Title: Learning task for the entire course - important!
Course: Study PrepProg English for My International Studies and Career

This course has one larger learning task, which you will be working on all throughout the course. The dead-lines will be in [about 3 weeks before the end of the course], but start working on it already at the beginning of the course. All these topics (finding a job, working in a multicultural environment, writing a report, giving a presentation) will be covered during the course, so you can work on this task step by step (instead of leaving it all to the last week!)

The topic of the task is "Finland as a working environment."

Step 1: Find at least 3 people who are working in different workplaces in Finland. These workplaces can be anything - even your own workplace, if you are working - can be one of them, but they need to be three different workplaces. The people can be anybody, but it would be good if as many of them as possible have come to Finland as adults - but you can also include people who have lived in Finland their whole lives/have moved to Finland as children, if it is difficult to find people who have moved here as adults.

Step 2: Interview them about their job. Find out at least the following: How did they get the job? Where did they find out about it? What kind of education was needed? How about work experience? Any other skills they needed for the job? Have they enjoyed their job? What is their typical workday like - can they use their education in their work? How multicultural is their workplace - do they have different nationalities there? What languages do they need in their jobs? Have there been any cultural conflicts? Remember to take notes - maybe even recording the interview!

Step 3: Write a short, 800-1000 word, report about the interviews. You won't need any other sources besides the interview - you can, of course, refer to for example sources about multicultural communication - but you will need to be able to refer to the interviews in a suitable manner.  The dead-line for this part is [about 3 weeks before the end]

Step 4: Present your findings in a short oral presentation at the end of the course. The presentations will be given on [a week before the end of the course].