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Intercultural Communication and Finnish in Social and Health Care IN23SP (5 cr)

Code: IN00BD02-3001

General information

Enrollment

01.08.2024 - 15.09.2024

Timing

02.09.2024 - 15.11.2024

Credits

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Teaching languages

  • English

Seats

0 - 40

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Sanna Heiskanen
  • Veronika Mysheva

Scheduling groups

  • R1/4 (Size: 8. Open UAS: 0.)
  • R2/4 (Size: 8. Open UAS: 0.)
  • R3/4 (Size: 8. Open UAS: 0.)
  • R4/4 (Size: 8. Open UAS: 0.)

Student groups

  • IN23SP
    Nursing

Education groups

  • R1/4
  • R2/4
  • R3/4
  • R4/4

Teaching methods

Encountering the client and guiding, mentoring and caring for him or her. Telling about the working environment and duties, other important interactions in a multicultural environment, studying the field-specific material in English and/or Finnish (foreign students),essential professional vocabulary. The concepts of culture and intercultural communication, cultural sensitivity, improving intercultural communication skills.

Evaluation is based on the final exam points:
50% = grade 1
60% = grade 2
70% = grade 3
80% = grade 4
90% = grade 5.

Alternative implementation methods

Participation in contact lessons, workshops, discussions and practice-based exercises. Accepted completion of oral and written assignments, passed exams. Including online studies. Contact lessons obligatory for foreign students. Simulations and skill labs are obligatory for everyone.

For Finnish students full RPL in English language according to passed exam result or complementary online studies. For Finnish students Easy language (EL, selkokieli) studies as independent online studies, knowledge shown in obligatory simulations.

For foreign students RPL of Finnish theory is possible if the course Finnish for nurses B2 is completed.

Student workload

1. Finnish language, 4 cr:
Lectures 36 h
Moodle-course 62 h
Final Exam 2 h + preparation 8 h

2. Intercultural communication, 1 cr
Theoretical lecture 2 h (integrated in Finnish studies)
Simulation 2 h (with Finnish students of Nursing)
Skill lab 2h (with Finnish students of Nursing)

Practical training and working life cooperation

Professional vocabulary and dialogues

Qualifications

Foreign students: Basics of Finnish 5 cr.

Materials

Finnish:
Sonja Gehring & Sanni Heinzmann, 2020. Suomen mestari 2 chapters 5-8.
Johanna Komppa, 2021. Hoitotyön suomea.
Moodle-course

Further information

The course grade does not affect the granting of the scholarship.