For those of you who have missed our featured post which explains how this blog came into being (and you should totally go read this post by the way), here is a quick summary of what this is all about. Myself (Marcia Allison) and the scrumptious Jessica Navarro are an English and American full degree student respectively at Aarhus University in Denmark. (Read more about us here!) We also have the extreme pleasure of being employees at the International Centre at AU, where we help out incoming international students from behind the scenes. As full degrees are somewhat alone out there in comparison to the international exchange and PhD students at AU, this blog is targeted to fill the gaps of knowledge that are in desperate need of filling!
This project is run in conjunction with the International Centre but provides an honest and personal account of life here at AU, and in no way represents the opinions of the University or the IC. Just so you know. Please don’t sue us.
Hi there,
You might get this question a lot. I and my girlfriend are hoping to start masters at Aarhus next academic year. Could you please advice is it difficult to find a part time job for international with only English language while studying ? Any advice would help on where and how to look for a job. Thank you
Howdy Michal and Michal’s girlfriend!
Excellent question. If you can hang on until next week, we will have a new blog post about this with further details.
Thanks for inspiring a new post!
hey you!
i wanted to ask, if by any chance you know somebody who does a master in anthropology in aarhus..? i’m chosing the place to do my master right now and aarhus in an option. would be great to talk to somebody who can give me an insight;) i got the advice to try it in this blog on the facebook page of the international centre..
thanks for your help! alexandra
Hey Alexandra!
We could sniff around for you. You mean an international student, right?
hey!
sorry for the late answer! thanks a lot, that would be awesome! it doesn’t actually matter to me if an international or danish student.
Hello again Alexandra!
I’m sorry to say that so far we have failed you. We aren’t from that department and apparently have not crossed paths with anyone from anthropology. Have you tried contacting the department’s administration? They should have an international student counsellor who could put you in contact with a student.
In any case, I stand ready for 100 lashings as punishment of my failures -_-
oh don’t worry! it’s too bad, but can’t be changed, if those anthropologists are so unsocial..;p i’ll try at the department, thanks for the advice! i’m not that into lashings, hope you find another way to cope with your guilt;) thanks anyway for your help!
Hi there Marcia
I love this blog! you are so clever!
I am wondering if its possible for old people like me to get into Arhus uni – the social life sounds great. As you know Im very old but still have a few brain cells -Im from Uk originally and spent last 20 something years in Australia doing social work. Ive got a couple of Bachelors degrees in social science and social work and started masters. Would prefer to do something sociological and at masters level not social work any more. Would I get any form of finance?? and are there any other really old people there or just bright young things?
Cath Scott in Oz
Thanks very much Cath, although I think you may be a bit biased (dear readers, this is my Australian aunt talking from so very far away
). Also, my colleague Jessica is one half of the amazing international extraordinaire.
Well, to answer your question, as someone with an EU passport, you can study for free at Aarhus University, but it’s unlikely you will get funding as the funding tends to come in the way of the free education
. However, I do know a few non-EUs who get scholarships so perhaps if you played your Australian card right, you might be lucky….
There are people of all ages studying here and we definitely have a few people on our course who aren’t in their 20s, so you wouldn’t be too old at all! There’s a variety of Masters which you can find at http://kandidat.au.dk/en/, and off the top of my head they have a very strong international studies Master’s programme which you can tailor to your social science interests. Happy programme hunting!