Editing Roskilde University (section)

==History==

[[Image:Roskilde-University RUC.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Outside Roskilde University]]

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 the 1970s the university was known for its very liberal education as opposed to the usual lectures provided by the more traditional universities of [[University of Copenhagen|Copenhagen]] and [[Aarhus University|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 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ruc.dk/en/about-the-university/rucs-profil/the-history-of-roskilde-university/|title=The History of Roskilde University|access-date=2013-12-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213225328/http://www.ruc.dk/en/about-the-university/rucs-profil/the-history-of-roskilde-university/|archive-date=2013-12-13 }}</ref>