Study Guide

Objective

On the course, the student gets to know Turku University of Applied Sciences as an organisation and work community.
- The student gets to know his/her study group and TUAS as a work community.
- The student can tell about Turku University of Applied Sciences as a learning environment.
- The student can tell what is studied and how you study in the field in question.
- The student can tell about issues affecting the ability to study and the related practices

Higher education study skills
- The student can evaluate his/her activities as a student in higher education and recognise his/her development needs
- The student understands the importance of study skills for the ability to study and as a working life skill
- The student recognizes the disadvantages of prolonged problematic situations for his/her studies
- The student recognizes the significance of the evaluation of and reflection on his/her own activities (self-reflection skills) in higher education studies and in developing as an expert
- The student can act in study groups and teams, and promotes reaching the group's target
- The student recognizes the significance of community-orientation and joint rules in studies and working life
- The student can give and receive constructive feedback which also promotes learning
- The student gives feedback through the student barometre questionnaire
Progress in studies and the targeted study time
- The student is committed to target-oriented studying
Support services for students
- The student is familiar with the guidance and counselling services in UAS studies
- The student is familiar with the contents and structure of the curriculum of his/her degree programme
- The student understands what HOPS is and why it is created
- The student knows how to use Peppi
- The student knows the opportunities for the accreditation of studies and competence

Content

- cooperation skills and working in a team
- Student Union TUO
- getting to know different learning environments and tools premises, Messi, Itslearning, Peppi, email, course timetables, library
- the special qualities of higher education studies compared to upper secondary/vocational studies: e.g. the importance of planning the use of time, large amount of independent work
- the special qualities of the field of study, the structure of the degree programme, ISP i.e. the individual study plan
- guidance and counselling services, student benefits, health care, insurances

Higher education study skills
- The material related to study and working life skills in Messi, the study skills guides of other higher education institutions and other study skills material online
- Planning of time use and using a calendar
- Broaching a subject and getting help from different guidance actors
- Expertise – of which skills do the actions of an expert consist
- Group dynamic and teamwork skills
- A safe study environment, the rules and regulations of TUAS
- The rules of the study group, acting in a work and study community, acting in the worker role
- Students' ways and methods of giving and receiving feedback
- Practising feedback skills
Progress in studies and the targeted study time
- months of student financial aid
- right to be absent

Support services for students
Guidance and counselling services: tutor teacher, study guidance counsellor, study secretary, international relations coordinator, degree programme leader, head of education and research
Routes which support well-being: study counselling psychologist, students’ health care services (public health nurse, doctor's and psychologist's services), accessibility, reading proficiency tests
- Curriculum: core studies, professional studies, practical training and thesis and elective studies; how and based on what to select them
- Development discussions as a study and working life skill
- Creating and updating the HOPS
- knowledge on the tasks and basic skill requirements in the field
- internationalization opportunities, in the home country and abroad
- instructions on the accreditation of studies and competence and electronic services

Evaluation scale

H-5