List of bachelor's minors
On this page you can see the list of all the bachelor's minor programmes Wageningen offers.
For an overview of the minors, see the list below, or go to the Osiris-study handbook.
New minors to be offered in study year 2023-2024:
- Biodiversity: Genetics & Life Histories (en) (second semester)
- Data-driven agronomy (en) (second semester)
- Gender and Diversity for Sustainable Worlds (en) (first semester)
Language
Many of the BSc minors are entirely in English, but others contain courses in Dutch. If a minor is taught entirely in English this is mentioned by (en) behind the name of the minor in the list below.
Programme and Thematic minors
There are two types of BSc minors. A programme minor serves as an introduction to the domain of a study programme (either bachelor's or master's). A thematic minor on the other hand is usually not linked to a study programme. They cater to current trends in science and society.
Minor programmes in the first semester (period 1, 2 and 3)
Thematic minors
- Biology of Infectious Diseases (en)
- Bionanotechnology (en)
- Chemical Sciences
- Climate Change: Mitigation & Adaptation (en)
- Education
- Freedom from Hunger (en)
- Geo-information for Environment and Society (en)
- Healthy Ageing in Humans and Model Species (en)
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship (en)
- Natural Resource Conflict and Governance (en)
- Psychobiology of Eating Behaviour (en)
- Seagriculture: Designing Sustainable Seaweed Chains (en)
Programme minors
- Agricultural Business Management (en)
- Animal Sciences (en)
- Biobased Sciences (en)
- Bioinformatics (en)
- Communication for Change
- Communication, Health and Society
- Concepts in Crop Production (en)
- Consumer Behaviour (en)
- Data Science (en)
- Development, Policies and Globalization​
- Earth and Biosphere (en)
- Economics of Sustainable Development
- Food Technology (en)
- Foods of Animal Origin (en)
- International Land and Water Management (en)
- Management of Terrestrial Ecosystems
- Nutrition and Health
- Physical Hydrology and Meteorology (en)
- Plant Biotechnology (en)
- Policies, People and Nature Conservation
- Supply Chain Management (en)
- Urban Environmental Management (en)
Minor programmes in the second semester (period 4, 5 and 6)
Thematic minors
- Disaster Risk and Resilience (en)
- Ecosystem Services of Insects (formerly: Ecology and Biological Control of Insects) (en)
- Education
- Geo-information for Environment and Society (en)
- Global One Health (en)
- Marine Living Resources (en)
- Philosophy
- Quantified Self (en)
- Sustainable Agriculture and Consumption (en)
- Wildlife Biodiversity (en)