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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
No current offerings
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
No current offerings
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 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 biological systems and in novel nanomaterials. Focus is on d-block elements in...
course - 3 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
Only 4 days to enrol
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
Only 4 days to enrol
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
Only 4 days to enrol
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 cognition
The course consists of 10 lectures. The lectures cover core topics in cognition (representations, attention, memory, language, categorization, cognition and emotion, and reasoni...
course - 5 ECTS
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Advanced cognitive engineering
Cognitive engineering is a multidisciplinary endeavour concerned with the analysis, design, and evaluation of complex systems of people and technology. It combines knowledge and ex...
course - 5 ECTS
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Advanced data analysis
Solid execution of one's professional duties as an HTI engineer requires in-depth knowledge of and experience with the statistical processing of data. Besides assisting the student...
course - 5 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 perception
This course covers advanced knowledge about perceptual processes in interaction with modern technologies. The course will discuss quantitative modeling and present basic human reco...
course - 5 ECTS
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Advanced planning and scheduling systems
Improving supply chain planning and scheduling often involves the use of Advanced Planning and Scheduling systems. The design and implementation of such systems requires an APS spe...
course - 5 ECTS
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Advanced research methods and research ethics
**In 2024-2025 this course is scheduled 2 times Q1 Timeslot D (Cohort ≤ 2022) and Q4, Timeslot A (Cohort 2023)** The course covers factor analysis, logistic regression ana...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Advanced social psychology and consumer behavior
This course aims at a better understanding of people's social nature based on the theories and explanations that represent the state-of-the-art social psychology knowledge. Student...
course - 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
Course is currently running
Algorithmic programming for operations management
- variables and types - operators and expressions - conditional statements, loops and functions - Object Oriented concepts - Data structures - Data preparation and reporting - Inte...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
Animal Behaviour in Conservation
This is a 100% online course. All activities and learning materials are online. Students go through 5 modules, which include knowledge clips, case studies, assignments and recap qu...
course - 1 ECTS
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Animal Ecology
The course provides a deeper understanding of animal-animal, animal-food and animal-environment interactions at various integration levels. At the lowest integration level we will...
course - 6 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
No current offerings
Applied Data Skills
This course provides an overview of applied data skills. Students will learn the basic skills required to import data into statistical software to create graphical representations...
course - 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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Architecture and philosophy
Design facilitates activity, modifies climate and thinks about the making. In all this it delights the user in whichever way he or she uses the building. The big challenge of desig...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Argumentation for Biosystems Engineering
The course offers students the possibility to practice the skills that are necessary to deliver an oral argumentation in the right context and for the right purpose. It gives theor...
course - 1 ECTS
Enrolment open
Artificial Intelligence
An increasing number of businesses will adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance their decision-making processes. No doubt, AI will have further transformative, far-reaching i...
course - 6 ECTS
Only 4 days to enrol
Artificial Intelligence for Food and Health
An increasing number of businesses will adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance their decision-making processes. No doubt, AI will have further transformative, far-reaching i...
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment open
Artificial intelligence for logistics and its interfaces
In this challenge-based course, you will learn how and when to use machine-learning techniques to support operational decisions in application areas such as transportation, invento...
course - 5 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
The Design-Build-Test-Learn (DBTL) cycle is an efficient workflow in engineering studies. For example, DBTL is commonly followed in biotechnology to improve bioprocesses, under ind...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Automated Reasoning
Many problems, such as planning logistics, optimising production processes, verification of computer systems, and also all kinds of puzzles, can be expressed as proving that a form...
course - 5 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
Enrolment open
Automotive societal factors
Automotive Societal Factors addresses the relation between a car or other vehicle, its human driver, and its dynamic environment. We are especially concerned with technological, so...
course - 5 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
Enrolment open
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
Only 4 days to enrol
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 1
Becoming a Teacher 1 integrates theory on teachers' professional development with practical teacher training. Students continually reflect upon their experiences and the developmen...
course - 6 ECTS
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Becoming a Teacher 2
Becoming a Teacher 2 focuses on integration of theory on learning and instruction and practical teacher training. Theory on learning and instruction will be applied and tested in c...
course - 6 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Course is currently running
Becoming a Teacher Basics
This course is part of the Minor/Module Education and is integrated with an internship at a school. The course focuses on basic teaching and communication skills that prepare stude...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment period not yet defined
Behavioral and Experimental Economics
This course is not offered in this academic year anymore. It is however possible to take resits for this course when you attended this course in a previous year.For the description...
course - 6 ECTS
No current offerings
Behavioral operations management
This course provides students with an in depth understanding of how human behavior impacts the performance of various operational processes. It is made up of a series of weekly lec...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Behavioral research methods 1: designing research
This course teaches how to design behavioral research. The course provides an introduction to the complete cycle of empirical psychological research. The cycle starts with a resear...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Behavioral research methods 2: dealing with data
The course covers the basics of dealing with quantitative research data, including the statistical knowledge that is necessary to be able to do this. Using a hands-on approach, stu...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
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
Enrolment open
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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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
Course is currently running
Big Data for Business Decisions
The digital world is nowadays generating an unimaginable amount of data. With this so called Big Data, companies have more exact measurements for parameters that could not be measu...
course - 6 ECTS
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Big data for urban & transportation analysis /project
To find good solutions one needs to have a good understanding of the problem. This holds true also for the problems and challenges urban planners are facing in areas such as mobili...
course - 10 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 do firms fil...
course - 6 ECTS
Course is currently running
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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Biomaterials
Interactions between (synthetic) biomaterials and tissues play a key role when a part of the body is replaced by an implant. At the surface of these implants (e.g. stents, sutures,...
course - 5 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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Bone structure and function
Bone has a load-carrying function in the body, and an associated (micro)structure, which makes it light, as well as stiff and strong. Owing to a stress-controlled biological regu...
course - 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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Brain, body & behaviour
These are exciting times for studying the brain. Scientific understanding of the brain, and its relation to human behaviour, continues to grow at an exponential pace. In no small m...
course - 5 ECTS
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Built environment and smart mobility
Wherever urban development takes place, people will want to come and go. And wherever people come, go, or pass through, opportunities for urban development arise. There is a contin...
course - 5 ECTS
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Business analysis for information technology systems
The engineering history has taught us well that it is essential to have a clear understanding of the problem and the requirements of the solution system in order to successfully de...
course - 5 ECTS
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Business process management
Business Process Management (BPM) is a radical shift from traditional management thinking. Instead of taking an organization's functional decomposition as a starting point to manag...
course - 5 ECTS
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Capita Selecta Plant Production Systems
Capita Selecta in Plant Production Systems will deal with current research questions of the Group, lectures and seminars of guest workers may form part of the Capita Selecta.
course - 6 ECTS
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Capita Selecta Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Group (WEC)
Capita Selecta Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Group (WEC)
course - 3 ECTS
Course is currently running
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...
course - 4 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
Cell mechanobiology and engineering
- Introduction to mechanobiology - Mechanosensing and mechanotransduction - Cell and matrix mechanics - Cellular and mammalian gene engineering approaches - Biophysical manipulatio...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
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
No current offerings
Circularity in the built environment
This course introduces first of all circularity as the problem of planetary (resource) management, with a central role for rates and planetary boundaries. Energy, materials, waste...
course - 5 ECTS
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Climate change: understanding the causes and solutions
**Part 1: The science base of climate change: facts and figures** In the first two weeks the course will focus on establishing a firm knowledge base on climate science, greenhou...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Clinical chemistry
First the principles of medical decision making with concepts as test specificity and sensitivity and predictive value of laboratory data in relation to prevalence of the disease a...
course - 2.5 ECTS
No current offerings
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
Only 4 days to enrol
Co-creating Sustainable Cities
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
Course is currently running
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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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 offers a critical perspective on public health issues and the policies meant to address those issues. With the analytical tools of a constructionist social problems fra...
course - 6 ECTS
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Complexity in Ecological Systems
The course offers a modern view on the complexity in ecology. Complex systems may respond in a non-linear way to a changing environment due to feedback mechanisms. This may lead to...
course - 6 ECTS
Course is currently running
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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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
This course addresses key issues of evolution, strategy, finance, member relations, and governance of cooperatives. Cooperatives are hybrid organisations, as they combine several o...
course - 6 ECTS
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Course Development
This course covers the processes of structurally planning, developing and evaluating courses in a lesson series and a multidisciplinary project in secondary education or vocational...
course - 6 ECTS
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Creative programming
- Introduction to programming and software engineering. - Variables and control flows. - 2D graphics and animations. - Arrays and other data structures. - Functions. - Al...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Creativity and aesthetics of data & AI
The course is structured along three lines. The first two lines can run in parallel, with the following activities: - lectures and individual readings on different learning m...
course - 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
Course is currently running
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 Management for Data Analytics
After this course, students will be able to - understand the basics of conceptual data modeling in the Entity Relationship model and UML, and translating a natural language specifi...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
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 roboti...
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
Enrolment open
Data-driven artificial intelligence
In the modern business landscape, the ability to extract valuable insights from vast volumes of data, whether structured or unstructured, is crucial for informed decision-making an...
course - 5 ECTS
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Data-driven methods for managing manufacturing processes
During the course, the students will analyze and redesign a manufacturing operation, based on data from practice. The students will learn about methods that are available to guide...
course - 5 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
Enrolment open
Decision making with artificial intelligence
In modern businesses, the extraction of information from the data in the information systems has become a competitive advantage. The availability of large amounts of data of differ...
course - 5 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 for behavioral change
This course aims to equip Master students with the knowledge and skills that pertain to the design of technologies that can help people change behaviours without coercion, manipula...
course - 5 ECTS
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Design for social innovation
Within this elective, students will engage with and study different ways of addressing contemporary societal challenges, and investigate how design can play a role in this. This co...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Design for transport and logistics
**This course will only be scheduled in timeslot B2.** The case can be based on the following topics: - Design of freight-based Logistics Networks o Network Optimization mo...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Design of AI-driven business operation
During the course, the students will analyze and redesign a business operation, based on data from practice. The students will learn about methods that are available to guide the r...
course - 5 ECTS
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Design of operations planning and control systems
- positioning of decoupling points in the process flow - the specification of production units, operational characteristics of production units that. - control of capacity (regular...
course - 5 ECTS
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Design of service operations
Organizations can gain a competitive advantage by improving and innovating their processes through a holistic process-oriented view. Business Process Management (BPM) discipline pr...
course - 5 ECTS
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Designing business processes
This elective is about the design of business processes from an industrial-engineering point of view. This course focuses on business processes before the product launch (inno...
course - 5 ECTS
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Designing effective performance management systems
Performance management is a comprehensive systematic approach aimed at aligning the performance of groups and individuals with organizational goals and strategy and at achieving co...
course - 5 ECTS
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Designing with advanced artificial intelligence
The course DBM180 explores the cutting-edge capabilities of machine learning and artificial intelligence for designing innovative systems and experiences. Students will gain a deep...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
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
Course is currently running
Digitalization and enterprise systems
- Strategic importance of enterprise systems (and IT) as a resource in the era of digitalization: The strategic importance of the effective use of enterprise systems for digital tr...
course - 5 ECTS
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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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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
Course is currently running
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
Course is currently running
Dutch Dairy Student Challenge
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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E-business
The E-Business course addresses the business structure for electrionic business, as well as the related technology support of e-business. The focus is on inter-organizational busin...
course - 5 ECTS
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Eating, Customs and Health
Health is related to (good) food. However, not everyone agrees on what good food is. Moreover, not everyone has an equal access to good food. In this course we study identities aro...
course - 6 ECTS
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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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Economic policy
In the introductory part of the course, students gain knowledge about the basics of the formal micro economic theory, with special emphasis on the rationale for policy intervention...
course - 5 ECTS
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Economic policy in practice: social cost benefit analysis
**In 2024-2025 this course is scheduled 2 times Q1 Timeslot C (Cohort ≤ 2022) and Q3, Timeslot C (Cohort 2023)** This course provides students with practical insights into...
course - 5 ECTS
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Economics of innovation: IPR and competition law institutions
**From academic year 2025-2026 this course is scheduled in Quartile 1, Timeslot D** The introduction course in the Economics of Innovation (0SV30) introduced the Innovation S...
course - 5 ECTS
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Economics of innovation: introduction
This course is an introduction to the economic understanding of innovation. It takes the perspective of the firm and deals with the economic incentives and economic consequences of...
course - 5 ECTS
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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
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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
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Empowerment for Sustainability
This course aims to foster a multifaceted understanding of empowerment for sustainability, and to equip you to walk your talk of sustainability. Firstly, it engages you to explore...
course - 6 ECTS
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Energy, economy and society
A reliable, affordable and clean energy supply is of major importance for society, economy and the environment – and will prove to be crucial in the 21st century. You, as future en...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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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Engineering knowledge-intensive business processes
The course introduces students to Knowledge-intensive Processes (KiPs), which are business processes performed by knowledge workers who need to perform interconnected decision-maki...
course - 5 ECTS
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Entrepreneurial marketing
How do you sell an innovative product to a market that does not yet exist? Entrepreneurial businesses often create products and services based on radically new technology that have...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility
The course is divided into two parts. In the first part we clarify the hazard to which business ethics is a response and to identify the idea of conscience in relation to corporate...
course - 5 ECTS
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Entrepreneurship in action
**Last time course is taught: Q1 AY 2024-2025 Last examination year: 2024-2025** In this last project course of the USE sequence “Technology Entrepreneurship” students appl...
course - 5 ECTS
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Environmental Assets for Health
In this course we take a multi-disciplinary approach to environmental determinants of health. Health promotion, disease prevention, urban planning and decision-making come together...
course - 6 ECTS
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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
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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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
Environmental psychology
Environmental psychologists study the role of the environment in explaining human behavior and experience, investigating, for example, the effects of environmental characteristics...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Course is currently running
Ethics and the risk society
We live in a world where we increasingly control and know about the risks imposed on ourselves and others, in technological development, global health, the economy and the environm...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Ethics of technology
The goal of this course is to develop competence in analyzing ethical questions related to the design and use of technology. Students will learn some established Western frameworks...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
EuroTeQ Collider: Entrepreneurship & Innovation
During this innovation-learning journey to enhance your understanding of the societal challenges we face, you will co-create solutions towards a sustainable future. The Col...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Experimental Design and Data Analysis of Breeding Trials
Note 1: This course can not be combined in an individual programme with ABG-30806 Modern Statistics for the Life Sciences (MSLS) Note 2: The period mentioned below is the period...
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment open
Exploring Regenerative Cultures for Sustainability
This course provides a space for students to explore perspectives and practices for regenerative cultures in the context of major societal and environmental challenges of our time....
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment open
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 question...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Course is currently running
Financial decision making in and around technology ventures
New technology ventures and early-stage tech investors are faced with financial decision-making processes that are fundamentally different from those of conventional, established f...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Fisheries Ecology
The course Fisheries Ecology (AFI30806) deals with the ecology of fishes and other aquatic organisms in relation to the exploitation of aquatic resources. Direct and indirect effec...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Course is currently running
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 Te...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Food Law
Food Law (LAW22806) 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
Course is currently running
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
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
Course is currently running
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
No current offerings
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
Course is currently running
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
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
No current offerings
From industrial ecology to a circular economy: mass flow based concepts
In this course we will focus on mass flows: natural mass flows (nutrient cycles, including the carbon cycle); flows through the industrial system (materials, processes, products) a...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
No current offerings
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
Enrolment open
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 modern biology w...
course - 6 ECTS
Only 4 days to enrol
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
Enrolment open
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
Only 4 days to enrol
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
Enrolment open
Fundamentals of Product Innovation for Premasters
**Please note that if you need to follow this course as a homologation course, you can also follow 1ZP50H in Q4.** The course ‘Fundamentals of Product Innovation for premaste...
course - 2.5 ECTS
No current offerings
Fundamentals of algorithmic programming for Operations Management
- variables and types - operators and expressions - conditional statements, loops and functions - Data preparation and reporting - Integration with tools and libraries - Basic algo...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Fundamentals of business information systems
Modern organisations need business information systems to support their internal operations and their interactions with external parties (suppliers, customers, competitors, governm...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Fundamentals of financial and management accounting
The following topics will be covered in the course: - Financial Accounting topics:Double entry bookkeepingBalance sheet and Income statementAccounting conventions. - Management Acc...
course - 5 ECTS
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Fundamentals of product innovation
The course ‘Fundamentals of Product Innovation’ is built around lectures and assignments. The lectures start by explaining the overall purpose and objectives of product innovation...
course - 5 ECTS
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Game theory with applications to operations management
Decision making by various entities can result in conflict or cooperation between these entities. Game theory deals with the mathematical modelling of these situations of conflict...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
General Toxicology
Introductory course on basic principles in toxicology, organ-specific toxic effects and risk assessment.
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
No current offerings
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
Course is currently running
Global sustainability and Innovation
The course Global Sustainability and Innovation deepens critical debates on sustainable development introduced in 0SV00. The course takes a global perspective, invenstigating...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
Course is currently running
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. As a consequence, the deve...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Health Psychology
Students will get acquainted with theories and research methods common in the field of health psychology. Topics that are addressed centre around three themes: - predicting and c...
course - 6 ECTS
Only 4 days to enrol
Health information systems
**As from 2023-2024 scheduled in Quartile 2 timeslot D** The course provides an introduction to major information technology and information management functions within ou...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
No current offerings
Healthcare management and modeling
In controlling processes in healthcare we have to find a balance between patient demand en care supply. In this course we develop a framework for the planning of patient logistics,...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
History of housing and cities
80% of our built environment consists of housing; its quality has a major influence on the quality of the city. Furthermore, housing is one of the important lenses at the disposal...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Only 4 days to enrol
Human Geography
Note 1: This course can not be combined in an individual programme with GEO-20406 Human Geography: Theory and Practices. The course provides an overview of the reciprocal rela...
course - 6 ECTS
Course is currently running
Human Geography: Theory and Practice
Note: This course can not be combined in an individual programme with GEO10306 Human Geography. In this foundational course students learn to combine theoretical and conceptual t...
course - 6 ECTS
No current offerings
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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
Course is currently running
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
No current offerings
Human factors
In this course, we will study how to design technological artifacts, systems, and environments in such a way that they support and enable the human brain to do what it does best. S...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Human-AI Interaction
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been introduced to many realms of human activity. AI already profoundly impacts our society, and will only increase in importance in the future. On...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Human-robot interaction
Robots interact with people in ever more profound ways as they are being used in domestic and public environments. These environments are typically unknown, dynamically changing an...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
No current offerings
ID Green – design perspectives on sustainability
Sustainability is one of the major topics of our age and the landscape of sustainability is huge, divers and complex. So, what is sustainability in the context of Industrial Design...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
ITEC-Ethics of technology and engineering
How does one engineer for a rapidly changing world? And how can one use engineering to make the world a better place? In order to be successful, technological innovations must take...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Only 4 days to enrol
Innovating by design
The course is directly related with the areas of consumer behavior and research, user centered design, design driven innovation, and the marketing and sales of new products.
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Innovation and entrepreneurship study
Key aspects during this course are: - Interaction with a company: your goal is to tackle a company business challenge, make recommendation, and do your best to have an impact! This...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Innovation camp: bootcamp for transformative approaches to energy, mobility and smart cities
Cities around the world face numerous challenges. In particular, urban energy and mobility systems are under pressure due to the increasing resource depletion and climate change. T...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Innovation space project: innovation and entrepreneurship processes
This course aims develop competences of future engineers by identifying solutions thanks to challenge-based entrepreneurship applied in a set of interdisciplinary student teams, wo...
course - 10 ECTS
Enrolment open
Innovation space project: innovation through art & design
This course will focus on the intersection between art & technology, and enables Challenge-Based Learning. You can choose from a variety of challenges brought in by professional...
course - 10 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Only 4 days to enrol
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
Only 4 days to enrol
Integrated financial and operations management
This course aims to provide students with theoretical knowledge needed for comprehension of management models that integrate financial and operational decisions. Students will unde...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
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
Only 4 days to enrol
Intellectual property rights for new ventures
This course is an introduction to intellectual property rights, e.g. patent law and, to a lesser extent, to copyright law and design rights law as legal areas of prime importance t...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
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
Only 4 days to enrol
Intermediate finance and accounting
**As from 2024-2025 scheduled in Quartile 2 timeslot B** The first part of this course builds upon the material taught in 1CV10. In particular, students learn how to create a...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Only 4 days to enrol
International Food Law
International Food Law (LAW-31806) addresses major aspects of food regulation and policy, looking at food safety, quality and sustainability in a global context. The course analyse...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Only 4 days to enrol
International development and sustainability (Master level)
*(Please note that this course exists as a master level and bachelor level course. This is the description of the master level course. For the bachelor level course, please go to c...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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 nutri...
course - 3 ECTS
No current offerings
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
Only 4 days to enrol
Introduction psychology and technology
The focus in this course is on the potential relevance for applications in the field of human-technology interaction and the psychology of technical innovation. The lectures in the...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Introduction to Animal behaviour
Introduction to Animal Behaviour - will introduce you to the fundamental topics involved in Animal Behaviour research. You will learn not only what animals do, but also how scienti...
course - 1 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
No current offerings
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
Enrolment open
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
No current offerings
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
No current offerings
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
Enrolment open
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 and other areas from foreign antigens, such as...
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment open
Introduction to Law for the Life and Social Sciences
What are the goals of the law and why is it not always easy to achieve them? How can the law affect land and marine ecosystems? What is the correlation between environment and trad...
course - 6 ECTS
No current offerings
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 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
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
Laboratory Safety
At WUR we value your safety. Working in a laboratory environment exposes you to specific risks: you work with (very) harmfull substances that can cause serious injury or even death...
course - 0 ECTS
Course is currently running
Landau theory and the statics and dynamics of phase transitions
This course is part of the elective programme of the Applied Physics Masters Programme in the Graduate School (and is provided by the department of Applied Physics). The Land...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Large-scale optimization for transport & mobility
The lectures cover an overview of (meta-)heuristic solution techniques for solving large-scale optimization problems arising in transport and mobility. The course discusses constru...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
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
Enrolment open
Leadership development and self-management in organizations
Major topics covered: - Historical perspectives on leadership - Contemporary leadership frameworks - Leadership development strategies - Developing personal development plans - Str...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Leadership of innovation and change
In this course, students will develop a thorough understanding of how leadership and management practices impact human functioning and change processes in complex, fast-paced, and...
course - 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 - Introducing epistemic recontextualism
The terms "post-truth" and "post-factual" mark a shift in public discussions. These shifts are characterized by the fact that it is not so much the scientific validity of statement...
course - 6 ECTS
No current offerings
Learning and Instruction Theory
This course offers students a theoretical background in the domain of learning and instruction at an introductory (BSc) level. The course specifically focuses on learning and instr...
course - 6 ECTS
Course is currently running
Legal Transformation and Regulation of Food Systems
This course offers a comprehensive overview of EU agri-food policies and the crucial role EU institutions play in shaping them. On the basis of a systematic analysis from ‘farm to...
course - 6 ECTS
Course is currently running
Let's make humans better: enhancement, technology & transhumanism
Daedalus famously designed wings so his son Icarus could fly, but Icarus ignored his father's warnings, flew to close to the sun, and fell to his death. Humans have long desired...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Linked Data
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
Course is currently running
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 an...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
MOOC Development
This course is part of a student challenge (design contest) aimed at designing and developing a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or comparable online course in a multidisciplinary...
course - 6 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
Maintenance and service logistics
We start with a brief overview of what is needed for managing the availability of advanced technical systems, and we discuss the perspectives of manufacturers and users of such sys...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Management of human behavior in organizations (Non IE)
General: This course is about the human factor in all types of organizations. The focus is on phenomena which are the result of psychological processes in organizations. This is of...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Managing & organizing open innovation
This course will introduce open innovation as a model of collaborative innovation that assumes that knowledge for innovation is distributed, and organizations need to rely on knowl...
course - 5 ECTS
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Managing innovation processes: Agile, SCRUM, and other innovation tools
The course *Management of Product Development* focuses on the challenges faced and decisions to be made when managing new product development processes as a member of a product dev...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Managing sustainable technology
Drawing on insights from the field of sustainability transitions, innovation sciences and STS (Science and Technology) studies, Managing Sustainable Technology course introduces st...
course - 5 ECTS
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Managing sustainable technology challenges in practice
During this course, groups of students learn to practically operationalize insights and tools from the fields of Science and Technology Studies and Sustainability Transitions and a...
course - 5 ECTS
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Managing team dynamics and team performance
In this course students will obtain deeper understanding of the relationship between team processes and team performance and how management can contribute to the optimalization of...
course - 5 ECTS
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Manufacturing technology
This course is designed to equip students with an overview of a wide variety of manufacturing processes and systems. The fundamental principles of manufacturing processes will be d...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
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
Enrolment open
Marketing and innovation
In the course, an NPD framework is used, highlighting customers' roles at different stages of the process. A blended learning approach (video lectures, oral lectures, videos, and c...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Marketing in action
Strategic marketing, competitive environment, market research, customer value, innovative versus established markets, first mover advantage, segmentation, targeting, and positionin...
course - 5 ECTS
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Massively Parallel Algorithms
In this course students will learn parallel (more speciﬁc, MapReduce) algorithms for analyzing massive networks. MapReduce algorithms distribute the node and connection data of the...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Only 4 days to enrol
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
Enrolment open
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 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
Enrolment open
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
No current offerings
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
Enrolment open
Microeconomics
Theory of Consumer Choice - budget constraint - preferences - utility - choice - demand - price and income changes Firm behaviour - cost of production - cost curves - firm supply...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Microscale modeling of heat storage materials
For designing heat storage materials and devices, a good physical understanding of the phenomena is needed and proper (numerical) models are required. On the nano- and microscales...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems
In this course, we treat quantitative models to design, control and optimize discrete manufacturing systems. In particular, we focus on analytical models and approximations to eval...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Course is currently running
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
Course is currently running
Molecular Systems Biology
Nowadays increasing numbers of complete genomic sequences are available and methods have been developed to study system wide gene expression, protein interaction and metabolite for...
course - 6 ECTS
Only 4 days to enrol
Molecular and Evolutionary Ecology
Have you ever wondered how you can: - determine the origin of wolves crossing the Dutch border? - find out what bears eat, even if you only have access to their poo? - determine th...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Multi-echelon inventory management
1. Basics of inventory management: Quantitative analysis of single item, single echelon models 2. Basics of supply chain management 3. Analysis of serial supply chains 4. Analysis...
course - 5 ECTS
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Multivariate statistics
An important characteristic of business processes (think: marketing, sales, service, human resources, new product development, procurement) is that a single outcome is usually infl...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
National Food Laws in Comparative Perspective
The objective of this course is to understand how core issues in the agri-food chain are regulated in different jurisdictions and to develop skills to carry out comparative legal r...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
Natural Resource Economics and Management
This course deals with the efficient and sustainable use of natural resources. The key question is how intensely a resource should be exploited, considering the typical properties...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Network society
This is a MSc level course on social network theory and analysis. Network analysis focuses on relationships between or among social entities (which can be individuals and/or organi...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
New product marketing
Marketing environment, consumer behavior, segmentation, targeting, and positioning, product, price, promotion, place.
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
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. Further, these processes ar...
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Course is currently running
Nutrition and Health Part 1: Macronutrients and Overnutrition
This course is not offered in this academic year anymore. It is however possible to take resits for this course when you attended this course in a previous year.For the description...
course - 2 ECTS
No current offerings
Nutrition and Health Part 2: Micronutrients and Undernutrition
This course is not offered in this academic year anymore. It is however possible to take resits for this course when you attended this course in a previous year.For the description...
course - 2 ECTS
No current offerings
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
No current offerings
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
Only 4 days to enrol
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
Course is currently running
OGO qualitative methods for observation, analysis and reporting
Focus is on qualitative data as can be obtained from observation of behaviour in naturalistic and laboratory settings. After some theory introduction, students in small groups will...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
OGO quantitative research
**From academic year 2025-2026 this course is scheduled in Quartile 1, Timeslot B** This course provides students with advanced experience in performing quantitative research...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
OGO sustainable innovation: integration project
**From 2025-2026 this course is scheduled in Quartile 2, Timeslot E** The major Sustainable Innovation is a multi-disciplinary major building upon technical, economic and soc...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Organisational behaviour for industrial engineering
**In 2024-2025 this course is scheduled 2 times Q1 Timeslot B (Cohort ≤ 2022) and Q2, Timeslot E (Cohort 2023)** Major topics covered: - Top-down and bottom up job design - W...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Orientation on Teaching and Training Practice
In this course, students will apply their educational skills in a real-life situation (small internship/practical). These practical experiences can be obtained in a secondary schoo...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Perception and motor control
This course addresses the fundamental basics of the perception action cycle. This includes the following topics: Psychophysics and signal detection theory - perceptual processe...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Performance enhancement
More than ever, companies rely on excellent performance to survive and thrive in their industries. Hence, what do high performing individuals, teams, and organizations do different...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Only 4 days to enrol
Perspectives on medical technology
Medical technologies are pervasive in healthcare. Both inside and outside the clinical setting, state-of-the-art technology offers treatment options, research insights, and opportu...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
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
Course is currently running
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
Course is currently running
Philosophy and ethics of AI
This course introduces philosophical and ethical issues in artificial intelligence, and provides basic training in philosophical analysis and ethical evaluation. Theoretical i...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Philosophy of science and technology
Science and technology are amazing phenomena, which have (had) an enormous impact on our lives, but, what exactly is so special about them? In this course, we analyse the various a...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
No current offerings
Physiology and Development of Plants in Horticulture
Protected horticulture depends on modifying the physical environment of an enclosed space so as to improve the growth and quality of plants. The course comprises plant physiology a...
course - 6 ECTS
No current offerings
Plant Breeding
Note: This course cannot be combined in an individual programme with PBR22803 Principles of Plant Breeding (online), since it largely covers the same topics. This course introduc...
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment open
Plant Breeding
Note: this course will start in 2025/26. This course will not be delivered in 2024/25. This course introduces students to key principles of plant breeding. Plant breeding is t...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment period not yet defined
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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
Only 4 days to enrol
Population and Quantitative Genetics
This course explains genetic and molecular evolution and their relationship to phenotypic evolution, of natural, captive and domesticated populations of living organisms, ranging f...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
Pre-breeding
Note: This course can not be combined in an individual programme with PBR-33803 Germplasm and Seed Technology (online), because of overlap. In contrast to PBR-22303 Plant Breedin...
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment open
Preventive Health Challenge: Redefining Real-Life Problems with Transdisciplinary Solutions
This course is not offered in this academic year anymore. It is however possible to take resits for this course when you attended this course in a previous year.For the description...
course - 6 ECTS
No current offerings
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
No current offerings
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
No current offerings
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
Enrolment open
Process Algebra
The following topics will be addressed in every installment of the course: semantic models of behaviour; sequential composition, parallel composition, abstraction, recursion; s...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
Production and inventory control (non IE)
Functional classifications of inventories, forecasting methods, deterministic inventory models, stochastic inventory models, framework for production planning, aggregate production...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Project and process management
This is a highly quantitative course where students are expected to have a firm knowledge of linear programming and simulation. In this course, we deal with a variety of non-repeti...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Project management
Planning work activities, costs and budgets, activity scheduling (PERT/CPM), resource allocation, and project execution (information requirements and control).
course - 2.5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Project robots everywhere
The project Robots Everywhere is the final subject of the USE-course sequence of the same name. During one quartile, groups of 5 to 6 students define their own challenge in the are...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Proof techniques for IE
Proof techniques: - What is a theorem or lemma? - How to formulate a theorem or lemma? - What is a proof? - Why do we prove? - What do we prove? - How do we prove? - Direct proof -...
course - 3 ECTS
Course is currently running
Protein engineering
In this course important methods and techniques (both molecular-biological and chemical) will be discussed that can be used to develop new proteins with new and biomedically attrac...
course - 2.5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Proving with Computer Assistance
### Please note that the the lecture is not completely in slot A. The lectures are scheduled on Thursdays hours 3+4 and 5+6 - Type systems, especially simply typed, dependently typ...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Psychology of light and time
Light, darkness and color have a profound impact on biological and psychological processes, far beyond ergonomics and performance on visual tasks. Whereas aspects of visual perform...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
Qualitative Data Analysis Methods
This advanced course is for students in any program who must analyze qualitative data either to prepare more quantitative data collection methods (e.g. surveys) or to draw qualitat...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Quality and reliability engineering
Quality and reliability engineering is becoming increasingly important because of the intense global competition and higher customer expectations. Manufacturers have to develop pro...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Quantified Self: Using wearables and apps to monitor Physiology and Behaviour
In this course, students will learn about state-of-the-art technologies and devices (e.g. smart watches, activity trackers) in the field of dietary behaviour, lifestyle and health....
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Quantitative modeling and analysis of business processes
In this course students learn - How to construct a descriptive model (input variables, output variables) - How to create a prescriptive model (objective function, decision variable...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Rational agents: robots & artificial intelligence
The course will show what is needed to build up towards an artificial intelligent agent, in three steps (I-III). Before making those steps, we will start with a discussion of the b...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
No current offerings
Research methods
The course is aimed at Master level students who want to conduct operations management research. Students will develop an understanding of the various methods that can be used in o...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
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
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
Resource competition worldwide: Issues and perspectives
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
No current offerings
Responsible Learning Organization 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 a company's license to operate is...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open
Retail operations
We will mainly focus on food and general merchandise (e.g. fashion) retailers. The following topics will be covered: - Introduction to the world of retailing: the Dutch environment...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Revenue Management and Pricing Analytics
We first provide a general overview of the field ofrevenue management and pricing (PRO Chapter 1 and 2, TVR Chapter 1). We then proceed with three parts: *Quantity-based revenue ma...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Robust decision making
We are living in a world with lots of uncertainties. Weather conditions, prices, and traffic jams are only a few uncertainties that we are encountering in our daily life. Societal...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Only 4 days to enrol
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
Only 4 days to enrol
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
Course is currently running
Servitization and Customer Experience
Services dominate most developed economies, representing approximately 75% of the labor force and gross domestic product. Yet traditionally, many management, marketing, and enginee...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
Signals and systems
The course Signals and Systems covers the basics of signal and system analysis, adapted to the knowledge and demands of engineers, and includes the mathematical skills for handling...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Smart healthy urban environments
Cities are booming and constitute the heart of economic and cultural developments. At the same time, cities face complex challenges, such as growing inequality, higher levels of ai...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
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
No current offerings
Social and environmental psychology
Social and environmental psychology study how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or the implied presence of others as well as t...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Social innovation and sustainable employability
The Bachelor Course Social Innovation and Sustainable Employability, abbreviated SISE, provides an appealing study of contemporary debates on themes such as social innovation and s...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Social media & life online. Citizens, consumers & the designed online world
How is our “Life Online” influencing our ‘real-world’ behavior? To what extent are our well-being and our actions shaped by the apps and media that we use? And what does this imply...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Social robots
This course first describes the emergence of the vision that social robots will be broadly deployed in our society. Then we identify some key technical characteristics of social ro...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Social-Scientific Analysis of Environmental Issues
This course provides an introduction to some of the theoretical underpinnings of social-science research through which environmental issues can be studied. But what is the nature o...
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment open
Sociology & social network analysis
This course extends insights of earlier courses, such as ‘Introduction Psychology & Technology’ in the sense that it takes in a broader societal perspective: we examine how the bro...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Solar cells
Properties of light, properties of (inorganic and polymer) semiconductors , properties of a p-n junction. Principles of photovoltaic energy conversion discussed with the case stu...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Only 4 days to enrol
Statistics for Sustainable Innovation
The first part of the course focuses on probability theory: - Sample space, events, probability, axioms. - Probability rules, conditional probability, independence, Bayes' theorem,...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Stochastic modeling in inventory and production control
Students from other TU/e bachelors than Industrial Engineering lack basic knowledge about topics such as production and inventory control and the theory of probability and stochast...
course - 2.5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Supercrunchers: the human in an era of data science
More and more data about people and organizations are being collected and present-day computing power also allows such data to be analyzed and used for analytic and predictive purp...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
Sustainability Transitions: Concepts, Issues and Indicators
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
Course is currently running
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
No current offerings
Sustainability assessment for decision making
**Last year course is taught: 2023/2024 Last examination year: 2024/2025 The course was last taught last academic year 2023/2024 and this year (2024/2025) this course is being...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
Only 4 days to enrol
Sustainability perspectives on product innovation
The course “Sustainability Perspectives on Product Innovation” will be taught via a blend of (theory and guest) lectures, assignments, tutorials and self-study. Topics that will be...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Sustainability transitions and responsible innovation
Contemporary societies face persistent problems - such as climate change, plastic pollution and biodiversity loss - that require transformations in how human needs for mobility, en...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Sustainable Energy Sources
The course treats relevant aspects of sustainable energy systems and consists of 2 parts: **PART A** : General concepts, principles and methods: The course concentrates o...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
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
Enrolment open
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
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
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
Course is currently running
Sustainable buildings/physical aspects of building materials
The sustainable building module addresses the integral sustainability of buildings, construction materials and products. This is done by considering the raw materials, way of produ...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Sustainable development - introduction
This course introduces students to the concept of 'sustainable development' in a global context. Over the last four to five decades, this concept has become increasingly visible in...
course - 2.5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Sustainable development in a global context
This course introduces students to the concept of 'sustainable development' in a global context. Over the last four to five decades, this concept has become increasingly visible in...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Sustainable supply chains
We cover topics such as energy and climate, life cycle assessment, scarcity of resources, business implications of sustainability, closed-loop supply chains, carbon allocation and...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Sustainable technology in society: introduction
We live in a technological world. In our everyday life we use technologies all the time when we cook, communicate and travel. Businesses cannot operate without technologies. Govern...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
System dynamics
Why is achieving innovation so difficult? Why do many efforts to produce impactful and lasting results fail? Why is building sustainable organizational capabilities for achieving i...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Systems Analysis and Modelling
Note that this course can not be combined in an individual programme with FEM-31806 ‘Models for Ecological Systems’. Systems approaches are widely used in studies of ecological s...
course - 6 ECTS
Course is currently running
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
Enrolment open
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
This course serves various individual learning trajectories in the field of education and learning sciences i.e. (1) the development of tutoring/teaching skills to use when assisti...
course - 3 ECTS
Course is currently running
Teaching and Training Skills I
This course focuses on the development of both teaching and training skills. These skills are necessary for preparing, delivering and/or facilitating presentations, colloquia, work...
course - 3 ECTS
Enrolment open
Technology entrepreneurship
Throughout this course, you will learn to apply flexible and adaptive approaches towards decision making in new business development along with more familiar planning and predictio...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Technology forecasting
**(Warning: this is a challenge-based course. Students are expected to work independently, and proactively, on an open-ended problem.)** The development of a new technology i...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
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
Enrolment open
The quantified self in health
Health problems and the accompanying costs (healthcare, social, economic) are an ever increasing problem. The extremely high demands on the current care system ask for a new approa...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Theories on Education and Learning in Society
This course offers students a theoretical background in the domain of education and learning at an introductory level. The course focuses on education and learning in formal educat...
course - 3 ECTS
Only 4 days to enrol
Thermal energy storage and demand
**Part A Technology** - Energy storage in general: why and when needed; different types; general principles, analogies between thermal and electrical energy storage - Heat storage...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Thinking and deciding
By means of the literature and lectures, students will be introduced into these two interdisciplinary fields: - Cognitive science: How do people perceive and understand the world,...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
Topological Data Analysis
Topological data analysis is an approach to the analysis of datasets using techniques from topology. One of the key messages around topological data analysis is that data has shape...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Transport and distribution
In this course, we cover both the transportation business and the optimization of its operations. We study transport decision-making on all three levels of the decision hierarchy (...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Transport in porous media
After having first introduced the basic concepts, we will consider a number of themes based on articles: moisture and ion transport in porous media, water/oil transport, fire beh...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Urban planet
This class provides a high-intensity introduction to the history and theory of global urbanisation. Drawing from an interdisciplinary literature ranging from planning and urban the...
course - 5 ECTS
Enrolment open
Urban trends and strategies
Science of cities - City fundamentals - Evolution of cities - Cities, states and global networks - Economic geography of cities - Regional housing and labor markets - Political sci...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
User experience design (design track A)
The course aims to provide the theoretical background on human experiences mediated by interactive technologies as well as practical, hands-on experience with designing and assessi...
course - 5 ECTS
No current offerings
Warehouse operations management
Many large and smaller firms see warehousing as a core business. Based on its location in Europe and expertise of its logistic service providers, the Netherlands is a major site fo...
course - 5 ECTS
Course is currently running
eXtended Realities and the Future of Communication
The course offers an introduction to and discussion of how immersive technologies transform environmental communication and understanding. This course will provide students with th...
course - 6 ECTS
Enrolment open

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