Topic outline

  • Welcome to Academic learning skills course (2 cr)


    This is a first year mandatory course for Bachelor's Programme in Design -students.

    Course has 7 themes with teaching sessions and themed assignments. Please follow the instructions given by the teachers in the session.

    Responsible teachers are: Meri Karjalainen and Mari Partanen and teaching assistant Emma Johansson. Contact the teachers mainly through general discussion (below). Usually the things unclear to one student are the same ones everyone is thinking about.

    Workload and assignment schedule



    Zoom links for the spring:

    Lecture 4: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/63369118751

    Lecture 5: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/69115625937

    Lecture 6: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/68339346290

    Lecture 7: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/67060691923


    Make-up submission dates: May 31 at noon and August 31 at noon. If you have not completed the course, these are the two dates when you can still submit late assignments and receive the credits for the course. After these dates, you must re-take the course. Please note that the grades are registered within 4 weeks of the deadline date and if you have questions about the submission, you should contact us (Mari and Meri) well in advance, especially during summer as most staff are out of office during July. Submissions are to be made to the corresponding task's hand-in box under the topic's page.