University-wide courses
Support students in developing essential general competencies and gain broader knowledge and skills necessary for the progression and completion of academic studies.
FIRST CYCLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Bachelor’s and professional higher education students are required to complete three university-wide subjects.
Field-specific subject supporting the development of general competencies
Institude subjects:
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School
FKI6002.FK Learning in Communication and Creative Disciplines I
FKI6003.FK Learning in Communication and Creative Disciplines II
School of Humanities
HIK6083.HT Studying at the University: Introduction to the Humanities
School of Governance, Law and Society
General subject
Institude subjects:
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School
PSP6066.LT General and Social Psychology
School of Humanities
School of Governance, Law and Society
SECOND CYCLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Master’s students and students in integrated programmes may choose between two university-wide courses: HÜPE (Tomorrow's General Competencies for Life) or LIFE.
HÜPE (Tomorrow's General Competencies for Life)
HÜPE is a university-wide course aimed at developing the general competencies necessary for life, i.e., cross-disciplinary and cross-field competencies that are important for being a person and a citizen.
2025/26 academic year fall semester courses:
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YID7019.YM Information Resilience- Navigating Complexities of the Digital World
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Are you ready to tackle the challenges of (dis)trust, (mis)information, and polarization in a hyperconnected world? Do you want to find constructive solutions to complex problems? Information Resilience: Navigating the Complexities of the Digital World is a groundbreaking MA-level course designed for curious minds ready to critically engage with the challenges of modern communication and media systems. This course delves into the interconnected dynamics of legacy and social media, the attention economy, networked publics, propaganda, affect, and media literacy. You’ll explore how historical, socio-economic, and regulatory factors have shaped today’s information landscape while critically analyzing key issues like trust, polarization, risk, and resilience. |
2025/26 academic year spring semester courses:
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| YID7021.YM Love and Loving
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Love is widely held as the most important thing in our lives. Having and maintaining a loving connection is fundamental to our mental health and sense of well-being. We find evidence of this everywhere in our cultural life: the majority of songs are about love; the need to maintain a loving connection is at the heart of countless dramas; and famous images of love in artworks can be found throughout history. Yet love for many can be elusive in terms of finding it, recognising it, and keeping it alive. How do you know if you have love? Those who have it often say, ‘If you need to ask then you don’t.’ While this might be true, it is not an especially helpful answer. This course gives you space to dig deeper into this and other questions through reading scholarship on love; engaging artistic works where love is the central theme; and employing creative and artistic practice to explore what love means to you. |
LIFE is funded within the framework of Project TLÜ TEE, i.e. Tallinn University as an Advocate of Intelligent Lifestyle no 2014-2020.4.01.16-0033 activity B23, under ASTRA programme of European Regional Development Fund.
