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Minors<br />

Minors are learning activities for B3.1 students.<br />

Students’ choice for a particular minor<br />

depends on their learning goals for the first<br />

block of the third year (block B3.1) as well as<br />

the purpose each of these minor types serve.<br />

Throughout the TU/e, third-year students are<br />

required to take a minor. The minor semester<br />

consists of academic training (three credits and<br />

organised centrally) and the minor itself (27<br />

credits). Students can either take a deepening<br />

or broadening minor, or a minor that facilitates<br />

a smoother entrance into a Master’s at another<br />

TU/e department or university. Depending on<br />

what ID students want to achieve in the third<br />

year as a whole, they can choose one of the<br />

following minors:<br />

• An exchange at a university abroad, with<br />

which ID has a bilateral agreement. This<br />

deepening minor is an option for students<br />

who want to gain experience with learning<br />

in another educational model or culture, or<br />

if they want to acquire expertise that is not<br />

available at the ID department or the TU/e.<br />

• An internship at a design office, a company,<br />

an R&D or design department of a large<br />

company in the Netherlands or abroad. This<br />

deepening minor might be an appropriate<br />

choice for students who want to gain<br />

‘real-life’ experience with design projects,<br />

experience the difference between learning<br />

at ID and learning in a professional setting,<br />

or gain experience with learning and working<br />

in another culture.<br />

• A minor program at one of the other TU/e<br />

departments or at one of the other Dutch<br />

universities of technology (Delft and<br />

Twente). Students may opt for this broadening<br />

minor if they want to acquire expertise<br />

that is not available at the ID department, if<br />

they want to gain experience with another<br />

educational model or if they want to use the<br />

minor programme to prepare for a Master’s<br />

programme at the department or university<br />

involved.<br />

• A free minor programme within or outside<br />

the TU/e. For this type of broadening,<br />

minor students compose their own<br />

programme and submit this to the Board<br />

of Examiners for approval. It is an option<br />

for students who want to acquire specific<br />

knowledge or expertise, either outside the<br />

scope of or related to industrial design.

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