Title: Study Instructions and Assessment
Course: Study PrepProg English for Engineering > Section: General

Here are instructions for studying in the course and a description of how assessment is carried out.

Study Instructions

This course consists of 11 weeks of studies (including holiday weeks). Each study week has two online meeting as well as independent materials to be studied and tasks to do in Moodle. In order to get the most out of the course, both online meetings and independent materials need to be studied - just taking part in the online meetings or just studying the materials will not give you the skills the course aims at.

To see the tasks and materials, see the content tabs on the front page of the course.

The idea is to study one topic at the time. The online meetings and the materials support each other.

For more detailed schedule about the topics, see the Schedule page.

Be active! Taking part in the online meetings is an important part studying, as languages can only be learned by using them. As the online meetings consist of discussions and active participation from the students, they will not be recorded - the online meetings are not lectures but interactive communication situations. This is not a self-study course!

Assessment

The assessment is based on tasks that the student must complete in order to pass the course. In addition to this, participation in online meetings is also assessed.

This course has 4 learning tasks that are designed to support your learning process and help you achieve the learning outcomes of this course. The learning tasks are assessed as follows:

Assessment (grade 1-5)

1. Essay (Finnish innovations)

2. Process description (video)

3. Sustainability in the engineering field (challenges & solutions)

4. Presentation (spoken and written)

Presence 60%, active participating

Successful passing of the course requires completing all learning tasks with passing grades and being present in at least 60% of the online meetings.