Course calendar Wageningen School of Social Sciences WASS chair groups

“To explore societal processes to improve the quality of life”

This Course Calendar presents an overview of the WASS PhD courses in the Academic Year 2019-2020. Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy AEP
The courses are designed to support PhD candidates in obtaining disciplinary and interdisciplinary Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS) promotes research that increases our understanding of Business Economics BEC
knowledge and skills. The course offer represents WASS’ disciplinary breadth and ranges from a 6 ECTS societal processes and practices around challenges in the domains of food, agriculture, environment, Business Management and Organisation BMO
course ‘Advanced Microeconomics’ to an interactive tutorial ‘Embodiment, Food and Environment’. Courses health and development. It provides an enabling environment for internationally oriented scholars from a Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles CHL
are not only open to PhD candidates (internal and external), but also to scientific staff and professionals. diversity of disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research backgrounds. As a graduate school, Cultural Geography GEO
Course fees and courses schedules can be found on the WASS website. it offers in-depth training that provides PhD candidates a sound preparation for a career in academic and Development Economics DEC
applied research, or other leading societal positions. Education and Learning Sciences ELS
Environmental Economics and Natural Resources ENR
Registration The WASS PhD Education programme is designed to support PhD candidates in obtaining disciplinary and Environmental Policy ENP
interdisciplinary knowledge and skills. The objectives of the programme build upon the learning targets of Forest and Nature Conservation Policy FNP
For WASS PhD courses, Interdisciplinary Windows, Summer/Winter schools and Masterclasses, registration the WASS PhD programme, which - in turn - are based on three competence categories that need to be Health and Society HSO
can be done via the registration page of the WASS website: www.wur.eu/wass. acquired to meet the general learning targets of the Wageningen University PhD programme. Each year, Information Technology INF
the programme is evaluated by the WASS Education Committee and renewed via a call for PhD learning Knowledge Technology and Innovation KTI
Please provide your most recent contact details so that in case of any changes you will be notified activities, that is sent out to all WASS fellows. Land Use Planning LUP
promptly. After your on-line registration you will receive a short notification that your name has been Law and Governance LAW

Course calendar
registered. At least 2 weeks before the course you will receive a confirmation about the location and the Marketing and Consumer Behaviour MCB
schedule. WASS will also send an invoice to the address indicated on the registration form. Please send WASS Director and Staff Operations Research and Logistics ORL
an e-mail to the WASS Office in case you have not received the second confirmation two weeks before the Philosophy PHI
course. Public Administration & Policy PAP
Rural and Environmental History RHI
For Graduate Programme courses, WASS PhD candidates can enroll via My Portal, after registering Rural Sociology RSO

2020-2021
as student (ask WASS for the registration form and details, yearly renewal required). Participation in Sociology of Development and Change SDC
Graduate Programme courses is free of charge for registered PhD candidates. External participants Strategic Communication COM
register for Graduate Programme courses via the WASS Office and will be charged a course fee. At Urban Economics UEC
Wageningen University the academic year is divided into six periods. Before a period starts you must Water Resources Management WRM
register for courses you plan to take. If you register for a course, you are automatically registered for the
course examination. (from left to right)
Esther Roquas Executive Secretary Other chair groups involved in teaching
Marcella Haan Management Information Specialist
Registration for GP courses 2020-2021 Alfons Oude Lansink Director Biometris MAT
Heleen Danen Management Assistant Food Quality Design FQD
Period Final registration date Fennie van Straalen PhD Programme Manager
1 9 August 2020
2 27 September 2020 Legenda
3 29 November 2020
4 17 January 2021 Contact  PhD Courses (max 4 ECTS): these intensive courses typically run over a relatively short period of time.
5 14 February 2021 Teaching methods rely on some degree of independence of the PhD candidate and on core knowledge and skills
6 11 April 2021 Address in the (disciplinary) field.
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Wageningen School of  Graduate Programme Courses (6 ECTS): these courses offer advanced knowledge on theory or methodology
and are open to WASS PhD candidates and highly motivated MSc students from the WASS Graduate Programme.

Social Sciences
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For details about logistics, registration, fees etc.: WASS Office, [email protected], tel +31 317 484126 T +31 317 4 82923  Interdisciplinary Windows (IW; 2 ECTS): In these tutorials, small groups of PhD candidates and MSc
For general information: WASS PhD Programme Manager, [email protected], tel +31 317 484116 E [email protected] students (from the WASS Graduate programme), guided by senior exports, deepen their knowledge on a
W www.wur.eu/wass (theoretical or methodological) topic within one of the WASS themes.

 Summer/Winter Schools (min. 1.5 ECTS per week): these are one or two-week intensive programmes
with daily meetings. The summer/winter schools usually attract a lot of external participants, and therefore lend
themselves perfectly for networking.
 WASS course schedule 2020/2021
Period 1 | 31 August – 23 October Period 2 | 26 October – 18 December Holidays

Advanced Microeconomics: UEC-51806

Advanced Social Theory: RSO-58306

Graduate Programme

Analysing Discourse: Theories, Methods and Techniques: CPT-56306

Theories for Business Decisions: BEC-55802

Embodiment, Food & Environment

WASS PhD Introduction Systematic Approaches to Reviewing Literature

WASS PhD Programme Research Methodology: From Topic to Proposal

Critical Gender Studies

Consumer Behaviour related to Health and sustainability

(masterclass series)

Period 3 | 4 January – 12 February Period 4 | 15 February – 12 March Period 5 | 15 March – 7 May

Advanced Qualitative Research Design and

Advanced Macroeconomics: ENR-51306
Data Collection Methods: GEO-56806

Institutions and Societal Transformation:

Graduate Programme Visual Research Methods: CPT-53302
CPT-57802

WASS Graduate Programme Orientation (3 ECTS)

Academic Publication and Presentation

Philosophy of Social Science
in the Social Sciences

Transformative and participatory qualitative

Systematic Approaches to Reviewing Literature
research approaches and methods

Critical Perspectives Psychoanalysis and the Political

WASS PhD Programme WASS PhD Introduction
on Social Theory Ecology of Global Transformations

Research Methodology: From Topic to Proposal

Innovative and Sustainable Business Models

Modelling with Maple in Food Value Chains: Theories and Methods

Period 6 | 10 May – 2 July Summer period | July & August

Quantitative Data Analysis: Multivariate Techniques: YRM-50806

Qualitative Data Analysis: Procedures and Strategies: MAT-50806

Modelling and Simulation of Complex Socio-Technical Systems: INF-51806

Graduate Programme

Advanced Course on Economic Regulation: AEP-53802

Water Politics: PAP-54302

WASS Graduate Programme Orientation (3 ECTS) Continued

WASS PhD Introduction

Political Ecology

WASS PhD Programme

Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Agriculture

Assessing Economics and Policies using the Real Options Methodology

Graduate Programme Courses (6 ECTS) Interdisciplinary Windows (2 ECTS)

Advanced Macroeconomics Modelling and Simulation of Complex Socio-Technical Institutions and Societal Transformation
ENR-51306 Systems CPT-57802
Training in modern advanced macroeconomic theory - INF-51806 Roles of institutions - complex and persistent societal
economic growth - business cycle fluctuations - design and Agent-based modelling - system dynamics - analytical challenges - institutional theories - position interest in debates
estimate an empirical macroeconomic model modelling approaches - create simple models KTI-DEC
ENR INF-ORL
Theories for Business Decisions
Advanced Microeconomics Qualitative Data Analysis: Procedures and Strategies BEC-55802
UEC-51806 MAT-50806 Fundamental theories - business decisions - empirical
Microeconomics - game theory - information economics - Atlas.ti - content analysis - metaphor analysis - domain applications - business performance – collaboration -
biofuels - location - insurance markets analysis - membership categorization analysis - market conditions - innovation
UEC-AEP-ENR conversation analysis - semiotics - visual data - discourse BEC-MCB-BMO
analysis
Advanced Qualitative Research Design and Data MAT Visual Research Methods
Collection Methods CPT-53302
GEO-55804 Quantitative Data Analysis: Multivariate Techniques Contemporary research - visual data collection - visual
Key qualitative methods - qualitative research concepts and YRM-50806 literacy - visual ethics - recording and analysing films
principles - data collection methods and techniques Multivariate data-analysis techniques - principal component COM-KTI
GEO-SDC-RSO-KTI-MAT analysis - exploratory - confirmatory factor analysis -
structural equations modelling - cluster and discriminant Water politics
Advanced Social Theory analysis - repeated and multivariate analysis of variance PAP-54302
RSO-58306 MCB-MAT Policy and governance theories - water issues - public policy
Theoretical frame work - social scientific research - - analyse and assess water policies
influential approaches - issues - social scientific theorizing PAP-WRM
RSO-RHI-ENP

Analysing Discourse: Theories, Methods and

Techniques
CPT-56306
Theoretical approaches - discourse analysis - empirical
discourse analysis - methodological choices - critically
reflecting
COM-KTI-PAP-FNP

PhD Courses (max. 4 ECTS) Summer & Winter Schools (min. 1.5 ECTS)
Academic Publication and Presentation in the Systematic Approaches to Reviewing Literature Consumer Behaviour related to Health and
Social Sciences Systematic reviews - evidence review methods - thematic sustainability
Various stages of paper writing - conference presentations - content analysis Masterclass series - see our website for the topics
academic career - social sciences- humanities MAT (year round)
SDC-GEO-RSO MCB, HSO, CHL
Transformative and participatory qualitative research
Critical Gender Studies approaches and methods Innovative and Sustainable Business Models in Food
Historical development gender/feminist studies – Life Transformative - participatory - action - creative and arts- Value Chains: Theories and Methods
science domains - political ecology - postcolonialism – social based research methods - action-oriented engagement - Food value chains - food quality and sustainability -
justice design - analysis and ethics coordination and collaboration - Organizational and
CHL-KTI-WRM-SDC-RSO-DEC-PHI-COM GEO, RSO, ELS institutional environment
BMO-FQD
Critical Perspectives on Social Theory WASS PhD Introduction
Critical social theory - foundational movements - Marx - WASS organisation - PhD process - practicalities - social Introduction in R
Psychoanalysis - Colonialisms - Feminisms - Posthumanism activities Statistical Computing – graphics
SDC-GEO-CHL-RSO WASS Bi-annually, will be scheduled end of 2021
AEP
Embodiment, Food & Environment
Connection between mind and body - embodiment Modelling with Maple
approaches - analyse real-life experiences Applied game theory - computer algebra - mechanism
KTI-COM-PHI design - potential games - Maple - build models
UEC-ENR
Philosophy of Social Science
Traditional philosophy of science - hermeneutic tradition - Political Ecology
Value neutrality - rational choice theory Power - political economy - post-truth era - political
PHI ecologies - social science research
SDC-GEO-FNP-WRM
Psychoanalysis and the Political Ecology of Global
transformations Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Agriculture
Political space of struggle – antagonistic positions – shaping Risk management - agriculture - modelling and applications
political economy – relation political economy/ecology – - risk coping strategies - risk management decision making
lacanian theory BEC
SDC-RSO

Research Methodology: From Topic to Proposal

Methodological pitfalls - research design - formulating
research questions - types of data collection
MAT