Honours programme
Do you want to make the most of your talents? Are you creative and driven? Then HU Honours is for you! Join other ambitious students from across the university and make a difference in your career and for society.
You follow an honours track alongside your regular programme, and you won't receive credits, but stars for your work. Once you've earned five stars, you can request a final assessment to show that you are a 'leading professional in value creation for professional practice and society'. A positive result on your final assessment leads to your receiving an Honours certificate with your diploma.
Honours tracks
HU has organised its programmes in such a way that you can choose your own Honours track alongside your regular programme. From supply-oriented to demand-driven; in collaboration with other faculties; attached to courses in your programme; or as extra projects or your own initiative.
HU offers four kinds of Honours tracks:
HU offers various five-star honours programmes. These are linked to HU's core values as well as trends in society. Honours programmes are focused on complex social issues and are therefore often interdisciplinary in character.
Some honours programmes are aimed at students of specific programmes, such as the Top Class for students in Health Care studies. Other honours programmes are open to all HU students, such as the Social Innovation Honours Programme.
Each HU programme offers a number of their regular courses at honours level. This means you will have one of more honours assignments in addition to the regular course content. With these honours assignments you deepen and broaden your knowledge and skills.
For each course you receive one star upon successful completion of the honours assignment(s). It is also possible to do parts of your minor, internship or research project at honours level.
It is possible to do extra projects or assignments that aren't linked to your programme but that you do in collaboration with a business or social organisation. This allows for plenty of room for initiative and innovation.
Do you have an interesting idea you want to tackle? Do you have a special skill you want to develop further? Then choose the personal route. Keep in mind that the product or service you develop needs to add value to professional practice or society.
You choose your own project and organise your own route, but you can get guidance from an honours professor if you so wish.
What do you get out of it?
Participating in honours programmes or tracks has many benefits. You:
- discover your talents and develop them further
- learn to use a research-based interdisciplinary approach to innovation
- raise your value in the job market with an honours certificate
Any Questions?
Are you curious about our Honours programme and do you want to find out more? Follow us on Facebook (@HuHonours) or Twitter (@HU_honours).
"With five other students, I developed an app for a hospital, allowing doctors to retrieve patient information much quicker"
Paul van der Bijl Former ICT student
"With five other students, I developed an app for a hospital, allowing doctors to retrieve patient information much quicker"
Paul van der BijlFormer ICT student
"With five other second-year students, I developed an app that allows doctors to retrieve patient information much quicker. We focused on usability. We had meetings with the physicians and a number of them helped test the app.
During your studies you come across many fictitious assignments, but in the hospital, you work with and for people. One of the doctors said: 'I want this and this in the app, otherwise I just won't use it.' That kind of input is hard to ignore. Dealing with the app's final users was a great learning experience. And we created a very useful product.
During the honours programme I discovered I can do more than I previously thought. I acted as press liaison, managed social media and took pictures."
"During the honours programme I discovered I can do more than I previously thought. I acted as press liaison, managed social media and took pictures."
Miral de Bruine Journalism student
"During the honours programme I discovered I can do more than I previously thought. I acted as press liaison, managed social media and took pictures."
Miral de BruineJournalism student
"With some other students I was part of the creation of the Honours programme, and last year I was a participant myself. For two weeks, I travelled with a group of Dutchbat UN veterans to Lebanon, where they had served between 1979 and 1985 on a UN peacekeeping mission. They are now men in their fifties, and went back to see what life in the country is like now.
I acted as journalist, press liaison, managed social media and took pictures. I discovered I can do much more than I previously thought! My photos have been published in various veterans' magazines and on a few websites. I still get the occasional phone call about them.
I found out I enjoy the freedom and confidence I got to do my own thing and to be appreciated for it."