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Radio English (1 cr)

Code: 888830416-18MK1

General information


Enrollment

20.08.2018 - 07.09.2018

Timing

29.10.2018 - 30.11.2018

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Kotka Campus

Teaching languages

  • English
  • Finnish

Seats

12 - 40

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Marine Technology

Teachers

  • Mikko Koho

Teacher in charge

Mikko Koho

Groups

  • MK16S

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to communicate via VHF radio onboard a ship in routine, urgency and distress situations using standardised terminology and phrases (IMO SMCP).

Content

The course covers the following sections of SMCP handbook:
General procedures
Selected standardised terminology
Selected standardised phrases (e.g. traffic in fairway, port entry and departure, anchoring, weather and sea state, buoyage)
Urgency and distress communication

Evaluation scale

1-5

Qualifications

Participation in this course requires that the student has completed the courses Maritime English 1, Maritime English 2 and Maritime English 3, or is simultaneously completing them.