Micro-credential 'Selected Issues: Drug Policy'
Description
Dive deeper into the world of drug phenomena with our stimulating micro-credential. Designed specifically for anyone who wants to gain a more in-depth understanding of drug phenomena, this micro-credential offers an engaging exploration through current case studies and international empirical research. With an emphasis on the drug supply side, you will discover the various links of the supply chain, ranging from production to retail, for specific drug markets such as opiates, synthetic drugs, cocaine and cannabis.
You will gain insight into how drug markets function and explore alternative models for regulating them. This micro-credential aims to stimulate your critical thinking skills and allow you to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of (international) policy with regard to the drug phenomenon.
What can you expect:
- An overview of international drug policy and basic concepts.
- Research into the functioning of different levels of the drug market in consumer countries, including local markets, supra-local trade and international drug trafficking.
- Detailed case studies on drug supply, such as opium production in Afghanistan, tackling New Psychoactive Substances, cocaine trafficking and the port of Antwerp, and local cannabis cultivation.
- Critical discussion of regulatory models applied to the cannabis phenomenon.
Sign up today and discover the fascinating world of drug phenomena with our micro-credential.
Timetable
Classes for this micro-credential will take place in the second semester. The complete course schedule will be available here from the end of October.
Remarks
- You have the choice to process the micro-credential on campus, or at your own choice (of place and time) the recorded lessons.
- You can follow this micro-credential as part of a government promotional procedure.
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Micro-credential 'Selected Issues: Drug Policy'
Registration
You can easily register for this micro-credential via this link.
KMO-portefeuille
The KMO-Portefeuille can be used to pay the registration fee. For lifelong learning initiatives for which you register with the academy, use UGent's recognition number DV.O103194.
No specific competencies are required to participate in this micro-credential.
Final Competencies:
- Have a thorough and practically applicable understanding of the concepts, theoretical insights, and research methods of the main disciplines that contribute (or have contributed) to the study of drug phenomena.
- Understand the possibilities and limitations of drug policy as a response to a societal phenomenon.
- Possess a multidisciplinary insight into the quantitative, qualitative, and contextual aspects of the drug phenomenon, with a European and international dimension.
- Formulate a personal, scientifically grounded vision on the approach to drug phenomena.
- Independently consult, analyze, and assess criminological scientific sources on drug supply and international and European drug policy.
- Formulate personal, original, and critical reflections on international and European drug policy through group discussions.
- Present a topic in writing and orally on acquired insights into the supply side of a drug phenomenon and its approach within the framework of international and European policy.
- Maintain a critical-scientific attitude towards sources, (scientific) literature, and (empirical) data concerning (the approach to) the drug supply side and the related international and European policy.
- Understand the mechanisms by which drug markets operate and alternative models for regulating drug markets.
- Demonstrate an awareness of pluralism, diversity, and tolerance when identifying and assessing existing, new, or evolving elements within the drug phenomenon.
- Have a solid command of scientific and drug-related English terminology.