Time: 17.1. – 30.4.2022
Place: Online studies
Extent: 5 ECTS credits
Number of study places: 70
Target group: Everyone interested in the topic
Required previous skills: Attending the course requires completing the course of Finnish 1 or having corresponding skills. Attending the course also requires English skills enabling academic studies.
Lecturer: Xamk teacher
Area of competence mentioned in Curriculum: Optional studies
Enrolment by: 2.1.2022
Price: EUR 12 / credit or semester fee EUR 175. You can read more about our payment policy here.
Please, notice that the fee for one semester will not be refunded, if the combined fees for your chosen studies remain below EUR 175 or you cancel your studies.
Note that you can enrol for Open UAS studies at the maximum of 50 ECTS credits per semester. One person’s enrolments exceeding 50 ECTS credits are deleted in the enrolment order. Paying attention to this is important when planning your studies.
Please also notice, that
Xamk degree students cannot enrol on Open UAS courses.
Learning outcomes: You are able to express yourself in Finnish in everyday situations both orally and in writing.
You are able to follow simple speech and read short texts with familiar topics.
You have command of different phrases, structures and vocabulary (CEFR level A1.2 – A1.3). You will get to know some basic vocabulary of your own professional field.
You are familiar with a large variety of grammatical features, like consonant and vowel changes (verbs and nouns), singular case forms and basic plural form (nouns).
You are able to expand your vocabulary and knowledge of language usage also independently using different sources.
You can display familiarity in Finnish culture.
Contents and methods: Which phrases and what kind of vocabulary and grammatical knowledge you need for everyday communication and for understanding and writing simple texts with varying topics?
Which sources and tools you can use in order to continue your elementary Finnish studies during the course and also independently?
How to use your cultural knowledge in communication?
The course covers 5 ECTS credits, totalling 135 hours of student work. The number of hours is theoretical and varies according to student effort.
All the assignments must be submitted following the given schedule, by the end of the course. Late submissions are not allowed. There will be an online exam at the end of the course. The exam must be passed. It is possible to write (rewrite) a non-written or not passed exam twice. The exam dates will be given at the beginning of the course.
Lessons are on Mondays 8.15 – 9.45 am.
Study material: White: From Start to Finnish. Helsinki: Finnlectura.
The material on Learn
Assessment: 0-5, the assessment is based on assignments completed successfully. There will be an exam at the end of the course.
The course Finnish 2 is arranged at the entry-level of your studies. The assessment emphazises criteria a–d and f. Students that have reached the level 3 are able to
a) use phrases, quite versatile vocabulary and grammatical knowledge (CEFR levels A1.2 – A1.3) in everyday communication.
b) look for information from the text books and other information sources of the elementary Finnish.
c) identify various contexts and interrelated tasks.
d) communicate in everyday situations.
f) work as team-members in a goal-oriented way.
Transcript of records will be delivered by request by email in PDF form
This course is based on the curricula of Xamk's degree programmes and the Finnish credits are fully compatible with the ECTS.
Additional information on enrolment:
Open University of Applied Sciences office, openstudies@xamk.fi.
Terms of cancellation:
You can cancel your enrolment free of charge 30 days before the course starts. If you have not cancelled by the due date, we will charge the full cost of the course. Cancellation by email to openstudies@xamk.fi.
Before the course starts, you'll receive an invitation by email to this course.
Please note that there can be changes in the course details in terms of the timetable and teachers, for example.
South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences is audited by the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC).