Swedish for International Students 1B

Learning outcomes

• After the course, you are able to use simple language to talk about your hobbies and to plan leisure time activities together with others.
• You are able to talk about yourself, your family and everyday life, to talk about what you like and dislike and what you have done or experienced.
• The course equips students with the basic Swedish skills needed in everyday communicative situations.

Content

• Communication exercises where students use Swedish for instance in discussions, planning, decision-making, telling about things and introducing something or someone.
• Topics include leisure time and culture, the weather and calendar dates, family, work and everyday life.
• The course also covers adjectives, verbs, word order, nouns, expressions of time and ordinal numbers.

Teacher
Piritta Mikkonen

Study material
Marit Keränen, Camilla Lindroos & Katja Peltola: Vi ses!  (Otava 2018): Chapters 4-6

Online learning environment for the course & Activating Aalto ID

MyCourses online learning environment is a tool for both students and teachers for communication and managing everyday course work. You need an Aalto User ID to log in to the course's MyCourses workspace and participate in teaching. You can activate your Aalto User ID the day after the registration and you should activate it no later than the day before the start of the course. Instructions for activating your Aalto User IDDigital workspace of the course:
MyCourses (link will be updated here later)

More details on completing the course will be available at MyCourses closer to the start of the course.

Workload

 24 - 36 h (contact teaching) + 43 - 55 h (independent work)

Prerequisites

LC-5771 or equivalent knowledge

Evaluation

• Active participation and written and oral assignments during the course (100 %)
   

Teaching time and location

Update 13.9.2024: The course has been moved from autumn 2024 to spring 2025.

7.1.-20.2.2025
Teaching hours online on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 16-18

Teaching hours are not recorded. Students are expected to be present at the lectures.

Registration and course fee

Registration for Open University courses is done in Sisu-service. 
Course registration 

Registration for this course starts on 23.9.2024 at 9.00  
Registration for this course ends on 18.12.2024 at 23.59

The course fee is paid upon registration for each course at a time and it is binding. Familiarize yourself with registration and payment rules as well as other guidelines for students:
Registration, payments and rules

This course is organized by the Aalto University Open University.

Additional information

• For students who have taken the course LC-5771 or equivalent or otherwise acquired equivalent knowledge of Swedish.
• The course does not fulfill the National Language Requirement (Swedish) or replace the test for it, nor is it intended as a preparatory course for the National Language Requirement Test.
•  English is used as a supplementary language for teaching in the course.

Individual study arrangements

If you need individual study arrangements in order to attend a course, contact the Open University office ([email protected]) in good time, at least 14 days before the start date of the course or the examination date. Further information about individual study arrangements:
Individual study arrangements at Open University