Discover interdisciplinary connections
AUC encourages students to broaden their horizons and enhance their interdisciplinary knowledge and skills. Until the 2022-2023 academic year, students principally learned about and practiced interdisciplinarity by following theme courses in their major and by taking a Big Questions course in the Academic Core.
To further support students’ mobility between majors and help them discover synergies between the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences, AUC is developing course constellations. From 2024-2025, six constellations will be developed that relate to VU and UvA research themes and focus on important societal challenges.
A constellation consists of 12 to 14 courses spanning AUC’s majors that examine complex societal issues. While students continue to concentrate on courses in their major, the selected courses in a constellation will help them discover new pathways through the curriculum to form multidisciplinary perspectives and explore courses they may previously not have considered. It's a source of inspiration for (prospective) students and not mandatory to do these constellations. Starting in 2024-2025, the course constellations will include:
Please note that following a constellation is not mandatory. They should be seen as a source of inspiration for your own study programme.
From 2023-2024, theme courses were removed from the curriculum in line with the five-year strategy AUC NEXT. The change supports new avenues for interdisciplinary learning by facilitating mobility between the three majors. Instead of theme courses, students choose a Big Questions course and follow a minimum of two courses in each major other than their own.
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