for not just a sustainable, but a resilient food and farming system. A reappreciation of the importance for the...
course - 6 ECTS
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Exposure Assessment in Nutrition and Health Research
This course will address methodological aspects of exposure assessment in nutrition research. Focus is on: - dietary assessment methods and in particular food frequency questionn...
course - 6 ECTS
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Fields and Galois theory
Het college Lichamen en Galoistheorie (WISB224) is het tweede "echte" algebravak. Na Lineaire Algebra komt eerst Inleiding Groepen en Ringen (WISB124) en het derde algebravak is Gr...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Fieldwork Safety
At WUR we value your safety. Going into the field for an excursion or for observations/ measurements exposes you to specific risks some of which you'd take for granted while visiti...
course - 0 ECTS
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Financial Management in Agriculture
This course gives an overview and insight into the economics of the farm business, with a focus on financial management and accounting. Like corporate managers, farm managers conti...
course - 6 ECTS
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Fisheries Ecology
The course Fisheries Ecology deals with the ecology of fishes and other aquatic organisms in relation to the exploitation of aquatic resources. Direct and indirect effects of fishi...
course - 6 ECTS
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Food Components and Health
This is a general nutrition course that addresses the relation between nutrition and human health, and is primarily aimed at food technology students. The course will address the f...
course - 6 ECTS
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Food Crises: the Big Picture
Since time immemorial, people have been plagued by food crises. However, the nature and impact of food crises have changed over time. Preindustrial European famines were mostly cau...
course - 6 ECTS
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Food Hazards
Note: This course can not be combined in an individual programme with TOX20303 General Toxicology. This course is compulsory for students in the second year of the BSc Food Tech...
course - 6 ECTS
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Food Law
Food Law (LAW31706) is an introduction to the technical food laws in the EU, knowledge which is certainly essential in order to work in or with the EU food sector. The course teach...
course - 6 ECTS
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Food Security and Sustainability: Food Access
What does it take to provide access to safe and nutritious food every day? In this course, you'll explore how key actors at the household, local, national and international levels...
course - 2 ECTS
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Food Structuring - Structuring by deformation, properties of interfacial systems
This course aims at presenting ways to structure foods by processes involving deformation, e.g., emulsification or extrusion. Students will learn about the existing deformation-bas...
course - 3 ECTS
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Food Structuring - Structuring by temperature, designing edible barriers
This course aims at presenting ways to structure foods by processes involving temperature-dependent transitions, i.e., crystallization and glass transition. Students will learn abo...
course - 3 ECTS
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Food, Nutrition and Human Rights
Worldwide 1 billion people are chronically malnourished, including some 37 million people in developed countries. The human right to adequate food was formally recognized in 1966,...
course - 6 ECTS
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Food, Philosophy and Culture
Food is more than a collection of nutrients. It connects people to each other and to nature. Having a meal together presupposes all kind of choices about land use, animal welfare,...
course - 3 ECTS
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Foodscapes, Urban Lifestyles and Transition
Today, landscape architects and planners are confronted with new challenges. One of these challenges is the shaping of foodscapes. Foodscapes are places and spaces where food is pr...
course - 6 ECTS
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Forest Ecology and Forest Management
The main objectives of this course are 1) to provide an overview of the state of the art in the fields of forest ecology and forest management, and 2) how we can integrate the two...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Foundations of European Union Law
The departments of European Law (EL) and Public Economic Law (PEL) offer an introductory course on the Law of the European Union (EU) to all students without any foreknowledge of E...
course - 7.5 ECTS
Enrolment period not yet defined
Foundations of European Union Law
The departments of European Law (EL) and Public Economic Law (PEL) offer an introductory course on the Law of the European Union (EU) to all students without any foreknowledge of E...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 102 days
Foundations of mathematics
Het vak Grondslagen van de Wiskunde is een keuzevak voor wiskundestudenten. Het vak is voorkennis voor studenten die zich verder willen specialiseren in logica. Zie voor meer infor...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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From Molecule to Designer Material
The use and availability of materials has shaped our society for centuries. From the bronze and iron ages of the past, to the silicon age of the present, material science has drive...
course - 8 ECTS
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Frontiers In Molecular Life Sciences
Understanding and interpreting scientific literature is essential but often requires extensive prior, common knowledge. For MLS students prior knowledge can be quite diverse. To ex...
course - 4 ECTS
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Frontiers in Animal Health
Considering the fast growth of the aquaculture sector as well as the worldwide intensive livestock farming, it is important to guarantee the health and welfare of these farmed anim...
course - 6 ECTS
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Frontiers in Biology
This course deals with the latest developments in Biology and covers a wide range of themes, including molecular, organismal and ecological subjects. Highlights in current biology...
course - 6 ECTS
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Functional Zoology
This course addresses basic skills required for research in functional zoology and related fields. The student is introduced to a range of important experimental and modelling tech...
course - 6 ECTS
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Fundamental Aspects of Plant Resilience
Sessile plants have developed various adaptation mechanisms to cope with environmental challenges. Such (a)biotic challenges can be constitutive present or have seasonal or sudden...
course - 6 ECTS
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Fundamental Rights in Europe
**Background and objectives** Protecting fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression, privacy and non-discrimination, is essential in democratic states governed by the rul...
course - 7.5 ECTS
Enrolment period not yet defined
Fundamentals of Landscapes
For thoughtful, sustainable and suitable landscape planning and design, it is essential to have a good understanding of the landscape itself. How is the landscape formed and what t...
course - 6 ECTS
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Gender and International Law
The image of blindfolded Lady Justice is well-known. The blindfold indicates the impartiality of the law. Justice must be done regardless of class, power or identity. However, in e...
course - 7.5 ECTS
Course is currently running
General Toxicology
Introductory course on basic principles in toxicology, organ-specific toxic effects and risk assessment.
course - 3 ECTS
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Genetic Analysis Trends and Concepts
This advanced course explains the most important genetic concepts to unravel and understand complex biological phenomena. We in detail explain the genetic processes underlying vari...
course - 6 ECTS
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Genome Bioinformatics
**Entry requirements** Successful completion of the level 1 course ‘Genomica’ (or former course ‘Systemsbiology’) and participation in the level 2 course ‘Data science and biolo...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Genomics and Bioinformatics
Note 1: The period mentioned below is the period in which this course starts. For the exact academic weeks see the courseplanning on www.wur.eu/schedule. Note 2: This course is o...
course - 3 ECTS
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Geoscripting
Solve geographical and any spatial applied problems through scripting. Professionals in private companies and research institutes are increasingly using scripting languages for...
course - 6 ECTS
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Germplasm and Seed Technology
Note 1: This course can not be combined in an individual programme with PBR-21803 Pre-breeding and PPH31306 Seed Science and Technology, because of overlap. Note 2: This course i...
course - 3 ECTS
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Global Environmental Change
The primary drivers of global environmental change are demographic and economic pressures related to human activity. Area distributions designated to urbanization, agriculture and...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Global Food Security
'Food Security' means that all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for...
course - 6 ECTS
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Global Migration
Migration is a highly charged subject that incites both hope and fear among those who move, their families and communities and similarly affects receiving societies. Why do people...
course - 6 ECTS
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Globalization and Sustainability of Food Production and Consumption
This course allows students to acquire in-depth understanding of recent changes in food provision, their consequences and possible responses. Introduced concepts include globalizat...
course - 6 ECTS
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Globalization in Historical Perspective
This course pays attention to the process of globalization in a historical perspective. It criticizes the view of globalization as a linear, western, homogenizing process. It pays...
course - 6 ECTS
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Governance for Climate Resilient Cities
This course focuses on both general concepts on sustainable cities and the analysis of specific areas of sustainability. Questions of sustainability are approached from a local and...
course - 6 ECTS
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Health Demography and Global Population Issues
Demography is the study of human populations; health demography applies demographic methods and concepts to explore health status and health behaviors. This field examines how fact...
course - 6 ECTS
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Health Economics
Health economics is a special form of economics. Just as in any economic analysis, attention is paid to benefits, costs, efficiency and equity of actions of economic agents (i.e.,...
course - 6 ECTS
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Health Policy and Action
The field of health is dynamic and complex. Health is influenced by a diversity of interconnected factors, and different sectors and actors are involved. Consequently, the developm...
course - 6 ECTS
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Health Psychology
Students will get acquainted with theories and research methods common in the field of health psychology. The topics covered revolve around three themes: - predicting health beha...
course - 6 ECTS
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Health, Welfare and Management
The environment of animals is continuously changing in many aspects (e.g. feed availability, temperature, presence of pathogens, social contacts). The animal itself is also continu...
course - 6 ECTS
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History of Medicine and the Biomedical Sciences
**Period (from – till):** 27 April2026– 29 June2026(BMS_P4_A). There will be one live session each week on Mondays from 14:00 till 17:00 for 10 weeks. Additional self-study is exp...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 199 days
Host-Parasite Interactions
This course focuses on different aspects of the interactions between protozoan and metazoan parasites and their host organisms. The course content is tailor made to the specific in...
course - 6 ECTS
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Human Geography
The course provides an overview of the reciprocal relationships between people and the environment, places and spaces. Both the ways in which people have an impact on the environme...
course - 6 ECTS
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Human Geography: Theory and Practice
In this foundational course students learn to combine theoretical and conceptual thinking from human geography and related perspectives, and ways to analyse and understand the reci...
course - 6 ECTS
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Human Infectious Diseases
This course focuses on human infectious diseases that are leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The infection process of selected viral, bacterial and parasitic path...
course - 3 ECTS
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Human Microbiome
Our intestinal tract is colonized since birth by microbes that outnumber our body cells in number and genes. Apart from the processing of our food, these microbes also affect our h...
course - 3 ECTS
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Human Microbiome MOOC
Learn how you can impact your health by balancing your gut health; how your microbiome together with your diet can improve normal gut function. More course information and instru...
course - 1 ECTS
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Human and Animal Physiology
Human and Animal Physiology is a 6 credits course that is closely related to the course Zoology (EZO10306 for BBI students and EZO10806 for BAS students) and continues on the funct...
course - 6 ECTS
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Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction
The course concerns principles, policies and practices of humanitarian aid and reconstruction during and after conflict or natural disaster. The central ideas and models that guide...
course - 6 ECTS
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I am Utrecht: An interdisciplinary community project
Deze cursus vindt plaats in periode 3 en 4! In deze cursus werk je aan een zelfgekozen project in een interdisciplinair team. In co-creatie werk je samen met partners aan een...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Image Processing
**Period (from – till** ): 08 September 2025 - 30 January 2026 (BMS_P1_A) **Course coordinator** : Dr. Kenneth Gilhuijs **Faculty** Dr. Alexander Leemans, UMC Utrecht/Imagin...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 38 days
Image-Guided Therapeutic Ultrasound
**Period (from – till** ): 2 February - 10 April 2026 (BMS_P3_A) **Course coordinator:** Dr.ir. R. Deckers **Course description:** Image-guided therapeutic ultrasou...
course - 2.5 ECTS
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Immunology and Thermoregulation
Within certain limits, animals can compensate environmental stress and changes in the environment (homeostasis). Homeostasis is the basis of the adaptive capacity of an individual....
course - 6 ECTS
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Impact Assessment of Policies and Programmes
Governments, NGOs and the private sector implement numerous projects and programmes to promote development (ie to combat poverty, increase production, maintain natural resources, e...
course - 6 ECTS
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Innovation and Transformation
Degradation of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, vulnerability of food systems, environmental pollution, pandemic influenza, climate change and social justice are but some o...
course - 6 ECTS
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Insects as Food and Feed
Edible insects constitute high quality food for humans and feed for pigs, poultry, pet animals and fish in terms of nutrient composition. Producing insects as animal protein source...
course - 6 ECTS
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Integrated Fire Management
This course submerges students from different disciplines in the field of Pyrogreography. Recent years were only a glimpse of what to expect in the future: deadly mega-fires in Med...
course - 6 ECTS
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Integrated Sensory Science
How are products innovated or optimised to ensure consumer acceptance? This course aims to develop first-hand insights in, and advanced practical skills on, the entire process of f...
course - 6 ECTS
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Intellectual Property Rights
This course is about the operation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and their roles in research and innovation, notably in the fields of genetics, food and agriculture. Intel...
course - 6 ECTS
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Inter-University Sustainability Challenge
All over the world, we face similar challenges in the places where we live. These challenges are major: How can we develop living environments that are affordable to all, while pro...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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InterUniversity Sustainability Challenge
In this course, BSc students from several study programmes at Utrecht University, Wageningen University and Eindhoven University will collaborate, each with their own expertise, to...
course - 6 ECTS
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International Development & Tourism
This course explores the potential for tourism to function as a mechanism for social, political and economic development. While both development and tourism have long independent h...
course - 6 ECTS
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International Food Law
International Food Law provides an overview of the international trading regime in light of international trade in agricultural products and the manner in which this regime deals w...
course - 6 ECTS
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International Perspectives on Education
This course focuses on studying education from an international perspective. We examine how global or international developments affect teaching and learning across continents and...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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International and EU Environmental Law
This course offers an overview of how international and EU law responds to today's most pressing environmental problems. It shows which unique solutions, and problems, the legal sy...
course - 6 ECTS
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International and European Labour Law
International and European Labour Law are gaining importance due to the process of globalisation of the economy and the ongoing integration of Europe. Moreover the recognition of t...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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International and European Labour Law
International and European Labour Law are gaining importance due to the process of globalisation of the economy and the ongoing integration of Europe. Moreover the recognition of t...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Interpersonal Processes
Inhoud van de cursus Een groot deel van ons dagelijks leven besteden we aan het vinden van een weg in tal van interpersoonlijke interacties, zoals contact met geliefden, vrienden,...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Interventions for Health Behaviour Change
Many major health issues are influenced by human behaviours. For instance, many chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and cancers are influenced by a person's diet and physic...
course - 6 ECTS
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Intrapreneurship: Impacting existing organizations
Intrapreneurship is about the development and implementation of innovations in existing organizations. In short, intrapreneurship is entrepreneurship in the context of organization...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction Descriptive Epidemiology and Public Health
The course teaches you the basic concepts, measures and study designs of descriptive epidemiology and public health. All course concepts are embedded and illustrated within a *nutr...
course - 3 ECTS
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Introduction Environmental Technology
The course gives a general introduction to environmental technology and its role in sustainable development, taking the nature and background of environmental and sustainability is...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction Geo-information Science
The course introduces Geo-Information Science and its scientific and societal interests. The starting point of the introduction is the geo-information cycle. This cycle frames geo...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction Law, Innovation and Technology
Het vak Inleiding Recht, Innovatie en Technologie vormt het startpunt van de minor Recht, Innovatie en Technologie. In het vak ontwikkelt de student de academische vaardigheden en...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Introduction geometry
Aan de ene kant is meetkunde een van de oudste takken van wetenschap, die reeds in de Griekse Oudheid werd beoefend. Dit leidde tot een van de hoogtepunten van de menselijke kennis...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Introduction psychosocial development in context
**Inhoud** Van oudsher is pedagogiek of opvoedkunde de studie van de manier waarop volwassenen (ouders, verzorgers, onderwijzers) kinderen en jeugdigen grootbrengen. In deze c...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Introduction to Algebraic Varieties
**Course Content** Systems of polynomial equations in many variables define algebraic varieties, which are the basic objects of study in algebraic geometry. In this course we i...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Introduction to Animal Sciences
The course introduces the field of animal sciences and stresses its diversity across three main axes: 1. disciplines and associated methods, 2. species and animal groups, and 3. le...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction to Animal behaviour
**To join the 100% online course you need to enroll through Osiris. You can access the course through Brightspace 'SPOC: Introduction to Animal Behaviour'** Introduction to Animal...
course - 1 ECTS
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Introduction to Bioinformatics
Note: Please address all e-mail questions to bif20306@wur.nl. We cannot guarantee that e-mails sent to individual contact persons will be dealt with adequately and/orin time. Not...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction to Biological Modeling
The modeling of real biological systems can aid greatly in the understanding of the behavior of such systems, and in predicting how they will behave under all kinds of circumstance...
course - 5 ECTS
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Introduction to Climate-Resilient Crops: Biology, Data & Society
Plant breeding has been enormously successful in increasing the yield, variety and quality of crops we consume on a daily basis. However, we face a major challenge to meet the grow...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms for Health
This course will introduce students to basic concepts of computing and problem solving. The course will start with introducing concepts like computer, programming language, softwar...
course - 3 ECTS
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Introduction to Educational Sciences
Er wordt wel eens gezegd dat Nederland 17 miljoen bondcoaches heeft. Soms krijg je ook wel eens het idee dat Nederland ook 17 miljoen onderwijsexperts heeft. Iedereen heeft immers...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Introduction to Epidemiology and Public Health
The course teaches the basic concepts, measures and study designs used in epidemiology and public health. It contains lectures on study design and methodological issues, lectures b...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction to Global Nutrition and Health
In this course we will discuss nutrition in a global nutrition context focusing on assessment of malnutrition, understanding the different levels of causality and the interactions...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction to Global One Health
The core idea of Global One Health is that health of people, animals, plants and their environments are closely connected, and that the causes for environmental problems and human/...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction to Groups and Rings
Een "groep" is de wiskundige formalisatie van het begrip "symmetrie" en een “ring” is een formalisatie van een structuur met optelling en vermenigvuldiging. In dit vak krijgt de st...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Introduction to Human Immunology
The immune system refers to a collection of cells and proteins that function to protect the skin, respiratory tract, intestinal tract from initial pathogen entry and our entire sys...
course - 3 ECTS
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Introduction to Law for the Life and Social Sciences
Global, regional, national and local societies are organized through law. As such, laws regulate almost every aspect of our lives and our environment and specific rules will be in...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction to Programming
**Period (from - till):** 18 November - 19 December 2025 (BMS_P2_A). **Faculty** Mariana P. Branco, UMCU Brain Center , Department Neurosurgery and Neurology **Course...
course - 3 ECTS
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Introduction to Public International Law
Introduction to Public International Law’ is a general survey course, which provides an introduction to the basic principles and areas of application of public international law. T...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Introduction to Soil Geography
This course explains how geological processes and soil forming processes shape the soil and lead to soil spatial variation. It describes the main physical, chemical and biological...
course - 3 ECTS
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Introduction to Soil Science
This course focuses on the relationships between global geological processes, landforms, soil-forming processes, soil types and land use potential. Practicals alternate the lect...
course - 3 ECTS
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Introduction to Stochastic Differential Equations and Data Assimilation
Randomness and uncertainty are inherent aspects of many processes in the environmental and life sciences. Examples are plentiful and exist at all scales, including the spreading of...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction to Sustainable Development
Centraal staat het begrip ‘duurzame ontwikkeling’ dat internationaal als leidraad voor toekomstig handelen is geaccepteerd. Dit begrip omvat zowel een analyse van, als een beleid v...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Introduction to Systems and Synthetic Biology
The course provides an introduction to Systems and Synthetic Biology. Participants will learn how modelling and effective experimentation intertwine to understand interactions betw...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction to Tourism and Society
Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and experiencing incredible growth. Travel and tourism directly contribute $1.4 trillion (U.S.) to the global economy. One in ten o...
course - 3 ECTS
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Introduction to personal sustainability science – Using research for personal development and a striving planet
Research related to sustainability usually focuses on external (especially biophysical) manifestations of unsustainability, and it overemphasizes solutions through socio-economic s...
course - 6 ECTS
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Introduction to research methods and statistics (ISS, CA & SOC)
Deze cursus is een inleidende cursus sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek voor gebruikers van wetenschappelijke literatuur. In deze cursus worden de drie hoofdvormen van sociaal-wete...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Introduction to topology
Het doel van het vak Inleiding Topologie is dat de student vertrouwd raakt met de fundamentele begrippen van de topologie, met name open en gesloten verzamelingen, compactheid, sam...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Intuitive Intelligence
'The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift'. (Albert Einstein)....
course - 3 ECTS
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Key Concepts in Developmental Biology
This course elaborates on the basic mechanisms of development that were introduced in 'Mechanisms of development' (MOB20803). Although plants and animals have developed separately...
course - 6 ECTS
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Laboratory Safety
At WUR we value your safety. Working in a laboratory environment exposes you to specific risks: you work with (very) harmful substances that can cause serious injury or even death...
course - 0 ECTS
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Law and Ethics
If we assume that law seeks to do justice, solutions to moral dilemmas and problems are founded in *ethical* *theories* of justice (rather than jurisprudence). These theories serve...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Law and Human Biotechnology
De afgelopen jaren heeft de medische biotechnologie een enorme toevlucht genomen. Sinds de geboorte van de Louise Brown, de eerste IVF-baby, in 1978 is de wereld geconfronteerd met...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Law for Agri-Food Systems Transformation
This course provides a comprehensive overview of current EU agri-food laws and policies, highlighting the key role that EU institutions play in reshaping them. Through a systematic...
course - 6 ECTS
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Law of Marine Environments and Resources
Oceans are essential for maintaining life on earth, their resources are increasingly important to the world economy and 90% of all international trade is seaborne. Creating an effe...
course - 6 ECTS
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Law of the UN and the EU
International organizations impact our lives in more significant ways than we often realize. But how do they work? How can member states control the decision-making of such interna...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Learn the Scientific Method in a changing climate
Many societal and scientific challenges relate to systems that are too complex to understand by simple reasoning. The unique path to unravel these systems is to apply the scientifi...
course - 6 ECTS
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Learning about ourselves when learning about meat consumption - An introduction to reflexive knowledge generation
In our current era, a myriad of intertwined crises presents formidable challenges, known collectively as the polycrisis (Homer-Dixon et al., 2021). Interconnected challenges such a...
course - 6 ECTS
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Learning in Organisations: Interventions for learning and change
Mensen met veranderkundige kennis zijn waardevol voor organisaties, of zij nu als extern adviseur of als medewerker bij een verandertraject zijn betrokken. Organisaties zijn immers...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Learning in Organizations: Organizational ManagementSchool organisation: theory & advice
Waarom bestaan er eigenlijk organisaties? Waar mensen werken, wordt het werken georganiseerd. In de huidige maatschappij kennen we veel topmanagers, midden managers, office manager...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Legal Philosophy: Legality and Legitimacy of Human Rights
Deze cursus biedt een inleiding in de rechtsfilosofie aan de hand van mensenrechten. Centraal staan vragen zoals: Waar komen mensenrechten vandaan? Komen mensenrechten enkel aan me...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Life Cycle Assessment
In this course students get acquainted with the methods used to assess the environmental impact of products from a life cycle perspective. The central topic is Life Cycle Assessmen...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Life Science Economics and Policies
Life Science Economics and Policies will be discussed in this course. This includes the whole value chain from R&D, over application, processing, retailing and final demand and how...
course - 6 ECTS
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Lifestyles and Consumption
Consumers are often treated as individual decision makers, however their choices are in fact embedded in all sorts of social, political and material contexts. In this course consum...
course - 6 ECTS
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Linked Data for Life Sciences
The term "Linked Data" refers to a set of best practices for publishing, interlinking and managing structured data on the Web. Semantic Web is an extension of the World Wide Web th...
course - 6 ECTS
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Literature Reviews for Health and Society
Questions related to health and society are often complex questions. Conducting literature reviews can help to answer these complex questions. A literature review is a critical and...
course - 6 ECTS
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Logical Argumentation in Science: Publishing, Proposals and Pitching
**Period (from-till):** 7 February 2025 - 18 April 2025 (BMS_P3_A). **THIS COURSE IS CANCELLED!** **Faculty** Eric Kalkhoven, UMCU, CMM (50%), course coordinator Christ...
course - 3 ECTS
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Machine Learning
Machine Learning deals with algorithms that predict certain outputs (such as crop yields or traits) given previously unseen input data from cameras, other sensors, maps, molecular...
course - 6 ECTS
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Management and Marketing
Outline of marketing part: * understanding marketing management: the marketing concept and holistic marketing; needs, wants and demand; the marketing mix; market oriented strate...
course - 6 ECTS
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Marine Animal Ecology
This course aims at providing knowledge and understanding on the functioning and resilience of marine animals in a changing environment. In this course we will focus on the mechani...
course - 6 ECTS
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Mass Atrocities, Human Rights and Law
How should a society deal with a history of serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law? Should those believed to be responsible for violations face crimi...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Master Course Genes to Organisms
How life functions at the level of tissues and whole organisms, and how organisms respond and adapt to environmental conditions is the main topic of the Genes to Organisms track th...
course - 3 ECTS
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Master Level Computational Biology
During the course, the emphasis will be on composing and analysing exact models based on specific hypotheses. The results of the analyses offer an understanding of the original bio...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Matlab for Neuroscience
**Period (from - till):** 05 January - 6 February 2026 (BMS_P2_A) **Faculty** Mariana P. Branco, UMCU Brain Center, Department Neurosurgery and Neurology **Course des...
course - 3 ECTS
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Mechanisms of Development
This course deals with the processes that coordinate the development of a single cell into a complex multi-cellular organism. In general, all cells of an organism originate from a...
course - 3 ECTS
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Medical Image Formation
**Period (from – till** ): 08 September 2025 - 7 November 2025 (BMS_P1_A) **Course coordinator:** Dr.ir. Wilbert Bartels **Lecturers** Dr.ir. Wilbert Bartels, UMC Utrecht...
course - 5 ECTS
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Metabolic Engineering of Industrial Microorganisms
Synthetic biology techniques are powerful and make rigorous modification of microorganisms possible and - omics techniques give us means to determine what is going on in a microorg...
course - 6 ECTS
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Metal Complex Coordination Chemistry & Characterization
The importance of metal ions in chemistry and life is often underestimated. It is only in relatively recent years that the pivotal role of metal ions has become recognized, with br...
course - 6 ECTS
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Methods and Techniques in Social Neuroscience
This course offers an overview and covers the basic concepts and principles of the methods and techniques used in social neuroscientific research, which include electroencephalogra...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Methods in Behavioural Biology
In this course, we will practice and discuss essential components of the behavioural research process, mostly in chronological order, as they would come up during your own thesis p...
course - 3 ECTS
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Methods in Educational Research
In de cursus maak je kennis met onderzoeksmethoden en statistische technieken die in onderwijswetenschappelijk onderzoek vaak worden gebruikt. Aan de hand van onderwijswetenschappe...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Methods in Plant Ecophysiology
This course aims at strengthening and deepening the knowledge and skills of students on measuring methods and protocols in the plant sciences. It is specifically intended for stude...
course - 6 ECTS
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Microbial Genomics
**Course description** Microbes (bacteria, archaea and microbial eukaryotes, including fungi) are key members of our biosphere and are highly relevant for human life as mutualis...
course - 4.5 ECTS
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Microbial Physiology
The Microbial Physiology course is an advanced course that addresses various aspects of microbial physiology. The following subjects are dealt with in the lectures: 1. Bioenergetic...
course - 6 ECTS
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Microbiomes and Health
This course is aimed at teaching students the fundamentals of microbiome function, emphasising the major contributions of the collective of commensal bacteria (the microbiota) to h...
course - 6 ECTS
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Migration and Citizenship in the EU
This course addresses migration law and EU citizenship within the European Union from a constitutional and fundamental rights perspective. The course focuses in-depth on the concep...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Mindful Self-Compassion for Future Sustainability Professionals
Dealing professionally with sustainability-related issues can be stressful in several ways. On the one hand, many of the current sustainability-related problems are highly threaten...
course - 6 ECTS
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Modelling Biological Systems
Biological systems are arguably the most complex systems science tries to understand. We make observations, and try to obtain useful insight in the systems. This requires hypothese...
course - 6 ECTS
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Modelling Infectious Diseases in Animal Populations
This course is focused on the prevention and control of infectious diseases and how mathematical models can help inform these efforts. The spread of infectious diseases in animal p...
course - 6 ECTS
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Modelling in Systems Biology
The main goal of Systems Biology is to obtain a deeper understanding of biological systems and their behaviour. This is achieved by combining mathematical modelling, scientific pro...
course - 6 ECTS
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Modules and representations
**Vakinhoud** Het vak Modulen en Voorstellingen behandelt deze twee onderwerpen in de abstracte algebra. We beginnen met het introduceren van modulen, moduulhomomorfismen, vrije...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Molecular Aspects of Bio-interactions
The course focuses on the molecular basis of interactions within or between plants or arthropods, including interactions with attackers (viruses, micro-organisms, nematodes, insect...
course - 6 ECTS
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Molecular Systems Biology
Nowadays increasing numbers of complete genomic sequences are available and methods have been developed to study system wide gene expression, protein abundances and interactions an...
course - 6 ECTS
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Narratives in Law
*Cursusdoel* In deze cursus leren studenten verhalende elementen in juridische teksten te herkennen en gaan studenten vervolgens in schrijfoefeningen zelf aan de slag met verschi...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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National Food Laws in Comparative Perspective
The objective of this course is to understand how core issues related to food are addressed in constitutions, laws and regulations in different jurisdictions and to develop skills...
course - 6 ECTS
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Nationalism and racialisation
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course - 7.5 ECTS
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Natural Hazards and Disasters
Disasters related to earthquakes, tsunamis, mudslides, floods, droughts, (wild)fires, pandemics and famines seriously affect human societies. This interdisciplinary course introduc...
course - 6 ECTS
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Natural Resource Economics and Management
The course deals with natural resource economics, in particular how scarce natural resources would be allocated over time. That is, we focus on the dynamic aspects of resource use...
course - 6 ECTS
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Neuroscience of Social Behavior and Emotional Disorders
In social behavior there is a thin line between sanity and insanity. In order to function healthily within our complex society social behavior should be fluid, ever-changing and hi...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Non-equilibrium Soft Matter
The diverse field of soft matter that comprises of many phenomena that we observe in nature and our daily life are inherently non-equilibrium processes. Moreover, these processes a...
course - 3 ECTS
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Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Diseases
This course will discuss the newest insights on the role of diet, lifestyle and body composition in the aetiology, treatment and prognosis of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes m...
course - 6 ECTS
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Nutrition and Health: Macronutrients, Energy and Health
This is a general nutrition course that addresses the relation between nutrition and human health with a focus on overnutrition. The course will get you introduced into the chemist...
course - 6 ECTS
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Nutrition and the Ageing Body
The world is facing an unprecedented increase in population ageing. In the Netherlands, the rate of greying will even double in the next decades (CBS), whereby the pressure on heal...
course - 6 ECTS
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Nutritional Neuroscience: Gut and Brain
This course focuses on acquisition of knowledge and skills for research in the inter-disciplinary study of food, gut and brain interactions, and their relation to human food intake...
course - 6 ECTS
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Nutritional Physiology
This course is focused on the physiological utilisation of dietary macro-nutrients (carbohydrates, fat and protein) and discusses their flow from oral intake to their utilisation a...
course - 6 ECTS
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Orientation on Teaching and Training Practice
In this course, students have the opportunity to develop educational skills and explore the field of education by means of a small internship/practical. These practical experiences...
course - 6 ECTS
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Pedagogical Development of Pediatric Practices, Research and Policy
In het kader van pedagogische praktijkontwikkeling bestaat er expliciete aandacht voor kwaliteitszorg en de ontwikkeling en implementatie van interventieprogramma’s en method...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Pedagogy and Society. A socio-historical and socio-cultural perspective on child development and child raising.
In deze cursus plaats je opvoeding in een breder maatschappelijk kader door vanuit verschillende invalshoeken te leren begrijpen hoe opvoedingspraktijken zich door de tijd heen ont...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Personal Motivation Assessment
This short but clarifying course offers students an opportunity to increase their self-awareness. Who doesn't want to study or work in a place that offers fulfillment and satisfact...
course - 1 ECTS
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Personal and Societal Resilience Lab
We live in a complex world, characterized by disruptive changes. This course is part of an EWUU package that aims to prepare student for an unknown but challenging future by studyi...
course - 3 ECTS
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Perspectives on Law
*Inleiding* Het onderscheid tussen de verschillende rechtsgebieden – privaatrecht (verbintenissenrecht en goederenrecht) en publiekrecht (staats- en bestuursrecht, strafrecht en...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Perspectives on Sustainability Transitions in Agriculture
Sustainability transitions in agriculture seem inescapable. The nitrogen crisis, climate change, and diminishing biodiversity demand that governmental actors, nature conservation o...
course - 6 ECTS
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Persuasion in Consumer Communication for Sustainability
This course focuses on persuasive communication in the context of consumer communication by addressing how consumers are influenced by communication, in particular in the context o...
course - 6 ECTS
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Pharmacology and Nutrition
The boundaries between pharmacology and nutrition are sometimes less clear than you might think. Traditionally, nutrition has primarily been focusing on health maintenance and the...
course - 6 ECTS
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Philosophy & History of Educational Sciences
In het vak Wetenschapsfilosofie en Geschiedenis van het onderwijs en van de Onderwijswetenschappen leer je de wetenschappelijke, theoretische en historische achtergrond van de soci...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Philosophy of Science and Ethics
When analyzing an elephant with only a microscope, you won’t easily grasp the big picture. That is the risk of scientific specialization. This course is about zooming out, lookin...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Photosynthesis from Cell to Canopy
This course aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the process of photosynthesis, emphasizing its intricate mechanisms from the individual cell level to the...
course - 3 ECTS
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Physiology and Development of Plants in Agriculture
This course comprises plant physiology and developmental biology described in relation to the production of agricultural plants, cut flowers, and fruits. The physiological content...
course - 6 ECTS
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Planetary Health
**Inhoud:** Our health is affected by the environment we live in. By our social and community networks, our living and working conditions, the society we are part of, the cou...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Plant Biotechnology
Note 1: The period mentioned below is the period in which this course starts. For the exact academic weeks see the courseplanning on www.wur.eu/schedule. Note 2: This course is o...
course - 3 ECTS
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Plant Plasticity and Adaptation
Due to their sessile nature, plants have developed a vast array of adaptation mechanisms to cope with seasonal or sudden changes in the growth environment. These adaptation mechani...
course - 6 ECTS
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Plant-Microbe Interactions
This course provides up-to-date theoretical and practical training in physiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of interactions between plants and pathogenic fungi with diff...
course - 6 ECTS
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Political Ecologies of Natural Resource Distribution
This course problematizes the different ways that programs and policies of governance shape the livelihoods and socio-ecological environments of people - especially in the South. S...
course - 6 ECTS
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Political Ecologies: Nature, Humans and Non-Humans
This course will examine the relation between human and non-human worlds as an enduring question in anthropology. We will explore diverse ideas relating to the themes of “nature”,...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Political Ecology of Water
This course explains and elaborates a political ecology approach to analyse water governance and intervention. Political ecology is a body of combined theoretical approaches that h...
course - 6 ECTS
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Political anthropology: power, politics and the state
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course - 7.5 ECTS
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Politics of Knowledge and Inclusive Innovation
This course explores the mechanisms of inclusive innovation and development. Special attention is given to the power and politics involved in the production and negotiation of know...
course - 6 ECTS
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Politics, Policy Making and Accountability in International Arenas for Development
This course will deepen insights into the dynamics and complexity of the politics and policy making that takes place within and between diverse international arenas: multilateral o...
course - 6 ECTS
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Population and Quantitative Genetics
Life on earth shows immense variation, both in phenotypes and the underlying genotypes. Population and quantitative geneticists address questions such as where this variation comes...
course - 6 ECTS
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Population and Systems Ecology
The course Population and Systems Ecology teaches basic concepts in Population, Community, Ecosystem and Landscape Ecology. The course takes a quantitative approach, grounded in ba...
course - 6 ECTS
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Power and Leadership
**InschrijvingIntroductie Macht & Leiderschap** In elke organisatie, vereniging of club is leiderschap nodig om gezamenli...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Practicum Experimental Psychology
In deze cursus leert de student vaardigheden om zelfstandig experimenten te bouwen en onderzoeksdata te verwerken met behulp van een geavanceerde vector-programmeertaal (Python) en...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Preventive Health Issues in Daily Life: an Interdisciplinary Approach
The prevention of chronic and infectious diseases has become increasingly important due to the growing burden on healthcare systems worldwide. With rising rates of chronic conditio...
course - 6 ECTS
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Principles of Animal Nutrition
This course gives detailed information on function, metabolism, homeostasis, requirements, responses and sources of nutrients for animals. Laboratory practicals will involve princi...
course - 6 ECTS
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Principles of Biobased Economy
This course is about exploring how to create a sustainable future by moving away from dependence on fossil resources to biomass resources for the production of food, chemicals, and...
course - 6 ECTS
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Principles of Earth and Ecosystem Science
This course is intended for students with a non-natural science background who want to understand the basics of the natural sciences related to global change issues. For example, t...
course - 6 ECTS
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Principles of Human Physiology
This course addresses the basic principles of human physiology as well as its regulation, at the level of the cell, organ and organism. Topics that are covered in this course inclu...
course - 6 ECTS
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Principles of Intellectual Property
In onze informatiesamenleving is het belang van intellectuele eigendomsrechten alleen maar toegenomen. De elkaar snel opvolgende technologische ontwikkelingen stellen het intellect...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Principles of Plant Breeding
Note 1: This course can not be combined in an individual programme with PBR-23306 Plant Breeding (as this is the online version of that course). Note 2: The period mentioned belo...
course - 3 ECTS
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Principles of Soil Processes
This course focuses on soil chemical, physical and biological processes. The soil is characterized as a buffering system with water and reactive soil particles affecting mobility a...
course - 3 ECTS
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Principles of Urban Environmental Management
As the first in the MSc Programme Urban Environmental Management, this course introduces the four core perspectives in the Programme, i.e. Urban Environmental Quality and Health, U...
course - 6 ECTS
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Privacy and Data Protection
We leven in een informatiemaatschappij. *Big tech* bedrijven, zoals Facebook en Google, draaien op *big data*, maar ook voor de overheid en andere organisaties is het verwerken van...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Private Law in Perspective: Labour Law
In Nederland zijn de meeste werkzame personen van de beroepsbevolking werkzaam in privaatrechtelijke dienstbetrekking op basis van een arbeidsovereenkomst. Voor veel mensen is dit...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Private Law in Perspective: Labour Law
In Nederland zijn de meeste werkzame personen van de beroepsbevolking werkzaam in privaatrechtelijke dienstbetrekking op basis van een arbeidsovereenkomst. Voor veel mensen is dit...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Probability theory
Het vak is een eerste kennismaking met de kansrekening en statistiek. Het vak is verplicht voor alle wiskundestudenten en geeft essentiële voorkennis voor veel van de vakken in de...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Process- and Data-Driven Modelling in Crop Science
This course is a hands-on course for modelling in a wide agricultural context. Besides the basic data-handling skills, this course especially focuses on the creativity-based aspect...
course - 6 ECTS
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Product Quality Measurements & Analysis
Are you passionate about horticulture, and aspiring to increase your knowledge on quality assessment? Whether you are aiming for a career in horticulture, agriculture, or quality c...
course - 6 ECTS
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Professional Profile
The professional profile course runs during four consecutive weeks in the second year of the MADE program. The course will function as the linking pin between the Amsterdam Living...
course - 6 ECTS
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Professional and Personal Resilience: Exploring Your Potential
How to become and stay the balanced and resilient you, both on a professional and personal level? As you already might have noticed while living your life, expectations (e.g. with...
course - 3 ECTS
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Programming for Medical Imaging
**Period (from – till** ): 08 September - 07 November 2025 (BMS_P1_A) **Course coordinator** : Dr. K.L. Vincken **Faculty** Dr. K.L. Vincken, UMC Utrecht/Imaging Division, l...
course - 5 ECTS
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Proofs in Mathematics
In het vak Bewijzen in de Wiskunde maakt de student kennis met de abstracte redeneerstijl in de wiskunde en oefent met verschillende bewijsmethoden. Dit vak is een verplicht vak vo...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Psychology and Economic Behaviour
People buy and consume products, they gamble, they negotiate, and save money for their children. All these behaviours are examples of economic decisions that are governed by psycho...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Psychology of Behaviour Change
In the course 'Psychology of Behaviour Change' you will learn about the psychological processes that inform eating behaviour, and the challenges in changing these behaviours. You r...
course - 6 ECTS
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Public Health Practice
The course Public Health Practice is meant for future public health professionals aiming at a career in the public or private sector in western and non-western countries. In this c...
course - 6 ECTS
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Qualitative Data Analysis Methods
This advanced course is for students in any program who will analyze qualitative data either to prepare more structured data collection methods (e.g. questionnaires) or to draw con...
course - 6 ECTS
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Quantum nano wereld
In dit vak worden de basisprincipes van de kwantummechanica behandeld en hoe deze worden gebruikt in de nanotechnologie om de eigenschappen van materialen te sturen. Aan bod komen...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Radiotherapy Physics
**Period (from – till** ): 2 February - 10 April 2025 (BMS_P3_A) **Course coordinator** : Dr. B. van Asselen **Faculty** Dr C.P.J. Raaijmakers, UMC Utrecht/Imaging Division,...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 115 days
Regulating Big Tech
The course Regulating Big Tech deals with the regulation of big technology corporations, such as the famous internet companies Google and Facebook. This course takes big tech compa...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Regulating the European Union's Single Market
The main objective of this course is to study the law of the EU Single Market within a changed Treaty context. This course enables the student to gain insight in the interaction be...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Regulation of Plant Development
A unique feature of plants is the fact that environmental factors play a crucial role in their development. In this course, molecular, cell biological, and physiological aspects of...
course - 6 ECTS
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Religion, media and popular culture
For a long time, scholars understood religion as a phenomenon that was successfully relegated to the private spheres of life. Modern thinkers envisioned secularization as a gradual...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Composition
Monitoring spatio-temporal trends in atmospheric composition, e.g., increases in greenhouse gas, aerosol and air pollutant concentrations due to anthropogenic emissions, is essenti...
course - 6 ECTS
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Reproduction of Plants
Sexual reproduction is one of the major characteristics of eukaryotes and involves a regular alternation between meiosis and fertilization. This course focuses on the basic princip...
course - 3 ECTS
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Research Seminar in Social Neuroscience
The course will basically focus on a number of key themes, which can change each year. Within each theme, the students will work on literature assignments and assignments preparing...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Resource Competition and Social Justice
One of the big questions of our time is how to deal with competing claims to scarce natural resources. Given the multiple competing pressures on resources, how can we organize reso...
course - 6 ECTS
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Resource Dynamics and Sustainable Utilization
This course deals with the extraction of resources from natural ecosystems. Resource use includes the exploitation of timber, the collection of fruits and resin, the extraction of...
course - 6 ECTS
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Resource Quality in the Circular Economy
This course examines the chemical and biological quality of resources in the circular economy. Recovering and reusing waste streams is required to realize a truly circular, bio-bas...
course - 6 ECTS
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Responsible Learning Organisations for Sustainability
The world is changing quickly and so are the challenges tomorrow's entrepreneurs and business professionals face. One of these challenges is that an organisations' license to opera...
course - 6 ECTS
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Role of Livestock in Future Food Systems
Livestock have been an integral part of our food systems for thousands of years, and contributed to the formation of societies and cultures. Livestock have contributed, and still d...
course - 6 ECTS
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Science and Expertise in Environmental Conflicts
The fields of forestry, nature conservation, and natural resource management heavily rely on scientific knowledge and expertise. However, these domains also exhibit competing value...
course - 6 ECTS
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Seaweed & Shellfish: Ecological Sustainability
Will the oceans feed the world? Optimistic views on a 'Blue Revolution' have recently been challenged, and in particular the future role of marine fish culture is questioned. It is...
course - 6 ECTS
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Seed Science and Technology
Seeds are not only the world's major source of human and animal nutrition but also provide the basis for improving agricultural practices and managing genetic resources. High-quali...
course - 6 ECTS
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Self-regulation
You absolutely enjoy delicious food but you also absolutely want a slim figure? You want to quit smoking, you know all the disadvantages of this bad habit, and still, you cannot ge...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Sensation and Perception
**Summary** Perceptual psychology is the oldest and most highly developed field of psychological research. As people constantly interact with the outside world via their senses, ev...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Settings for Health Promotion
Much of what makes people healthy or sick - income, social position, where people live and work, their level of literacy, culture and political system - lies outside the direct sco...
course - 6 ECTS
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Social Determinants of Nutrition over the Life Course
Understanding and addressing the social determinants of nutrition are fundamental for improving population health and reducing health inequalities. This course deepens students' kn...
course - 6 ECTS
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Social Inequalities in Health
Despite all efforts to combat social inequalities in health, health inequalities worldwide are increasing. This urges for a better understanding of the underlying causes and potent...
course - 6 ECTS
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Social Justice, Technology and Development
Technological changes are often at the core of development projects and societal controversies. Examples include biofuels, transgenic crops, land redistribution, pesticides, microc...
course - 6 ECTS
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Social Theory and Practice: Perspectives on struggles around land, food and place
The course aims to provide a theoretical, empirical, and methodological understanding of agricultural-, food-, and place-making practices in urbanizing societies, where alternative...
course - 6 ECTS
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Socialization of children and adolescents
*Pedagogische Systemen in de Kindertijd en Adolescentie* is een** theoretische cursus** die studenten een overzicht geeft van de huidige wetenschappelijke opvattingen over **socia...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Soil Quality
The dynamics of nutrients and contaminants within the terrestrial ecosystem including the groundwater and their relationship with soil biota are explained and related to actual env...
course - 6 ECTS
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Statistics for Data Scientists
In many areas of biological, environmental and social science new tools and strategies are developed to measure multiple features at subjects and objects of interest. Typical for t...
course - 6 ECTS
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Structural Bioinformatics & Modelling
**Description of content** Computational structural biology is a mature field of research whose contribution to life sciences is becoming increasingly more appreciated. The aim...
course - 4.5 ECTS
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Supply Chain Design and Planning
The Netherlands has a great reputation in managing global supply chains, which is one of the reasons why many international organisations have located distribution facilities in th...
course - 6 ECTS
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Sustainabililty in Global perspective; about the role of science in social change
De uitdagingen waar we wereldwijd mee geconfronteerd worden zijn gigantisch: klimaatverandering, biodiversiteitsverlies, en eindige hulpbronnen. Daarnaast bestaat er een grote onge...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Sustainability Assessment of Animal Systems
Consumers in wealthy countries demand high quality safe food that is produced with minimal environmental losses, and under optimal conditions for animal welfare. In less developed...
course - 6 ECTS
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Sustainability Transitions: Past, Present and Future
Knowledge of and capability to work with sustainability concepts and issues belong to the core competences to be obtained in the environmental sciences. Sustainability is a concept...
course - 6 ECTS
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Sustainability and Resilience in History
How did the Maya civilization collapse? Why did the bubonic plague kill over one third of 14th century European population? How long can current rates of global population be conti...
course - 6 ECTS
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Sustainability in Fish and Seafood Production
Through an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, students will be challenged to analyse the sustainability of fish and seafood production. We question ourselves: what do we...
course - 6 ECTS
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Sustainability in Food Chains
During this course you will analyse and develop agri-food production chains considering their economic, social and environmental impact. Focus will be on the application of quantit...
course - 6 ECTS
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Sustainable Food and Bioprocessing - Exergy analysis
Note: This is a distance learning course. In this course we will study the influences of different choices in food production and processing methods. The evaluation of existing...
course - 3 ECTS
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Sustainable Food and Bioprocessing - Flow and pinch analysis
Note: This is a distance learning course. In this course we will study the influences of different choices in food production and processing methods. The evaluation of existing...
course - 3 ECTS
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Sustainable Future Dairy Farming Systems
In this specific course we are posing the following question: How can dairy farms still exist in the future, in a healthy, sustainable and economically feasible way, from the per...
course - 6 ECTS
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Sustainable Soil Management: Soil4Life
Soils represent one of our most important natural resources and is the foundation for our terrestrial based life on Earth. Yet ironically, it is one of the most neglected of our re...
course - 3 ECTS
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Sustainable Technology in Society
This social scientific course deals with the development and use of environmentally sound technology in modern societies. Global industrial pollution, resource depletion or climate...
course - 6 ECTS
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Sustainable Tourism: Rethinking the Future
Are you aware of the sheer size and rapid development of tourism? And do you like to engage in meaningful debates concerned with a creative rethinking of these developments? In...
course - 3 ECTS
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Sustainable Urban Development: Discover Advanced Metropolitan Solutions
Did you know that cities take up less than 3% of the earth'/'s land surface, but more than 50% of the world's population live in them? And, cities generate more than 70% of the glo...
course - 2 ECTS
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Systems Analysis and Modelling
Note that this course can not be combined in an individual programme with FEM31806 'Models for Ecological Systems'. Systems approaches are widely used in studies of ecological sy...
course - 6 ECTS
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Systems Thinking
We deal with a plethora of complex problems, such as why inequality is increasing? Do racial teams have greater decision-making abilities?, How can we predict the outcomes of elect...
course - 6 ECTS
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Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
This course serves various individual learning trajectories in the field of education and learning sciences i.e. (1) students can follow the course as part of the Orientation Progr...
course - 3 ECTS
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The Da Vinci Programme
Sustainable development and the strive to make our economies circular are grand challenges the world faces. These can only be solved via an interwoven collaboration of society, sci...
course - 30 ECTS
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The Da Vinci Programme Short Track
Sustainable development and the strive to make our economies circular are grand challenges the world faces. These can only be solved via an interwoven collaboration of society, sci...
course - 15 ECTS
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The Politics of Healthy and Sustainable Food
Food is inherently political: what we eat, how our food has been produced and prepared, where we choose to buy and consume our food, and with whom, are all choices that are subject...
course - 6 ECTS
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The Voice of Youth
In the course the Voice of Youth you learn about issues like the rights of young people, the social and political engagement of youth, and youth participation. Children grow up in...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Topology and geometry
This course is optional for mathematics students. The course is recommended to students interested in pure mathematics, particularly those interested in Algebraic Topology, Algebra...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Toy Models in Science and Technology
**NOTE: TU/e students can do a 5 ECTS version and WUR students a 6 ECTS version. The course will take place on location at Utrecht University and is scheduled for the Friday afte...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Train the Trainer Coaching and Training
Gaining experience as a trainer is important when you want to develop yourself professionally in the training business. This train the trainer course offers the possibility to lear...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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Transformative Citizen Science for Sustainability
Citizen science has become an essential approach to address urgent sustainability challenges. It is critical that science and society work together. Science becomes more relevant a...
course - 2 ECTS
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Trends in Plant Reproduction Biology: from Flowers to Seeds
The evolutionary success and enormous diversity among flowering plants is mainly the result of the sexual reproduction process, which starts with flowering and results in the forma...
course - 6 ECTS
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Understanding Drugs
**Description of content** During this course we will try to achieve the starting level for the Drug Innovation master’s programme with a focus on small molecule drugs. We will...
course - 3 ECTS
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Understanding and Using Sensor Data in Animal Sciences
Sensor data is increasingly used by commercial livestock farmers, feeding companies, breeding companies, and the scientific community. In this course, various sensors in animal pro...
course - 6 ECTS
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Urban Hydrometeorology
This course is dedicated to the hydrometeorology of the urban environment, from the micro-scale at street level to the regional scale. These are approached both in a descriptive ma...
course - 6 ECTS
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Vascularized Tissue Engineering
- **Period (from – till):** 2 February - 17 April 2026 (BMS_P3_A) - **Note: this is an online course stretching over 10 weeks with a study load of approximately 10 hours per week....
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment starts in 115 days
Vertebrate Structure and Function
This course offers an integrative exploration of vertebrate origin, evolution, diversity, and adaptive radiation, with a primary focus on understanding the relationship between an...
course - 6 ECTS
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Vertical Farming
This course explores the upcoming field of vertical farming viewed from multiple disciplines in a mixed classroom where students and professionals collaborate. Indoor growing of cr...
course - 6 ECTS
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Water Systems: Exploration
This course introduces the occurrence, movement and quality of water over the land surface of the earth, in particular as it affects and sustains life. The course takes a geographi...
course - 3 ECTS
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Wildlife Conservation Genetics
In this course the basic concepts of conservation genetics will be explained. We will introduce measures of genetic variation and show its importance for the genetic health of popu...
course - 6 ECTS
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Work Psychology
Arbeidspsychologie is het onderdeel van de Arbeids- en Organisatiepsychologie dat zich richt op het ontwerpen van arbeidstaken en de omstandigheden waaronder deze taken worden uitg...
course - 7.5 ECTS
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eXtended Realities and the Future of Communication
The course offers an introduction to and discussion of how immersive technologies transform communication and understanding. This course will provide students with the basics of wh...
course - 6 ECTS
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