The University of Amsterdam has organized courses in a variety of topics through their Summer School. Join others in Amsterdam during the summer season to further your academic development and explore the international city.
- Application: Application instructions can be found in the hyperlinked course of your choice.
- Application deadline: Application Closed!
- There is a 25 EUR (35 USD) non-refundable application fee.
- Program cost: 1650 EUR (1900 USD)
- Payment must be submitted within 1 week of receiving your offer of admission. Admissions are on a rolling basis
- Accommodations:
- 500 – 600 EUR (575 – 700 USD) including a 75 EUR refundable deposit (90 USD)
- All housing is first-come-first-served. Different types of rooms are available at different prices. Room types and prices will be noted in an offer of admission. You may find more information here.
*NOTE: If you would like to receive credit for the courses below, you will need to petition with the Baruch Study Abroad Office. We offer Marxe Study Away Awards to offset the cost of the course attendance. See more under the Marxe Study Away Award section.
For Graduate Students:
Exploring (Non)Racial Amsterdam – In this course, students will actively explore two opposite approaches to human differences in the context of Amsterdam: explicit racialization and everyday conviviality. Through practical ethnographic assignments and readings, we will explore the following questions: Where, when and how do explicit racialization and everyday conviviality occur? How are they done? By whom, and to what effects? How do these two approaches to human differences relate to each other? And does one have the ability to interrupt the other?
- Course Dates: June 19 – July 7, 2022
Multilateralism, Globalisation & Corporate Diplomacy – Does climate crisis spell the end of human civilization or a chance for a major breakthrough in global cooperation and multilateralism? Is the resurgence of nativist attitudes a transient backlash or the dawn of the post-globalist era? Will mission-driven business dominate future markets or become yet another trite gimmick? With a focus on practice over theory, these are the types of questions participants in this three-week course will ponder and discuss.
- Course Dates: July 3 – July 21, 2022
Placemaking: Sense, Space & Strategy – This three-week programme will explore the web of relationships between people and place. Placemaking as a philosophy and practice concerns the improvement of urban spaces by including its users in the transition for change. Through a bottom-up planning process, it intends to give the right to the city back to its inhabitants. *Spots in the course are filling up quickly
- Course Dates: July 10 – 28, 2022
Planning the Cycling City – This course follows a flipped classroom approach in which Amsterdam is both a story board and a lab. Experience and experiential learning are key components of the course. Students are encouraged to independently explore and examine the city through the lens of the learning material; to get inspiration, to struggle with concepts or to “translate lessons” to their local context. *Spots in the course are filling up quickly
- Course Dates: July 3 – 21, 2022
Power to the People: Social Movements, Activism and Grassroots Organising – This course offers (1) a critical examination of the concepts of ‘people’, ‘power’, ‘social movements and ‘activism, (2) a historical review of key movements in the last century, and through this, (3) also addresses a broad variety of contentious issues ranging from labour to gender and from globalization to migration. In this three week programme, participants will examine bottom-up initiatives ranging from protest movements to self-organised communities as they to disrupt established top-down institutional control, or propose alternatives to it. * Application is closed for this course due to filled-up seats.
- Course Dates: July 3 – 21, 2022
The Circular City: Towards a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem – This interdisciplinary course unravels the complexity behind truly sustainable urban development. The first week of the course will unravel the academic and theoretical perspectives behind sustainability approaches, the second week will dive into methods and tools for a more hands-on approach, and in the final week, participants will perform their own material flow analysis of a given neighbourhood in Amsterdam. *Spots in the course are filling up quickly
- Course Dates: July 8 – 29, 2022
Urban Studies: Planning and Living in Cities – With a focus on real urban places, set in both contemporary and historical contexts, the course will examine subjects such as neighborhood development and regeneration, housing finance and policy, city planning and sustainability, and the impact of household and demographic change on urban lives and spaces.
- Course Dates: July 3 – 21, 2022
For Undergraduate Students
Building Brands and Influencing Behaviour – In this three-week summer programme, we examine what factors create a winning brand, analyze the strategies behind it, and learn how to build a winning brand strategy yourself. The course is set up for students to learn both the theory and practice of branding. All concepts are accompanied by real-life examples and supported by various exercises.
- Course Dates: July 3 – 21, 2022
Introduction to Sexuality Studies – This three-week course explores the historical, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of sexual norms and behaviors. It examines the history of sexuality studies as an emerging discipline in the 19th Century, tracing its development from essentialism to constructivism, as well as the basic concepts of sexuality and gender. *Spots in the course are filling up quickly
- Course Dates: June 19 – July 7, 2022
