Capstone Project in Health and Environment

Course goals

After completing the course students
-    are able to gather, select and analyze information, tools and techniques and integrating these into an interdisciplinary risk assessment;
-    have knowledge of the aspects linked to communication of risks in a professional and academically correct way to a broader public;
-    are able to collaborate in and reflect on working an interdisciplinary team;
-    are able to address and reflect on the limitations of current knowledge of their discipline and one’s own biases and assumptions;
-    are able to set and reflect on personal learning goals based on their expertise and that of peers, in a cyclic manner leading to future reflections and actions.

Content

Period (from - till): 9 November 2026 - 20 November 2026 (BMS_P1_A)

Course description:
This capstone course concludes the ten weeks core courses of the MSc HENV. All students will be together for a joint course. Subject matter from the preceding (advanced) courses will be integrated by group work on the state of the art themes with the HENV field such as sustainable livestock farming, tackling anti microbial resistance, pandemic preparedness, food chain, and climate change. Risk management and risk communication will also be a part of this process, to train the student in a complete risk analysis process.

Course coordinator:
Mieke Lumens

Contact details: education.iras@uu.nl or m.lumens@uu.nl

Registration:
Registration only open to Health and Environment students who will automatically be enrolled.

Mandatory for students in Master’s programme:
Yes

Optional for students in other GSLS Master’s programme:
No