Course selection
The course selection varies each year. On this page, you will find courses offered in 2026–2027.
Please note: Some of the current selection of courses originate from programmes that are no longer offered as such - for example, what used to be known as Bachelor Honours Classes, or the former faculty Honours College tracks. You may come across these names in the news items below, but they are no longer applicable.
Courses year 1
In 2026-2027, the following first-year Honours College courses are offered:
- Archaeology & Society
- Environmental Humanities
- Governing Science, Society and Expertise
- Negotiations Lab
- Ondernemerschap en psychologie (in Dutch)
- Post-COVID belicht (in Dutch)
- Science Skills Lab
- Social Science Lab
Courses years 2 and 3
In 2026–2027, around thirty courses will be offered to second- and third-year honours students (5 or 10 EC). Prospectus will be published June 1st. For now, you can view the full selection of courses via the drop-down menu:
Semester 1 (2026-2027)
First semester, 5 EC courses:
- A Better World Is Possible
- Argumentative and Rhetorical Strategies
- Excellentie voor de Klas (in Dutch)*
- International Politics of Climate Change
- Negotiations Lab
- Over Feiten & Fabels (in Dutch)**
- Preventing Polarisation
- Redefining Global Governance
- Strategic Foresight for Future Leaders
- The Architecture of Good Government
- The Truth Behind Quantified Self
*only for students at the Faculty of Science
**only for students from Humanities, LUMC and Social Sciences
First semester, 10 EC courses:
These are one-year courses that start in the first semester and continue in the second semester.
- An Ever‑Changing World: Diplomacy in Action
- Archaeology and the Museum
- Law, Gender, and Technology
- Space & Society
Semester 2 (2026-2027)
Second semester, 5 EC courses:
- Advanced Political Economy: Unequal Prosperity
- Authoritarian Expansionism
- City Lab
- Culture as Soft Power
- Data Governance and Policymaking
- Data Science
- Designing Your Life
- Effective Altruism and Security Studies
- Global Security and Collective Action
- Healthy AI (in Dutch)
- Language, Power and Identity
- Role of International Actors in Achieving the SDGs
Second semester, 10 EC courses:
These are courses that start in the second semester and finish that same semester.
- Netherlands Asia Honours Summerschool*
- Planet in Peril
*This course is organised nationally and therefore has a different selection procedure. Check out the prospectus after 1 June 2026 for more information.
The news items below refer to previous editions of courses that will also be offered in 2026–2027. Please note that specific information may be outdated.
