The start of your Master’s

You must register as a student at the UG before 1 September. You will not be able to start your degree programme if matters like uploading your ID, filling out your qualifications and paying your tuition fee, have not been arranged before 1 September! Studielink provides an overview of everything you need to have done. Read more about it on Application and registration and contact Students Information & Administration if you have any further questions or need help.

Check the following ‘to do’ list to make sure you are properly prepared when you start your degree programme:

• Activate your student account
• Upload a photograph for your student card
• Check the Student Portal
• Install your Student Mail
• Check your study programme and timetable (click on the appropriate academic year in the upper right corner)
• Check the Faculty of Arts annual timetable with teaching weeks, exam periods and holidays
• Check the practical information about studying and living in Groningen: for Dutch students and international students

International students are expected to participate in the Welcoming Ceremony for international students organized by the University. You will receive an invitation to the event approximately 1.5 months in advance, so make sure to keep an eye on your inbox.

A lot of information will be given, for example:

• how to open a bank account,
• how to apply for a residence permit,
• health insurance,
• accommodation/housing,
• registration at city hall.

Below you can find an overview of all the Master degree programmes that organize introduction activities for their students. It is possible that this overview will be updated in the upcoming months, so keep an eye on this website. Also keep an eye on your student email for the official invitation from your study programme.

Not every programme organizes an introduction for Master students. You can check the BA Introduction webpages of the relevant degree programme to see whether there are introduction activities you can take part in.

• Ancient History
• Applied Linguistics
• Classics and Ancient Civilizations
• Communication- and Information Sciences (track DH)
• History (tracks H&HC, POLH and USS: PPF)
• International Relations (all six tracks)
• Literary Studies (tracks ELI, ELC and WEM)
• Media Studies (tracks DDL, SMS and MCI)
• North American Studies
• Theoretical and Empirical Linguistics
• Translation in Europe
• ReMa programmes (combined session)

As a Master's student, you are expected to enroll for your courses yourself. More information on this can be found on the webpage concerning the enrolment for course units. If you need help with your enrolment, please consult the secretariat of the programme.

Readers

Readers can be ordered from early August onwards via Canon. The readers will be delivered to your home. Make sure to order your readers on time.

Compulsory literature

The Online Course Catalogue Ocasys (select the correct academic year) provides overviews of the literature that you must buy for each course unit during the first semester. You only need to look for the books belonging to the subjects of the first block. The second block does not start until November.

Order the books yourself from a high-quality bookshop or order them with a discount when you sign up as a member of your study association. Don't wait too long with ordering your books. Shops may run out of the required texts and it can take weeks before they are in store.

Tip: improve your grades and reduce the stress and workload of the academic year by doing some advance reading!

Now that you are about to start your degree programme, we advise you to use the Student Portal for all the information you need as a student. As soon as your student account has been activitated, you can use the tab Study Info in Student Portal and find there all the information about your programme and studying at the faculty. You can find the link to the pages of your programme below.

Make sure to bookmark the link to your programme's page, you are going to need it!

Programme pages

• Archeologie
• Arts and Culture (tracks Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media, Music, Theatre and Performance Studies, Arts Cognition and Criticism, Arts, Policy and Cultural Entrepreneurship).
• Communication- and Information Sciences
• Classic and Ancient Civilizations
• Euroculture
• History
• International Relations
• International Humanitarion Action (NOHA)
• Lerarenopleiding
• Linguistics
  • Theoretical and Empirical Linguistics
  • Neurolinguistics
• Literary Studies
• Media Studies
• Middle-Eastern Studies
• Neerlandistiek
• North American Studies
• Research Masters Archaeology
• Research Master Arts, Media and Literary Studies
• Research Master Cultural Leadership
• Research Master Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies
• Research Master Clinical Linguistics (EMCL)
• Research Master Language and Cognition
• Research Master Language and Communication Technologies
• Research Master Modern History and International Relations

If you have ADD, ADHD, ASS, dyslexia or another functional impairment that might affect your studies or study progress, please check this SSC link.

If you would like to apply for special provisions, please check this Information tool and also contact your study adviser as soon as possible.

Next to the programme specific information under the tab Study Info, there are two other tabs in the Student Portal that are useful during your studies:

• Today: with your courses, schedule, grades, study progress and news from the UG, Faculty and your programme.
• Career: with information about job opportunities, career-related events, doing a placement and how to prepare for the job market

In the drop-down menu 'UG Tools' you will find useful links to for example the course catalogue (Ocasys), the schedule generator, your grades (Progress) and your UG mail.