Swedish for Working LifeLaajuus (3 op)

Osaamistavoitteet

The students are able to tell about themselves and their studies in Swedish. They have the skills to find information related to their field of study and they have a reasonable command of its essential terminology. The students are equipped to meet the demands of job application process, job responsibilities and customer contacts, both orally and in writing. The students know the most essential cultural features of the Swedish-speaking work environment.

Sisältö

- telling about oneself and one’s education
- essential terminology in the field of study
- job application process (e.g. job ad, cover letter, CV, job interview)
- oral situations in working life (e.g. telephoning, meetings, discussions, guidance, presentations)
- written communication in working life (e.g. e-mails, summaries, memos, reports)
- information retrieval (e.g. internet, literature, publications)
- work environment and information on Scandinavia

Esitietovaatimukset

The students are able to communicate, both orally and in writing, in everyday situations, mastering the basic structures of Swedish (default initial level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference). (The students who have completed their school education outside Finland study Finnish instead of Swedish).

Arviointikriteerit, tyydyttävä (1)

The general criteria of the competences that the Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees awarded by Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences provide can be found on JAMK’s web pages (http://www.jamk.fi/english/forstudents/studyguid e).

The learning outcomes of individual courses are assessed in relation to the objectives of the course concerned. Unless otherwise defined in the curriculum, a course accepted as completed is assessed on the following five-step scale: 5 (Excellent), 4 (Very Good), 3 (Good), 2 (Satisfactory), 1 (Sufficient), If the student does not meet the minimum criteria set for the course, the grade is 0 (Fail). In special cases, a course may be graded as Pass/Fail, marked as “S (Pass)” and “0 (Fail)”.

More exact information about the learning assesment criterias to be used shall be given during the first contact meetings of the course.