This minor is tailored for students eager to explore language as a vital medium in their artistic practice. It encourages experimentation within an art and design context in order to develop creative writing skills and build up the confidence to share it with others.

The programme includes class exercises based around various styles and genres, along with activities, research, and assignments that connect your written work with the city and other people. Language can bring together many worlds, voices, and perspectives. For the final presentation your unique interests and viewpoints play a key role as you develop and write your own creative work in any form and language you choose.

By exploring styles and genres, you will learn to unravel and reweave narratives, sharpen your skills with language, and share your texts and stories with a wider audience.

Learning Outcomes 

• Deepening of (artistic) writing skills: You will explore your own writing process, learn how to identify strengths and weaknesses, and how to improve them. You will experiment with the potential of language as an artistic medium and combine text with other forms of art, design, performance, etc.
• Gaining knowledge of style, structure, genre, and the materiality of language: You will gain foundational knowledge about the possibilities and theories of writing and learn to apply this knowledge to your own texts. You will develop skills to align choices of style, structure, and genre with relevant audiences.
• ·Employing collective feedback, editing, and iteration: You will be able to analyse, reflect, and comment on your own work and that of other students, to help improve each other’s work iteratively. You will learn about feedback methods and how to use articulated reflection as part of a creative and research process.
•  Exploring outside the text: You will learn about the literary field and how writing functions in different places and contexts. You can take steps towards building an interdisciplinary network in Rotterdam and beyond, and understand how to make work public in different formats and for different audiences.
• ·Carrying out artistic and/or creative research: You will employ writing methodologies in practice-based research, both in research by making, contextual research, and participatory methods, and with a focus on reflection, documentation, and making public. (The Circle of Doing Research model of WdKA.)

Entry requirements:

• Art and design students from all disciplines, including from institutions outside HR.
• Students from other educational programmes interested in creative and experimental ways of using language, storytelling, and publishing.
• The programme will be taught in English, therefore a self-assessed level of at least B2 is recommended. Students can choose to write and be assessed in Dutch.

Assessment: 

•  Innovative application of (artistic) writing skills taught in the workshops that express explicit attention to language and writing as artistic and/or creative medium.
• In-depth reflection on acquired knowledge of style, structure, genre, and the materiality of language and a substantiated application of this knowledge in the creation of text.
• Incorporation of collective feedback, editing and iteration and a reflection on personal learning goals.
• A concept of the positioning of the work in relation to the public that refers to the field and show an understanding of the audience(s).
• An iterative research process that shows development of thought and practice and an articulation of a research question, findings and conclusion.

The written documents will be evaluated individually and asynchronously. The final work will be assessed after being presented in class.

APPLICATION PROCESS (KOM)

Are you a student from another educational institution and would you like to follow a minor at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences? If so, you must apply in two steps:

Step 1
Register for the minor of your choice via the blue Apply button. You can find this button at the top right of the minor’s page.
Download the learning agreement and complete it.
Submit this learning agreement to the examination board of your study programme.
Once the examination board has granted approval, register for the minor in Step 2 no later than 01-07-2025 at 9:00 a.m.

Step 2
After approval, register via OSIRIS Application of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences using the link below (first create an account).

https://osiris.hr.nl/osiris_aanmeld_hrprd/Welkom.do?proces=KOM2609&opleiding=MINOR-WDK-VT 00

Part of the application process is uploading the following documents:

• The learning agreement, signed by you and by your institution;
  A scan or photo of your passport or ID card.
   

You will be informed by Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences whether your application has been approved.

In OSIRIS Application, you must also upload the Proof of Paid Tuition Fee (BBC) for the academic year in which you wish to follow the minor. This can be done from 01 May 2026onwards. You can request the BBC from your institution after you have signed or issued an authorization for the payment of the tuition fee for the relevant academic year. You may also choose the option for your institution to send the BBC directly to collegegeld@hr.nl.

You will receive a notification from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences once your application has been approved.