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Revamping Science Education with IBP and MT Master Variants to Attract More Students

The RU Faculty of Science introduces the Master Variants for science, launching the IBP and MT tracks to enhance student engagement in societal issues. The IBP variant emphasizes themes like Climate, Energy, and Biodiversity while the MT variant integrates organizational insights into science education. Both tracks are designed to familiarize students with real-world applications, ensuring better career alignment and increasing participation. The curriculum includes management courses, graduation projects, and theme-specific studies, addressing current challenges and boosting student numbers.

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Revamping Science Education with IBP and MT Master Variants to Attract More Students

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  1. Update on the IBP mastervariant • Master-variants for science introduced to attract more students to faculties of science (“Beta-convenant”) • At RU Faculty of Science: • Research variant (“default”) • Education variant • Science & Communication variant • Management & Technology variant • MT-variant managed by Ben Dankbaar and Arjan van Rooij, with help from FMW teachers • Ben’s retiring and replacing by HdC, reorientation asked for • Peter Tindemans, Arjan, Heleen and MT steering group developed a new curriculum

  2. Management & Technology variant (MT) • The main objective of the MT track is to make science students familiar with concepts and theories from organization studies and business administration • Outline: • 30 EC management courses, mostly run from Nijmegen School of Management • 27 EC MT-graduation project (externally with a company) • Increasing student numbers until 2011/12, decline at the moment • Challenges: • Embedding in Faculty of Sciences • Reputation of courses with students, FoS teachers and study advisors • Alignment with current staff at ISIS • Students realise at a late stage that they don’t want a career in research

  3. Management & Technology variant (MT) (2013-14)

  4. Management & Technology variant (MT)

  5. Innovation, Business & Policy variant (IBP) • Societal science themes central • Better links to Faculty of Sciences teaching and research • Motivating students by substance • Students choose a societal science theme • Climate & Energy • Biodiversity & Water • Security & the Information Society • Any Master track can combine with any theme • Outline: • 12 EC in theme-specific courses, mostly run at Faculty of Sciences • 15 EC in IBP-courses in support of better understanding theme, in cooperation with Nijmegen School of Management • 30 EC IBP-graduation project (mostly with an external organisation)

  6. Setup curriculum Science Master with IBP variant Q1 Q2 Science master track curriculum (63 EC including 3 EC philosophy) Y1 Q3 Q4 Policy & Economics (3) Q1 Core theme course (6) Entrepreneurship (3) Theme course (3) Theme course (3) Innovation management (3) Methods in business and policy research (3) C-variant course (3) Q2 Y2 Q3 IBP graduation project (30) Q4 • Core theme course and theme courses in the field of: • Climate & Energy • Biodiversity & Water • Security & the Information Society

  7. Theme courses Biodiversity & Water: • Core Biodiversity & Water (6 EC): Toine Smits, with Rob Leuven and Rob Lenders • Ecology and management of large river systems (3 EC): Rob Leuven • Tbd (3 EC) Climate & Energy: • Core Climate & Energy (6 EC): Heleen de Coninck, with Bram Bregman and John Schermer • Sustainable consumption and production (3 EC): Mark Huijbregts • Tbd (3 EC) Security & the information society: • Core Security in organisations (6 EC): ICIS • Tbd (3 EC) • Tbd (3 EC)

  8. IBP courses and teachers IBP courses are selected to support societal science themes • Entrepreneurship (3 EC): Arjan van Rooij & Paul Ligthart (FMW) • Policy & economics (3 EC): Heleen de Coninck & Pieter Leroy (or others FMW) NEW • Innovation management (3 EC): Egbert-Jan Sol & Robert Kok (FMW) • Methods in business and policy research (3 EC): Arjan van Rooij • C-variant course (3 EC): NEW choose from: • Science & public policy • Risk communication • or The knowledge society

  9. What’s next • 2013/14: • MT variant will run as planned, except for one course (Management & Organisation) • Preparations for start of IBP-variant • 2014/15: • IBP variant will be taught fully (57 EC) • MT variant only 2nd year courses • 2015/16: • IBP variant only option ! Students starting their Master in 2013/14 can choose whether they do the MT-variant or the IBP-variant !

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