Following a minor

Kies Op Maat is an organisation that makes it easy to take courses at another educational institution. With a Kies op Maat minor, you can be introduced to a new field of study at a research university and/or prepare for a Master's programme. This is because a Kies op Maat minor often includes courses from the pre-Master's programme. So you can already take (part of) the pre-Master's during your HBO Bachelor's.

For your Kies op Maat minor, choose one of the programmes and subject areas listed below. Via the links below, you can also find more information on the content and admission requirements of the minor and possible exemptions from the pre-Master's programme. 

• American Studies
• Art History
• Arts and Culture Studies
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Communication Sciences
• Computing Science
• Cultural Anthropology and Developmental Sociology
• Dutch Language and Culture
• English Language and Culture
• French Language and Culture
• Gender, Culture and Society
• German Language and Culture
• History
• Information Sciences
• Language and Speech Pathology for Speech Therapy Students
• Linguistics
• Medical Biology
• Molecular Sciences
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies
• Sociology
• Spanish Language and Culture
• Theology

Apply

Do you want to take a minor through Kies op Maat and have decided which minor you want to do? Then go to the application procedure and follow the steps. 

Application procedure

Are you interested in a specific Master's programme for after your HBO Bachelor's? With a preparatory minor, you can already take (part of) the pre-Master's during your HBO. 

The programmes listed below offer a preparatory minor. Check the pages for more information on the content, admission requirements and application procedure. 

• Anthropology and Development Studies
• Bestuurskunde
• Communicatiewetenschap
• Economics
• Environment and Society Studies
• Human Geography
• Intersectional Gender Studies
• Political Science
• Sociologie
• Spatial Planning

A number of programmes have a special cooperation agreement with the HAN University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen). A minor at Radboud University thus becomes part of the curriculum of your HAN programme, and provides exemptions on the pre-Master's degree.

• Business Administration: HAN Faculty of Economics and Management
• Economics and Business Economics: HAN Faculty of Economics and Management
• Biomedical Sciences: HAN Physiotherapy
• Language and Speech Pathology: HAN Speech Therapy

Application procedure

Are you a Bachelor's student (at Radboud University or another research university elsewhere in the Netherlands) and interested in a Master's programme at Radboud University, but not directly eligible? A number of programmes offer a preparatory minor for WO students. This minor allows you to already take courses at Radboud University during your Bachelor's degree and shortens your pre-Master's programme.  

• Anthropology and Development Studies 
• Communicatie en Beïnvloeding
• Communicatiewetenschap 
• Intersectional Gender Studies
• Sociologie 

If you don't have time for a full minor or are curious about a specific course, you can also choose to take one or more individual courses at Radboud University as a subsidiary student.

Overview subsidiary courses and application procedure

The Radboud Teachers Academy provides an Education Minor in 13 school subjects that you can take in the third year of your Bachelor's programme. This, in combination with your Bachelor's degree, gives you a limited second-degree qualification for secondary education. This allows you to teach in the junior grades of HAVO and VWO and in VMBO.

The minor is a good way to find out whether teaching is for you and to quickly become a teacher; but that is not all. You will learn valuable skills that you can put to good use outside teaching, such as leadership, presenting, planning, giving and receiving feedback, and communicating effectively. In short: the minor is a good investment in your personal development! 

Overview Education Minors (in Dutch)

All Bachelor's programmes of the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies have a minor space, to be filled with minors of your own choice and, in the case several programmes, also by the compulsory FTR minor. A minor or module is a fixed package of subjects in which you take all subjects from that minor/module. A minor consists of three courses of 5 EC each.

In addition, you can compose your own minor from courses offered within and/or outside the faculty (in the Netherlands or abroad). For this, you need to make a request to the exam committee for approval.

All minors Faculty of Philosophy, Theology en Religious Studies

Exemption from a minor

In case of a previously obtained bachelor degree or previously passed courses from another institution or study it is possible to request for an exemption from one or more minors.

Are you a student at the Faculty of Arts? Then you will follow your minor within the Faculty of Arts' minor system. All Bachelor's programmes of the Faculty of Arts have a minor space of 40 EC. 

Minor system Faculty of Arts

Are you a student at a different faculty? If you want to fill the elective space of your minor with courses at the Faculty of Arts, for example language proficiency classes in German, French or Spanish, please check the course offers in Osiris and select subsidiary courses as a filter. Also check to see if you meet the entry requirements for the course.

Several minors are offered within the Nijmegen School of Management. These can be found in Osiris.

All minors Nijmegen School of Management

Please note: if you are going to take a minor, please register for this specific minor in Osiris. Nijmegen School of Management has deadlines for registering for courses, exams and re-exams. Moreover, regulations and house rules apply during examinations.

Requesting a Minor certificate

You will only receive a digital certificate when:

• you will not use the relevant courses from the minor in your elective space
• you will not use the courses in question in your extracurricular space
• one or more courses from the minor are not part of the programme you are following

Request digital Minor certificate NSM

Faculty of Science offers minors for its own students, and for students from outside the faculty and/or university.

For Faculty of Science students
Every bachelor's programme has a minor space of at least 15 EC within which you have the opportunity to take one or more minors. When doing a minor, Faculty of Science students are obliged to register for it. 
The overview of minors shows which minors can be taken without prior permission of the Exam Board. As a Faculty of Science student, you can also compose an elective minor yourself, but this must be approved by the Exam Board.

Request approval

Composing an elective minor
The elective minor must be submitted to the Exam Board; it will be checked whether the programme is of academic level and whether there is enough coherence in the proposed minor programme. An elective minor should have a size of 15 to 30 ec, have a thematic coherence and there should be no substantial overlap with other components in the bachelor's programme (see EER).

Minors Faculty of Science

If you are a student from outside the Faculty of Science, you can also take minors offered by the Faculty of Science. However, it is your own responsibility to ensure that you meet the entry requirements for (the courses of) the minor.
In the explanations of the various minors, you will find more information, among other things about the subjects offered in a minor and any prior knowledge requirements.

Several minors are offered within the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Minors Faculty of Social Sciences