Social Sciences

Psychodiagnostics: Theory and Skills Training

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (UU)

This summer, Utrecht University offers you a ‘bridging’ course in psychodiagnostics, in order to overcome deficiencies in psychodiagnostics and assessment for entering the master course Clinical Psychology. This summer course focusses on familiarizing oneself with theoretical backgrounds of psychodiagnostics, practicing skills necessary to master all stages of the diagnostic process (intake, formulating a diagnostic question, formulating hypotheses, selecting, scoring and interpreting methods and tools and finally reporting conclusions and recommendation).

•••••••••••••• course director Drs. Lisalotte Verspui level

Advanced Bachelor period 14 August 2023 - 25 August 2023 credits 4 ECTS course fee € 700

Developmental Psychopathology and Psychological Assessment in Childhood and Adolescence

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (UU)

This course focuses on how scientific knowledge on developmental psychopathology is applied in clinical practice for children and adolescents. Students will acquire theoretical and applied knowledge on psychological assessment and the diagnostic decisionmaking process. Students will get acquainted with some assessment instruments that can be used to test some ‘typical’ hypotheses in the Child and Youth clinical practice. The course will be delivered on location. Should there be Covid-restrictions at the time the course will be held we may have to change to an online format.

•••••••••••••• course director Dr. Yolanda van Beek level

Advanced Bachelor period 14 August 2023 - 25 August 2023 credits 0 ECTS course fee € 750 housing fee € 400

LANDac Annual Summer School “Land Governance for Development”

Faculty of Geosciences (UU)

Welcome to the LANDac (the Netherlands Land Academy) Annual Summer School “Land Governance for Development”. Large-scale acquisition of land in the Global South has received a great deal of interest in the last few years. This course provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the ‘land rush’ within the more general context of land governance in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We will look at the history and drivers, the diversity of stakeholders and networks involved, the urgency of current challenges and innovative governance solutions.

•••••••••••••• course director Ezra Litjens level

Master period 3 July 2023 – 14 July 2023 credits 3 ECTS course fee € 560 housing fee € 400

Recalling Earth: Decoloniality and Demodernity

University College Utrecht (UU), in cooperation with Van Abbemuseum

Coloniality of knowledge, aesthetics and spirituality are areas of experience managed and controlled by major Western institutions. The combination of institutions and languages secured the belief in the universality of Western knowledge, aesthetics, beliefs and its peculiar ‘rational’ world-view. It also drove the appropriation and destitution of non-western knowledges, aesthesis and spiritualities. The seminar will be devoted to explore decoloniality as a praxis of reconstitution, of re-existence and the re-encounter with the communal. Learning to unlearn is a step towards disobedient delinking and the beginning of a walk towards remaking and re-learning ourselves in communal and decolonial paths of re-existence..

•••••••••••••• course director Prof. dr. Walter Mignolo & Dr. Rolando Vázquez level Master or PhD period 21 June 2023 - 6 July 2023 credits 6 ECTS course fee € 950