Courses in English in the Academic Year 2009-2010

Schedule of Courses [.xls]

Autumn Semester (Sep-Dec)

L012742 Forest Management Planning 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students understand the basics of managing a forest estate and how forestry measures are planned. They can utilize the forest management plan as a tool for planning measures and in advisory tasks. Students know the inventory methods of forests and have the skills to compile a small-scale forest management plan.
Contents: Inventory systems of forests. Assessing the value of forest holding. Successions and forms of ownership at forest estates. Process of compiling forest management plans. The research of non-industrial private forest ownership.
Requirements: Examination and practical assignments.
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Ms Raili Hokajärvi
Timing: weeks 36-47
Degree programme: Agricultural and Rural Industries

L012764 Nature of Finland and Tourism 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students familiarize themselves with different forms of tourism and recreation. They know how to take everyman's rights and obligations into consideration in hiking and nature tourism. Students understand the potential of Finnish nature for tourism and its regional development. Students are able to assess the trampling tolerance of tourist areas. They understand the aspects of social sustainability associated with tourist areas.
Contents: Forms of tourism. Finland as a nature tourism country. Everyman’s rights and obligations in tourism. Nature and rural tourism as a livelihood. Trampling tolerance of nature and nature conservation in tourism. The social sustainability of tourism areas.
Requirements: Excursions, report and examination.
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Ms Anu Hilli
Timing: weeks 36-47
Degree programme: Agricultural and Rural Industries

L012300 State of the Environment and its Indicators 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students are able to observe, recognize and evaluate the changes occurring in the state of the environment.
Contents: The state of water, air, soil and forests. Follow-up and sampling techniques for assessing the state of waters and forests. Environmental chemicals.
Requirements: Laboratory work and reports, field practises, visits and examinations.
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Ms Outi Laurinen
Timing: weeks 36-51
Degree programme: Agricultural and Rural Industries

L016510 Floriculture 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students can identify most common greenhouse ornamental plants. Students are familiar with their cultivation methods, growth regulation and fertilization. They have the skills necessary to make production plans. Students understand the influence of cultivation systems to the quality and how to reduce the environmental load of greenhouse production. Students learn how to obtain information from domestic and foreign sources.
Contents: Greenhouse ornamental plants. Cultivation methods and growth regulation of most common cut flowers, potted plants and bedding plants. Fertilization of ornamental plants. Production planning. Environmental impacts of floriculture. Research and development.
Requirements: Examination and practical assignments.
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Mr Sami Talonen
Timing: weeks 40-51
Degree programme: Horticulture

L016310 Advanced Course in Vegetable Production 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students know the specific cultivation techniques of vegetable plants. Students can compose a cultivation plan and plan a production chain from the marketing point of view. Students advance their knowledge in the field of cultivation techniques, marketing and logistics. Students make economic calculations, evaluate and compare the share of fixed and variable costs in production.
Contents: Prospects of vegetable production. Potentials of crop timing. Production costs in vegetable production at various efficiency levels. Cultivation planning. Production planning on a vegetable farm. Organic vegetable production.
Requirements: Exam, cultivation and production plans including calculations of productivity
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Mr Jari Känninen
Timing: weeks 33-43
Degree programme: Horticulture

L001060 English for Profession 3 ECTS credits

Objectives: Student manages in English language in oral communication situations related to his profession. He is able to seek information related to his work from English sources and he is able to produce written material in English related to his work.
Contents: Meetings and negotiations Giving advice and guiding Texts about student’s future profession Oral presentations about student’s future profession.
Requirements: Active participation in oral exercises, written and oral tasks, exam.
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Ms Merja O´Rourke
Timing: weeks 40-51
Degree programme: Agricultural and Rural Industries, Horticulture, Landscape Planning

L014330 Design Course: Public Areas 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students are familiar with the principles and practices of planning public areas. Students acquire skills to compose landscape plans and designs for public areas.
Contents: Planning and construction of public green spaces such as parks, road areas, and squares as well as the surroundings of public buildings. Green space systems and green space programs. Regulations and statutes in planning of public areas. Survey and analysis of the site. Consideration of townscape and aesthetics in planning. Use of plants in public areas. Municipal engineering of public areas.
Requirements: Seminars, examination and practical assignment.
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Ms Pirjo Siipola
Timing: 3 ECTS in the autumn, 2 ECTS in the spring, weeks 44-5
Degree programme: Landscape Planning

L014380 Advanced Course in Landscaping Plants 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students expand their identification skills of landscaping plants and receive detailed information on their features and use.
Contents: The ecology and uses of wild and cultivated woody plants as well as herbaceous perennial plants in Finland. The most common plant diseases and pests in Finland.
Requirements: Exam and exercises
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Mr Pentti Hanhela
Timing: 2 ECTS in the autumn, 3 ECTS in the spring
Degree programme: Landscape Planning

L012702 Animal Breeding 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students understand the genetic background of inheritance and are aware of the possibilities of genetic engineering. They familiarize themselves with the present goals of livestock breeding, the estimation of breeding values and the structure of breeding programs. They are able to assess the effects of different procedures. They are provided with the knowledge and skills necessary for making farm level animal selection and working up a breeding plan.
Contents: Genetics and genetic engineering. Principles of quantitative genetics and selection. Breeding values. Breeding programs. Breeding plan.
Requirements: Written exam. Breeding plan.
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Mr Matti Järvi
Timing: weeks 36-51
Degree programme: Agricultural and Rural Industries

Spring Semester (Jan-June)

L012080 Sustainable Production 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students understand the principles of sustainable agriculture and forestry. Students develop their abilities to select and promote production and working methods that preserve the nature. They have knowledge of the development of this sector and can follow the research and development in this field.
Contents: Criteria of sustainable agriculture and forestry. Environmentally friendly and Best available techniques in agriculture and forestry. Environmental legislation. Research and development in the field of sustainable agriculture and forestry.
Requirements: Practical assignments, projects and examination.
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Ms Kaija Karhunen
Timing: weeks 6-17
Degree programme: Agricultural and Rural Industries

L012763 Nature and Rural Tourism 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students familiarize themselves with the different forms of nature and rural tourism and understand their meaning as source of livelihood. Students acquaint themselves with the planning of nature tourism services and products as well as with the environmental and legislative issues concerning tourism. Students deepen their knowledge of marketing and cost accounting and acquire the skills needed to act as an entrepreneur in nature tourism.
Contents: Nature tourism and rural tourism and their importance as a livelihood. Planning of nature tourism services and products. Tourism and the environment. Cost accounting and marketing.
Requirements: Practical assignment and examination
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Ms Anu Hilli
Timing: weeks 5-17
Degree programme: Agricultural and Rural Industries

L012783 Harvesting and Uses of Energy Wood 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students are familiar with the possibilities and alternatives in energy wood production and use. They recognize the potential sites for energy wood and are able to evaluate the profitability of producing energy wood. Students can plan the supply chain of energy wood. Furthermore, they can make a budget and dimensioning for a small-scale heating plant. Students are aware of the various possibilities to develop the production and uses of energy wood in Finland. They can follow the research and development in this field.
Contents: Energy wood and the energy system. Energy properties of wood, classification of energy derived from wood and quality requirements of energy wood. Assessment of the yield of energy wood. Production and harvesting of energy wood. Wood chips and firewood production. Use of wood in producing electricity and heat, and technical production alternatives. Dimensioning and budget planning for a small-scale heating plant. Markets for energy wood. Research and development in this field.
Requirements: Planning of energy wood procurement. Planning a small-scale heating plant and the presentation of the plan, field trips and examination.
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Mr Tuomo Pesola
Timing: weeks 11-22
Degree programme: Agricultural and Rural Industries

L014340 Forest and Landscape 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students understand the importance and the values of forests for forestry and landscape management. Students know the classifications of forests and urban woodlands. They acquaint themselves with the ecological and economical aspects of forestry as well as with the silvicultural methods from the perspective of nature conservation and landscaping.
Contents: Multiple values of forest. The meaning of forest in landscape. Concepts and classifications of forestry and urban woodlands. Silviculture in commercial and urban forests.
Requirements: Examination and practical assignment
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Ms Anu Hilli
Timing: weeks 11-22
Degree programme: Landscape Planning/p>

L014002 Northern Vegetation and Nature Conservation 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students understand the importance of biodiversity in landscape planning. They learn to produce vegetation and landscape tolerance maps necessary for land use and landscape planning.
Contents: Nature Conservation and Forest Acts of Finland. Vegetation types and Flora of Finland. The trampling tolerance of vegetation. Nature protection and biodiversity. Key biotopes. Endangered and protected plant species. Types of conservation areas of Finland, Natura 2000.
Requirements: Exam and plant identification test
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Mr Pentti Hanhela
Timing: weeks 14-22
Degree programme: Landscape Planning

L014410 Special Materials in Landscape Construction 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students know the possibilities of the uses of natural materials such as willow, peat, snow and ice in landscape construction. They have the skills to design, implement and maintain structures and environmental art works made of these materials.
Contents: The use and maintenance of natural materials such as willow, peat, snow and ice in landscape construction. Properties of the materials. Construction techniques. Maintenance of structures.
Requirements: Examination and attendance in two workshops implementing landscape structures
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Mr Pirjo Siipola
Timing: weeks 2-22
Degree programme: Landscape Planning

L016430 Horticultural Trade 5 ECTS credits

Objectives: Students acquaint themselves with the wholesale and retail of horticultural products in Finland and elsewhere. Students know the main aspects of horticultural product trade legislation.
Contents: Various types of horticultural trade. International trade. Knowledge of horticultural products. Horticultural product trade legislation. Price formation. Sales promotion and customer service.
Requirements: Practical assignments and exam.
Literature: To be agreed on later
Staff: Mr Jari Känninen
Timing: weeks 15-20
Degree programme: Horticulture

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