About Arts
Dean's office
Dean
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Aarhus University is Maja Horst. The dean has professional and financial responsibility for the Faculty of Arts at Aarhus University, colloquially called Arts.
Vice Deans
The vice deans at Arts take care of a number of the dean's tasks at the faculty on a daily basis. The number of vice-deans reflects the desire for a strengthened strategic effort at the university and must ensure that the cross-cutting functions are qualitatively grounded in the professional environments.
- Vice-dean for research and talent development: Anne Marie Pahuus
- Vice-dean for education: Niels Lehmann
Institutes
At Arts there are three institutes: CC, CS and EDU. The institute secretaries take care of the day-to-day running of the institutes.
At each institute there are a number of departments, which can be seen below:
Departments at the Department of Communication and Culture
- Department for Digital Design and Information Science (DDINF), Morten Breinbjerg
- Department for Dramaturgy and Musicology (DRAMUS), Steen Kaargaard Nielsen
- Department for English, Peter Mortensen
- Department for Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology (KÆM), Lise Skytte Jakobsen
- Department for Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics (LIKS), Joshua Charles Skewes
- Department for Literary History and Rhetoric (LITRET), Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
- Department for Media Studies and Journalism (MEDJOUR), Anne Marit Risum Waade
- Department for Nordic Studies and Experience Economy, Pernille Hermann
- Department for German and Romance Languages (GERMAN), Henrik Høeg Müller
Departments at the Department of Culture and Society
- Department for Anthropology, Nina Holm Vohnsen
- Department for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Studies, Andres Dobat
- Department for Philosophy and History of Ideas, Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen
- Department for Global Studies, Annette Skovsted Hansen
- Department for History and Classical Studies, Nina Javette Koefoed
- Department for Religious Studies, Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger
- Department for Theology, Jakob Egeris Thomsen
- Department of Culture, Cognition and Computation, Joshua Charles Skewes
Departments at the Danish School of Education
- Department for Subject Didactics, General Pedagogy and Pedagogical Philosophy, Helle Rørbech
- Department for Educational Anthropology and Educational Psychology, Charlotte Mathiassen
- Department for Educational Sociology, Rune Müller Kristensen
- Department for Educational Sciences, Miriam Madsen
Research programs and centers
The research at Arts is organized in research programs and research centres
Administration
The Arts Administration Center, handles the administration and servicing of departments and centers at the faculty. The employees report to the university director via the head of administration at Arts and the functional manager who is responsible for the relevant academic area.
The areas are:
- Arts Building Service
- Arts HR
- Art's IT support
- Arts Communication
- Arts PhD administration
- Arts Studies
- Arts Economy
The head of administration at Arts is Ole Jensen, who is tasked with ensuring the coherence of the administrative services in the administrative centre.
The Arts Administration Center is divided geographically into Campus Aarhus and Campus Emdrup in Copenhagen.
Take-off panels
The take-off panels advise on education quality and quality development in the development of new educations and their accreditation, as well as in new study programs and rotation accreditations.
Advisory Board
The faculty's Advisory Board advises the dean and the faculty management in a number of areas, such as the faculty's mission and core tasks, strategies and action plans in relation to research, education, talent development and knowledge exchange, the offer of degree programs and their further development, the internal distribution of funds, organizational structure and the faculty's global orientation and other strategic collaborations.
The Faculty Secretariat
The dean's office is supported by the faculty secretariat. The secretariat supports the faculty's core tasks.
Management Forum, Arts
The management forum at Arts consists of the faculty management, heads of studies, department heads, head of DPU, Campus Aarhus, as well as the department and center secretariat heads and function managers from ACA. The management forum is not a decision-making management circle. The Faculty's Management Forum meets at least twice a year with a view to sharing knowledge and joint reflection, among other things in relation to strategic issues at the faculty.
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