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Career guidance
Whether you are contemplating internships, summer schools, the LUC Semester
Abroad Programme, or life after your LUC degree, your personal tutor is available
to listen to your ideas, discuss them with you, and offer advice or act as your
referee for applications where appropriate. Your personal tutor is also a good
port of call for any queries about constructing a CV and preparing application
materials for opportunities within and beyond LUC.
Welfare provision
Adjusting to university life and college culture can be quite a challenge. At LUC,
students have access to personal tutors as a first port of call, but also to welfarespecific
provision through the Student Care Officer (who will be appointed later
this year), who offers in-house counseling and personal development guidance,
and the student-led Peer Mentorship system, which provides peer-to-peer
listening in the dormitories when you need a sympathetic ear. LUC students can
also use the psychological and study aid facilities at the Plexus Student Centre
in Leiden. From homesickness and culture fatigue to unforeseen family circumstances
and study stress, these various parties will help you acclimatise to LUC.
tutorial Council
In sum, your personal tutor tracks your overall development as an individual
and guides your academic, intellectual, and personal growth at LUC. This team
of personal tutors meet frequently as Tutorial Council throughout the academic
year to discuss tutorial issues and address concerns emerging from tutorial
contact with you. The Senior Tutor, as Chair of Tutorial Council, oversees the
functions of the tutorial system and monitors extra tutorial support for students
on academic probation. If you have any suggestions or complaints, please contact
the Senior Tutor.
The content of your personal tutorial meetings will be treated in the strictest
confidence, even if your personal tutor seeks advice from the Senior Tutor on
occasion to provide you with the most effective support. If you do not wish any
particular part of your information to be shared, please alert your personal tutor.
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tutorial expectations
As a tutee, you can contribute to a healthy tutorial relationship by responding
promptly to your personal tutor’s correspondence, honouring your appointments
with your personal tutor, and keeping your personal tutor up-to-date
about your academic and personal development. More specifically, below is a list
of the circumstances, by no means exhaustive, under which you must contact
your personal tutor:
(a) When you are ill or otherwise indisposed and cannot attend class or tutorial
meetings;
(b) When you wish to register for special considerations due to a learning condition;
(c) When you want to take a course in addition to the regular course load;
(d) When you want to apply for Semester Abroad or external education;
(e) When you want to seek credit for out-of-term activities.
There is one mandatory personal tutorial meeting per block, but please feel free
to contact your personal tutor as matters arise. Please arrive at tutorial meetings
prepared: familiarise yourself with the relevant information, if available, and
consider what you wish to accomplish through the meeting. In short, being
responsible for your own development and responsive to tutorial support are
indispensable for the smooth running of the LUC tutorial system.
Books and Literature
The prescribed literature for each course can be found in each course outline,
well in advance of the start of each course for the required literature to be
acquired. All courses have compulsory reading and recommended additional
literature, specified in detail in each course syllabus. You should have a copy of
the texts assigned as compulsory reading. Course literature should be available
in the Leiden Library system and at the Royal Library in The Hague.
Compulsory course literature is placed on reserve in The Hague at the Leiden
Library Learning Centre of Campus The Hague, located in the new Schouwburgstraat
building which is a few minutes’ walk from the main LUC building.
Students and staff can also collect and return library books from Leiden at this
facility, please find the details on the following page.
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