Radio English (1 cr)
Code: 888830416-18MK1
General information
- Enrollment
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20.08.2018 - 07.09.2018
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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29.10.2018 - 30.11.2018
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 1 cr
- Local portion
- 1 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Kielet ja viestintä, Kotka
- Campus
- Kotka Campus
- Teaching languages
- English
- Finnish
- Seats
- 12 - 40
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Marine Technology
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
Students can
- use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
- look for information in the key information sources of the field.
- evaluate operations in customer, user and target group situations.
- choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
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.