African Dynamics (LDE)
CT-MI-220
Africa has undergone significant transformations in the past decades and this is likely to accelerate. Current projections indicate that the continent’s population will double in the next 30 years, with more than half of its people living in urbanised environments. The subsequent growing demand for food, water, energy, land, infrastructure, health services, education, jobs, etc. can be powerful drivers of growth, but may also present severe social, economic, and environmental threats.
The way in which Africa unfolds will greatly impact the course of the world’s shared future in the 21st century.
The African Dynamics LDE minor aims to capacitate students from different disciplines to identify, track, and strengthen Africa’s role in the globalised world by fusing expertise in the humanities, social and natural sciences and technology.
As one of the world’s leading academic knowledge institutions entirely devoted to the study of Africa, the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) is the lead faculty, and its research library functions as the knowledge hub for this minor.
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
ECs: 30
Language: English
Minor code: CT-MI-220
Maximum participants: 30
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Criteria: Applications have to be submitted via EduXchange in the period 15 May until 31 May together with a Background and Commitment) | |
For whom?
This course is for selected students from Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam.
African Dynamics capacitates students from different disciplines who would like to learn to identify, track, and help strengthening Africa’s role in the globalised world by fusing expertise in the humanities, social and natural sciences and technology. Because multi-occupational and cross sectoral methods are required to understand and sustain our technologically advanced and complex globalized world.
What will you learn
After completing the minor, students will:
- Be able to identify, track, and help strengthening Africa’s role in the globalised world.
- Build their understanding of integrated and sustainable development approaches in Africa from leading academics of all three universities.
Course overview
This minor offers students a valuable opportunity to build their understanding of integrated and sustainable development approaches in Africa from leading academics of all three universities. The course consists of two separate blocks, the first block imparts foundational theoretical knowledge and the second block affords students an opportunity to apply their knowledge, build networks and experience Africa in reality.
As one of the world’s leading academic knowledge institutions entirely devoted to the study of Africa, the African Studies Centre Leiden is the lead faculty for the LDE African Dynamics Minor. The ASCL research library with one of the best Africana collections in Europe, will function as a hub of this knowledge.
Education methods
Lectures, seminars, discussions, debates, group work, online courses, virtual exchanges, etc. Innovative education and collaborative learning strategies encourage independent learning and the co-creation of knowledge.
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Contact
Maurits Ertsen
- +31 15 2787423
- m.w.ertsen@tudelft.nl
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Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Room: 4.81