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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.