Single course
English for Working Life
After taking the course, you will have learned to write texts related to your future profession in an appropriate style
Content
The central contents of the course are:
• telling about your studies and looking for employment
• oral and written communication in working life, for example meetings, small talk, customer service, telephoning and emailing, and expressing your own opinion
• producing formal text, such as reports, instructions or summaries
• field-specific terminology
• presentations, workshops, group discussions
Objectives
In the course English for Working Life you will learn to operate in English in situations related to international working life.
You will also increase your self-confidence in speaking and writing in professional contexts. In addition, you will learn to follow the developments in your field locally and globally.
After taking the course, you will have learned to write texts related to your future profession in an appropriate style. You will also have gained confidence in spoken interaction and acquired vocabulary that will benefit you later in your career.
Communication and Team-working: You are able to function in a national and international context and you are able to cooperate with specialists in your own field as well as with other groups of professionals.
Implementation methods
This is an intensive online implementation in Moodle starting on May 4 and ending on June 10, 2026. Students are expected to work mostly independently according to the course schedule. There is one compulsory Zoom-meeting in the beginning of the course, on Mon 4 May from 13-14 o'clock. In addition, there's one, about 30-minute group meeting (online), during the latter half of the course; the group members are to schedule and record it themselves. There is a written exam at any ExamStudio at the end of the course.
If you enrol in this implementation, you should follow the instructions and deadlines in Moodle yourself. The final date for all assignment submissions is June 10, 2026. After that date, you cannot submit your assignments any more.
An online implementation is suitable for you if
- your language skills are sufficient to manage the given assignments independently
- you are able to schedule and manage your own work
- your ICT skills are sufficient (e.g. screen recordings and sharing them through a cloud service or some other third-party service)
Independent work, group discussions and written exam
Use of artificial intelligence in learning assignments is described in Jamk's Project Reporting Instructions. The student must always return their own, original document, where AI has not been applied.
Prerequisites
The course is on level B2 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. If the course Improve your English was recommended to you at the beginning of your studies, please take it before enrolling for English for Working Life.
In this course you will need the basic ICT-skills, such as word processing and creating audio and video files.
Additional information
The teaching language is English.
The course code is ZZ00CD00-3114 . Use the code to view the course schedule at https://lukkarit.peppi.jamk.fi.
Enrolling on open studies requires a Finnish personal identity number and strong identification.
Make a strong identification in the suomi.fi service or with HAKA credentials when You do the enrollment. Otherwise, you will need either a valid passport or an EU ID card with a chip (according to the ICAO 9303 E-MRTD standard). In this case, please contact help.jamk.fi
Please notice, that degree students in Jamk who have enrolled for attendance in are not eligible to enrol as Jamk Open UAS students (instead enrollment in Peppi).
Read more about enrollment and study fees: https://www.jamk.fi/en/apply-to-jamk/jamk-open-university-of-applied-sc…
Further Information concerning the enrollment: avoinamk@jamk.fi