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Course Registration
Each student plans his/her individual academic trajectory with his/her tutor.
Your tutor will challenge you to reflect upon your choices, stimulate you to try
new things and help to ensure that you are composing a trajectory that will not
only meet your own interests and ambitions, but also the graduation requirements.
Following these discussions, you have to register your course preferences
through the LUC Course Allocation Exercise. Deadlines will be announced
in due course before the start of each semester, and your tutor is available to
discuss your course preferences prior to course allocation, but keep in mind
that it is your own responsibility to participate in the exercise and express your
preferences following the directions. A course schedule and course outlines will
be published in time to allow you to choose courses for each semester.
Your expressed course preferences collected by the Course Allocation Exercise
become raw data for a complex course allocation algorithm to maximise preference
satisfaction of all LUC students on the principle of equity. After the entire
exercise is complete, you will receive an automated e-mail with the courses you
will take in the upcoming semester. These courses will be entered into uSis on
your behalf.
Because of the small-scale and intensive educational model of LUC, some
courses may be oversubscribed in any given block. Be sure to discuss alternatives
with your tutor and rank your course preferences properly. Also note that
there is often more than one course that can fulfill major, minor, and Global
Citizenship components of your academic trajectory—be flexible, creative, and
patient where necessary. Should you wish to be put on the waiting list for an
oversubscribed course or, on rare occasions, to amend your course preferences,
get in touch with Joppe Brieffies, LUC Course Administrator.
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Quality Management
At LUC we aim high: our students have been selected for their motivation to be
the best they can be—academically, civically, and socially. Our academic staff
strive to challenge their students, by designing innovative courses and conducting
cutting-edge research which informs their teaching. The administrative
staff are committed to providing all members of the community professional,
friendly and efficient support.
Regular evaluation and verification of our collective progress as an honours college
is necessary to ensure the quality of educational provision at LUC. While
student academic achievement can be measured by final grades at the end of
each course, LUC runs a Quality Management Cycle to calibrate other aspects
of its functioning and to solicit constructive feedback from students.This cycle
consists of several instruments:
Course Evaluations are carried out at the end of every course. Students are asked
to give their opinion on the content of the course, the way it has been delivered,
how much they have learned and how they feel the instructor relates to them.
You should consider the completion of course evaluations a logical element of
all LUC courses. It is your responsibility to contribute to the quality of your
programme. The results are published after each block and discussed in the
Staff-Student Committee for aggregate recommendations to the Dean regarding
the quality of the curriculum. Where necessary, the Directors of Studies
approach individual instructors and educational units in Leiden to discuss the
results specific to their courses.
The Tutorial Feedback Exercise is held once per year to measure the level and
type of support offered by LUC tutors against the needs of our students. As the
system is dynamic and continues to develop as the college grows, it is essential
that students give constructive feedback.
LUC is more than the sum of its separate components of classes and tutorial support.
The whole concept, including extracurricular activities, lectures, social activities,
student life, administrative support and the coherence of the programme,
is evaluated once per year. The feedback LUC gains from this survey is essential for
policy development. The results will be discussed at a College Assembly.
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