Please note that the registration period for some courses is limited. See the box under 'Application and Registration' for the exact registration dates of the minor and courses.

Goal and content minor

The minor Creative Cities caters to students interested in emerging artistic practices, subcultures and new media, and how these phenomena relate to creative developments in urban society. Investigating cities, urban citizenship and the multidimensional dynamics between them requires an interdisciplinary academic approach, while simultaneously offering endless possibilities for exploring connections between theory and practice. All courses of this minor programme open the door to the urban world beyond the university classroom and provide students with theoretical concepts, practical tools, and creative spaces to explore the constantly evolving dynamics of cities.

The Creative Cities minor is inspired by the growing realization that creative, economically viable and liveable cities of the future will only thrive if their citizens turn from passive consumers into active participants who take responsibility for each other and their surroundings. All kinds of cultural practices can influence this process of bottom-up city building. Thus, the different courses in this minor offer opportunities to critically study new digital media technologies and their creative applications, the changing role of young people in urban society, formal and informal cultural interventions in public space, and cutting edge participatory arts in lower income areas (community arts).

Preperation for a Master's programme

The minor Creative Cities, which combines humanities and social sciences, provides a useful basis for various Master's programmes at Utrecht University, including: 

It could also benefit those wishing to pursue Master's studies in the social sciences (e.g. the M.A. in Human Geography and the Cultural Anthropology M.A. ‘Sociocultural Transformation’), or various M.A. programmes in Creative Cities and Urban Culture in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Minor Coordinator

Michiel de Lange

Study Programme

The minor Creative Cities consists of four compulsory courses (30 EC). 

Students of the BA Media en cultuur/BA Media and Culture with the advanced trajectory (verdiepingspakket) Participatory Cultures have 7.5 EC overlap. These students follow an extra free course (profileringscursus/vrije keuze) instead. 

Entry Requirements

Look carefully at the entry requirements of the courses and whether there is a placement committee.

Entry requirements

Some of the courses in this minor may have specific entry requirements. Please refer to the the section Entry requirements and preknowledge in the course description in the Course Planner.

Application and registration

How to register for this minor and its course modules, depends on whether you are a student of Utrecht University or not.

Utrecht University students can register for a minor and the individual modules online via OSIRIS during the Faculty of Humanities course registration period. You must register for both the minor itself and each course module individually.

Courses with priority rules

If you wish to register for a course to which priority rules apply, make sure to register for both the course and the minor during the first two weeks of the course registration period. We will publish a list of courses with priority rules two weeks prior to the course registration period.

REGISTRATION STUDY RESULTS

Once you have completed the course modules, provided that you were enrolled for both the minor itself and each course module individually in OSIRIS, the minor and study results will be listed on your Study Progress Review.

Deviation standard programme

If you wish to deviate from the standard minor programme, you must request approval from the Board of Examiners of the Bachelor's programme that offers the minor.

Students from other Universities can register for the minor and each course module using the digital registration form during the Faculty of Humanities course registration period. Besides that we also need a Proof of Payment of your tuition fees from your own educational instituion. Please send the form and the Proof of Registration -preferably via email- to the Student Desk Humanities.

Courses with priority rules

If you wish to register for a course to which priority rules apply, make sure to register for both the course and the minor during the first two weeks of the course registration period. We will publish a list of courses with priority rules two weeks prior to the course registration period.

Study results

Once you have completed the course modules with as passing result, you can apply for a list of grades (transcript) of the minor programme at the Student Desk Humanities.

More information

If you wish to know more, or have questions about this minor, please contact the Student Desk Humanities.