A New Offering of Elective Courses

In the autumn of 2007, the Synergy Group assigned a work group to revise JUA’s offering of elective studies. This was done because JUA is adopting new competence- and learning-based curricula and courses consisting of a minimum of 5 credits, in compliance with the ECTS.

The work group included the heads of various degree programmes and representatives of the student union. The group compiled a list of suggested elective courses based on the experiences of previous offerings and on new ideas provided by JUA’s schools. All the schools identified the courses on the list which they thought would best support students’ professional growth and “learning to learn”.

All the courses which were identified by at least two schools were included in the interdisciplinary, synergistically implemented palette of elective courses. This is one of the options which students have when choosing elective courses for their personal study plans. In addition, they can support their career plans with courses selected from the entire course offering of JUA (as long as schedules and other arrangements permit), the offering of the Online University of Applied Sciences or other university-level courses.

The following links provide further information:
Elective Studies
Course offering
Finnish Online University of Applied Sciences

Further information:
Mr Hannu Ikonen, Education Development Manager, 
+358 40 528 3762, firstname.lastname@jamk.fi, Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences