Course manual 2022/2023
Course content
Course Content.
Glonal objectives of the AMEP Seminar
After successful completion of this course, you will have
- designed
- assembled
- demonstrated
an attractive series of scientific seminars centred
- on AMEP-relevant research done in greater Amsterdam
- on AMEP alumni sharing their career choices and experiences.
The objectives also include evaluation of the series’ effectiveness both organisationally and in terms of community building & cohesion.
AMEP Seminar is part of your decision-making process for a host group for your Thesis Research Project, and provides information on career opportunities after AMEP.
Knowledge → Tested via Q&A in Seminar sessions.
- Identify the different stakeholders behind AMEP
- Summarize the role of each type of stakeholder
- Outline the different research directions pursued at the different institutes participating in AMEP
Skills
- Develop assessment criteria. Use them to evaluate effectiveness / success of the activities
→ Tested via 1) visible ‘tuning’ of activities mid-stream; 2) reflection on feedback and on self-evaluation. The group writes a self-evaluation’, including a SWOT analysis
- Demonstrate the ability to organise effectively
→ Tested via acceptance & positive cooperation from researchers/teaching staff, administrators and alumni
Behaviour
- Write texts explaining what the AMEP Seminar and its objectives are (also with reference to the stakeholder groups)
→ Tested via feedback requested and received from non-AMEP-student participants and other stakeholders
- Produce content for Instagram, Twitter and the blog on AMEP.Amsterdam
→ Tested via visible output on Instagram, Twitter and AMEP.Amsterdam
Registration automatically requires active participation in the organization and execution of the weekly sessions and related activities.
Objectives
- Identify the stakeholders of the AMEP track and summarise their roles
- Outline the different research directions at the different institutes/departments participating in AMEP
- Develop assessment criteria for the effectiveness and success of the activities
- Demonstrate the ability to organise effectively
- Communicate like a professional with AMEP Seminar stakeholders such as donors, speakers (both researchers and alumni), BSc students
- Produce and post attractive and effective content on Twitter, Instagram and AMEP.Amsterdam in keeping with a graduate, professional environment
- Apply the info in the AMEP Seminar to assess which research direction and project in which research group is the right one for your MSc Thesis Project
- Analyse and reflect on the info in the AMEP Seminar towards your own next career step after the MSc
Teaching methods
- Working independently on e.g. a project or thesis
- Presentation/symposium
- Supervision/feedback meeting
Presentation/symposium
the weekly sessions vary between the following types:
- intra-AMEP seminar sessions
- organisational meet-ups in which the group (+ instructor) discuss the goals, who-does-what (AMEP Blog, social medai, organising speaker Seminars, social events, coaching on how to reach those goals, planning of AMEP-Seminar and AMEP-wide social events, reflection on how things are going and how to respond; self-evaluation; SWOT
- AMEP Seminars with presenters from research and alumni
- organised by the AMEP-Seminarians: advertised, filmed, catered, including moderated Q&A, and 'poster' in large and 'legacy tile' formats
- 2 x full session (i.e. 1h45m) used by the AMEP Track Coordinator on 15 September and 8 December for Academic Plan sessions
- 4 x 1/2 sessions (45m) at four time-points in which the AMEP Track Coordinator discusses course choices and progress: 29Sept., 24Nov, 1March, 27April
Learning activities
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Activity
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Hours
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Tutoraat
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54
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Own organisational, networking and communication activities
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30
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Total
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84
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(3 EC x 28 uur)
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Attendance
Requirements concerning attendance (OER-B).
In addition to, or instead of, classes in the form of lectures, the elements of the master’s examination programme often include a practical component as defined in article A-1.2 of part A. The course catalogue contains information on the types of classes in each part of the programme. Attendance during practical components is mandatory.
Additional requirements for this course:
This is a pass/fail course, and attendance in the sessions is mandatory, and active participation in the AMEP Seminar's activities is required to be eligible for a pass grade. Cases of illness or other insurmountable-seeming reasons for non-attendance need to be flagged with the instructor (MSG) prior to the session.
Assessment
This is a pass/fail module, so there are no grades.
Factors in getting a "pass" include:
- strong record of attendence at the physical AMEP Seminar sessions timetabled in DataNose
- good record of active participation in the activities of the A-Seminar
- actively helping to build a cohort feeling "AMEP Class of 2024" and a good connection to the AMEP Class of 2023
Mastery of the learning objectives are expressed in the following:
Knowledge → Tested via Q&A in Seminar sessions.
- Identify the different stakeholders behind AMEP
- Summarize the role of each type of stakeholder
- Outline the different research directions pursued at the different institutes participating in AMEP
Skills
- Develop assessment criteria. Use them to evaluate effectiveness / success of the activities
→ Tested via 1) visible ‘tuning’ of activities mid-stream; 2) reflection on feedback and on self-evaluation. The group writes a self-evaluation’, including a SWOT analysis
- Demonstrate the ability to organise effectively
→ Tested via acceptance & positive cooperation from researchers/teaching staff, administrators and alumni
Behaviour
- Write texts explaining what the AMEP Seminar and its objectives are (also with reference to the stakeholder groups)
→ Tested via feedback requested and received from non-AMEP-student participants and other stakeholders
- Produce content for Instagram, Twitter and the blog on AMEP.Amsterdam
→ Tested via visible output on Instagram, Twitter and AMEP.Amsterdam
Inspection of assessed work
There is no grade, so this is not relevant.
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Assignments
To achieve the Global Objectives outlined at the top of this Course Manual, the assignments (=AMEP Activities) include the following:
- Identify the different stakeholders behind AMEP
- Summarize the role of each type of stakeholder
- Outline the different research directions pursued at the different institutes participating in AMEP
- Develop assessment criteria. Use them to evaluate effectiveness / success of the activities
- Demonstrate the ability to organise effectively
- AMEP Seminars with speakers
- Social events
- Digital presence of A-Seminar and AMEP Class of 2024
- these three activities involve fund-rasising, communication to different players/stakeholders (IoP management, IoP secretariat, catering, instructors and researchers, AMEP Class of '23; NSJD BSc students, alumni...)
- Write texts explaining what the AMEP Seminar and its objectives are (also with reference to the stakeholder groups)
- Produce content for Instagram, Twitter and the blog on AMEP.Amsterdam
Fraud and plagiarism
The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.student.uva.nl
Course structure
This will be set-up and developped in concert with the AMEP-Seminarians as part of their learning-by-doing activities in the A-Seminar. Canvas will be used for the communication of all this as it develops.
The schedule for this course is published on DataNose.
The AMEP Seminar makes use of a Canvas page to which the students also get upload access, to enable easy sharing of info across the group as a whole.
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