Our tracks

Tailored education for ambitious and motivated bachelor students: what do you want to develop?

To tailor your Honours experience to your needs and to allow you to focuson specific skills you want to develop, the Bachelor Honours programme is divided into 6 different tracks, each focussing on a different field. Within the programme, you have to select one track to complete. You can find an overview of the different tracks we offer below.

Each track takes 1.5 years and has 6 courses, of which the first one starts in quartile 3 (with selection taking place in January-February each year). You may enroll either in your first or second year of your Bachelor study.

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Entrepreneurship & Business Development

The Entrepreneurship & Business Development track trains students to become real-time entrepreneurs. The focus is on different ways students can run their own companies and how they can ensure that their businesses are relevant for society. We work in close cooperation with Novel-T to support students in their ventures and the track is focused on the student’s personal growth as entrepreneurs. The main perspective of the Entrepreneurship and Business Development track is the effectuation approach. This is a relatively new way to look at entrepreneurship. In the more traditional approaches, starting your business is a stepwise, planned action mostly focused on writing a business plan. However, expert entrepreneurs hardly follow this approach. Effectual entrepreneurs work with the means available to them and are actively searching for partners to cooperate and share risks by pre-commitment to the new venture. Co-creation is important; it is not a one-way trajectory but together with partners you will establish two-way cooperation where means are exchanged to create synergy. You will, therefore, focus a lot on networking and working together with your fellow entrepreneurs.

Mathematics

The Mathematics track goes far beyond equations and variables by teaching students how to solve problems using a mathematical approach. Aside from delving deeper into challenging and engaging mathematical topics, students will develop skills that go hand-in-hand with mathematics such as computer coding and signal processing. During the track, students will develop a structured yet creative way of problem-solving. The track will deepen and broaden your understanding and knowledge of mathematical skills. It is partly aligned with mathematics curricula of engineering studies, but also new and challenging disciplines in this field of science will be discussed, such as Coding Theory and Geometry. The track is divided into six modules, running from fundamental to applied mathematics. We offer this track through (guest) lectures and tutorials alongside challenging assignments and final projects. The intended learning outcome is a new creative way of problem-solving with the aid of mathematical tools.

Processes of Change

The Processes of Change track teaches you to understand change and to promote it in practice. Change will be investigated at multiple levels ranging from society at large, to the organisational level as well as the individual level, as innovation and reform often imply change at various levels. Each course discusses a certain subject, but it also aims at improving certain skills. We will enhance your personal skills throughout the track courses but also by means of coaching sessions. We will teach you presenting skills, stimulate independent thinking and creativity and we will open you up to your leadership potential. In one course, you will develop your own original theory about organisations (without reading any literature), while in another course you will design and execute real-life change interventions and act as a consultant to a real client. All courses provide you with valuable insights and skills that can be put into practice in an individual change project that is valuable to you at the end of the track, the results of which are presented during a final seminar. Hence, the track teaches you how to use your abilities to let yourself, others, and the groups and organisations that you are part of, turn to new views, attitudes, behaviours, and policies. When you have completed the Processes of Change track you are ready to start new movements!

Philosophy

For students specializing in technology, managerial or behavioural sciences, an apprenticeship in the broad scope of philosophy is a valuable prerequisite to keep High Tech in touch with the Human Touch. After all, philosophy, and certainly its major representatives, can be considered as best practices of creative and self-critical thought that proved its fecundity in science, ethics, politics, literature and art. The Philosophy track guides students into an encounter with philosophic primary sources. It is not an introduction in applied ethics or philosophy of a specific discipline, but it aims at students acquiring a Socratic attitude. For Socratic wisdom entails the insight that if one asks long enough about the presuppositions, the legitimations and consequences of current scientific, ethical and political ideas, they turn out to be apt for philosophical reflection.

Shaping the Future

The Shaping the Future track focusses on analysing big societal issues where new scientific findings, insights or technological developments did or may still invoke major structural changes. Students will learn from past scientific developments, apply this knowledge to a current issue, and foresee and anticipate future problems. Skills learned within this track are competencies that students can use to tackle problems in their own and in multidisciplinary fields. The track encourages students to develop and use a unique way of problem-solving, enabling them to influence the future. Are you a curious, broadly interested student who is thrilled by ground-breaking research and designs? Then Shaping the Future is the track for you!