INTERNATIONAL SEMESTER – 30 ECTS SPRING 2015
DIGITAL CREATIVE PROJECTS
IN BUSINESS
2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Howest University of Applied Sciences 3
What is... 5
WHAT IS A DIGITAL CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL?
WHAT IS A DIGITAL DIGITAL BUSINESS CREATIVE?? 1
Course concept 6
Course overview 7
English for exchange students in higher education 8
A TWO-WEEK INTENSIVE LANGUAGE PREPARATION
Academic recognition 8
Prerequisites 9
Practical information 11
TIMING AND LOCATION
TUITION FEE
ACCOMMODATION
Registration and deadline 12
Contact and more information 12
HOWEST UNIVERSITY
OF APPLIED SCIENCES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Howest is a dynamic university of applied sciences, focused on innovation, creativity and
entrepreneurship. Our core values “serve – empower – care” stimulate an open, pluralistic
and international outlook on education, research and service to society.
Howest is a member of Ghent University Association, which provides high-quality higher
education to about 1/3 of Flanders’ student population. We offer degree programmes in
Architecture, Healthcare, Business and Management, Industrial Sciences and Technology,
Education and Social Sciences, on four campuses in the historical cities of Bruges and Kortrijk,
in the province of West Flanders, Belgium.
Over the years, Howest has built a solid reputation in application-oriented scientifc research,
services and continuous education, working with distinguished academic, social proft
organisations and enterprises as partners in Europe, and all over the world. Our students
and staff are given plenty of opportunities to go global, thanks to regional, national and
international networks, scholarships and exchange programmes. Howest has coordinated
highly successful national and international projects, and is an active partner in many others.
We constantly develop our course offer in English in order to position Howest as an
attractive academic choice for students from abroad, who are looking for an open, vibrant,
cosmopolitan and friendly destination .
We warmly welcome students from our Erasmus and overseas partner institutions for an
exchange period. At this moment, Howest offers one full degree programme in English,
the Bachelor of Digital Arts and Entertainment (www.digitalartsandentertainment.com) as
well as 12 English taught International Semesters in 11 different study areas, each of them
representing at least 30 ECTS.
3
HOWEST UNIVERSITY
OF APPLIED SCIENCES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Howest is a dynamic university of applied sciences, focused on innovation, creativity and
entrepreneurship. Our core values “serve – empower – care” stimulate an open, pluralistic
and international outlook on education, research and service to society.
Howest is a member of Ghent University Association, which provides high-quality higher
education to about 1/3 of Flanders’ student population. We offer degree programmes in
Architecture, Healthcare, Business and Management, Industrial Sciences and Technology,
Education and Social Sciences, on four campuses in the historical cities of Bruges and Kortrijk,
in the province of West Flanders, Belgium.
Over the years, Howest has built a solid reputation in application-oriented scientifc research,
services and continuous education, working with distinguished academic, social proft
organisations and enterprises as partners in Europe, and all over the world. Our students
and staff are given plenty of opportunities to go global, thanks to regional, national and
international networks, scholarships and exchange programmes. Howest has coordinated
highly successful national and international projects, and is an active partner in many others.
We constantly develop our course offer in English in order to position Howest as an
attractive academic choice for students from abroad, who are looking for an open, vibrant,
cosmopolitan and friendly destination .
We warmly welcome students from our Erasmus and overseas partner institutions for an
exchange period. At this moment, Howest offers one full degree programme in English,
the Bachelor of Digital Arts and Entertainment (www.digitalartsandentertainment.com) as
well as 12 English taught International Semesters in 11 different study areas, each of them
representing at least 30 ECTS.
3
4
INTERNATIONAL SEMESTER PROGRAMMES IN AUTUMN:
FROM SEPTEMBER TO THE END OF JANUARY
• International Business Management I
• applied computer sciences - fall
• International semester professional development
• digital creative project in Tourism
• digital creative project in Journalism
• realization in product design
INTERNATIONAL SEMESTER PROGRAMMES IN SPRING:
FROM FEBRUARY TO THE END OF JUNE
• International Business Management II
• applied computer sciences - spring
• digital creative project communication
• digital creative project in Business
• digital creative project in new Media & IT
• Visualization and communication in product design
Studying in Bruges or Kortrijk means having several tourist attractions within easy reach:
the Belgian coast, the flemish & Belgian historical cities antwerp, Brussels, Ghent... and in
a couple of hours the train will take you to European cities like Paris, London, Amsterdam,
Cologne etc.
WHAT IS ...
WHAT IS A DIGITAL CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL?
Whether in our professional or personal lives, digital technology is everywhere. Everyone
uses it to communicate and organize. The real question is whether we use computers and
other tools to their full potential? Do we make them work for us?
A professional digital creative is able to make full use of the existing information technology
to plan and organize projects, to keep track of budgets, to organize mailings, as well as
generate state-of-the-art communication plans with visuals, sound, and imaging to make
any project stand out and be successful.
WHAT IS A DIGITAL BUSINESS CREATIVE?
a digital business creative co-manages; they are a key fgure in any organization. They screen
all internal and external communication, on content as well as on style. They understand
what business is about. They have a working knowledge of the basic principles of economics,
accountancy, international trade, HRM, and marketing. They think and act service-oriented.
They have an eye for and a sense of style. They have the technical and creative knowhow to
implement corporate branding in all digital and hard-copy documents of the organization.
5
COURSE CONCEPT
Students from different nationalities and backgrounds learn to use information
technology to plan, coordinate, communicate, and illustrate professional projects, and
put this knowledge and these skills to the test in an integrated project by playing a co-
managing role in a multidisciplinary team.
WHAT MAKES THIS SEMESTER UNIQUE?
• an international ‘mix’ of students;
• contacts between Belgian and international students;
• an integrated project during which you will be coached to take up the role
of a digital business creative in a multidisciplinary team
• the exclusive use of english as the working language;
• the focus on the international dimension in various course units;
• the business focus in digital creative topics.
6
7
COURSE OVERVIEW COURSE CONCEPT
BUSINESS COURSES 18 ECTS
INTEGRATED PROJECT
Learning to overcome cultural differences in communication and group dynamics. You will function
as a digital business creative in an international and interdisciplinary team. You will work on an
actual project and deliver a deadline-driven result.
9 ECTS
@WORK II
Getting to know Belgian companies, proft and non-proft organizations
In a mixed team of international and Belgian students you help organize a visit to an organization of your
choice. As a team you document and present your experience and insights.
You organize a single-day-mentorship in a company of your choice. You report individually on that
experience.
3 ECTS
OffIce & MedIa IV
Focusing on information and visualisation to communicate to colleagues, customers and vendors.
You learn to transform data into meaningful information and reports. The next step is to visualize the
information in state-of-the-art informative graphics.
You implement the corporate design of the organization into all digital and hard-copy documents,
which results in a perfect internal and external branding, within the organization as well as for all
external stakeholders.
6 ECTS
dIGITal creaTIVe cOurses 12 ECTS
DIGITAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Managing a project through the different project phases via the use of digital best practices in MS
Offce tooling (Excel, 0utlook, Word and PowerPoint)
6 ECTS
DIGITAL PROJECT COMMUNICATION
Boosting a project by executing of a state-of-the-art communication plan. Underpinning
communication with creative multi-media. Learning to create/upgrade these media (image,
sound, video) using Adobe tooling (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Audacity).
6 ECTS
OPTIONAL COURSE 3 ECTS
English for Exchange Students in Higher Education
Two-week course (60 hours) prior to the international semester.
Spring semester course: Monday 26 January – Friday 6 February 2015 (see below)
3 ECTS
8
ENGLISH FOR
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
ENGLISH FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION:
a TwO-week InTensIVe lanGuaGe preparaTIOn
This course has been designed for our incoming and outgoing exchange students in order
to provide them with an optimal linguistic preparation for their English study abroad (one
semester or year). It is offered as a two-week crash course (a total of 60 hours, Mondays
to Fridays) before the start of the international semester at Howest (see course overview).
Classes will take place all day, every day, except for weekends.
This course provides exchange students with an intensive training in speaking, listening,
reading and writing skills, and is focused on their upcoming academic experience.
The diversity of the academic backgrounds of the participants will be taken into account by
choosing and covering a wide range of relevant topics.
The course will also function as an excellent networking opportunity for the students who are
about to start their study abroad. One feld trip will be organised.
We strongly recommend “English for Exchange Students in Higher Education” for students
who have not fully achieved the B2-level in English at the moment of application. More
profcient students will beneft from the immersion and acclimatisation experience .
This course will always fall under the Learning Agreement and has to be attended for the
full two-week period. As the number of places will be limited, we expect students whose
attendance has been confrmed to show up in time and to fully participate. There is an extra
cost for the handbook and the feld trip.
ACADEMIC RECOGNITION
This international semester is an integrated part of the Howest Bachelor courses in Kortrijk.
Howest fully applies the ECTS grading system and awards credits for the successfully achieved
course units. After concluding the semester, all students receive an offcial ECTS transcript of
records and Certifcate.
9
PREREQUISITES
ENGLISH FOR
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
Minimum 3 successfully completed semesters in a Bachelor programme or an equivalent
of 90 ECTS. This will need to be confrmed by means of an offcial certifcate, a survey of
completed courses, transcripts of records or a signed letter from the sending university.
The profciency level we expect from incoming students is the B2 level of the Common
European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages (CEFR), in reading, writing, speaking
and understanding skills. We expect applying students to provide proof of their profciency in
English in one of the following ways:
• A signed confrmation letter from the sending university, stating that the applicant’s
language skills reach the B2 level and thus are suffcient to attend courses,
participate in different types of classroom and examination activities. (Only valid for
exchange students)
• The results of a (free) online language test which can be related to the CEFR B2
level,such as the Erasmus online test, Dialang and Testpodium. The online test must
be taken under the supervision of the sending institution. The result sheet needs to
be stamped and signed by a staff member of the sending institution. (Only valid for
exchange students)
• An offcial certifcate or score report referring to the European Framework or from
one of the recognized language tests, e.g. TOefl: paper based 550/internet based
79/computer based 213 or IETLS: 5.5, no partial results below 5.
The following applicants are not required to document their language skills
for study at Howest:
• applicants from countries having English as their national language;
• applicants attending a full-time degree programme at their home institution
taught in English.
Howest reserves the right to contact the sending university to verify the information on
language profciency, or to contact the applicant for a telephone or Skype conversation in
English.
10
PREREQUISITES
11
PRACTICAL
INFORMATION
12
REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION AND DEADLINE
The application deadline is November 30th for study in Spring Semester. For nationals from
outside the European Economic Area we recommend an earlier application namely October 31st.
Send your Howest Application Form to [email protected]. You can download
it at www.howest.be/application. Please also send your proposal of Learning Agreement.
12 12
For more information about the CONTENT contact Anneke Pieters,
the international coordinator for our Bachelor of Offce Management.
Renaat de Rudderlaan 6
8500 Kortrijk - Belgium
Tel +32 (0)56 23 98 60
[email protected]
For more information about your APPLICATION contact Ms Sophie Dewitte
of Howest International Offce
Marksesteenweg 58
8500 Kortrijk - Belgium
Tel +32 (0)56 24 12 90
Fax +32 (0)56 24 12 92
[email protected]
For all further information concerning study MOBILITY to Howest, have a look at our
“Practical information package for incoming students”: www.howest.be/english.
www.howest.be/practicalinfopackage.
CONTACT
4
INTERNATIONAL SEMESTER PROGRAMMES IN AUTUMN:
FROM SEPTEMBER TO THE END OF JANUARY
• International Business Management I
• applied computer sciences - fall
• International semester professional development
• digital creative project in Tourism
• digital creative project in Journalism
• realization in product design
INTERNATIONAL SEMESTER PROGRAMMES IN SPRING:
FROM FEBRUARY TO THE END OF JUNE
• International Business Management II
• applied computer sciences - spring
• digital creative project communication
• digital creative project in Business
• digital creative project in new Media & IT
• Visualization and communication in product design
Studying in Bruges or Kortrijk means having several tourist attractions within easy reach:
the Belgian coast, the flemish & Belgian historical cities antwerp, Brussels, Ghent... and in
a couple of hours the train will take you to European cities like Paris, London, Amsterdam,
Cologne etc.
WHAT IS ...
WHAT IS A DIGITAL CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL?
Whether in our professional or personal lives, digital technology is everywhere. Everyone
uses it to communicate and organize. The real question is whether we use computers and
other tools to their full potential? Do we make them work for us?
A professional digital creative is able to make full use of the existing information technology
to plan and organize projects, to keep track of budgets, to organize mailings, as well as
generate state-of-the-art communication plans with visuals, sound, and imaging to make
any project stand out and be successful.
WHAT IS A DIGITAL BUSINESS CREATIVE?
a digital business creative co-manages; they are a key fgure in any organization. They screen
all internal and external communication, on content as well as on style. They understand
what business is about. They have a working knowledge of the basic principles of economics,
accountancy, international trade, HRM, and marketing. They think and act service-oriented.
They have an eye for and a sense of style. They have the technical and creative knowhow to
implement corporate branding in all digital and hard-copy documents of the organization.
5
COURSE CONCEPT
Students from different nationalities and backgrounds learn to use information
technology to plan, coordinate, communicate, and illustrate professional projects, and
put this knowledge and these skills to the test in an integrated project by playing a co-
managing role in a multidisciplinary team.
WHAT MAKES THIS SEMESTER UNIQUE?
• an international ‘mix’ of students;
• contacts between Belgian and international students;
• an integrated project during which you will be coached to take up the role
of a digital business creative in a multidisciplinary team
• the exclusive use of english as the working language;
• the focus on the international dimension in various course units;
• the business focus in digital creative topics.
6
7
COURSE OVERVIEW COURSE CONCEPT
BUSINESS COURSES 18 ECTS
INTEGRATED PROJECT
Learning to overcome cultural differences in communication and group dynamics. You will function
as a digital business creative in an international and interdisciplinary team. You will work on an
actual project and deliver a deadline-driven result.
9 ECTS
@WORK II
Getting to know Belgian companies, proft and non-proft organizations
In a mixed team of international and Belgian students you help organize a visit to an organization of your
choice. As a team you document and present your experience and insights.
You organize a single-day-mentorship in a company of your choice. You report individually on that
experience.
3 ECTS
OffIce & MedIa IV
Focusing on information and visualisation to communicate to colleagues, customers and vendors.
You learn to transform data into meaningful information and reports. The next step is to visualize the
information in state-of-the-art informative graphics.
You implement the corporate design of the organization into all digital and hard-copy documents,
which results in a perfect internal and external branding, within the organization as well as for all
external stakeholders.
6 ECTS
dIGITal creaTIVe cOurses 12 ECTS
DIGITAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Managing a project through the different project phases via the use of digital best practices in MS
Offce tooling (Excel, 0utlook, Word and PowerPoint)
6 ECTS
DIGITAL PROJECT COMMUNICATION
Boosting a project by executing of a state-of-the-art communication plan. Underpinning
communication with creative multi-media. Learning to create/upgrade these media (image,
sound, video) using Adobe tooling (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Audacity).
6 ECTS
OPTIONAL COURSE 3 ECTS
English for Exchange Students in Higher Education
Two-week course (60 hours) prior to the international semester.
Spring semester course: Monday 26 January – Friday 6 February 2015 (see below)
3 ECTS
8
ENGLISH FOR
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
ENGLISH FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION:
a TwO-week InTensIVe lanGuaGe preparaTIOn
This course has been designed for our incoming and outgoing exchange students in order
to provide them with an optimal linguistic preparation for their English study abroad (one
semester or year). It is offered as a two-week crash course (a total of 60 hours, Mondays
to Fridays) before the start of the international semester at Howest (see course overview).
Classes will take place all day, every day, except for weekends.
This course provides exchange students with an intensive training in speaking, listening,
reading and writing skills, and is focused on their upcoming academic experience.
The diversity of the academic backgrounds of the participants will be taken into account by
choosing and covering a wide range of relevant topics.
The course will also function as an excellent networking opportunity for the students who are
about to start their study abroad. One feld trip will be organised.
We strongly recommend “English for Exchange Students in Higher Education” for students
who have not fully achieved the B2-level in English at the moment of application. More
profcient students will beneft from the immersion and acclimatisation experience .
This course will always fall under the Learning Agreement and has to be attended for the
full two-week period. As the number of places will be limited, we expect students whose
attendance has been confrmed to show up in time and to fully participate. There is an extra
cost for the handbook and the feld trip.
ACADEMIC RECOGNITION
This international semester is an integrated part of the Howest Bachelor courses in Kortrijk.
Howest fully applies the ECTS grading system and awards credits for the successfully achieved
course units. After concluding the semester, all students receive an offcial ECTS transcript of
records and Certifcate.
9
PREREQUISITES
ENGLISH FOR
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
Minimum 3 successfully completed semesters in a Bachelor programme or an equivalent
of 90 ECTS. This will need to be confrmed by means of an offcial certifcate, a survey of
completed courses, transcripts of records or a signed letter from the sending university.
The profciency level we expect from incoming students is the B2 level of the Common
European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages (CEFR), in reading, writing, speaking
and understanding skills. We expect applying students to provide proof of their profciency in
English in one of the following ways:
• A signed confrmation letter from the sending university, stating that the applicant’s
language skills reach the B2 level and thus are suffcient to attend courses,
participate in different types of classroom and examination activities. (Only valid for
exchange students)
• The results of a (free) online language test which can be related to the CEFR B2
level,such as the Erasmus online test, Dialang and Testpodium. The online test must
be taken under the supervision of the sending institution. The result sheet needs to
be stamped and signed by a staff member of the sending institution. (Only valid for
exchange students)
• An offcial certifcate or score report referring to the European Framework or from
one of the recognized language tests, e.g. TOefl: paper based 550/internet based
79/computer based 213 or IETLS: 5.5, no partial results below 5.
The following applicants are not required to document their language skills
for study at Howest:
• applicants from countries having English as their national language;
• applicants attending a full-time degree programme at their home institution
taught in English.
Howest reserves the right to contact the sending university to verify the information on
language profciency, or to contact the applicant for a telephone or Skype conversation in
English.
12
REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION AND DEADLINE
The application deadline is November 30th for study in Spring Semester. For nationals from
outside the European Economic Area we recommend an earlier application namely October 31st.
Send your Howest Application Form to [email protected]. You can download
it at www.howest.be/application. Please also send your proposal of Learning Agreement.
12 12
For more information about the CONTENT contact Anneke Pieters,
the international coordinator for our Bachelor of Offce Management.
Renaat de Rudderlaan 6
8500 Kortrijk - Belgium
Tel +32 (0)56 23 98 60
[email protected]
For more information about your APPLICATION contact Ms Sophie Dewitte
of Howest International Offce
Marksesteenweg 58
8500 Kortrijk - Belgium
Tel +32 (0)56 24 12 90
Fax +32 (0)56 24 12 92
[email protected]
For all further information concerning study MOBILITY to Howest, have a look at our
“Practical information package for incoming students”: www.howest.be/english.
www.howest.be/practicalinfopackage.
CONTACT
doc_104695624.pdf
DIGITAL CREATIVE PROJECTS
IN BUSINESS
2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Howest University of Applied Sciences 3
What is... 5
WHAT IS A DIGITAL CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL?
WHAT IS A DIGITAL DIGITAL BUSINESS CREATIVE?? 1
Course concept 6
Course overview 7
English for exchange students in higher education 8
A TWO-WEEK INTENSIVE LANGUAGE PREPARATION
Academic recognition 8
Prerequisites 9
Practical information 11
TIMING AND LOCATION
TUITION FEE
ACCOMMODATION
Registration and deadline 12
Contact and more information 12
HOWEST UNIVERSITY
OF APPLIED SCIENCES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Howest is a dynamic university of applied sciences, focused on innovation, creativity and
entrepreneurship. Our core values “serve – empower – care” stimulate an open, pluralistic
and international outlook on education, research and service to society.
Howest is a member of Ghent University Association, which provides high-quality higher
education to about 1/3 of Flanders’ student population. We offer degree programmes in
Architecture, Healthcare, Business and Management, Industrial Sciences and Technology,
Education and Social Sciences, on four campuses in the historical cities of Bruges and Kortrijk,
in the province of West Flanders, Belgium.
Over the years, Howest has built a solid reputation in application-oriented scientifc research,
services and continuous education, working with distinguished academic, social proft
organisations and enterprises as partners in Europe, and all over the world. Our students
and staff are given plenty of opportunities to go global, thanks to regional, national and
international networks, scholarships and exchange programmes. Howest has coordinated
highly successful national and international projects, and is an active partner in many others.
We constantly develop our course offer in English in order to position Howest as an
attractive academic choice for students from abroad, who are looking for an open, vibrant,
cosmopolitan and friendly destination .
We warmly welcome students from our Erasmus and overseas partner institutions for an
exchange period. At this moment, Howest offers one full degree programme in English,
the Bachelor of Digital Arts and Entertainment (www.digitalartsandentertainment.com) as
well as 12 English taught International Semesters in 11 different study areas, each of them
representing at least 30 ECTS.
3
HOWEST UNIVERSITY
OF APPLIED SCIENCES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Howest is a dynamic university of applied sciences, focused on innovation, creativity and
entrepreneurship. Our core values “serve – empower – care” stimulate an open, pluralistic
and international outlook on education, research and service to society.
Howest is a member of Ghent University Association, which provides high-quality higher
education to about 1/3 of Flanders’ student population. We offer degree programmes in
Architecture, Healthcare, Business and Management, Industrial Sciences and Technology,
Education and Social Sciences, on four campuses in the historical cities of Bruges and Kortrijk,
in the province of West Flanders, Belgium.
Over the years, Howest has built a solid reputation in application-oriented scientifc research,
services and continuous education, working with distinguished academic, social proft
organisations and enterprises as partners in Europe, and all over the world. Our students
and staff are given plenty of opportunities to go global, thanks to regional, national and
international networks, scholarships and exchange programmes. Howest has coordinated
highly successful national and international projects, and is an active partner in many others.
We constantly develop our course offer in English in order to position Howest as an
attractive academic choice for students from abroad, who are looking for an open, vibrant,
cosmopolitan and friendly destination .
We warmly welcome students from our Erasmus and overseas partner institutions for an
exchange period. At this moment, Howest offers one full degree programme in English,
the Bachelor of Digital Arts and Entertainment (www.digitalartsandentertainment.com) as
well as 12 English taught International Semesters in 11 different study areas, each of them
representing at least 30 ECTS.
3
4
INTERNATIONAL SEMESTER PROGRAMMES IN AUTUMN:
FROM SEPTEMBER TO THE END OF JANUARY
• International Business Management I
• applied computer sciences - fall
• International semester professional development
• digital creative project in Tourism
• digital creative project in Journalism
• realization in product design
INTERNATIONAL SEMESTER PROGRAMMES IN SPRING:
FROM FEBRUARY TO THE END OF JUNE
• International Business Management II
• applied computer sciences - spring
• digital creative project communication
• digital creative project in Business
• digital creative project in new Media & IT
• Visualization and communication in product design
Studying in Bruges or Kortrijk means having several tourist attractions within easy reach:
the Belgian coast, the flemish & Belgian historical cities antwerp, Brussels, Ghent... and in
a couple of hours the train will take you to European cities like Paris, London, Amsterdam,
Cologne etc.
WHAT IS ...
WHAT IS A DIGITAL CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL?
Whether in our professional or personal lives, digital technology is everywhere. Everyone
uses it to communicate and organize. The real question is whether we use computers and
other tools to their full potential? Do we make them work for us?
A professional digital creative is able to make full use of the existing information technology
to plan and organize projects, to keep track of budgets, to organize mailings, as well as
generate state-of-the-art communication plans with visuals, sound, and imaging to make
any project stand out and be successful.
WHAT IS A DIGITAL BUSINESS CREATIVE?
a digital business creative co-manages; they are a key fgure in any organization. They screen
all internal and external communication, on content as well as on style. They understand
what business is about. They have a working knowledge of the basic principles of economics,
accountancy, international trade, HRM, and marketing. They think and act service-oriented.
They have an eye for and a sense of style. They have the technical and creative knowhow to
implement corporate branding in all digital and hard-copy documents of the organization.
5
COURSE CONCEPT
Students from different nationalities and backgrounds learn to use information
technology to plan, coordinate, communicate, and illustrate professional projects, and
put this knowledge and these skills to the test in an integrated project by playing a co-
managing role in a multidisciplinary team.
WHAT MAKES THIS SEMESTER UNIQUE?
• an international ‘mix’ of students;
• contacts between Belgian and international students;
• an integrated project during which you will be coached to take up the role
of a digital business creative in a multidisciplinary team
• the exclusive use of english as the working language;
• the focus on the international dimension in various course units;
• the business focus in digital creative topics.
6
7
COURSE OVERVIEW COURSE CONCEPT
BUSINESS COURSES 18 ECTS
INTEGRATED PROJECT
Learning to overcome cultural differences in communication and group dynamics. You will function
as a digital business creative in an international and interdisciplinary team. You will work on an
actual project and deliver a deadline-driven result.
9 ECTS
@WORK II
Getting to know Belgian companies, proft and non-proft organizations
In a mixed team of international and Belgian students you help organize a visit to an organization of your
choice. As a team you document and present your experience and insights.
You organize a single-day-mentorship in a company of your choice. You report individually on that
experience.
3 ECTS
OffIce & MedIa IV
Focusing on information and visualisation to communicate to colleagues, customers and vendors.
You learn to transform data into meaningful information and reports. The next step is to visualize the
information in state-of-the-art informative graphics.
You implement the corporate design of the organization into all digital and hard-copy documents,
which results in a perfect internal and external branding, within the organization as well as for all
external stakeholders.
6 ECTS
dIGITal creaTIVe cOurses 12 ECTS
DIGITAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Managing a project through the different project phases via the use of digital best practices in MS
Offce tooling (Excel, 0utlook, Word and PowerPoint)
6 ECTS
DIGITAL PROJECT COMMUNICATION
Boosting a project by executing of a state-of-the-art communication plan. Underpinning
communication with creative multi-media. Learning to create/upgrade these media (image,
sound, video) using Adobe tooling (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Audacity).
6 ECTS
OPTIONAL COURSE 3 ECTS
English for Exchange Students in Higher Education
Two-week course (60 hours) prior to the international semester.
Spring semester course: Monday 26 January – Friday 6 February 2015 (see below)
3 ECTS
8
ENGLISH FOR
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
ENGLISH FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION:
a TwO-week InTensIVe lanGuaGe preparaTIOn
This course has been designed for our incoming and outgoing exchange students in order
to provide them with an optimal linguistic preparation for their English study abroad (one
semester or year). It is offered as a two-week crash course (a total of 60 hours, Mondays
to Fridays) before the start of the international semester at Howest (see course overview).
Classes will take place all day, every day, except for weekends.
This course provides exchange students with an intensive training in speaking, listening,
reading and writing skills, and is focused on their upcoming academic experience.
The diversity of the academic backgrounds of the participants will be taken into account by
choosing and covering a wide range of relevant topics.
The course will also function as an excellent networking opportunity for the students who are
about to start their study abroad. One feld trip will be organised.
We strongly recommend “English for Exchange Students in Higher Education” for students
who have not fully achieved the B2-level in English at the moment of application. More
profcient students will beneft from the immersion and acclimatisation experience .
This course will always fall under the Learning Agreement and has to be attended for the
full two-week period. As the number of places will be limited, we expect students whose
attendance has been confrmed to show up in time and to fully participate. There is an extra
cost for the handbook and the feld trip.
ACADEMIC RECOGNITION
This international semester is an integrated part of the Howest Bachelor courses in Kortrijk.
Howest fully applies the ECTS grading system and awards credits for the successfully achieved
course units. After concluding the semester, all students receive an offcial ECTS transcript of
records and Certifcate.
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PREREQUISITES
ENGLISH FOR
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
Minimum 3 successfully completed semesters in a Bachelor programme or an equivalent
of 90 ECTS. This will need to be confrmed by means of an offcial certifcate, a survey of
completed courses, transcripts of records or a signed letter from the sending university.
The profciency level we expect from incoming students is the B2 level of the Common
European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages (CEFR), in reading, writing, speaking
and understanding skills. We expect applying students to provide proof of their profciency in
English in one of the following ways:
• A signed confrmation letter from the sending university, stating that the applicant’s
language skills reach the B2 level and thus are suffcient to attend courses,
participate in different types of classroom and examination activities. (Only valid for
exchange students)
• The results of a (free) online language test which can be related to the CEFR B2
level,such as the Erasmus online test, Dialang and Testpodium. The online test must
be taken under the supervision of the sending institution. The result sheet needs to
be stamped and signed by a staff member of the sending institution. (Only valid for
exchange students)
• An offcial certifcate or score report referring to the European Framework or from
one of the recognized language tests, e.g. TOefl: paper based 550/internet based
79/computer based 213 or IETLS: 5.5, no partial results below 5.
The following applicants are not required to document their language skills
for study at Howest:
• applicants from countries having English as their national language;
• applicants attending a full-time degree programme at their home institution
taught in English.
Howest reserves the right to contact the sending university to verify the information on
language profciency, or to contact the applicant for a telephone or Skype conversation in
English.
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PREREQUISITES
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PRACTICAL
INFORMATION
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REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION AND DEADLINE
The application deadline is November 30th for study in Spring Semester. For nationals from
outside the European Economic Area we recommend an earlier application namely October 31st.
Send your Howest Application Form to [email protected]. You can download
it at www.howest.be/application. Please also send your proposal of Learning Agreement.
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For more information about the CONTENT contact Anneke Pieters,
the international coordinator for our Bachelor of Offce Management.
Renaat de Rudderlaan 6
8500 Kortrijk - Belgium
Tel +32 (0)56 23 98 60
[email protected]
For more information about your APPLICATION contact Ms Sophie Dewitte
of Howest International Offce
Marksesteenweg 58
8500 Kortrijk - Belgium
Tel +32 (0)56 24 12 90
Fax +32 (0)56 24 12 92
[email protected]
For all further information concerning study MOBILITY to Howest, have a look at our
“Practical information package for incoming students”: www.howest.be/english.
www.howest.be/practicalinfopackage.
CONTACT
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INTERNATIONAL SEMESTER PROGRAMMES IN AUTUMN:
FROM SEPTEMBER TO THE END OF JANUARY
• International Business Management I
• applied computer sciences - fall
• International semester professional development
• digital creative project in Tourism
• digital creative project in Journalism
• realization in product design
INTERNATIONAL SEMESTER PROGRAMMES IN SPRING:
FROM FEBRUARY TO THE END OF JUNE
• International Business Management II
• applied computer sciences - spring
• digital creative project communication
• digital creative project in Business
• digital creative project in new Media & IT
• Visualization and communication in product design
Studying in Bruges or Kortrijk means having several tourist attractions within easy reach:
the Belgian coast, the flemish & Belgian historical cities antwerp, Brussels, Ghent... and in
a couple of hours the train will take you to European cities like Paris, London, Amsterdam,
Cologne etc.
WHAT IS ...
WHAT IS A DIGITAL CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL?
Whether in our professional or personal lives, digital technology is everywhere. Everyone
uses it to communicate and organize. The real question is whether we use computers and
other tools to their full potential? Do we make them work for us?
A professional digital creative is able to make full use of the existing information technology
to plan and organize projects, to keep track of budgets, to organize mailings, as well as
generate state-of-the-art communication plans with visuals, sound, and imaging to make
any project stand out and be successful.
WHAT IS A DIGITAL BUSINESS CREATIVE?
a digital business creative co-manages; they are a key fgure in any organization. They screen
all internal and external communication, on content as well as on style. They understand
what business is about. They have a working knowledge of the basic principles of economics,
accountancy, international trade, HRM, and marketing. They think and act service-oriented.
They have an eye for and a sense of style. They have the technical and creative knowhow to
implement corporate branding in all digital and hard-copy documents of the organization.
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COURSE CONCEPT
Students from different nationalities and backgrounds learn to use information
technology to plan, coordinate, communicate, and illustrate professional projects, and
put this knowledge and these skills to the test in an integrated project by playing a co-
managing role in a multidisciplinary team.
WHAT MAKES THIS SEMESTER UNIQUE?
• an international ‘mix’ of students;
• contacts between Belgian and international students;
• an integrated project during which you will be coached to take up the role
of a digital business creative in a multidisciplinary team
• the exclusive use of english as the working language;
• the focus on the international dimension in various course units;
• the business focus in digital creative topics.
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COURSE OVERVIEW COURSE CONCEPT
BUSINESS COURSES 18 ECTS
INTEGRATED PROJECT
Learning to overcome cultural differences in communication and group dynamics. You will function
as a digital business creative in an international and interdisciplinary team. You will work on an
actual project and deliver a deadline-driven result.
9 ECTS
@WORK II
Getting to know Belgian companies, proft and non-proft organizations
In a mixed team of international and Belgian students you help organize a visit to an organization of your
choice. As a team you document and present your experience and insights.
You organize a single-day-mentorship in a company of your choice. You report individually on that
experience.
3 ECTS
OffIce & MedIa IV
Focusing on information and visualisation to communicate to colleagues, customers and vendors.
You learn to transform data into meaningful information and reports. The next step is to visualize the
information in state-of-the-art informative graphics.
You implement the corporate design of the organization into all digital and hard-copy documents,
which results in a perfect internal and external branding, within the organization as well as for all
external stakeholders.
6 ECTS
dIGITal creaTIVe cOurses 12 ECTS
DIGITAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Managing a project through the different project phases via the use of digital best practices in MS
Offce tooling (Excel, 0utlook, Word and PowerPoint)
6 ECTS
DIGITAL PROJECT COMMUNICATION
Boosting a project by executing of a state-of-the-art communication plan. Underpinning
communication with creative multi-media. Learning to create/upgrade these media (image,
sound, video) using Adobe tooling (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Audacity).
6 ECTS
OPTIONAL COURSE 3 ECTS
English for Exchange Students in Higher Education
Two-week course (60 hours) prior to the international semester.
Spring semester course: Monday 26 January – Friday 6 February 2015 (see below)
3 ECTS
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ENGLISH FOR
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
ENGLISH FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION:
a TwO-week InTensIVe lanGuaGe preparaTIOn
This course has been designed for our incoming and outgoing exchange students in order
to provide them with an optimal linguistic preparation for their English study abroad (one
semester or year). It is offered as a two-week crash course (a total of 60 hours, Mondays
to Fridays) before the start of the international semester at Howest (see course overview).
Classes will take place all day, every day, except for weekends.
This course provides exchange students with an intensive training in speaking, listening,
reading and writing skills, and is focused on their upcoming academic experience.
The diversity of the academic backgrounds of the participants will be taken into account by
choosing and covering a wide range of relevant topics.
The course will also function as an excellent networking opportunity for the students who are
about to start their study abroad. One feld trip will be organised.
We strongly recommend “English for Exchange Students in Higher Education” for students
who have not fully achieved the B2-level in English at the moment of application. More
profcient students will beneft from the immersion and acclimatisation experience .
This course will always fall under the Learning Agreement and has to be attended for the
full two-week period. As the number of places will be limited, we expect students whose
attendance has been confrmed to show up in time and to fully participate. There is an extra
cost for the handbook and the feld trip.
ACADEMIC RECOGNITION
This international semester is an integrated part of the Howest Bachelor courses in Kortrijk.
Howest fully applies the ECTS grading system and awards credits for the successfully achieved
course units. After concluding the semester, all students receive an offcial ECTS transcript of
records and Certifcate.
9
PREREQUISITES
ENGLISH FOR
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
Minimum 3 successfully completed semesters in a Bachelor programme or an equivalent
of 90 ECTS. This will need to be confrmed by means of an offcial certifcate, a survey of
completed courses, transcripts of records or a signed letter from the sending university.
The profciency level we expect from incoming students is the B2 level of the Common
European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages (CEFR), in reading, writing, speaking
and understanding skills. We expect applying students to provide proof of their profciency in
English in one of the following ways:
• A signed confrmation letter from the sending university, stating that the applicant’s
language skills reach the B2 level and thus are suffcient to attend courses,
participate in different types of classroom and examination activities. (Only valid for
exchange students)
• The results of a (free) online language test which can be related to the CEFR B2
level,such as the Erasmus online test, Dialang and Testpodium. The online test must
be taken under the supervision of the sending institution. The result sheet needs to
be stamped and signed by a staff member of the sending institution. (Only valid for
exchange students)
• An offcial certifcate or score report referring to the European Framework or from
one of the recognized language tests, e.g. TOefl: paper based 550/internet based
79/computer based 213 or IETLS: 5.5, no partial results below 5.
The following applicants are not required to document their language skills
for study at Howest:
• applicants from countries having English as their national language;
• applicants attending a full-time degree programme at their home institution
taught in English.
Howest reserves the right to contact the sending university to verify the information on
language profciency, or to contact the applicant for a telephone or Skype conversation in
English.
12
REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION AND DEADLINE
The application deadline is November 30th for study in Spring Semester. For nationals from
outside the European Economic Area we recommend an earlier application namely October 31st.
Send your Howest Application Form to [email protected]. You can download
it at www.howest.be/application. Please also send your proposal of Learning Agreement.
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For more information about the CONTENT contact Anneke Pieters,
the international coordinator for our Bachelor of Offce Management.
Renaat de Rudderlaan 6
8500 Kortrijk - Belgium
Tel +32 (0)56 23 98 60
[email protected]
For more information about your APPLICATION contact Ms Sophie Dewitte
of Howest International Offce
Marksesteenweg 58
8500 Kortrijk - Belgium
Tel +32 (0)56 24 12 90
Fax +32 (0)56 24 12 92
[email protected]
For all further information concerning study MOBILITY to Howest, have a look at our
“Practical information package for incoming students”: www.howest.be/english.
www.howest.be/practicalinfopackage.
CONTACT
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