The University of Agder (Norwegian: Universitetet i Agder) is a public
university with campuses in Kristiansand
and Grimstad,
Norway. The
institution was established as a university college in 1994 with the merger of
six colleges and was granted its current status as a university
in 2007, but its academic activity dates as far back as 1839. It is one of
eight universities in Norway; the other seven are the University of Oslo, the University of Tromsø, the University of Stavanger, the University of Bergen, the Norwegian University of LifeSciences in Ås,
the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and the University of Nordland in Bodø.
Campus
Gimlemoen
(Kristiansand)
The university's central
administration and Faculty of Humanities and Education are located on the
Gimlemoen campus. In addition, the Faculties of Economics and Social Sciences,
Fine Arts and Health and Sport, and the departments of natural sciences and
mathematical sciences (Faculty of Engineering and Science), have most of their
programmes and activities here.
Grimstad
The campus of Grimstad is brand new
and was opened the fall of 2010 and serves 2500 engineering, nursing and
teacher education students.
Faculties and Academia
The University of Agder has five faculties and offers over 175 study programmes including 20 Master programmes and 7 PhD programmes says Wikipedia.org
Faculty
of Economics and Social Sciences
- Department of Economics and Business Administration (Gimlemoen)
- Department of Development Studies (Gimlemoen)
- Department of Information Systems
- Department of Political Science and Management (Gimlemoen)
- Department of Sociology, Social Work and Welfare Studies (Gimlemoen)
- Department of Working Life and Innovation (Gimlemoen
Faculty
of Fine Arts
- Department of Music (Gimlemoen)
- Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (Gimlemoen)
Faculty
of Health and Sport Sciences
- Department of Public Health, Sport and Nutrition (Gimlemoen/Grimstad)
- Department of Health and Nursing Science (Gimlemoen/Grimstad)
- Department of Psychososial Health (Gimlemoen/Grimstad)
Faculty
of Humanities and Education
- Department of Foreign Languages and Translation (Gimlemoen/Grimstad)
- Department of Nordic and Media Studies (Gimlemoen)
- Department of Education (Gimlemoen)
- Department of Religion, Philosophy and History (Gimlemoen)
Faculty
of Engineering and Science
- Department of Mathematical Sciences (Gimlemoen)
- Department of Natural Sciences (Gimlemoen)
- Department of Engineering (Grimstad)
- Department of ICT (Grimstad)
Teacher Education
The teacher training programmes are organized in an interdisciplinary fashion
Research
Centres
- Achieving Accountability in School Practice
- Centre for Business Systems
- Centre for Care Research
- Centre for Cultural Studies
- Centre for Development Studies
- Centre for Didactics
- Centre for Entrepreneurship
- Centre for European Studies
- Centre for Gender Equality
- Centre for Innovation and Work Life Studies
- Centre for International Economics and Shipping
- Centre for Multicultural Activities
- Centre for Norwegian Studies Abroad
- Centre for Real Estate
- Center for Sustainable Energy Solutions
- Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE
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