 Hi guys, welcome. I'm Wilfred Ung, I'm the program coordinator of the Master of Sociology, and today I'm going to give a short introduction into our beautiful master program. Two weeks ago we were shocked in the Netherlands by news that a referee in soccer was killed by three youngsters. Last week in the US a guy did a shooting on a school and he killed more than 20 people. Is crime really on the rise? Or does it just remain stable? Or does it even decrease? More generally, do we get along well with each other? Or do we see each other less and less? Or is that compensated by an increase in social media usage? Such questions are questions about social cohesion. And this is our focus of our master program. We use a theoretical empirical approach to studying questions of social cohesion. The empirical approach means that, well, that we study whether crime is really increasing. Actually, empirical research shows that it is not increasing at all. It is decreasing, and this has been the case in the US for the last 10 years, but also in the Netherlands. So all these images we have about crime are just not true. This is our empirical approach. Our theoretical approach is why is that the case? Why is crime on the decrease? One reason, one theory may be that arising educational levels may be responsible for that. If you have a higher education, you have less reasons to be involved in crime, and you may also have less opportunities to get involved in crime. This is just one theory. Another theory is that it is due to, for example, more efficient policy. In the Netherlands, for example, politicians steer less at putting people into prison, and they advocate community service instead of prison. This may have an effect on the decrease in crime rates. Here in Tilburg, at the master program of sociology, we test whether such theories really hold. Is policy really that effective? Besides this special focus on social cohesion and our approach, the theoretical empirical approach, I think there is more reasons to study here in our beautiful program. First of all, we have broad master options. We don't only have a one-year program in one-year master program, but we also have a two-year kind of exchange program with the University of Trento. You can go to the northern part of Italy, surrounded by beautiful mountains of the Dolomiti to study there in this small university town, doing one master here and one master there. This is just one of the master options. Another beautiful option at this point, too, is that we have a long internship. We have an extended master program in sociology of one-and-a-half-year, of which one year is doing for 50 percent of your time an internship, and for 50 percent of your time writing your master thesis. The third really beautiful reason to come here is that we are very small scale. There is not so many students in sociology, and there is enough staff. This is favorable to lecturing and to entering rooms, lectures, and asking questions. This is really very good for students. Fourth, we have excellent student evaluations. They are really rated high, and students are satisfied with our lecturing. Fifth, and finally, we have high success rates. Last go-hard, 100 percent, so all the students succeeded in finishing their master thesis within half a year. I think this is really good reason to come here.