Trekroner is a district in the north-eastern outskirts of Roskilde on the Danish island of Zealand .
8-528: The Trekroner district has been a major growth area of the city, expanding in the fields surrounding the campus of Roskilde University . Since 2000, many new homes have been built, contributing to an overall planned total of some 3,500 houses. Although Trekroner featured as a development area in Roskilde's future planning back in 1947, it was not until 1972 that the university was established there. In 1988, Trekroner railway station , which had first been built for
16-592: A location in the Region Zealand ( Denmark ) is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Roskilde University Roskilde University ( Danish : Roskilde Universitet , abbreviated RUC or RU ) is a Danish public university founded in 1972 and located in Trekroner in the Eastern part of Roskilde . The university awards bachelor's degrees , master's degrees , and PhD degrees in
24-455: A wide variety of subjects within social sciences, the humanities, and natural sciences. The university was founded in 1972 and was initially intended as an alternative to the traditional Danish universities which had been the scene of several student uprisings in the late 1960s. The students considered the traditional universities undemocratic and controlled by the professors and wanted more influence as well as more flexible teaching methods. In
32-498: The 1970s the university was known for its very liberal education as opposed to the usual lectures provided by the more traditional universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus . The focus was shifted from traditional lectures to group orientated methods and projects rather than traditional exams. Back in 1972, these educational ideas were both unorthodox and controversial, but the traditional universities in Denmark have now adopted much of
40-526: The industrial area to the south, was expanded to serve the students. The new housing estate known as Trekroner West ( Trekroner Vest ) was specified in urban development plans in the mid-1990s. It covered a total area of around 2.4 km (0.93 sq mi) divided up into 21 development units for housing, and facilities for up to 5,000 university employees and 15,000 students. 55°38′59″N 12°7′22″E / 55.64972°N 12.12278°E / 55.64972; 12.12278 This article about
48-474: The original RU concept themselves, not least the concept of group project work, which is today a recognised academic method. RU can also be said to have brought to Denmark the concepts of interdisciplinarity and less well-defined boundaries between academic fields, which originated in English-language academia. The university is governed by a board consisting of 9 members: 5 members recruited outside
56-442: The university form the majority of the board, 1 member is appointed by the scientific staff, 1 member is appointed by the administrative staff, and 2 members are appointed by the university students. The Rector is appointed by the university board. The rector in turn appoints deans and deans appoint heads of departments. There is no faculty senate and faculty is not involved in the appointment of rector, deans, or department heads. Hence
64-404: The university has no faculty governance. Roskilde University offers higher education at bachelor-, master, and PhD levels within four main areas: humanities , humanistic technologies, social science and science . The traditional educational setup at RU was based on two years of general studies in one of the main scientific areas and four years of specialization. Today, the university follows
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