STUDENT HANDBOOK 2018 Dear Freshman! CONTENTS Welcome to Aalborg, Welcome to University, and Welcome to This Year’S Student Handbook
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STUDENTERSAMFUNDETS STUDENT HANDBOOK 2018 Dear freshman! CONTENTS Welcome to Aalborg, welcome to university, and welcome to this year’s Student Handbook. 4-21 Welcome to Aalborg University The Student Handbook is written for you as a freshman, and hopefully you will find the handbook useful. In the section “Aalborg University” you can find practical advice on your 6-7 Welcome by rector, Per Michael Johansen first day of study, on the PBL model and on Aalborg University’s IT systems. In “Life as a 8-11 Study-start party 2018 student” you can read about topics such as your chance to get influence on the university, 12-15 PBL-model volunteering, study techniques, events and leisure activities. Finally, in the “Aalborg” section, 16-17 Studying abroad you can read more about the city where you will be studying and about local sights, as well as find maps of Aalborg. 18-21 IT-guide I wish you a pleasant start of term and a pleasant time at Aalborg University! Best regards 22-53 Study life Marianne Roed Abrahamsen Editor-in-chief, Student Handbook 2018 24-25 Welcome by the chairman of the student society 26-27 Students’ politics 28-29 The bars Editor Text 30-31 Study technique Marianne Roed Abrahamsen, student Alexander Kokkedal, student 34-35 Opinion start of term [email protected] Majken Ravnkilde, student 36-37 Intro event UniRun’18 Dianna Korshøj, student Layout Emil Njor, student 40-43 Voluntary work Emil Kongsgaard Guldager, student Mie Louise Nielsen, student 46-49 Student’s influence [email protected] Malene Gadegaard, student Anders Risgård Tranholm, student 50-53 Entrepreneurship Photo Peter Fisker, student Rikke Sønderby Nielsen, student Simone Trägård Jacobsen, student Translation Phillip Sperling, student ABNI Communications v/Anne Bloks- gaard Nielsen 54-67 Aalborg Sofie Mosgaard, student Jens Albæk Aarup, student Advertising sales and distri- 56-57 Welcome by mayor, Thomas Kastrup-Larsen Proofreading bution Alexander Kokkedal, student Erhvervsgruppen 58-60 Good advice when coming to Denmark [email protected] Nanna Daugaard Weiss, student 62-65 Guide to Aalborg Print 66-67 Study facilities Rosendahls AALBORG UNIVERSITY AALBORG UNIVERSITY WELCOME TO AALBORG UNIVERSITY 4 5 AALBORG UNIVERSITY AALBORG UNIVERSITY Welcome to Aalborg University I am happy and proud to welcome you as a you with the necessary tools for being able student at Aalborg University. We will do our to collaborate as part of a well-functioning best to make AAU a pleasant home for your team. Among other things, this happens studies! when you solve projects in collaboration with companies or organizations outside the The Freshman Handbook can be a helpful university. In our experience, solving prob- tool, so that you quickly feel at home at the lems that ’real’ companies and organizations university and can make the most of your are struggling with is highly motivating and new life as a student. engaging for both students and researchers. The start-of-term period may seem over- whelming, but remember that Aalborg Uni- The Freshman Handbook gives you a short- versity has around 23,000 students spread cut to an active and rewarding life as a out on campuses in Aalborg, Esbjerg and Co- student at Aalborg University. It is written penhagen. This means that there are many by students and for students, and on these people you can ask for advice or share your pages, they share their experiences with experiences with. you, to quickly give you insight into how the university is organized and works, both ac- On behalf of the entire university, I hope that ademically and socially. I dearly recommend you will find yourself at home as a student that you use the Handbook to quickly get a at AAU. Our study method, known as Prob- good start at AAU. lem-Based Learning (PBL), means that you will soon be part of a study group. Through For many people, their student years are the study group, you will make contact with an eventful and defining time in their lives. your fellow students, which means that you During these years, you set the course for can help each other manage and structure your life after your studies, and I urge you your daily studies. The study group not only to engage both academically, socially and in supports you in terms of your studies but all the activities going on at and around the can also contribute to making you feel at university. home at the university and – if you have moved here – in your new city. I experienced my own student years as some of the best years of my life, and it is The daily work in the study groups takes my hope that in the future, you will be able place in close contact with a supervisor, to look back at your student years at AAU as who offers both academic supervision and some of the best years of your life. guidance on how to make the most of the group-work-based method of studying. One Once again welcome to Aalborg University. Per Michael Johansen of AAU’s goals is to offer you and your fellow Rector students an education of a high academ- Per Michael Johansen ic standard and at the same time provide Rector 6 7 AALBORG UNIVERSITY AALBORG UNIVERSITY Buy your ticket as early as August! Drop by our Facebook page, LIKE us and stay up-to-date on the party and ticket sales: https://www.facebook.com/studentersamfundetaau You can buy your ticket with or without a membership of the Student Soci- ety, but if you are a member, the ticket is 50% off. Tickets can be purchased Have you heard about the study-start party? The biggest party of the year for through this link: all freshmen and current students at Aalborg University takes place on Fri- https://studentersamfundet.safeticket.dk/events day, September 7. More than 4,000 students and freshmen from all faculties get together in Gigantium for one hell of a party. There will be plenty of good food, cheap drinks and live music. Doors open at 5PM, when freshmen and tutors gather for a bite to eat, and at 7.30PM the party really gets going, and current students are let in. The following artists will be performing: Suspekt x Vigiland Mathias and the Beatroots DJ Nikow You can learn much more about the party at the first day of study on Septem- ber 3, where your tutor will give you more information. 8 9 AALBORG UNIVERSITY AALBORG UNIVERSITY we look forward to seeing you! 10 11 AALBORG UNIVERSITY AALBORG UNIVERSITY off answer any questions you have con- who are more active than you in terms cerning the Aalborg model. of offering themselves and replying to to Typically, these projects result in questions, you may grow worried about a handing in a project, whose length whether you yourself will get properly good varies depending on your study pro- tested. However, you as a student need gramme and the number of group mem- not worry about this, as it is the exam- start bers. At a subsequent oral group exam, iner and censor who are responsible for with BY Alexander Kokkedal every group member will be tested on the ensuring that all group members are PBL contents of your project, and on wheth- heard equally on all major parts of the From the very beginning, Aalborg Univer- Due to the Aalborg model of prob- er you have a good grip of the concepts project. sity has planned out its educational pro- lem-based learning, students must, and methods that you have applied. The If you worry about things like this during grammes on the basis of problem-based to a higher degree than at other uni- better the project, the easier it will be the time leading up to an exam, you can learning, which means that students do versities, take responsibility for their for the examiner to ask questions about relax and focus your energy during the project work that lets them continual- own learning through their group work, the project at a level that really lets you exam on offering detailed replies when ly apply the theoretical skills they have where they must plan the aim, progress demonstrate that you know your topic. they ask you questions, because it is gained from their studies on problems and procedure of projects. In most of If you are an introverted person or at- very much your reasoning skills that you relevant to society. our BA and MA educational programmes, tend an exam along with group members will be judged on under the PBL model. This approach is commonly known un- project work is included at every semes- der the name the PBL model, and in its ter, during which students usually col- special AAU variant it is known as the laborate in groups. These groups must, Aalborg model. At AAU, courses support outside lectures and other classes, the students’ problem-based project reach an agreement on the working pro- work, and the project group works on cedure and aim of the project. However, problems within their field in collabora- you are not left entirely on your own as a tion with one or more supervisors. student. Each group will be appointed a In AAU-PBL, there is a double consider- supervisor who can function as an aca- ation: It emphasizes each student’s re- demic sounding board in terms of, for in- sponsibility for his or her own learning, stance, how to carry out an experiment and it gives you as a student the free- or what you want to achive from the dom to tailor your learning and immerse project in overall terms.