Swedish for International Students 1A

Learning outcomes

• After the course, you have the skills needed to introduce yourself or someone else and to use simple greeting or parting phrases.
• You understand numbers, prices and times, are able to talk about where you live or describe your normal day using simple language, and you know the language needed to buy basic things or order something at a restaurant or café.
• The course equips the students with the basic Swedish skills needed in simple everyday communicative situations.

Content

• Communication exercises with discussion of work, studies, family and language skills.
• You will learn to give your address and phone number in Swedish.
• You will practice using greeting and parting phrases.
• The course also teaches the alphabet, numerals, expressions of time, verbs, word order, pronouns, interrogatives and nouns.

Teacher

Piritta Mikkonen

Study material
Marit Keränen, Camilla Lindroos & Katja Peltola: Vi ses!  (Otava 2018) - Chapters 1-3

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

This course is intended for beginners.

Evaluation

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

Teaching time and location

2.9.-17.10.2024
Teaching hours online on Mondays 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 5.8.2024 at 9.00  
Registration for this course ends on 26.8.2024 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

For this course, free spots are available for Aalto University staff. Staff registration is open from August 5th to August 25th via Webropol. 

Registration for staff (link)

This course is organized by the Aalto University Open University.

Additional information

• A basic course for international or Finnish students with no previous studies in 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