University: Nanjing University Field of study at home: history Courses in China: Language, intercultural learning     Studying Abroad Alongside Humanities Honours   By Indira Franken   Nanjing is a vibrant and bustling city in the East of China and an ideal place for an exchange semester. 南京大学 (Nanjing University)…

  Nostalgia: the magazine By Diede Mulder Group members: Jochem, Romee, Nove, Isis, Magda, Diede, Merel. For our Research Seminar project, we created a magazine together based on the theme of nostalgia. Everyone was free to follow their own interests within that theme, so the magazine ended up with a wide range of articles. It…

Dear Honours students! Since i am the new student assistent and the successor of Nils, i wanted to introduce myself! So my name is Adam, i am 23 years old and a third year History student. In my free time i like to read, i am a big supporter of Ajax(please don’t ask me about…

Dear HHP students and members, From the 25th to the 28th of October 2024, a group of students from the History- and Art History HHP programmes went on the annual trip to Berlin. As usual, the trip had a central theme: memory, time and heritage. Big themes, but ones that match perfectly with a place…

Dear honours student,   Do you have an honours teacher who has made a lasting impact on your education? Someone who has: ✨ Inspired your passion for learning, 💡 Challenged you to think in new ways, or 🤝 Supported your unique learning journey?     If so, now is your chance to recognise them! Nominations for the Honours Teacher of…

Dear HHP members, With the start of this year’s HHP Research Seminar, there is no better time to look back on what happened during last year’s Seminars than now! Below you will find an overview of all the amazing projects our students worked on during block 3-4 last year, including short descriptions written by the…

In the early morning of Sunday the 8th of December, I boarded the train to Paris to see the opera Dialogues des Carmélites that played at the Thêatre des Champs-Elysées at 5 o’clock that afternoon. At this moment, I am writing my Honours thesis on this opera by Francis Poulenc (1899 – 1963), because I…

Dear HHP students, In the early days of November, about a month ago, news broke about the future of the Humanities Honours Programme. To the disappointment of students and teachers alike, that future isn’t looking too bright, seeing as the HHP might disappear along with several faculties as part of the UU’s budget cuts (you…

Dear students, On the 21st of January there will be a plenary meeting about the final projects from terrain exploration. Students who have completed the course will present their the projects that they have worked on in groups. Because of this year’s theme, which is Artificial Intelligence, there will be room for discussion about this…

Little more than a month ago Titia Janssen, an Art History Honours student, told us all about her internship at Museum de Lakenhal and the exciting project she got to work on for her Masters thesis there: redesigning the Bakker Korff Room. An especially interesting task she got was getting to redesign the way in…