Introduction to the Baltic Sea (4 cr)
Code: 5100BI69-3005
General information
- Enrollment
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01.06.2025 - 01.09.2025
Registration for introductions has not started yet.
- Timing
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01.09.2025 - 25.11.2025
The implementation has not yet started.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 4 cr
- Local portion
- 0 cr
- Virtual portion
- 4 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Distance learning
- Unit
- Engineering and Business
- Campus
- Kupittaa Campus
- Teaching languages
- English
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Technology
- Teachers
- Hannamaria Yliruusi
- Raisa Kääriä
- Anu Vehmaa
- Course
- 5100BI69
Evaluation scale
H-5
Content scheduling
The course is an online course in Itslearning.
It begins on the 2nd of September and ends on the 25.11.2025
It is a mostly automated course with no face to face teaching.
It consists of eight parts: Geography, Blue Bio economy, Oceanography, Ecosystem, Eutrophication, Marine litter and Hazardous substances and Organisations.
Introduction to the course is on the 2.9. with Zoom.
There is also a compulsory online discussion on the 25.11. with Zoom.
Objective
The student knows the basic characteristics of the Baltic sea and has a basic understanding of the environmental problems and their solutions.
Materials
in itslearning
Teaching methods
Independent learning, the student gets points from the tasks and quizzes. There is a timetable for the course and each part has to be done by its deadline. There is one compulsory task, which consists of an online discussion on the 25.11. and the pretask for the discussion and a mindmap done in the discussion group..
Exam schedules
No final exam, the assessment is based on assignments and is explained in the itslearning platform.
International connections
The course introduces different sustainability views of the Baltic Sea.
Protection of the Baltic Sea demands international co-operation, of which we learn.
Course also adresses socioeconomic topics.
Student workload
In itslearning - learning platform
Further information
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