Do you want to know how an undergraduate degree here in Finland? Me too
Our first experience was with the teachers in our classroom. They said that in undergraduate courses in universities of applied sciences students work with projects. And that teachers work in groups, as times.Confesso that was not enem and being easy to understand how this works. Also confess that between what we see in practice and what we were initially passed by our teachers, there is a distance. It is recorded that here are my impressions for 2 months experience, to me is very little, taking into account: the difficulties of the language (in my case my English .... "From Joel"); my difficulties with my training that is practically zero in pedagogy and more ...
Finally, I will explain more about my impressions of undergraduate courses here in HAMK University of Applied Sciences, which is the University where we are:
Indeed, there is a collective effort so that more and more courses are more project-based and content-less. this does not mean that this is implemented in all undergraduate courses and that all teachers work in groups as teams. Because, let's face it, even when dealing with Finns are a very disciplined, orderly and focused people ... we are "human, too human" and always work as a team is difficult here. Good, so I was curious how this works in practice and left wondering ... Oh my English .....But ... Finally, the opportunity appeared !!!! She always comes! Participated in an event called the "Winther Day". It was an event held by student travel Tourism HAMK- Sohvi Suonpää. Sohvi hosting this event as part of his "Thesis" course completion. I think that may be the correspondent here in TCC- Work Completion of course, some graduate courses in Brazil. The event we attended was a day where we perform various leisure activities that the Finns do here during the winter. Such as skiing, skating and fishing on the frozen lake.
 On the same day eat typical food and she also organized a competition between teams. Everything was very organized and fun. Included in the event was transportation, food rent equipment. Who organized it? The student! Who helped? his family and neighbors, to lower costs. It was an amazing experience !. I'll put some pictures here. But the most interesting was the knowledge that everything was part of the work completion for Sohvi. After all she has to submit all a written work and a seminar. Since part of the planning to the execution part and conclusions (she did a questionnaire with the group). I asked Sohvi that passed me a summary of how was your undergraduate degree and she sent me this file which is attached in the end of this post. And she very kind, allowed me to share here. After seeing the material and have talked to her, I come here I see that students are rather encouraged to do practical work. Each student chooses what to do and works for it. We also observed this same "modus operandi" in Evo HAMK University Campus, where the graduate and technical courses focused area of ​​Forestry. There there is a cooperative of students who had as revenue in 2011 6.000 Euros and in the year 2014 60.000 Euros. These students are guided by teachers and develop projects with companies. Good think by now it's just ... after more news will come ... Oh! also could not resist and put here some photos of the Evo campus, which lies between three beautiful lakes!
Remember ... take a look at Sohvi file on the course and everything. Sohvi, Kiitos!
The Sohvi text about Tourism Course at HAMK University:
"Tourism studies in Finland

-          University of applied science (more work based than normal univeristy)

-          takes 3 and half years to graduate

-          210 credit needed for total

-          usually one course is worth of 5 credits

-          courses are about hotels, conferences, air traffic, restaurant services, customer service, travel agencies,  language lessons (English & Swedish are compulsory and then you have chance to choose Spanish, French, Italy, German or Russian) and some business courses 

-          We are having opportunity to go to exchange. For one semester or whole year. Usually people stays for 6 months. It’s easiest to get exchange place from Europe but there is still chance to go to the America of Asia. (I spent one spring semester in Netherlands)

-          We need to do 5 months long internship. Usually people go to the hotels, restaurants or cruises. And it’s very rare to get paid for internship. So you need to work five months for free.

-          Last thing to do is to write final report “thesis”. It has to be more than 30 pages long and you can choose topic by your own. (I’m writing about event management and that’s why I planned winter event for Brazilians)

-          Tourism studies are free for charge.

-          Students gets 470€ from government every month for living.

-          After graduate tourism students usually starts working in hotels, airports, cruises, travel agencies or other companies who has something to do with travel & tourism.

-          One class has approx. 2o students (we have 2 classes so 40 students for one year)

-          We have mostly just lectures where we are listening teachers and then we need to write essays etc at home and end of the module we have exams. Sometimes we have group works and projects. 

-          Most of the courses are Finnish but last year we have some courses where teaching is on English and exchange students are with us."