Topics in Modern English Linguistics (ENGL0076)

Aims: This module introduces students in the first year to thinking like an economist. Students will be encouraged to read and write critically, and to give...

An Introduction to Economic Thinking (ECON0009)

Aims: This module introduces students in the first year to thinking like an economist. Students will be encouraged to read and write critically, and to give presentations in front of their peers. This means going beyond the mathematical tools developed in the other first year modules and developing a deeper understanding of the basic principles of economics and their applications. In particular, students will learn how to use important concepts like opportunity costs or compensating differentials in the context of everyday events rather than just in a numerical problem-solving setting. Students will gain experience in writing like an economist, presenting their work, and working in teams to analyse real world problems.

Suitable for: 1st year BSc Economics (L100, L101 and L102) students (those taking ECON0002: Economics concurrently).

Prerequisites: Taking ECON0002 concurrently.

Assumed knowledge: The term 1 material from ECON0002 and familiarity with basic statistics (measures of central tendency) and linear regressions.

This course will focus on the so-called millennial generation of writers in Dutch that has risen to prominence in the first two decades of the 21st century. We...

The Contemporary in Dutch Literature (DUTC0010)

This course will focus on the so-called millennial generation of writers in Dutch that has risen to prominence in the first two decades of the 21st century. We will analyze the main motives, forms and issues of their work, and ask if we can discern a particular ‘structure of feeling’ and sense to the literature of this generation. The module will develop an understanding of contemporary fiction in terms of affective crisis and repair. The discussion of this generation’s literature will be dealt with both diachronically (in relation to former literary tendencies) and synchronically (in relation to contemporary culture and society).

Primary reading may include work by Lieke Marsman, David Nolens, Nina Polak, Koen Sels, Niña Weijers.

Preparatory Reading

Demeyer, H. & Vitse S. 2021. Affectieve crisis, literair herstel. De romans van de millennialgeneratie. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
	Olnon, M & Van Dijk, Y. 2015. ‘Radicaal relationisme. Het andere engagement in de jongste Nederlandse literatuur’. In: De Gids, 178, 3.
	Vaessens, T. 2009. De revanche van de roman: Literatuur, autoriteit en engagement. Nijmegen: Vantilt.