Time: You can start your studies within a week after enrolment. The estimeted time to complete this course is two months. Please note! The course opens and you can start your studies 31 August 2026!
Please note that lecturers will not provide guidance or assess courses between 21 December and 11 August 2026.
Place: Online studies
Scope: 2 ECTS credits
Target group: Everyone interested in the topic
This course is completed independently online on Learn digital learning environment.
Please notice that only students with a Finnish social security number (i.e. a personal identity code) can start their studies on Xamk Pulse’s courses. You can read more here.
Credited in degree at Xamk: All bachelor level degrees
Area of competence mentioned in Curriculum: Optional studies
Enrolment by 28 March 2027, when there are 2 months left to complete the course.
Fee: Free of charge
You can enroll for Open UAS studies for a maximum of 50 credits per semester. Enrolments that exceed 50 credits will be removed in the order of enrolments.
Xamk’s degree students who are present or absent cannot enroll for Xamk Pulse’s courses. Enrolments by Xamk’s degree students will be removed without separate notification.
Learning outcomes:
The aim of this course is to promote students’ study ability and wellbeing. The course offers tools to support learning, coping and wellbeing.
After the course
- you have learned studying techniques that suit you,
- you can make choices that support wellbeing and resilience in your daily life,
- you have learned different ways to relax, and various skills to deal with thoughts, emotions, stress and stage fright.
Contents and methods:
The course is divided into different themes, which are study skills, wellbeing in everyday life, thoughts and working with them, emotions and self-knowledge, stress, stage fright, and social skills.
In each section, you will explore the topic with the help of scientific materials. Up-to-date and supportive learning material can be for example video and audio recordings, lectures, research and exercises. The course focuses on independent reflection. The course does not include a final exam. The indicative time of completion of the course is 8 weeks, which is scheduled by the students themselves. Accepted completion of the course requires completion of all sub-tasks according to the minimum criteria.
The course covers 2 ECTS credits, totalling 54 hours of student work. The number of hours is theoretical and varies according to student effort.
Study material:
All the study material related to the course is provided online on the Learn learning platform. The material includes e.g. introductions, videos, podcasts, and exercises on course topics.
Assessment:
Accepted/Failed
We will inform you about the implementation of the course by email. If you do not receive the message, please also check your spam!
Additional information on enrolment
Xamk Pulse, openstudies@xamk.fi.
Cancellation
If you do not start your studies, please inform us so that we can remove you from the course. This way, there will be no record of the course you did not complete. Cancellations should be sent to avoinamk@xamk.fi.
Transcript of records
The teacher has one month to give a grade after the student has completed all learning tasks. We will send you an electronically signed transcript of records within about a week after you have received the grade in the Peppi system. The transcript serves as a document if, for example, you are applying for credit for your studies at another university. Studies can also be credited at Xamk if you come to us as a degree student. See more on our website Information on Open UAS, Xamk Pulse studies.
This course is based on the curricula of Xamk’s degree programmes and the Finnish credits are fully compatible with the ECTS.
Please note that there can be changes in the course details in terms of the timetable and teachers, for example.
South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences is audited by the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC).