At the Faculty of Arts, we want to create a joint framework to support quality and a shared practice for welcoming new students and supporting their academic education. Studying at the Faculty of Arts involves a process of formative education. The faculty works hard to support this process from start to finish.

Developing study skills is a shared responsibility involving both students and teaching staff. Arts therefore has measures to introduce students to student life and first-year didactics to ensure that the individual's transition from upper secondary education to university is as positive and transparent as possible.

The students have to work independently with the material, but they need support in how to do so. This support may include guidance on how to read academically complex texts.

Many of the students’ study activities take place between teaching sessions; they read, write, reflect, solve exercises – independently or in groups. Study skills are required – when working with complex academic material, when collaborating in study groups, and when managing long independent writing processes.

Arts continuously develops and implements an onboarding resource called study@AU in collaboration with the Centre for Educational Development (CED). The faculty also runs a cross-faculty project called Studiefaglige refleksionsrum to develop and test a new format for the development of the students’ learning and study skills. This format is closely connected to our research and teaching.

See other examples of programmes and initiatives to support the transition from upper secondary school to university in the study compendium – links on the right.