Register for the Language Centre courses included in your degree in Peppi through your PSP. The best way to see all the future implementations of the course, i.e. the groups, their schedules and additional information, is through the study guide. View the upcoming groups of the course through your degree structure or by using the search.
If several different groups are organised for a course included in your degree, enrol in the group that suits you best. As a rule, places are filled in the order of registration, group size on courses included in the degree max. 25 students.
Read the course description and additional implementation information before enrolling. Check the implementation schedule to ensure that the group is suitable for you.
Use Peppi, not Tuudo, for registration, so that course-specific information is displayed correctly.
Registration for Language Centre’s spring semester courses opens 1.12.2022. See our course selection in Peppi and sign up! As a rule, registration ends 10 days prior to starting date of each course.
Please remember to carefully read the implementation details before registration.
To see full course-specific details, please use Peppi for registration instead of Tuudo.
Places are generally filled in order of registration.
NB! In case you have started your studies before Autumn 2022 and the new curriculum 2022–2025, please remember to add the new equivalent courses to your personal study plan (PSP). Master’s students will find the equivalent courses here and Doctoral students here.
If you are new to Finnish language, start with our beginner’s course, Finnish 1A. Finnish 1A is a self-study module. Registration is open throughout the academic year, and you can start this course as soon as you register in Peppi. For all Finnish courses, see here.
Interested in learning more languages? The KiVANET network offers web-based language courses both for degree students and exchange students. A part of the courses is suited to students who do not speak Finnish. Registration period 1.12.2022–3.1.2023. Please see course selection and registration instructions on KiVANET webpages.
New narrative learning materials facilitate integration into Finnish society.
The University of Eastern Finland is reforming its provision of Finnish language education available to international students and staff. As of autumn 2022, learners can start their Finnish language studies already before arriving in Finland. The selection of courses has been expanded to cater to the needs of learners in the campus cities in Joensuu and Kuopio, as well as to the needs of learners taking courses remotely from abroad.
Studies in Finnish as a Second Language are nowadays included in nearly all Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees completed in English. According to Director Lauri Tolkki of the UEF Language Centre,the reform is a way for the university to strengthen the engagement of international experts with the region.
“In the past, it was sometimes difficult for people to get onto courses if their arrival in Finland was delayed. Now, learners can flexibly start building their language skills already before their other studies begin,” Tolkki says.
The learning materials used on Finnish language courses have also been renewed to form an entity that is both narrative and locally oriented. The characters appearing in the stories are in a similar phase of life and have similar everyday experiences as learners on the courses do. The learning materials that have been adapted to learners’ life situations create common ground and further facilitate integration. The stories are also a natural way to learn about everyday life in eastern Finland, about the campus cities, as well as about Finnish society and what working life in Finland is like.
“The reform has also enabled the development of more tailored solutions and materials for international members of the staff at the University of Eastern Finland. Similar narrative materials have previously been piloted, and further developed based on encouraging feedback, on courses aimed at European students in the YUFE Alliance, as well as on courses for university staff,” says Katri Niemi, University Teacher of Finnish.
The Language Centre offers studies in Finnish as a Second Language for complete beginners and up to level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Niemi and University Lecturer Tapio Hokkanen, who have been developing the new materials, are also delighted about a new colleague, Elina Heimala, joining the Language Centre.
“It is great to be part of an innovative team that develops Finnish language education from the viewpoint of learners’ needs and initial situations. In the end, the adoption of a language and a culture boil down to a strengthened feeling of inclusion and integration,” Heimala says.
The reform has been supported by the university’s strategic funding.
“We’ve also prepared a placement test to facilitate learners’ choice of courses, and we’re currently working on materials that offer a sneak peek into the Finnish language,” Hokkanen says.
New teaching arrangements will be tested this academic year and courses will be further developed based on experiences and feedback received.
For further information, please contact:
Lauri Tolkki, Director of Language Centre, University of Eastern Finland, lauri.tolkki@uef.fi, tel. +358 50 308 1799
If you are new to Finnish language, start with our beginner’s course, Finnish 1A. Finnish 1A is a MOOC-style self-study course and open for all international UEF students. Registration is open throughout the academic year, and you can start this course as soon as you register in Peppi. If you have studied Finnish before, check out our Finnish 1B–Finnish 4 courses to find a course suitable for your skill level!
KK00CK91 Suomi 1A / Finnish 1A: Introduction to the Finnish language, 2 ECTS
KK00CK92 Suomi 1B / Finnish 1B, 2 ECTS
KK00CK93 Suomi 2A / Finnish 2A, 2 ECTS
KK00CK94 Suomi 2B / Finnish 2 B, 2 ECTS
KK00CK95 Suomi 3 / Finnish 3, 4 ECTS (Autumn term 2022)
KK00CK96 Suomi 4 / Finnish 4, 4 ECTS (Spring term 2023)
For all course schedules and detailed descriptions, please see your PSP or study guide in Peppi. Students register for degree courses in Peppi through their personal study plan (PSP). Students may also register for courses that are not included in their PSP by searching these courses in Peppi. NB! Continuing students, please remember to update your PSP!
If you have any questions, please contact Finnish teacher Katri Niemi. Don’t hesitate to ask!
Students of the University of Eastern Finland have the opportunity to study optional language courses organised by Karelia and Savonia universities of applied science, and KiVANET network.
Courses for UEF students at Savonia and Karelia
Courses offered this Autumn are listed on Savonia and Karelia webpages. Registration for Savonia courses ends on 21st of August, registration periods for Karelia courses vary. Please note that most courses offered this Autumn are taught in Finnish. No RPL application is needed for Savonia and Karelia courses.
KiVANET
The KiVANET university network organises online courses in 10 different languages and in multilingual tandem learning in the autumn term of 2022. A part of the courses is suited to students who do not speak Finnish. These courses are open both for degree students as well as exchange students. Please see further details and registration instructions: www.kivanet.fi and Language Centre study community. Course selection will be updated on week 33. Registration period 26.8.–1.9.2022. Remember to transfer your KIVANET courses to your PSP!
Registration for Language Centre’s autumn semester courses opens on 1.8.2022 in Peppi (peppi.uef.fi).
If the course starts before 11.9.2022, registration ends two workdays before the course starts. If the course begins on 12.9.2022 or later in the first period, registration ends on Thu 8 September. For courses in the second period, registration ends 10 days before the course starts.
For degree students (Bachelor, Master and PhD), we offer degree courses in English and in Finnish as well as optional courses. For exchange students, we offer the courses Finnish 1A and Chinese 1. Exchange students can join other Finnish courses if there is room in the group. Both degree students and exchange students can choose courses from the KiVANET network.
If you are new to Finnish language, start with our beginner’s course, Finnish 1A. Finnish 1A is a self-study module. Registration is open throughout the academic year, and you can start this course as soon as you register in Peppi.
Students register for degree courses in Peppi through their personal study plan (PSP). Students may also register for courses that are not included in their PSP by searching these courses in Peppi.
NB! In case you have started your studies before Autumn 2022 and the new curriculum 2022–2025, please remember to add the new equivalent courses to your personal study plan (PSP).
For course catalogue and registration, see Peppi (peppi.uef.fi)
Pilot courses in Spanish and multilingual tandem language learning with English as the support language offered by the KiVAKO project in the spring of 2021. Courses, enrolment and instructions.
Language Centre continues offering online teaching throughout Spring semester 2021. Enrollment is open in WebOodi between 1 Dec 2020 and 6 Jan 2021. Course specific information can be found in WebOodi at the beginning of December.
Language Centre continues offering online teaching throughout autumn semester 2020. Enrollment is open in WebOodi between 1 Aug and 5 Sep. Course specific schedules can be found in WebOodi.
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