Having completed this study unit

• You know the basic functions of an organization and basics of business.
• You can define sustainability as a success factor in business
• You can identify sustainable business opportunities in the business environment
• You can identify the business processes and their interrelation
• You can describe the company’s strategic choices and challenges related to sustainable development.
• You are able to provide examples of how social, economic, and ecological ecosystems interact and influence each other.

Competences: Ethics Competence, Sustainable Development Competence

- Basics of business, business processes and their interrelation
- Sustainability as success factor, sustainable business concepts (economic, ecologic and social)
- Strategic choices and challenges related to sustainable business
- UN Sustainable Development Goals

Having completed this study unit,
· You recognize the importance of sport to communities and the benefits of sport participation for individuals.
· You can identify the globalisation and nationalisation of sport, and the extent to which sport has been used in social activism.
· You can identify the complex nature of sport, race, gender, culture identity and the sports world.
· You know the impacts of global sport movements (incl. The Olympics).

Competences: Learning to learn Competence, Ethics Competence, International and multiculturalism Competence

Theme 1. Discover the important role sport plays in communities.
Theme 2. Sport at all levels, locally, nationally and globally.
Theme 3. Sport and social benefits
Theme 4. Discover the Olympic movement

Having completed this study unit
Individual level:
- You recognize your cultural background and its impact on daily decision making and how they interact with each other.
- You know different diversity dimensions, your own stereotypes and biases towards others.
- You know the basic concepts of cultural diversity and are able to communicate effectively in different international environments.

Organisational and team level:
- You know theories and practices on how to work in culturally and otherwise diverse teams and organizations.
- You know theories and practices on how to contribute, collaborate, communicate and debate in diverse teams
- You know the organizations’ needs from diverse perspectives.
- You recognize the complexities arising from diversity related issues.

Societal level:
- You recognize the impact of diversity and cultural differences at a global and national level.

Competences: Internationalism and multiculturalism Competence; Sustainable Development Competence, Responsible Management and Leadership Competence

- Cultural background and its impact
- Diversity dimensions, stereotypes and biases
- Basic concepts of cultural diversity
- Theories and practices of diverse teams and organizations
- Complexities arising from diversity related issues
- Organizations’ needs from diverse perspectives
- Impact of diversity and cultural differences at a global and national level
- Theories and practices on how to contribute, collaborate, communicate and debate in diverse teams
- Effective communication in different international environments.

Having completed this study unit
• You know Lapland University of Applied Sciences as a study environment, and you know the services and systems that support your studies.
• You develop your higher education readiness and skills as well as your information acquisition skills.
• You identify the factors related to your own study ability and wellbeing and consider how you can maintain your own study ability and how you can take care of your own wellbeing.
• You know how to use digital learning tools and make the most of them in your studies.
• You are familiar with the study guidance system, and you know the university's guidance actors.
• You get to know the curriculum of your education and create your own curriculum under guidance. You know the students and teachers in your group.
• You have the essential writing, speaking and presentation skills needed in managerial settings in business.
• You are able to communicate in a variety of business situations and identify and adjust to the ethical aspects of business communication.
• You are able to work as part of a multicultural team.
• You can use Lapland UAS templates.

New degree students at Lapland University of Applied Sciences are oriented to their studies by this course. Course is divided to two parts. The first part of the course (2 ects), you will do independently in Moodle- environment, during the first month of study. In this part of course, you will get to know Lapland University of Applied Sciences as a learning environment. You will consider your learning abilities and acquire the skills and systems needed for your future studies.

The second part of the course (3 ects), will be hold on campus with your own educational fields’ teacher. In the Study Guidance and Curriculum section, you will get to know the other students in your starting group and start planning your own studies. Your own teacher will give the instructions for this part of the course.

Content:
• introduction to Lapland University of Applied Sciences
• studying at a university and developing university study skills and abilities
• studying in a multicultural group
• means of taking care of study ability and wellbeing
• developing knowledge acquisition skills
• services and systems that support learning
- roles of teachers and other guidance actors
- welfare services
- study administration services and systems
- IT, library and e-learning services
• digital tools for studying
- e.g. Moodle, Zoom, Teams, Cloud Services, Outlook , AI
- Microsoft Office tools
• studies and curriculum, planning your own studies, ISP
• writing, speaking and presentation skills
• communication skills

Having completed this study unit
• You know how to use electronic presentation tools, spreadheet and word processing program in different tasks related to learning, working and in projects.
• You are able to create presentations, workbook and documents.
• You are able to recognize the opportunities of the use of the artificial intelligence in a business setting.

Competences: Learning to learn Competence

- Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Photoshop

Having completed this study unit

• You know key principles and concepts of leadership and management
• You know the importance of leadership and management when setting and achieving goals
• You know the importance of working-life skills
• You know the importance of self-awareness and self-management in leadership and management
• You are able to self-reflect your own role in an organisation and you understand individual and group behavior in organizations.
• You are able to recognize and evaluate your own and your teams' strengths and know-how
• You know the importance of career planning

Competences: Operating in a Workplace Competence, Ethics Competence, Learning to Learn Competence, Responsible Management and Leadership Competence

- Principles on leadership and management
- Working-life skills
- Self-management and self-awareness
- Own and team’s strengths and know-how
- Career planning

Having completed the study unit:

• You are familiar with the aspects of Finnish culture
• You are able to discuss about the topics related to Finnish society and aspects of it compared to other countries
• You have able to understand and are able to discuss the differences between Finnish culture and other cultures indicated during the course
• You understand the differences connected to cultural background of different countries and societies
• You know the personal biases and stereotypes that may affect interactions in a multicultural environment.
• You understand the different values and value-setting in the different cultures and countries and how those are built.
• You recognize the basic practices of Finnish working culture
• You are able to create a small-scale event (for example multicultural fair)

Competences: Learning to learn Competence, Operating in a Workplace Competence, International and Multiculturalism Competence

• Cultural differences
• Discussing about differences
• Different values and value-setting
• Finnish working culture
• Creating a small-scale event

Having completed this study unit,
· You recognize the unique environment of the Arctic and how the sports industry functions.
· You identify the interregional benefits of good practice exchange and the European Union funding mechanisms to promote health and well-being.
· You can identify corporate social responsibility in sport and the impact sport organisations can have on communities.
· You recognize the different characteristics of regions and cities that define them globally as areas of sporting excellence.
· You know the infrastructure required by regions and cities to promote physical activity and well-being to all generations.

Competences: International and Multiculturalism Competence, Sustainable Development Competence, Leadership and Management Competence

Theme 1. Inter-regional sporting good practice exchange:
Theme 2. Corporate social responsibility and Sport Organisations
Theme 3. Discover the world of sporting excellence and what it means.
Theme 4. Regional and Local infrastructure to support healthy communities.

Having completed this study unit,
• You recognize the basics of the sport industry.
• You can identify the sports industry management methods.
• You recognize importance of partnership development and the benefits to the sports industry.
• You are able to illustrate the sports industry and the real life case studies regarding management and partnership development.

Comptences: Learning to learn Competence, Ethics Competence, Operating in a workplace Competence

Theme 1. Understand the growth of the Sports Industry.
Theme 2. An introduction to a selection of management methodologies in the sports industry.
Theme 3. Dismantle the elements that make up sport management and analyse good practice exchange and lessons learned.
Theme 4. Investigate case studies of sport management practices over a variety of events and sporting organisations.

Having completed this study unit:

- You recognize the legal environment of sports; sports law as a field of law, essential laws and regulation in the field of sports law and the different actors in the field

- You can identify legal issues/factors in organizing sports events, in sponsorship contracts, in intellectual properties and in tv-rights.

- You recognize crimes and minor offences in sports, you know the sanctions and disciplinary proceedings, arbitration procedures and the principles of compensation for damage.

- You know the basics of employment and labour law in sports

Competences: Operating in a workplace Competence, Business and Financial Management Competence

Theme 1. Sports law (as a field of law, terms, laws and regulations, basic rights, actors in sports and their legal status, legal environment of sports)

Theme 2. Sports law in the sports field (legal issues/factors related to sports events, sponsorship agreements, intellectual properties and tv-rights)

Theme 3. Crimes, minor offences and sanctions (criminal law in sports, disciplinary proceedings in sports, arbitration procedures and compensation for damage)

Theme 4: The principles of employment and labour law in sports (sports clubs as employers, rights and duties of employees and employers)

Having completed this study unit
· You know the principles of marketing and understand modern marketing thinking.
• You know the tasks related to marketing in a company, target group thinking and factors influencing consumer
behaviour.
• You understand the role of marketing as a success factor of a company and can make justified choices of marketing
tools in different business situations.
• You understand the marketing mix and responsible marketing practices.
• You are able to identify the stages of sales process and are able describe the factors affecting the sales
effectiveness.
• You are able to put marketing and sales theories into practice.

Competences: Marketing Competence

Content:
• marketing thinking
• segmentation
• company's external and internal operation environment
• marketing mix
• marketing tools
• responsible marketing

Having completed this study unit
• You can apply economic mathematics and statistical methods to support business decisions
• You know how to use statistical mathematics and spreadsheets in the analysis of research data.
• You know how to report the results obtained.

Competences: Learning to learn Competence, Business and Financial Management Competence

Mathematics
• Interest bills
• Margin calculation
• Currencies and indices
• Tax
• Simple interest, compound interest and periodic payments

Statistics
• Statistical indicators
• Tables and charts