Plan

ULapland offers a wide variety of courses in English eventhough the main language of teaching is Finnish. For the convenience of the exchange students, the Faculties and the Language Centre compiles summaries of the courses offered in English.

1. Get acquainted with ULapland study offer in English and prepare a study plan

• Consult our course overview and discuss your choices with your home coordinator.
• Choose the courses you wish to take during your exchange stay at ULapland.
• We recommend applying for some extra courses, in case some courses are not available or doable. Sometimes timetables of the chosen courses might overlap or you might not be qualified for a certain course.
  
• ULapland requires minimum 25 ECTS credits of studies per semester unless otherwise agreed with the student’s home institution.
  

The study offer is usually published in April for the upcoming academic year (2023/24) and will be uploaded in this section when ready. The timetables will be available in the beginning of August in Peppi. If you are planning your studies before the study offer is published - don't worry, just orient with the previous year's study offer. It seldom changes radically. 

Peppi Study Guide - coures for exchange students

Faculty of Art and Design - studies in English 2022-2023 in the next section on the right)

Social Sciences  - Studies in English 2022-2023
*  click the blue button SHOW TIMING AS ACADEMIC YEARS and change it to SHOW TIMING AS SEMESTERS
*  1a = autumn semester, 1s = spring semester. If both semesters are ticked, the course is offered twice in the academic year.
*  book exams = independent study based on informed and agreed literature in the course description, and completion of assignment.
*  suggestions for composing the study plan

Faculty of Law - Studies in English

Faculty of Education -Studies in English

Language Centre - Studies in English 2022 - 2023

You may choose courses also from the following studies:

Arctic Studies Program - see Faculty of Social Sciences
China Domestic, Global and Arctic Trajectories - see Faculty of Social Sciences
Gender Studies - see Faculty of Education
Global Education - see Faculty of Education
Intercultural Communication - See Language Centre
Languages and Cultures - See Language Centre
Research Methodology - Faculty of Social Sciences

In addition ULapland exchange students may also choose courses from the Finnish universities collaboration networks

UniPID - Finnish University Partnership for International Development (the course offer is being updated)
https://www.unipid.fi/students/virtual-studies/

Hilma - Network for Gender Studies
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/hilma-verkosto/in-english/courses-in-english/

About Art and Design studies

In the Faculty of Art and Design following fields of study are open to exchange students:

Art Education (focus on Community, Art and Environment Studies)
Audiovisual Media Culture
Fashion, Textile Art and Material Studies
Graphic Design (only autumn semester)
Industrial Design

We ask you to choose the most suitable one for you. Based on your choice of study field you can create your Study Plan for Learning Agreement.

Read more >

Following courses from the Faculty of Art and Design are open to students from all faculties

UART1105 Introduction to Service Design 5 cr.
UART1103 Art and Visual Culture in the North 3 cr.

Completing your Learning Agreement
As part of the application process you need to prepare a learning agreement (LA). LA is needed to make sure that your planned studies are based on the ULapland study offer and that they are accepted by your home university.

Non-Erasmus+ students
Learning Agreement form is available on our webpage application information for students (www.ulapland.fi/exchange section 6).
You can use our or your university’s own LA form.

Erasmus+ students
ULapland endorses Erasmus+ Online Learning Agreement and Erasmus+ Mobile App applications. During the transition period, we accept learning agreements both via OLA or as printed versions. In both cases the student has to upload PDF -version of the LA in her/his application in Solemove, our mobility application tool.  

Online Learning Agreement
•    allows the Learning Agreement to be prepared online
•    is shared with both the home and host universities and is signed electronically

ULapland OLA information
In your application please choose a code from the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) list
Country “Finland”
Host institute “UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND”
Add the faculty/unit: Your faculty at ULapland ( Art & Design, Education, Law or Social Sciences)
Contact person: Jani Suokanerva (EDU & LAW) / Virpi Nurmela (ART & SOC)
Email incoming@ulapland.fi
Phone: +358 40 484 4496

International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) codes

0110 Education
0113 Teacher training without subject specialization
0114 Teacher training with subject specialization
0210 Art Education, Audiovisual Media Culture, Fine Art
0212 Design (Graphic, Industrial, Interior and Textile)
0230 Languages
0310 Social Sciences
0312 Political Sciences
0313 Psychology
0314 Sociology and cultural studies
0411 Accounting
0413 Management and administration
0414 Marketing and advertising

0923 Social Work

0421 Law
1015 Tourism Research

0319 Arctic Studies Programme