is made up of the university’s rector Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen, vice-rector Søren E. Frandsen and director of the university Jørgen Jørgensen. The rectorate is responsible for the university’s daily management, which the board have certain guidelines for. Together with the four deans the rectorate make up the Senior Management Group. Every faculty has a dean as the topmost leader. The dean is hired by the rector and has the job of ensuring the quality of the education, lectures and research. It is also the dean’s job to approve curricula of each of the different programmes. At each institute there is an institute leader, who is hired by the dean and has the responsibility of the daily running of the institute. Just like the dean, the institute leader has to ensure the synergy between the institute’s lectures and its research. Finally, each programme or programmegroup, has a study committee and a study leader. The study leader is a member of the study committee put together of equal members of students and employees. The study committee has the job of organising and developing the programmes, as well as following up on evaluations, suggestions for changes to the curriculum and approval of lesson plans. You should write to your study committee if you, for instance, need to seek dispensation to take an exam under different conditions or wish to complain about your grades.
the Department of Aesthetics and Communication which offers programmes in children’s literature, information and media studies, IT and didactics, linguistics, Nordic semiotics, western European language and culture subjects as well as subjects within aesthetics.
ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
Aarhus University offers Bachelor and Master’s degree programmes in many different fields, all of which provide a lot of knowledge and insight whilst also providing competences in many working areas. The academic fields are presented below along with a description of their functional value and defining characteristics.
Aarhus University consists of four faculties. Each faculty represents its own branch within the sciences. Aarhus University has the following faculties: Arts, Science and Technology, Health as well as Business and Social Sciences. Each faculty is made up of several departments, which are smaller areas that take care of specific programmes. For instance, the Faculty of Arts consists of 86
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When you begin at the university, you start with a bachelor’s degree which typically takes three years. Many programmes require that you, after two years of study, take an elective subject lasting one year, or a subsidiary subject which usually takes two years; following which you can call yourself a Bachelor. Upon completion of their Bachelor’s many students continue with a two-year long Master’s degree at the university. At this point you can either choose to study a Master’s that is closely related to your Bachelor’s studies, or you can choose a Master’s that is of a different subject matter, in order to widen your perspective and knowledge. The vast majority of students do not know what they wish to study at a Master’s level when starting at the university and if this also applies to you, you should not worry. Through the course of your Bachelor’s studies you will be guided by your student counsellors, so that you choose the right elective or subsidiary subjects and later the Master’s programme that is right for you.
PROGRAMMES AT THE UNIVERSITY
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE The university offers many different linguistic and literature based degrees, which fall under the Faculty of Arts. Most of these programmes are situated in Nobelparken,