Country : Netherland
City : Amsterdam
Passport : Regular
Passport
Visa : Student residence permit
and visa (called MVV)
University : University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Major : Literary Studies : Literary and
Cultural Analysis
Degree programme : BA
Literary Studies
Type : Regular study programme
Mode : Full-time, part-time
Credits : 180 ECTS, 36 months
Language of instruction : English
CROHO code : 56802
The reasons for choosing UvA are :
1. Rankings
The UvA scores highly in various
world university rankings (Times Higher Education, Shanghai; Centre of Higher
Education Development, Leiden). It is ranked among the top 20 universities in
Europe and the top 100 worldwide.
2. Range of study programmes
The UvA has one of the largest
selections of international Master's study programmes of any university in
Europe, with over 130 taught in English and several entirely unique to the UvA.
3. Depth of study programmes
Students benefit from excellent
academic career paths, with multiple options to pursue a study within or across
disciplines, from the Bachelor's up to the PhD level and beyond. Teaching and
research are closely linked in all Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes at the
UvA.
4. International research networks
The UvA is a member of the League
of European Research Universities (LERU) and of Universitas 21, a leading
global network of research-intensive universities. It is also an active partner
in many EU-wide initiatives with other universities and research institutions.
5. History
The UvA's open, tolerant and
international academic tradition dates back to 1632, when its predecessor the
Athenaeum Illustre was founded. With almost 30,000 students, it is now one of
the largest comprehensive research universities in Europe.
6. Quality of life
Amsterdam was ranked 11th out of
200 cities worldwide in Mercer's 2015 ‘Quality of Living Survey’. In the
pan-European 'International Student Barometer', 94% of students polled were
satisfied with safety, and 91% said Amsterdam was 'the place to be'.
7. Practical support
Some 3,000 international degree
and exchange students from over 90 countries are presently enrolled at the UvA.
They are actively supported by UvA staff and fellow students during their time
in Amsterdam. The UvA helps with practical matters such as opening a bank
account, applying for visas and finding accommodation.
8. Career prospects
The presence of numerous Dutch
and international businesses (e.g. Philips, ING, Heineken), academic
institutions and cultural organisations makes Amsterdam the commercial, social
and artistic heart of the Netherlands and a prestigious global business centre.
9. Prime location
Amsterdam is well connected for
travel within Europe and has excellent links to the rest of world. The city has
long been a cultural and commercial crossroads, and offers students access to
the many arts, entertainment and social activities of a capital city. The UvA's
faculties are located in or near the centre of the city or in the
state-of-the-art Amsterdam Science Park.
10. Personal development
The study programmes at the UvA
offer students a high level of autonomy, reflecting the respect for individual
opinions and convictions that is characteristic of Dutch society. The result is
an interactive teaching style that encourages students to develop self-reliance
and independent thought.
The reasons for choosing Literary and Cultural Analysis in
Uva are :
·
Unique, interdisciplinary programme: the degree combines the best of two
disciplines – Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature – offering
unique philosophical and political insights into art, literature and popular
culture;
·
Tailor-made programme: we will be able to combine our core courses
with electives in Media Studies, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Art
History and History;
·
Vibrant community with an international outlook: we will be taught by leading intellectuals
focused on contemporary global developments in a student community made up or
more than 60 nationalities;
·
Springboard to an academic career: the Bachelor's in Literary and Cultural
Analysis is the perfect springboard to our Master’s or Research Master’s
degrees in Cultural or Literary Studies, allowing us to pursue an academic
career leading to a PhD;
Literary
and Cultural Analysis major in UvA also has good reputation, for example :
·
UvA is
ranked 52nd in the world and 1st in the Netherlands in the Arts and Humanities
category of the QS World University Rankings 2015.
·
UvA is
ranked 45th in the THE Top 100 sub-ranking for the Arts and Humanities (Times
Higher Education World University Rankings 2015).
·
UvA is
member of LERU (League of European Research Universities), an exclusive network
of renowned research universities.
·
UvA is
a member of Universitas 21, the network of leading research-intensive
universities in the 21st century in 13 countries.
Beside, I have an active interest in contemporary
culture, literature and the arts, and I am fascinated by philosophical and
political questions. Thus, the bachelor’s programme in Literary and Cultural Analysis really suits me.
Study programme
Literary and Cultural Analysis
The Bachelor's degree
in Literary and Cultural Analysis is a three-year programme worth 180 ECTS. The
programme is taught entirely in English.
The programme combines core courses with electives in a
wide range of subjects. Throughout the programme, you will have the opportunity
to develop your own ideas and hone your skills through interactive case
studies, focused on concrete cultural issues. You are also encouraged to pick
an additional minor (in a subject of your choice), learn another language,
study a semester abroad or do an internship.
First year
The first year consists of compulsory courses introducing
the fields, various methods of analysis and interpretation, and key theoretical
concepts. Some examples of the courses.
·
Introduction to Literary and Cultural
Analysis. This course highlights the most
important ideas, approaches, debates, and topics in the field. You will learn
about discourse, intertextuality, intermediality, cultural capital, gender,
semiotics, cultural memory and more. Key ideas are illustrated and elaborated
with the help of specific examples. You will also start analysing and
interpreting concrete works of literature, the arts, and popular culture
yourself.
·
Methods of Analysis and Interpretation. How to analyse and interpret a story?
A metaphor? An image? A social way of talking about a particular topic? What do
stories, metaphors, and images do? How can they relate to each other? In this
very hands-on and interactive course, you try out different ways of analysing
and interpreting specific cultural artefacts: narrative, rhetorical, discourse,
and visual analysis. This course also includes a part that is dedicated to
improving your academic writing skills in English.
·
Methods of Analysis and Interpretation: Case
Studies. In this course, you and your fellow
students explore a series of case studies: a collection of materials
- literary, visual, cultural, historical, theoretical - that are
related to the same theme or topic. Through specific case studies, you deepen
and expand your analytical and interpretive skills. Examples are: orientalism
in nineteenth-century Russian literature; "Frankenstein" in
literature and film; modern primitivism in the arts.
·
Key Terms. A number of philosophical concepts are presented
that are right at the heart of contemporary debates about the arts, popular
culture, and literature. Those key ideas include, amongst many others,
representation, ideology, diversity, desire, performance, subjectivity, and
commodity. You will learn about the meaning and background of a selection of
those terms, and also learn how to use them in dialogue with particular works
of art, literature, and popular culture.
·
Contexts and Frames. Cultural artefacts acquire meaning and relevance
in light of specific historical, social, and political contexts. But it is not
always easy to pick the “right” context: the biography of the maker, the
history of the period in which something was created, the history of when
something was read or watched, the genre or school to which something belongs?
Where to begin? Where to stop? How to choose? In this course, you will study
and practice ways of relating particular cultural, literary, and artistic
objects to different contexts. This course also includes further training in
English proficiency.
·
Literary Worlds: World Literature and
Globalisation. Literary
Worlds engages with the idea of “world literature” in a time of globalisation.
How did Western and non-Western literatures relate to each other in the past,
and how do they now? Who continues to be left out, or is now excluded? Is it
possible to escape from exoticism and cultural appropriation, and to learn to
engage differently with novels and films in which “we” are not at the centre?
Second and third year
The second year will provide you with a wide-ranging
overview of Cultural Theory and Cultural Studies. In the second and third year,
you will have the opportunity to choose your own minor and elective courses in
a wide range of subjects, as well as having the option to study abroad or do an
internship.
The third and final year is partly dedicated to Philosophy of Science. In addition, you will participate in a research seminar, have the opportunity to work with fellow students on concrete case studies on diverse subjects ranging from installation art to theatre and write your thesis on a topic of your choice.
The third and final year is partly dedicated to Philosophy of Science. In addition, you will participate in a research seminar, have the opportunity to work with fellow students on concrete case studies on diverse subjects ranging from installation art to theatre and write your thesis on a topic of your choice.
·
Philosophy of Science. Can a literary interpretation ever be
“scientific”? A philosophical argument? This class explains the historical and
philosophical background of the Humanities, with a particular emphasis on the
literary, cultural, and artistic disciplines.
·
Literary and Cultural Theory before 1900. Plato, Dante, Kant -- these are some
of the big names who have written extensively on literature, culture, and the arts
in the past. This course offers engagement with some of the historical
philosophies that shape academic and intellectual debates to the present day.
·
Literary and Cultural Theory after 1900. Post-structuralism, Marxism,
psychoanalysis, queer theory, and post-humanism are some of the big theories
that have contributed to the study of culture in the twentieth century up to
today. Each of these theories enables different ways of analysing,
interpreting, and reflecting on literature, the arts, and popular culture.
·
Introduction to Cultural Analysis. Starting from the 1960s, the academic
outlook on the arts was opened up to social as well as political questions, no
longer just historical or aesthetic ones. These social and political questions
have to do with power, justice, identity, equality, inclusion, subversion,
resistance, and so on. Moreover, 'low' or sub-cultural forms of culture — not
just 'high' or elite ones — were increasingly admitted as objects for academic
and critical inquiry. You will become familiar with the debates, approaches,
and concepts that are central to this development in the
Humanities.
·
Cultural Analysis: Case Studies. In this class, groups of students work
together on concrete case studies in cultural analysis. The case studies consist
of different topics. For example, the interaction between story and image in a
particular work of installation art; how official monuments give shape to, as
well as distort, memory and history; a theatre performance that includes bodies
we view as ‘disabled’; the ideals of the university in a time of cut-backs and
conflicts.
·
Research Seminar Literary and Cultural
Analysis. The Research Seminar offers an
interactive workshop, in which students prepare for their thesis research and
writing. Students decide the topics and approaches at stake in the workshop;
readings are compiled jointly. Groups of students work together, and give each
other feedback on their work in progress.
·
Bachelor’s Thesis. Your topic. Your approach. The thesis entails a
largely independent piece of research and writing. Assisted by one of the
teachers, you will plan and carry out your own research in Literary and
Cultural Analysis step by step.
The programme
structure
·
The year is split in
two semesters. For a semester the total of courses is 30 EC (one EC = 28 hours
of study).
·
Each semester covers
three teaching periods (blocks). The first two blocks are 8 weeks, the third
one is 4 weeks.
·
In each 8 week block
course participation is limited to a maximum of two.
The bachelor is structured as
follows:
·
The first year
program - the propedeutic year - consists of required courses, for a total of
60 EC.The students needs to obtain a minimum of 48 EC in the first year to
continue with the bachelor programme.
·
The second and third
year are 120 EC (2 x 60 EC) in total: - a required part, from 66 to 78
EC- 42 EC for optional courses- a program specific optional part, 12 or 18 EC
Contact hours
An average of at least 12 contact
hours per week are scheduled in the propaedeutic year. Contact hours are
understood to refer to the following activities to be scheduled for students
(as stated in the Course Catalogue): lectures and seminars, academic student
counselling, the tutorial scheme, work placement supervision, field work
supervision, academic career counselling, excursions, examinations held outside
the four examination weeks and feedback on examinations. Because we are
disregarding activities that are held during the four examination weeks, the
total number of contact hours in the propaedeutic year is 432 (i.e., 36 weeks x
12 hours). The Course Catalogue gives the number of contact hours for each
propaedeutic course. There are also ‘non course-specific contact hours’, i.e.,
contact hours that are not associated with any specific course but with the
propaedeutic year as a whole.
Term and Subject
Tuition fees
Tuition fee rates are
divided into statutory tuition fees and institutional tuition fees.
The statutory tuition fee (except for the
part-time rate) is determined annually by the Dutch government. Institutional
tuition fee rates are set by the higher education institutions individually,
and apply to students who do not meet the conditions for the statutory tuition
fee rate.
The tuition fee rate is valid for a full academic
year. The rate for enrolment as of 1 February can be determined by calculating
7/12ths of the given rate.
Statutory tuition fees 2017-2018
|
Specification
|
Amount
|
|
full-time students
|
€2,006
|
|
part-time
students
|
€1,717
|
|
dual
programme students
|
€2,006
|
|
AUC
students
|
€4,251
|
|
PPLE students
|
€4,012
|
Information for students from the Netherlands, the EEA, the EU, Switzerland and Suriname.
Students from the Netherlands, other
countries within the European Economic Area (EEA), the EU, Switzerland and Suriname
pay the statutory tuition fees if they satisfy the legal requirements.
Institutional fee for students who do not qualify for the statutory fees
You are required to pay the institutional
tuition fee if:
·
you are
not a national of an EU or EEA Member State, Switzerland or Suriname;
·
after
obtaining your Dutch Bachelor's degree you enrol in a second Bachelor's
programme;
·
after
obtaining your Dutch Master's degree you enrol in a second Master's
programme;
·
you
fail to satisfy all the conditions under one of the UvA's transitional
arrangements.
2017-2018 institutional fee: per faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Institutional
tuition fee for second or next Dutch degree programme
|
|
|
Bachelor's
Master's (one year) Master's (two years) Master's (dual) Master's in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage |
€7,500
€12,025 €12,025 €12,025 €13,300 |
Methods of Living
Renting an apartement in Egelantiersgracht, Amsterdam
A 1 bedroom apartment (completely furnished) of
approximately 46 m2 located on the Egelantiersgracht in the Jordaan neighborhood of Amsterdam.
This apartment in the Egelantiersgracht features the following:
o
Not
suitable for: Pets
o
Neighborhood:
Quiet street
o
Bathroom:
Separate shower, Toilet in bathroom, Sink
o
Kitchen:
Dishwasher, Microwave, Oven, Refrigerator, 5 Burner stove, Separate Freezer
o
Livingroom:
Television
o
Laundry
room: Washing machine
o
Parking:
Paid, Permit waiting list
o
Kitchen
type: Half-open
Price per month €
1600
The Jordaan is
where Amsterdammers most want to live. Lots of cosy cafes and any type of
restaurant can be found here. Specialty shops are abundant in the many narrow
streets. The Europarking garage is within walking distance as is most of the
city centre. It only takes 25 minutes to reach UvA.
I plan to apply the Holland Scholarship (HS)
that provides a student €5000/year and other scholarships as many as i can get for paying my
tuition fee. Furthermore, I’d like to look for part-time job to fulfill my
daily needs.
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