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Guide for international courses atUniversity College South Denmark

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Who are we?University College South Denmark is an independentinstitution that provides a broad range of highereducation study programmes. We offer 13 professionalbachelor’s degree programmes as well as continuing andprofessional education programmes within the field ofEducational Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences,Management and Communications Sciences.Furthermore, we conduct applied research in closecollaboration with practice.

We currently have over 6.000 students and 700 academicstaff. Geographically, we cover Southern Jutland with 4campuses.

ValuesStudy programmes at University College South Denmarkcombine theory with practice to help students prepare fortheir future professional careers.

The learning environment is friendly and students areexpected to debate and exchange their views withteachers and fellow students. A cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary approach is emphasised to open up formutual understanding and inspiration.

University College South Denmark has a stronginternational learning environment and has signedErasmus bilateral agreements with more than 100 foreignuniversities and other institutions.

What do we offer?We offer one Professional Bachelor’s Degreeprogrammes in English and a number of Erasmuscourses.

Erasmus Courses

Crossing Borders 4

Living and Learning Together 8

Inclusive Practice 10

Full Degree Programme

Teacher Education 14

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The Department for Social Education, Campus Aabenraaprovides a 4-month modular course specially designedfor both international and Danish students, so you will beable to learn from and with each other.

With the reflective practitioner as guiding principle, thecourse will facilitate active learning both inside and out-side the classroom. Through excursions, fields studies andpractical training you will observe and explore pedagogi-cal practice, and in lectures, workshops and group workyou will be encouraged to discuss and reflect upon yourexperiences.

The programme comprises 30 ECTS.

Course contentThe course focuses on cultural diversity in education andwill provide knowledge about and understanding of aculturally responsive pedagogy in an international pers-pective. As part of the overall theme the course will putemphasis on educational institutions serving minorities.

Headlines from the course

1. Outdoor learning (5 ECTS)The module focusses on competences in conducting andsupporting pedagogical scientific learning processes inan outdoor learning environment

Main themes are:Outdoor learningThe nature of science, science didactics and scientificmethodsNature and outdoor learning in different biotopsDessemination of knowledge about learning in natureand an outdoor setting in a pedagogical practiceAnimals (mainly invertebrates) and plants inpedagogical learning content

2. Cultural diversity in education (20 ECTS)Globalisation, migration from all parts of the world andthe historical shifting of borders has turned the Europeanmap into a patchwork where people with differentcultural backgrounds live together. In educationalsettings, cultural diversity is manifest both as a challengeand a possibility for the educator.This module will focus on cultural diversity as a resourcein education and provide the students with knowledgeand skills needed for addressing diversity in educationalsettings.

Main themes are:Culture, minorities and identityIntercultural communication and learningMulticulturalism and intercultural analysisPedagogical theory and practice in an interculturalperspectiveDrama, cultural production and aesthetic learningEducational development and processes of change

The module puts emphasis on the combination of theoryand practice.Students will have the opportunity to investigate the fieldof practice and to participate in group projects aiming atthe development of educational practice

3. Practical training period (5 ECTS)3 weeks practical training in a Danish kindergarten/school or a kindergarten/school belonging to the Germanspeaking minority in Denmark.

Spring and Autumn Semester:CROSSING BORDERSCultural diversity in Education

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Target groupsThe course targets students of social education, earlychildhood education and student teachers for pre-primary and primary schools.

AimsThe course will provide students with skills, knowledgeand experiences to increase their interculturalcompetences, their ability to address cultural diversity ineducational settings and their ability to describe, analyseand develop educational practice in an interculturalperspective.

AssessmentEach module includes assessment based on oral and/orwritten presentation. At least 80% attendance required ineach module.

RequirementsThe course requires English language skills on a B2 levelaccording to the Common European Framework ofReferences for Language (CEFR). All course materials willbe in English, and the language of instruction is English.Practical training takes place in Danish kindergartens/schools or in kindergartens/schools of the Germanminority in Denmark.

AccommodationUniversity College South Denmark will help you findaccommodation.See ucsyd.dk/int for more information.

ApplicationAnnual deadline for applicationMay 1st for Autumn SemesterNovember 1st for Spring Semester

Further informationInternational CoordinatorSimon Bødker Andersensiba@ucsyd.dk+45 7266 5667ucsyd.dk/crossing-borders

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The Department for Teacher Education, CampusHaderslev, provides a one semester internationalmodular course specially designed for both internationaland Danish students.

The classes will be a combination of lectures, workshops,group-work, excursions, school visit, Socratic dialogues,and field visits.

The programme comprises 30 ECTS.

Course contentThe course focuses on cultural diversity in education andwill provide knowledge about and understanding of aculturally responsive pedagogy in an internationalperspective.

Headlines from the courseModule 1: Education and Culture in Europe10 ECTS Mandatory module

A general introduction to Denmark, Danish history, cultureand society and a Danish language course.

Various methods will be used:Socratic dialogue: we initiate our dialogues from

reading the book Momo by Michael Ende.Project work: we learn from each other’s education

systems and create the very best education system.School experience (two weeks): students will observe

the Danish way of teaching and organising school, and may try out some teaching themselves as well.

The course module ends with a final comparative assignment on a topic chosen by the student.

Module 2: Creative Learning in School,10 ECTS Elective module

This module consists of different creative workshops onthe basis of “aesthetic learning processes”, including art,drama, movement, storytelling and role play. Students getto test innovate methods of teaching, and will get to workindependently, creatively and practically during the wholeprocess.

Materials will be collected to create an on-line platformwith the products. The basis in this module is creativelearning processes - both when it comes to experiencingthese as a student and when it comes to transformingthese to the classrooms in school.

Module 3: Outdoor Learning and Living10 ECTS Elective module

Students will move outside the classroom in this module.All classes will depart outside the University, in the nature,or at the Museum in Haderslev.

We will live for three days in an Iron Age inspired villageand experience how life was in year 500 (B.C.) – 850(A.C.). We will go back to nature to learn how to take careof the nature, and we focus on play, learning by doing,experience and experiential knowledge.

Students will trek along some of the old cultural routesin the surroundings of Haderslev. We will learn how tocook food on a campfire in order to pass that knowledgeon to kids in your home country. In this course, you mustbe prepared to be outside most of the time.

Spring Semester:LIVING AND LEARNING TOGETHER

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Module 4: Youth Culture Expressed through Music10 ECTS Elective module

In this course module focus will be on music as a tool forunderstanding youth cultures from the 1950s to thepresent time. Students will study literature on youthculture and analyse lyrics and create music themselves.Students do not need to have any experience in musicother than an interest in music as a tool of expression.

Module 5: English: Language and Language Use10 ECTS Elective module

This module is part of the teacher education curriculumfor becoming English teachers in Denmark. Inorder to choose this, students must be English languageteacher students.NB. There is also a possibility to choose a module inGerman as a foreign language under the sameconditions.

Target groupsStudent teachers; primary and lower secondary school.

AimsThe course will provide students with skills, knowledgeand experience in order to increase their interculturalcompetences, i.e. the ability to live and work in diversegroups. Students will become aware of qualities of theirown and other countries’ education systems, which willmake them reflective, creative and innovative teachers.

AssessmentEach course module includes assessment based on oraland/or written presentation. At least 80% attendance isrequired in each course module.

AccommodationUniversity College South Denmark will help you findaccommodation.See ucsyd.dk/int for more information.

RequirementsThe course requires English language skills on a B2 levelaccording to the Common European Framework ofReferences for Languages (CEFR). All course materialswill be in English, and the language of introduction isEnglish.

AttentionAll students must bring the following book:Momo by Michael Ende (can be boughtsecond hand and the 2009 edition from Puffinis preferable).

The students of the Outdoor Learning and Living coursemodule must bring good hiking footwear, outdoorclothing and a good sleeping bag for the stay in the IronAge village.

ApplicationAnnual deadline for application:November 1st

Further informationInternational CoordinatorJette Laursenjlau@ucsyd.dk+45 7266 5021ucsyd.dk/livingandlearningtogether

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The Department for Teacher Education, Campus Esbjerg,provides a 4-month modular course specially designedfor both international and Danish students.

The classes are organised as lectures, self-studies andwith a variety of methods with focus on practice-orientedexercises, case studies and research findings. As specialneeds education is a constantly evolving field, recent andcutting-edge research and topical debates will enterclassroom discussions and other teaching and learningactivities.

The programme comprises 30 ECTS.

Course ContentSpecial education needs and inclusive teaching is meantto impart to students' professional skills and aprofessional judgement in planning, implementing andevaluating teaching students who find themselveschallenged by the learning environment of regularclassrooms to be able to consider special needs,challenges and resources of individual learners vis-à-visresources offered institutionally.

Headlines from the courseModule 1: Inclusive Teaching (10 ECTS) The course module takes its point of departure inrelational developmental systems / psychology in itsconception the child itself, its relationships, experiencesand actions vis-à-vis inclusive teaching in an effort tounravel the challenges and special needs of a childsubjected to governmentally instituted inclusive class-room reforms.Fundamental topics, knowledge and methodologies arepresented from a general vantage point, which is aprerequisite for a teacher to plan, implement, andevaluate inclusive teaching.

Module 2: Diagnoses and Inclusion (10 ECTS)The starting point for this course module is a focus onworking with diagnoses. The primary theme is theperspective of inclusion with the concept of normalityand thus, a diversity-focus, relating to both values andscientificness as a cultural phenomenon. The modulepresents knowledge and research as forming the centralknowledge base. Focus is on diagnoses and indicators forspecial needs and vulnerable positions, which is viewedas a necessity for planning, carrying out and evaluatinginclusive pedagogy. A significant paradigm shift andelement of teaching is to look at the diagnosis in arelational perspective rather than a solely individualperspective.

Module 3: Classroom Management and Inclusion(10 ECTS)The course module introduces inclusive teaching withspecial reference to components in pedagogy,psychology and educational science of importance toplanning, implementing and evaluating(the effectiveness of) teaching efforts addressingstudents in inclusive and differentiated learningenvironments. Hence, the course module introducesdifferentiation and other teaching principles togetherwith a broad range of methods of how to approachinclusive teaching as a component integrated in aregular learning classroom environment as well asindividual and independent inclusive teaching activities.Eventually, the course module focusses on classroommanagement conceived of as a skill of managing,organising and collaborating with classrooms in the lightof differentiated teaching and inclusive pedagogy.

Autumn Semester:INCLUSIVE PRACTICESpecial Education Needs and Inclusive Teaching

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Target groupsThe course targets students of social education, earlychildhood education and student teachers for pre-primary, primary and secondary schools.

AimsThe student is able to plan, implement, evaluate anddevelop inclusive teaching sequences for special-needslearners facing severe challenges in non-adaptedlearning environments.

AssessmentEach course module includes assessment based on oraland/or written presentation. At least 80% attendance isrequired in each course module.

RequirementsThe course requires English language skills on a B2 levelaccording to the Common European Framework ofReferences for Language (CEFR). All course materials willbe in English, and the language of instruction is English.

AccommodationUniversity College South Denmark will help you findaccommodation.See ucsyd.dk/int for more information.

ApplicationAnnual deadline for application:May 1st

Further informationInternational CoordinatorBirgitte Lundblun@ucsyd.dk+45 7266 3073ucsyd.dk/inclusive-practice

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Ready for an unforgettable culturalexperience?University College South Denmark offers a high qualitytheoretical instruction combined with the practicalexperience of teaching.

Teacher education at our campus in Haderslev has astrong profile in using new technologies in teaching andlearning. One of the characteristics for the Danish way ofteaching and learning is a friendly and informalatmosphere, which is highly appreciated by ourinternational students. The syllabus is a mixture oflectures, group work, student presentations, and projectorientated learning.

During the first year you will have an intensive course inDanish, so you can follow the teaching in Danish fromyour second year of studies - so get ready to learn a newlanguage and make it one more advantage for yourfuture.

What's expected of me?We expect you to put in your time, your attention, yourenergy, and most of importantly, enthusiasm for yourstudy programme. The study programme is often busy,and it will be demanding. You are expected to sit exams,write papers, and attend classes. However, these are notjust your obligations - they are also what make you growas a student. We are not saying it will be easy - but it willalso be lots of fun.

You must have an upper-secondary school leavingcertificate/high school diploma or the equivalent.

What can I become?The Bachelor of Education is a full-time study pro-gramme, offered at our campus in Haderslev, with aduration of 4 years comprising 240 ECTS points.After graduating the Danish Bachelor of Education, youhave a great variety of job possibilities. First of all, you arefully prepared to be a teacher in Danish primary andlower secondary schools: public, private andinternational. Moreover, as a native language speakeryou have even better chances to get employed as aforeign language teacher compared to Danish students.

AccommodationUniversity College South Denmark will help you findaccommodation.See ucsyd.dk/int for more information.

ApplicationAnnual deadline for application:March 15th

Further informationStudy CoordinatorSvend Brandtskbr@ucsyd.dk+45 7266 5006ucsyd.dk/teacher

Full Degree:TEACHER EDUCATION

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University College South Denmark is a modern universitycollege with a well-established international learningenvironment. Student life at University College SouthDenmark is friendly, casual and open-minded.

University College South Denmark has a leading positionin using new technology in teaching and learning.

One of the characteristics for the Danish way of teachingand learning is a friendly and informal atmosphere,which is highly appreciated by our international students.

Our campus-based student network will welcome youand help you settle in through social activities with otherstudents.

Campus Esbjerg

Our campus in Esbjerg is the main campus of theUniversity College.Esbjerg is Denmark's 5th biggest city with a population ofapprox. 100,000. In Esbjerg nature meets industry,culture, art and architecture and offers various activitiesfor over 6500 students.

Esbjerg city: visitesbjerg.dkStudent life in Esbjerg: studiebyenesbjerg.dk/en

Campus Haderslev

Haderslev is a medieval town with a population ofapprox. 30,000, beautifully situated on the east coast ofSouthern Jutland 50 km north of the Danish-Germanborder. The college campus is situated in the city centreof Haderslev. The oldest buildings date back to the middleof the 19th century, and the campus is a charming mixtureof old and new.

Haderslev city: visithaderslev.info

Campus Aabenraa

Aabenraa is a historic harbour town with a population ofapprox. 20,000, beautifully situated by Aabenraa Fjordand surrounded by forest. Aabenraa is situated just 25 kmnorth of the Danish-German border in a region thatthroughout history has been a meeting point for Nordicand German culture. Today Aabenraa is the main town ofthe German speaking minority in Denmark.

Aabenraa city: visitaabenraa.dk

Campus Kolding

With a population of approx. 90,000 the Koldingmunicipality is the seventh largest in Denmark. The cityitself has a population of approx. 60,000 and is also theseventh largest city in Denmark. Kolding is a historic townlocated in the beautiful Region of Southern Denmark.

Kolding city: visitkolding.dk

STUDENT ENVIRONMENT

Kolding

AabenraaHaderslev

Esbjerg

For further information please contact

UC SYDInternational Office

Degnevej 166705 Esbjerg ØDenmarkinternational@ucsyd.dk

ucsyd.dk/int February 2019