Svenska för Maskiningenjörer (Swedish Course) (2 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

You are able to operate in your field in Swedish in the Nordic countries. You understand the importance of language skills as a part of your professional skills. You are able to communicate in oral and written working life communication situations in Swedish. You improve your skills in professional vocabulary, understand professional texts in your field and are able to write written reports and give oral presentations in Swedish.

Content

- Knowing Nordic companies and working life cultures
- Giving company and product presentations
- Acting as a member and a chair of a meeting and writing meeting documents
- Professional vocabulary, professional texts and professional use of them

Location and time

Contact teaching 25.8-31.10.2025, Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Wärtsilä House

Materials

Tolkki,J, Öhman M. Perspective, Swedish for University Students. SanomaPro 2016. ISBN 978-052-63-4187-3 authentic material in your field and other online material in Moodle.

Teaching methods

This course is the second course included in your degree. During the course, you will deepen your professional Swedish language skills in your own field and strengthen your oral and written communication skills in working life. In addition, you will familiarise yourself with Nordic business life and work culture.

Course topics:

- You are studying content in your own field in Swedish
- You will get to know the media in your own field in Swedish
- You will learn how to present a Nordic company in your field and its products or services, for example, at a trade fair
- You will learn to understand and use the passive voice and participles in professional texts in your own field
- You will get to know the Nordic business life and working life culture

Educational methods:
- Face-to-face teaching
- Written and oral exercises
- Pair and group work, independent work

Exam schedules

Exam dates:

Make sure that you have completed all the exercises that need to be returned before the exams. You can find the schedules in the course schedule

You can find the times of the exams in the group-specific schedule of the course. The teacher presents the schedule at the first meeting. You can also find the test area and schedule of the written exam in Moodle in the section Written exam and the oral exam schedule under Oral exam. The written exam is taken before the oral exam.

Retaking exams

If you do not pass your exam, you can retake the exam twice as soon as possible after retaking the course. The written exam is repeated in the Exam exam aquarium. The retake of the oral exam is agreed upon with the teacher.

Completion alternatives

If you have completed a corresponding course earlier, you can start the course by completing the written exam of the course in the Exam exam aquarium.

Student workload

Contact lessons20 h
Group work, learning assignments and independent information retrieval 34 h
Evaluation and feedback 1h

Further information

Complete the Social Contacts course before this course.

When you have successfully completed both the Social Contacts and Swedish for Mechanical Engineering courses, you will receive a note in Peppi for passing the oral and written Swedish for civil servants.

If your grade is 1-3, then the assessment is satisfactory skills (2)
If your grade is 4-5, the assessment is good skills (4)