Multilingual Management Assistant

Multilingual Management Assistants

The Degree Programme for Multilingual Management Assistants supports the professional growth of student on the path towards becoming fully-competent expert of Management Assistant’s work.

Curriculum

Core Studies

Core studies are completed during the first academic year. They are either compulsory or elective (Chinese, English, Finnish, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Swedish). They provide students with a basic understanding of the degree programme's key areas of emphasis.

Professional Studies

Professional studies deepen the student's expertise in the management assistant’s core and professional areas. Students choose their advanced professional studies from the following alternatives: Organisational Communication, Organisations, Leadership and HR or Marketing. Professional studies amount to at least 7 credit points. Some professional studies courses are offered only if enough students sign up for them.

The ’learning by developing’ working method appears in the professional studies so, that the student is able to develop the processes related to assistant’s work. The student is also able to develop her/his critical thinking and problem solving skills to produce new ideas in her/his own professional field and produce  realizable solutions for them.

Free-choice Studies

Free-choice studies should be chosen in such a way that they complement the student's advanced professional and language studies. Other studies completed at HAAGA-HELIA or Finnish or foreign universities and polytechnics can be as free-choice studies.

Work Placement

Work placement is compulsory for all students and is equivalent to 30 credit points. Work placement usually commences after the second year of studies, i.e. after the completion of 120 credit points. It is completed without interruption in companies, public organisations, or similar organisations in Finland or abroad.

Finnish students have to complete one semester abroad either in a work placement or as an exchange student.

Management assistant/secretarial work as well as employment supporting the student's studies is accepted as part of the work placement requirement.

Bachelor's Thesis

Theses are primarily completed as commissioned works for companies or other organisations. During thesis work, students familiarise themselves with a topic in their area of specialisation and complete an analysis, development project or similar pertaining to it. Through thesis work, students gain valuable skills for the development of their competencies as multilingual management assistants.

In her/his thesis process the student applies the ’learning by developing’ working method in solving the problems of the company or organisation.

Maturity Test

In the Degree Programme for Multilingual Management Assistants, students are required to write a maturity test in English based on the thesis, which demonstrates the student's grasp of the subject area studied. If the student has received a grammar school/high school degree in Finnish/Swedish and wishes to have a statement in the diploma verifying perfect Finnish/Swedish language competence, he/she is required to write the maturity test in Finnish/Swedish. The student seeking the right to complete the maturity test in Finnish/Swedish must submit a written application to the Manager of the Degree Programme. The maturity test can be written on all common re-examination dates. Students have to enrol for the test through their advisor at least one week before the test date. The time reserved for the test is 135 minutes.

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