What minor did you do? And where?
I did courses from Business Economics and some premaster courses, both from TiSEM.

Why did you choose this?
I did these courses because I wanted to do the master Marketing Management. This master is from TiSEM and doesn’t connect with CIS. Also, there is a standard list of courses that you have to do if you want to switch from CIS to Marketing Management.

What courses did you do?
The courses I did were Financial Accounting, Organization for Premaster, Services Marketing for Premasters, Marketing 1 and Marketing 2 (and some other courses, but I didn’t complete those).

How did you like it?
I liked these courses very much, but I wish I would have known better that some premaster courses are a lot more difficult than most of the CIS courses beforehand. For example, in order to switch to Marketing Management you have the choice to do the first semester of Finance for Premasters, or the second semester Finance 1. Finance 1 is a first year Business Economics course and it is a course which a lot of students fear for (like with Communication in Organizations). But Finance for Premasters is even more difficult, because this is Finance 1 and Finance 2 (the following up course) together in one course. This is for premasters who come from Higher Vocational Education and who have to do everything in one semester. If I knew this beforehand, I would have chosen Finance 1 instead of immediately trying to do twice as much work. I thought that I could do the six premaster courses in my minor (plus one extra course), but you have to take into account that some of these courses may cost more time than “normal” CIS courses (and you really have to plan the courses; if you can choose between a premaster course or a regular Business Economics course, the last option is probably easier). By the way, not all the courses are as difficult as Finance for Premasters. For example Financial Accounting (a first year Business Economics course), this course is mostly just practicing, and Organization for Premaster is a lot of learning, but not that difficult.

Was it hard to switch?
Switching wasn’t very hard, but I had to get used to it. Instead of just going to lectures and learning by heart, there were more calculating courses for which you had to practice every week.

Did you know someone else who did this minor?
I didn’t know anybody who did these courses too. So, in the lecture hall it was sometimes boring (but a lot easier to pay attention). For group assignments, there was no problem at all, because there were a lot more students who didn’t know other people, so we sent e-mails or posted messages on Blackboard to search for group members.