TLÜ ÕIS

Studying at the University

Course code

YKI6001.YK

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Õppimine kõrgkoolis

Course title in English

Studying at the University

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

assessment

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2025/2026 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Course covers the following topics:
- Study skills, strategies and styles. Planning, time management, preparing
for exams etc.
- Oral and written expression, academic writing. Types of academic texts,
critical reading, note taking, performing and presenting. Referencing and
formulating documents.
- Information seeking and using. Recognising the need for information,
process of seeking and using suitable information.
- Entrepreneurship, proactivity and planning. Innovation and creativity
techniques, stress management.
- Introduction to the subject. Career planning and management, goal setting
and evaluation, entering the job market.
- Digital competences. Using different e-environments and resources.
Reading, writing, presenting, clouds, social media etc.

Brief description of the course

The following topics are covered within this course:
- basic knowledge and skills to start one’s studies at the university – important regulations (e.g. study regulations), rules and e-environments used in teaching and learning (Moodle, SIS and ASIO);
- learning skills: learning styles and strategies, planning of learning, time management, self-management, preparing for exams and pass-fail assessments.
- Introduction to the speciality: general specificity of social sciences, a short overview of the speciality to be studied, career planning and management, setting of targets and self-analysis, a short introduction to professional traineeship and career possibilities.
- Nature of academic text, structural elements, skills to distinguish an academic text from an ordinary text and critical assessment of the quality of sources (incl. web sources) from the point of view of research work.
- Information search, sources and technologies: recognizing and determining the need for information, the process of information search, strategies and tactics. Databases, formulation of an information request, searching techniques, determining, finding and choosing suitable information sources.
- Functional reading of academic texts, abstracting versus quoting, principles of referencing and formalizing reference items, concept of plagiarism and ethics of research work.
- Critical reading of academic texts, structure of academic arguments and the principles of compilation, distinguishing arguments from unsubstantiated claims and opinions.
- Genres of student research papers (essay, abstract, research paper), rules for drafting and compulsory structural elements (e.g. how to write and structure an introduction, chapters and a summary), basic rules for drafting written papers.
- Oral and written communication skills.
- Digital competencies.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- is able to create study strategies using different techniques;
- is able to create correctly formulated and cited academic text;
- knows different creativity, innovation, stress and process management techniques and can use them;
- is able to use the methods for critical thinking, reading and writing and analyse arguments and present one’s own logic;
- is able to plan one’s own career and analyse one’s choices;
- understands and uses the most important environments and programmes for one’s studies.

Teacher

Instituudi õppejõud

Study programmes containing that course