Elective course options
On this page, you can find the overview of available elective courses in periods 4 and 5. You can register your preference for these courses by completing the intake no later than 15 January 2023.
Choose your programme:
<a name="ai"></a>Master's students Artificial Intelligence
Find all course descriptions and the full curriculum here. As an Artificial Intelligence master's student, please choose one elective course from the following list for period 4:
- Planning and Scheduling (KEN4253)
- Dynamic Game Theory (KEN4251)
- Computational Statistics (KEN4258)
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Building and Mining Knowledge Graphs (KEN4256)
The other course you will follow in period 4 is the core course Autonomous Robotic Systems (KEN4114). Period 5 has two fixed courses: Information Retrieval and Text Mining (KEN4153) and Computer Vision (KEN4255). The Student Affairs Office will also book the Semester 2 research project for you.
The course Explainable AI (KEN4246) has prerequisites from the first semester and is not an option, you can book this course as an elective next year when you have reached the necessary prerequisites.
<a name="dsdm"></a>Master's students Data Science for Decision Making
Find all course descriptions and the full curriculum here. As a Data Science for Decision Making master's student, please choose one elective course from the following list for period 4:
- Building and Mining Knowledge Graphs (KEN4256)
- Dynamic Game Theory (KEN4251)
- Planning and Scheduling (KEN4253)
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Data Fusion (KEN4223)
and choose one elective course from the following list for Period 5:
- Symbolic Computation and Control (KEN4252)
- Information Retrieval and Text Mining (KEN4153)
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Computer Vision (KEN4255)
The other courses you will follow are the core courses Computational Statistics (KEN4258) in period 4 and Algorithms for Big Data KEN4254 in period 5. The Student Affairs Office will also book the Semester 2 research project for you.
The course Explainable AI (KEN4246) has prerequisites from the first semester and is not an option, you can book this course as an elective next year when you have reached the necessary prerequisites.
<a name="other"></a>Pre-master's and exchange students
Pre-master's and exchange students do not need to make a selection: the Student Affairs Office will book your personal programmes for you.
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Christmas webinar 2020
Welcome to the Online Experience Day Global Studies
Before attending the day:
Programme of the day
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Time |
What? | Zoom links |
|---|---|---|
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Welcome and presentation on the Global Studies by Programme director Lutz Krebs | Main Room |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Presentation on Problem-Based Learning | Main Room |
| 11.30 - 12.15 |
Tutorial Group (pre-discussion) You participate in a sample tutorial group in which you prepare an assignment (supervised by FASoS students). |
Group 1: Zoom Breakout Room 1 Group 2: Zoom Breakout Room 2 |
| 12.15 - 13.00 | Lunch and Q&A session During this break a student advisor will be online to answer questions on the programme and studying in Maastricht. |
Main Room |
| 13.00 - 13.30 | Mini-lecture: Analysing Stakeholders for Global Change by Sharon Anyango | Main room |
| 13.30 - 14.15 | Tutorial Group (post-discussion) You participate in a sample tutorial group in which you prepare an assignment (supervised by FASoS students). |
Group 1: Zoom Breakout Room 1 |
Help us improve the programme of the Experience Day and fill out and return our evaluation form. Your input is highly appreciated.
Video impressions Global Studies
Virtual tour of the Faculty and the City of Maastricht
Your student life experience would not be complete without visiting the beautiful faculty buildings of FASoS and the hotspots of Maastricht, the oldest city in the Netherlands. Our students take you on a virtual tour, so join us and explore!
Welcome to the Online Experience Day Digital Society
Before attending the day:
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Welcome and presentation on the Digital Society programme by Katleen Gabriels |
Zoom |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Presentation on Problem-Based Learning | Zoom |
| 11:45 - 12:30 |
Tutorial Group |
Zoom |
| 12:30 - 13:15 | Lunch break + Q&A Session A panel of FASoS students and a communications officer will answer questions on the programme and studying in Maastricht. |
Zoom |
| 13:15 - 13:45 |
Lecture on Surveillance Society |
Zoom |
| 13:45 - 14:30 | Tutorial group Second part of the tutorial group where you discuss the assignment (supervised by FASoS students). |
Zoom |
Help us improve the programme of the Experience Day and fill out and return our evaluation form. Your input is highly appreciated.
Video impressions
Virtual tour of the Faculty and the City of Maastricht
Your student life experience would not be complete without visiting the beautiful faculty buildings of FASoS and the hotspots of Maastricht, the oldest city in the Netherlands. Our students take you on a virtual tour, so join us and explore!
Welcome to the Online Experience Day Arts and Culture
Before attending the day:
- Read the PBL Assignment
- Read the literature: Article by Neiman (2014)
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Time |
Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Welcome and presentation on the Arts and Culture Programme by Programme director Darryl Cressman |
Zoom main room |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Presentation on Problem-Based Learning | Zoom main room |
| 11:15 - 12:00 |
Tutorial Group |
Group 1: Zoom Breakout Room 1 Group 2: Zoom Breakout Room 2 |
| 12:00 - 12:45 |
Lunch break + Q&A Session |
Zoom main room |
| 12:45 - 13:15 |
Mini Lecture “What is Enlightenment” |
Zoom main room |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | Tutorial group Second part of the tutorial group where you discuss the assignment (supervised by FASoS students). |
Group 1: Zoom Breakout Room 1 Group 2: Zoom Breakout Room 2 |
Help us improve the programme of the Experience Day and fill out and return our evaluation form. Your input is highly appreciated.
Video impressions
Virtual tour of the Faculty and the City of Maastricht
Your student life experience would not be complete without visiting the beautiful faculty buildings of FASoS and the hotspots of Maastricht, the oldest city in the Netherlands. Our students take you on a virtual tour, so join us and explore!
Welcome to the Online Experience Day European Studies
Before attending the day:
- Read the PBL Assignment
- Read the literature:
Article by Ivan Krastev
Article by Fareed Zakaria
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Welcome and presentation on the European Studies programme by Programme director Luana Russo |
Zoom main room |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Presentation on Problem-Based Learning | Zoom main room |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | PBL Tutorial group: Pre-discussion
You participate in a sample tutorial group in which you prepare an assignment (supervised by FASoS students). |
Group 1: Zoom Breakout Room 1 Group 2: Zoom Breakout Room 2 |
| 12:00 - 12:45 |
Lunch break & Q&A Session |
Zoom main room |
| 12:45 - 13:15 | Mini-lecture on "A democratic Union?' by Assistant professor Karin van Leeuwen |
Zoom main room |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | PBL Tutorial group: Post-discussion Second part of the tutorial group where you discuss the assignment (supervised by FASoS students). |
Group 1: Zoom Breakout Room 1 Group 2: Zoom Breakout Room 2 |
Help us improve the programme of the Experience Day and fill out and return our evaluation form. Your input is highly appreciated.
Video impressions European Studies
Virtual tour of the Faculty and the City of Maastricht
Your student life experience would not be complete without visiting the beautiful faculty buildings of FASoS and the hotspots of Maastricht, the oldest city in the Netherlands. Our students take you on a virtual tour, so join us and explore!
Talk to Maastricht Science Programme students - Registration
Requirements and criteria
All applicants must adhere to the following requirements:
- Funding shall only be granted for new activities or clear extensions of existing activities in alignment with the purpose of this call and in conformity with the funding criteria as described in Funding Criteria to this call text.
- Teams should be diverse. Student/Staff cooperation is mandatory. Interfaculty collaboration is preferred. Collaboration with external partners is also welcome.
- The maximum duration of the proposed project/activity is 12 months from the date as specified in the award (the ‘funding period’).
- Only one proposal per person can be submitted.
Proposals will be selected on the basis of the following criteria:
- Relation to one or more of the four core areas of UM’s D&I Strategy
- Plan of execution (including budget estimate)
- Relation to and added value for existing UM activities/taskforces
- Impact and expected results
Three former D&I Grant winners share their experience and why they think the grants are a good initiative, and what they gained from the experience during their D&I Grant project.
D&I Grants - Why you should apply
Selection procedure, proposal form and deadlines
The selection procedure consists of two stages:
- Based on the requirements and criteria lists above, the D&I Advisory Council will invite a selected number of proposals to pitch their ideas on 20 April 2021, 3pm – 5pm.
- Based on the pitches, as well as the requirements and criteria listed above, we will notify successful applicants by 30 April 2021.
Please follow the link to the D&I Grants Proposal Form. All proposals have to be submitted using this form.
The deadline for handing in proposals is 15 March 2021.
Please send all proposals to diversity@maastrichtuniversity.nl with the subject line ‘UM Diversity and Inclusivity Grants’. Please ensure that at least one project participant is available to pitch on 20 April 2021 between 3pm and 5 pm. We will notify all awardees by 30 April 2021.
| Thesis examples |
|---|
| The carrot and the stick: The worlds of compliance and the first two years of GDPR enforcement |
| Chasing the European White Whale? The influence of soft governance in the EU - A comparative analysis of the substantive and procedural shifts in Social Protection Policies in Sweden and Spain since the creation of the OMC |
| The 2015 Refugee Crisis and Political Discourse: a Content Analysis of Parliamentary Questions in the European Union |
| Regulating under uncertainty: Unravelling cybersecurity policy A comparative study on EU and US policies |
| An alliance as strong as plastic? A study into the influence of business interests in the shaping of the Directive on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment |
| Interest Groups as Policy Entrepreneurs in Judicial Lawmaking? Analyzing the Impact of Strategic Litigation in the Coman Case |
| Accredited Parliamentary Assistants: Paper-Keepers or Gate-Keepers? |
| Self-Regulation in the Lobbying Sector: A typology and the application of self-regulatory measures in the public affairs industry in the European Union |
| The Rationale Behind Compliance: why Professional Consultancies in Brussels Register and Remain in the EU’s Transparency Register |
| Gender Mainstreaming in Implementation: Box Ticking or Transformation? A Case Study on Gender Mainstreaming in the Implementation of the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa |
| European Digital Sovereignty: The Janus like digital sovereignty legacy of the Juncker Commission |
| Are Politics ‘Instagrammable’? An Analysis of "Youth-Friendly" Parliamentary Communications on Instagram in Austria, the United Kingdom and the European Union |