Swedish in Technology (4cr)

Objectives

After completing this course students:
- are able to describe their education, work experience and tasks in e.g. a job application situation.
- are able to present the operations of companies and organisations, products, processes and services in spoken and written communication and to discuss these topics.
- can handle the working life contacts of their own field of technology, e.g. e-mails, complaints, telephone discussions and reports.
- can find and sort information about their own field of technology from various sources and to follow the development of their field in professional sources.
- understand and are able to write technical instructions in their own field.

Content

• Written and spoken communication in the working life
• Business life Swedish
• Terminology of the students’ own field of study
• Most important grammar issues

Prerequisites

Upper secondary school Swedish, Course: ”Grundkurs i svenska för teknibranschen”, B1-level language skills.

Further information

Sufficient skills in Finnish, mandatory participation on 80% of the classes; alternative form of completion: skills test