Welcome to the Department of Social Sciences and Business
The Department of Social Sciences and Business (ISE) is one of RUC’s four departments. ISE is responsible for the International Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences. In daily life, you won’t necessarily be thinking about which department you belong to, as the departments primarily serve as a way for the university to organize which teaching and administrative staff are employed where, as well as which programs and students they are responsible for. Instead, the departments help to present certain frameworks for you, such as which buildings you can expect to spend time in, which staff members are based in those buildings, and the social, academic, and democratic environments you will engage with during your studies.
Building 21 is the heart of the social sciences bachelor's program. The building contains a large classroom as well as smaller classrooms where most of your study activities will take place. Like most other buildings at RUC, the building is filled with smaller group rooms that you can use for the semester projects you will write each term.
The building is meant for you as students, and you have the opportunity to use it for much more than just studying. For example, you can organize parties through your party committee, cozy cafés, movie nights, and much more.
Furthermore, you also have the chance to influence how the building is furnished, which paintings or posters are displayed, what the lounge area looks like, and, if RUC agrees, even decide that a particular wall in a specific room should be painted a different color.
In short – take ownership of your physical study environment and help create the best possible settings for your time as a student. Of course, within the university’s framework and rules.
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Important people to know at the university
Throughout your education, you will meet many different staff and instructors, but during your first three semesters, there are certain people you will encounter much more frequently than others. When new students accept their admission to RUC, they are assigned to a specific bachelor team – Each of these teams has an assigned team Coordinator, a Study Environment Tutor, and Project Supervisors.
Your study environment tutor is an older student employed to, in short, help you have an enjoyable study experience. They can be described as a good friend or an older sibling that you can turn to when you feel lost or have questions about your studies. They can listen to your frustrations and offer perspectives based on their own experience with the program. If they cannot answer your questions themselves, they can help you get in touch with the right person who can. They act as a kind of guide, who has been through much of what you are about to experience. Additionally, they are there to help your team bring to life the things you want to do. They can assist you in establishing committees within your team and guide you on how to organize social and academic events for your team.
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Your team coordinator is somewhat like a form of class teacher. The team coordinator is an employed instructor who, among other things, is responsible for coordinating your project formation, teaching some of your courses, and being available to you if you have any questions.
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Project supervisors are lecturers or PhD students employed to guide the project assignments you write each semester. Each project group is assigned a supervisor whose expertise matches the topic of your project, and they will hold meetings with you throughout the semester to guide you in the right direction regarding your research.
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Your local party committee
There can be many expectations when starting at a university, and some of you certainly have expectations that your time at university will involve a lot of great parties. It's best when your expectations are also fulfilled, and you are lucky that RUC primarily has a wide range of different party committees that host great parties throughout the semester.
Max WeBar is the social- and party committee for all SAB and SIB students at RUC. We organise social events and parties to bring all the social science students together. As a committee we do multiple things:
We buy alcohol, plan RUC’s most awesome parties and train our economics and maths when counting our alcohol!
We also organise internal parties and hygge-events for our board members. So just to sum up: If you are a social science student at RUC, do not hesitate to join our incredibly awesome, cool and rowdy committee!
We look forward to meeting, partying and hopefully working with you <3
Max WeBar
The SAM-Council
SAMRådet (also called the ‘SAM-council’) is the academic council for all social science students at RUC. Our biggest responsibility is to fight for and represent the SIB and SAB students, both in the SR/Student Council, across campus and in the Study board for all social science bachelors.
We also host and organise academic events that have a relevance for those studying anything social science related. It could be anything from Projekt Workshops and Cafés, Debate events and Election events.
We also support the students elected to the study board for the bachelor programs SIB and SAB. This includes planning pre-meetings before each study board meeting, where students can come and influence the work done in the study board and even put their own issues on the agenda and make sure that they’re heard
We look forward to seeing you on campus!
