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International study programmes in English

We organise English modules for incoming students in a number of study fields. Below you will see that we have quite an extensive offer, many of them are new. For the other study fields you will negotiate a suitable programme consisting of study and project assignments, often leading to a final work or thesis. Please contact the departmental coordinator.

 
NEW!!!!   Applied Computer Science - Autumn semester 2012

Autumn Semester 17/9/2012 – 31/1/2013

Welcome week 12-14 September 2012

The aim of the programme is to provide participants with advanced computer courses and a range of skills that will equip them well for future professional business life.

We want to train students who:
Are able to work in a team
Are all-round and communicative
Are interested in working on real life IT projects
Have a background in programming, databases and networking

Course prerequisites:
A sound background in computer science
Applicants preferably have to be in their final year of a comparable degree programme
Intermediate level of spoken and written English (CEFR B1) confirmed by your international coordinator.

The programme comprises advanced computer courses but also a multi-disciplinary module Dealing with Global Challenges (course module for all international students at K.H. Kempen University College).

Courses are 13 weeks and last till 21st December, exams are in January.

Flyer

KeyS for Teachers in Europe

Key Competences for Life-Long Learning

Together with three other Flemish University Colleges K.H.Kempen University College organizes an International Class. The class consists of 2/3 international and 1/3 Flemish students. The programme consists of a three-month period of lectures, self-study and teaching practice. In the course of the programme 20 or 30 ECTS can be obtained.

After a period in which the international students are introduced to the host city and to the Dutch language, courses in English will be organised around four themes. School-based practical experience is part of the programme.

Key 1 Communication, Cultural Awareness and Expression (4 ECTS)
Key 2 Diversity in/and Education (4 ECTS)
Key 3 Teaching in Europe, Europe in Teaching (4 ECTS)
Key 4 KeyS for Europe in Education (4 ECTS)
      4a Multimedia
      4b Keys for Europe: project
Key 5 Social and Cultural Competences (4 ECTS)
Key 6 (optional) Keys in Practice (10 ECTS)

Deadline for enrolment is October 15th! Be in time, we have a lot of candidates with 60 international institutes involved! Only 32 candidates will be accepted! It's essential that your international coordinator sends a mail to greet.cuyt@khk.be as soon as he/she is sure you will come.

Business Management

February 2012 Spring semester 6 February - end June 2012:

  • Thorough study of management accounting
  • Training on international business, with a focus on International Trade and European Institutions
  • The practical and legal aspects of setting up an own business in entrepreneurship
  • Introduction on the key Business-ICT alignment topics and Business Intelligence/Corporate Performance Management, with a hands-on project
  • An elaborate marketing focus: retail marketing and shop design
  • Financial analysis
  • Business communication in English
  • A multi-disciplinary module on Global challenges and cooperation, with additional focus on global communication (course module for all international students at K.H. Kempen University College)
  • Excursions to the port of Antwerp and the European Parliament are included
  • POSSIBILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN AN INTENSIVE PROGRAMME IN LITHUANIA.
     
  • Download flyer pdf
International ICT Module for master students

From September 2011 onwards: 60 ECTS

  • RTOS (2 credits)
  • DSP I and DSP II (6 ECTS)
  • Image processing (3 ECTS)
  • Machine learning (3 ECTS)
  • Network security (4 ECTS)
  • Databases (4 ECTS)
  • Software engineering (2 ECTS)
  • Computer graphics (3 ECTS)
  • Operating Systems (3 ECTS)

Master thesis: 30 ECTS

Application deadline: 20 June 2011(exceptionally)

Entrepreneurship for Starters

Entrepreneurship Project (5 ects)

This project is intended for enthusiastic students with limited knowledge of entrepreneurship. You learn how to go from a luminous idea to a real product. You start your own company with its own mission and objectives. You also examine your target audience. You learn to manage the financial aspects of the company, bring the product on the market and eventually sell it. The business plan is the result and will be presented before a professional jury. You will work together with students from the Technology department of K.H.Kempen University College (professional bachelor) and with other international students. The team you are part of, is multidisciplinary and international.

Internship (20/25 ects)

You can choose to continue the entrepreneurship project in a technical part in which you effectively build and test your product or prototype. This phase is similar to a technical internship, but in this case, in your own company.

Spring semester

International Microbiology Module (IMIB) NOT ORGANISED IN 2012

The international module in microbiology is taught in English and consists of courses and a placement in a microbiological environment.  The courses will take place during 3 full weeks and later 2 days a week. The rest of the time will be practical work in a microbiological laboratory of a company, hospital, university…...

Application deadline 15 November 2011.

Five course units will be organised, a total of 30 ECTS credits can be obtained.

  • Support and Regulation                
  • Molecular and Microbial Systems     
  • Micro-organisms as a threat           
  • Micro-organisms as a benefit
  • Work placement
Social Work

Spring term 2012, modules up to 30 ects

  • Research and dissertation : 6 ECTS
  • Online courses with face-to-face coaching, e.g.
  • Social Work in Europe: 5 ECTS
  • Comparative Social Work: 10 ECTS
  • International Community Work: 15 ECTS
  • ............
  • For more information : download PDF
Dealing with Global Challenges

February - May 2012

A multidisciplinary integration of contemporary challenges and international perspectives in  professional behaviour and functioning.

  • Global challenges (Climate change, North-South relations, sustainable development...)
  • International perspectives (Globalisation, International relations and institutions....)
  • Professional behaviour and functioning, international practices and multidisciplinary cooperation (diversity, intercultural communication, human rights......)
     
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Flanders Tour: International Nursing-Midwifery Programme - On Diversity and Unity

The programme consists of six themes offered at different University Colleges in Flanders.

Compulsory themes:

  • Diversity and unity
  • Structure and organisation of health care in Flanders - Belgium

Optional themes

  • Topics in critical care and care for the ageing
  • Pain, whose problem is it?
  • A multicultural approach of health and illness
  • Sexuality - rite de passage - child birth