September 22 – October 3: Exchange Program with students from South Africa
Exchange Program Formula I
at the The University of Humanistic Studies
Utrecht, the Netherlands
September 22 – October 3 2013
On behalf of the Rector of the University of Humanistic Studies (UvH), Prof. Gerty Lensvelt-Mulders, and the entire UvH staff – and student community, I warmly welcome the exchange students and their mentor, from the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
We hope that your stay in the Netherlands and at the UvH in particular, will be an interesting and meaningful experience for you. We have developed a program for you which is in line with the UFS mission to understand Higher Education as an Academic ànd a Human project. It means that we hope to engage you academically as well as personally and that your stay with us will open new perspectives which challenge you to critically question the world we live in, the knowledge we develop and value and help you to rethink your own possibilities and vulnerabilities as a university student in South Africa in 2013.
The two week program will firstly involve an introduction to Humanist Studies and Humanism and the ways in which we engage with humanist values, academic knowledge and transformative practices in society. You will attend several lectures within existing Bachelor – and Master programs. For each lecture, you will be given a corresponding academic texts which UvH students are required to read in preparation. Here the idea is that you may not be able to understand everything that is said or read, but that it will allow you to “taste” what it means to study at a different university in a western European country. In addition there are plenty of meetings with young UvH students, in class, in their homes and during excursions to Amsterdam, Zaanstad and The Hague.
Caroline Suransky
See program.