Do you know what you want to do after your studies? Have you already chosen a master or a career for when you graduate?
Then this course is probably not for you.
Instead, this course is for the students approaching their Bachelor or Master graduation and who have no idea what they want to do once they receive their diploma. When your graduation deadline looms, the prospect of stepping into the professional world can be both exciting and daunting. Most students are filled with uncertainty and have no idea how to approach planning out their future career paths. Sound familiar? Don't worry!
The new Designing Your Life (DYL) course offered by the BMS faculty helps guide students grappling with their career and life uncertainties after graduation. This course, offered now for the first time, is based on the principles of the book of the same name by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, who have developed this methodology for the Stanford d.school, as well as the work of the Honors College of the University of Leiden. Through hands-on activities and peer support, students embark on a journey of targeted career exploration, adopting a prototype-based approach to design and test out potential futures. The course encourages students to apply design thinking to their own lives and to take critical steps towards determining what they want their future lives to be. Whether you are a Bachelor student doubting which Master to choose or a Master student already looking ahead to your first steps as a young professional, this course provides a supportive environment to explore your passions, overcome any dysfunctional beliefs, chart a course towards a fulfilling career and meaningfully design the wildest ideas you may have for your future life.
This course is a spin-off project from the Honours programmes and developed within the BMS faculty.
Practicalities
During quartile 2 (November 2024 - January 2025), the BMS faculty will host the first-ever run of the Designing Your Life course at the University of Twente. This course is unique at the university in providing students with practical
- Timing: this course runs between the 11th of November 2024 and 31st of January 2025 (see also the course planning).
- Workload: this course is worth 3 ECTS (extracurricular), which will be received through Osiris.
- Participants: this course is open for second- and third-year Bachelor or Master students from the BMS.
- Application deadline: please register here before the 8th of November.