温德斯海姆应用科学大学(Windesheim)

Our four year programme in Global Project and Change Management (Sustainable Business and Innovations) is a Bachelor of Business Administration offered by Windesheim Honours College, the first professional college in the Netherlands. Sustainable Development is the main focus of the programme.

Curriculum

Our curriculum combines theory and practice, project and change management, business and research with global challenges. The BBA programme consists of courses, real projects with companies right from the first year, an international internship and professional career counselling.

Each semester in this Bachelor of Sustainable Development you will work in a small group on a larger project with a real-life client. Your schedule and assignments will give you a study load of roughly 40 hours a week. We teach in an interactive style, expecting you to work together with a lecturer instead of only listening to a lecture.

In the end you will know how to lead a project team and how to put innovative ideas into practice. You will become a change maker, aware of your own strengths and ambitions and able to create sustainable value for society.

What's our Programme like? Curriculum Year 1 and 2

YEAR 1 & 2

In the first two years you will learn everything about the basics of being a Project and Change Manager. You get to see what the profession entails and what skills you need to develop, with the first year focusing on introductions and the second year focusing on more advanced information. Our programme is based on 4 Principles: Business Skills, Research Skills, Global Challenges and of course Project and Change Management (Figure 1). Throughout the first two years there will be assignments, projects, online activities, lectures and events. During the Projects executed within local Non-Profit (organizations), the Municipality or other initiatives, you will get the opportunity to practice your knowledge in real-life.

Curriculum Year 3 and 4

The last two years of our curriculum are designed to allow you maximum flexibility to plan your own learning journey and develop the skills and knowledge you need for your future. The focus in these years is on Change Management. You will have the opportunity to plan the 4 semesters yourself in an order you prefer:

• Managing Projects in a Globalized World
• Value Creators
• Elective
• Internship

After college: what's next?

Our college graduates are tomorrow's Project and Change managers. Instead of going straight into a job, you might want to continue your education with a Master’s degree. WHC has a strong network of contacts in other universities and it lots of different fields. About 80 % of our students continue with a Master’s degree, whilst others choose to start working or set-up their own (sustainable) business. Below a few examples of our Alumni to give you an idea.

• junior project manager at an international NGO for involuntary disappearances in the Philippines

• trainee for the European Parliament

• business consultant at business organization Ordina

• junior project manager at Dance4life

• start your own company like BIKUH, KRANG or Ragnarøk Clothing

• continue with a Master’s Degree in Climate Change in Brighton or Human Rights in Maastricht.