Curriculum for 2020
On this page you can browse through the Aalto University Summer School curriculum for summer 2020. These courses were held mostly online due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We are eagerly looking forward to announcing our new summer courses and programs for 2021!
Arts
Health and Wellbeing Architecture Summer Intensive 2020 (Online)
The Health and Wellbeing Architecture Summer Intensive offers graduate students, doctoral students, practicing architects, healthcare planners, healthcare practitioners and international guests an opportunity to come together and deepen their competencies in the field of design for health and wellbeing.
Business
Information Technology Program (ITP) Summer Minor 2021
Complete 24 ECTS over the summer, solve real-life digital business challenges, and gain a unique skillset in information technologies, digital platforms or service design. Aalto ITP is an international and multi-disciplinary summer program taught at the School of Business.
Liiketoiminta
Date
25 May – 28 August 2020
Application period
7th of January - 3rd of April 2020
Level
Graduate
Credits
24 ects (30 ects)
Fees
Tuition fee students: 2900€
Aalto and nominated students: 0€
Description
Aalto University Information Technology program brings students from diverse backgrounds and all around the world for the summer to solve digital business problems.
During the program students join of three specialisation tracks to deepen your understanding of information technologies, service design or digital platforms. Each track includes three courses and a business project.
The 3 month long business project is the core of the program. During the project students get to create solutions to a digitalisation related business problem and showcase what they have learned. The projects are supported by ITP faculty
Course website
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Date
June 29 - July 10, 2020
Application period
January 10 - April 17, 2020
Level
Graduate
Credits
6 ects
Fees
Tuition fee students: 1200€ tuition fee + 480€ service fee
Nominated students: 480€ service fee
Aalto students may incur fees from social events
Description
Digital Business Master Class is an interactive and fast-paced graduate-level course (6 ECTS) focusing on digital technologies as tools for building businesses. During the Master Class, we learn how companies transform their processes and systems by implementing digital technologies.
During the intense 2 weeks, we build a project, planning a digital solution for a real-life company problem. Concepts covered include mobile and social technologies, service design, data analytics, platforms and ecosystems, business models, working in virtual teams and project management frameworks.
In addition to on-site learning, the course includes pre- and post-work periods. We learn in virtual, classroom, teamwork and corporate environments.
Course website
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Engineering
5G Hack the Mall
Learn the basics about 5G and its use cases such as basic principles in 5G including the current state of 5G markets, mobile communications system, networks and Radio Access, 5G and AI, Cyber Security as well as the main verticals: IoT, XR and Autonomous cars and short overview to 6G.
Aalto University Summer School on Transportation - EIT Urban Mobility Edition
We offer an intensive learning period for professionals and graduate students in the field of transportation and urban planning, including online lectures and innovation workshops.
A! Water Treatment Summer Course
A! Water treatment summer course focuses on advanced drinking water treatment technologies.
Tekniikka
Date
24 August 2020 – 29 August 2020
Application period
Application details can be found on the course website www.aalto.fi/en/events/aalto-university-summer-school-on-transportation.
Level
Graduate, Doctoral
Credits
3 ects
Fees
Fees range from 50€ to 900€. See website for details.
Description
Aalto University Summer School on Transportation (ASTRA) offers innovative and practical approaches to understand and solve timely transport problems in both developed and developing countries. The school presents an intensive learning experience for transport professionals and graduate students of varying backgrounds.The theme of the Aalto University Summer School on Transportation emphasizes value-driven approach in re-imagining our future urban mobility systems, while taking into account larger societal trends of automation and digitalization. Underlying Nordic values such as social justice, citizen well-being, and trust in institutions, the focus will be on emerging mobility technologies and services. Activities during summer school include lectures, workshops and a site visit, focused on various aspects of planning and policy, including technological trends and variety of quantitative and qualitative methods.
Course website
Summer School on Transportation 2020
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Date
1 June - 5 June, 2020
Application period
17 February - 26 April 2020
Level
Doctoral (MSc students in final stages of studies and lifelong learners also welcome)
Credits
3 ects
Fees
Tuition fee students: 600€
Aalto and nominated students: 0€
Description
A! Water treatment summer course focuses on advanced drinking water treatment technologies. The course themes include new materials such as selective adsorbents in adsorption process, membrane technology and ion exchange reactors in practice, and advanced oxidation. The course is based on half-day lectures by the experts of the field, laboratory exercises, a final project presentation on the state-of-the-art, and an excursion to drinking water treatment plant. Aalto doctoral candidates researching the course themes give a short talk about their research. We practice interactive discussions, group work and reflection skills. The course provides a great platform for sharing experiences and networking with the experts and other doctoral candidates in the field. Prof. Julie Beth Zimmerman from Yale University and drinking water specialists in practice form Sweden and Finland will be among course guest teachers.
Course website
A! Water Treatment Summer Course
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Date
June 1 - June 12, 2020
Application period
Application period for this course has ended. Thank you for your interest!
Level
High school, Undergraduate
Fees
The course is free for participants.
Description
Students will learn the basics about 5G and its use cases such as basic principles in 5G including the current state of 5G markets, mobile communications system, networks and Radio Access, 5G and AI, Cyber Security as well as the main verticals: IoT, XR and Autonomous cars and short overview to 6G.
Additionally, the course aims to promote communications and group work, with students realising and reporting teamwork projects within the scopes of 5G use case areas, ranging from visionary studies to building of practical demonstration prototypes. The groups mix students from different backgrounds according to separate instructions. At the end of the course the groups document and present their project results.
Course website
www.aalto.fi/en/events/5g-hack-the-mall
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Entrepreneurship
Aalto Ventures Program entrepreneurship summer course (Online)
Learn to create immersive experiences in a multidisciplinary team of international students, working online but together towards a sustainable future.
Yrittäjyys
Date
3 August 2020 – 21 August 2020
Application period
Application period for this course has ended. Thank you for your interest!
Level
Undergraduate & Graduate
Credits
8 ects
Fees
Tuition fee: 1900€-2500€
Check course website for further details
Description
In this course, students will work as a small start-up team aiming to create a unique experience for customers. In order to do so, students will experience the iterative design thinking process starting from crazy ideas to the value creation for the customers. The course is based on the Design Thinking methodology: empathizing with the users, defining their needs, ideating innovative solutions, prototyping the solutions and finally testing them.
The course will give a sense of real-time simulator to be a startup or design team developing such a product as a multidimensional experience. During the course, students will create an experience that has at least three dimensions: digital, physical and social.
Course website
Creating Multidimensional Experiences 2020
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Language Centre
Writing Doctoral Research for Technology (3 ECTS)
During the course, students work to improve their writing as they apply skills and techniques introduced in the course.
Writing in Art, Design & Architecture (3 ECTS)
Develop your skills in producing texts related to art, design and architecture
Talking Art, Design & Architecture (3 ECTS)
Develop your skills in spoken interaction that is related to the context of art, design and architecture.
Finnish 1 (3 ECTS)
Learn the basics of Finnish
Get to Know Finland (1 ECTS)
Learn the main characteristics of the Finnish way of life and culture, and are able to talk about them as well as have basic knowledge about Finnish nature, history and society.
Courses in Finnish
Kesäbuusti
Kesäbuusti on Aalto Ventures Programin suomenkielinen kesäkurssi, joka koostuu kymmenestä online-tapaamisesta ja jonka voi suorittaa kolmen tai viiden opintopisteen laajuisena.
Online
Level
Bachelors
Credits
2 ects
Fees
The course is free for participants
Description
Starting Up is an introductory level course about the central features of founding and running a startup company. The course is targeted for all students who want to learn more about the topic, regardless of their background and experience.
The course will provide the student with an understanding of the basics of entrepreneurship. To facilitate the thinking of starting a business, the students will sketch their own “Not-a-Business-Plan” – an outline of what their own business could look like by applying the tools presented in the course.
Course Website
Date
3.8.2020 - 3.9.2020
Application period
Application period for this course has ended. Thank you for your interest!
Level
Bachelors
Credits
1 ects
Fees
Tuition fee students: 200€
Aalto and nominated students: 0€
Description
This course introduces written communication and readability principles applicable to professional and academic purposes. During this online-based course, students independently view instructional videos or reading materials and complete online exercises to practice the topics covered in the course:
• General principles of communication: audience, purpose and form
• The given-new principle
• The light-before-heavy principle
• Style and word choice
• Use of active verbs
• Use of commas
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Date
06.08.2020 - 11.09.2020
Application period
Application period for this course has ended. Thank you for your interest!
Level
Bachelors
Credits
2 ects
Fees
Tuition fee students: 400€
Aalto and nominated students: 0€
Description
This course applies a process approach to learning, in which students plan, prepare, practise and deliver an informative presentation on a topic from their own fields of study. Students start out by analysing their background and experiences as presenters and users of English in order to establish personal goals and areas of development. Students watch and analyse presentations in order to discuss elements of effective presentations. Students plan their talk for academic, non-expert audiences by creating an outline, including the introduction, body, and conclusion as well as transitions. Students familiarise themselves with principles of effective slide design and apply these to their own presentation. Students practise their presentation in small groups and give each other constructive feedback. Based on this process, they create a final version of the talk.
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Date
03.08.2020 - 06.09.2020
Application period
Application period for this course has ended. Thank you for your interest!
Level
Bachelors
Credits
2 ects
Fees
Tuition fee students: 400€
Aalto and nominated students: 0€
Description
This course applies a process approach to learning, in which students plan, prepare, practise and deliver an informative presentation on a topic from their own fields of study. Students start out by analysing their background and experiences as presenters and users of English in order to establish personal goals and areas of development. Students watch and analyse presentations in order to discuss elements of effective presentations. Students plan their talk for academic, non-expert audiences by creating an outline, including the introduction, body, and conclusion as well as transitions. Students familiarise themselves with principles of effective slide design and apply these to their own presentation. Students practise their presentation in small groups and give each other constructive feedback. Based on this process, they create a final version of the talk.
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Date
03.08.2020 - 28.08.2020
Application period
Application period for this course has ended. Thank you for your interest!
Level
Bachelors
Credits
1 ects
Fees
Tuition fee students: 600€
Aalto and nominated students: 0€
Description
The Online Preparatory English: Reading and Writing course focuses on key elements of academic English required for writing essays and completing written tasks at the undergraduate level. It covers a range of topics including avoiding plagiarism, academic vocabulary, academic grammar, and various writing structures. Its online activities promote independent, flexible learning and include self-checked, peer-reviewed, and tutor-assessed learning tasks culminating in the production of a short academic essay. During the course, the students learn to identify and select appropriate academic vocabulary, such as using reported speech verbs, and also to exercise greater control of key tenses by recognising the need for tense shifts. Furthermore, students will acquire important skills in avoiding plagiarism (e.g. paraphrasing, summarising, and referencing) and utilise suitable organisational structures when writing essays for different purposes (e.g. cause and effect and problem-solution). Overall, this course will support students in gaining an insight into academic style in accordance with the formal requirements of university study.
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Date
30.07.2020 - 06.09.2020
Application period
Application period for this course has ended. Thank you for your interest!
Level
Bachelors
Credits
1 ects
Fees
Tuition fee students: 200€
Aalto and nominated students: 0€
Description
This course applies a process approach to learning, in which students plan, prepare, practise and deliver a persuasive type of presentation, an elevator pitch, on a topic from their own field of study. Students begin by analysing their background and experiences as presenters and users of English in order to establish personal goals and areas of development. They also watch and analyse elevator pitches in order to apply elements of effective presenting to pitching. This is done by creating an outline, including the introduction, body, and conclusion as well as transitions. The talk is aimed This course applies a process approach to learning, in which students plan, prepare, practise and deliver a persuasive type of presentation, an elevator pitch, on a topic from their own field of study. Students begin by analysing their background and experiences as presenters and users of English in order to establish personal goals and areas of development. They also watch and analyse elevator pitches in order to apply elements of effective presenting to pitching. This is done by creating an outline, including the introduction, body, and conclusion as well as transitions. The talk is aimed at non-expert audiences of a client or funding organisation. Students practise their pitch in small groups and give and receive constructive feedback from each other and the instructor. Based on this process, they create a final version of the pitch.
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Date
03.08.2020 - 04.09.2020
Application period
Application period for this course has ended. Thank you for your interest!
Level
Bachelors
Credits
2 ects
Fees
Tuition fee students: 400€
Aalto and nominated students: 0€
Description
This course applies a process approach to learning, in which students plan, prepare, practise and deliver an informative presentation on a topic from their own fields of study. Students start out by analysing their background and experiences as presenters and users of English in order to establish personal goals and areas of development. Students watch and analyse presentations in order to discuss elements of effective presentations. Students plan their talk for academic, non-expert audiences by creating an outline, including the introduction, body, and conclusion as well as transitions. Students familiarise themselves with principles of effective slide design and apply these to their own presentation. Students practise their presentation in small groups and give each other constructive feedback. Based on this process, they create a final version of the talk.
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