SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AND LAW
SCHOOL OF SPORTS AND NUTRITION
The first school of social work in the world was founded in Amsterdam at the end of the 19th century. As a result, social work is truly embedded in the city’s culture and traditions. The School of Social Work and Law offers bachelor programmes in legal studies, public management and applied psychology. The programmes were developed in close consultation with the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.
The School of Sports and Nutrition hosts three educational programmes, namely Physical Education, Nutrition & Dietetics and Sports, Management & Business.
The Research Centre develops knowledge and expertise in close cooperation with educational organisations and professionals in the field. The expertise developed is used to improve the bachelor and masters degree programmes, ensuring that the education remains closely linked to the issues affecting professional practice. The school offers exchange programmes in English at a variety of entry levels, each having different entrance requirements. It is possible to combine a number of these programmes.
Physical Education is a programme that trains students to become physical education teachers in Dutch schools. The programme was established over eighty years ago. Within the Nutrition and Dietetics programme, the entire nutritional spectrum is covered: from dietetics and health promotion to new product management. Sports, Management and Business focuses on the management side of sport and uses sport as a tool to teach students management skills. The School of Sports and Nutrition also offers the International Sports, Management and Business (ISMB) programme. ISMB is part of Sports, Management and Business and it focuses on sport in an international context.
‘The School of Social Work offers a variety of programmes in the field of social work and law. Human Rights is an umbrella theme reflected in all of the school’s programmes. We have therefore developed a programme around this theme: the minor in Social Work and Law. This international minor, conducted in English, deals with all disciplines of the school concerned with the themes of Human Rights and Civil Society. The minor therefore offers an interesting and diverse programme.’
‘ISMB maintains an international perspective of the sports world. This is not only expressed by the objective of achieving a fifty-fifty spread of students and lecturers - which will create a truly international community - but also in the contents of the curriculum. The literature, assignments and work placements are all internationally oriented. How is sports policy conducted in other continents? How does sports marketing take shape there? We want to prepare our students for these and other issues by introducing them to such systems.’
Kees Mak, head of the international office of the School of Social Work and Law
Claudia Makumbe, programme manager of the International Sports, Management and Business (ISMB) programme
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