In Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Media Arts you can complete either a media-oriented, a social studies-oriented or a general study option.
Our operating culture emphasizes the cooperation between teachers and students, and the fact that we expect everyone to work hard and do their best.
The teaching emphasizes coping in society and necessary skills in one’s life. The goal is to develop students’ thinking, problem-solving skills and also their cooperation with each other. In learning, the main points are information retrieval, information and technology skills and their critical assessment.
We study media and social studies!
For our media and social studies program we choose only 60 students a year, but everyone can participate in the courses if there is room in the groups.
Society studies include, for example, a special course on how to manage and invest your money or a course about the focal points of global politics. In addition, you can study about the history of Helsinki by exploring it on foot together with the teacher or you can participate in an exclusive course studying about the EU law making which includes an excursion to Brussels. Additionally, we are one of the only upper secondary schools that organizes a course on debating in English.
The media-related courses include script writing, radio or television work, movies and how they are made or even journalism. In other words, anything media-related. Whether you are interested in technology, performing, influencing or investigating, you will find the best choice of courses that suit you from our large course selection.
There are over sixty different media and social studies-related courses available – more than in any other school in Finland!
In Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Media Arts you can accomplish a media-, art-, music or physical education diploma.
In this school you can study these languages:
- A-language (advanced): English and Swedish
- B1-language (upper intermediate): Swedish
- B2-language (intermediate): German, French, Russian and Spanish
- B3-language (lower intermediate): German, French, Russian and Spanish
A language group will be set up if at least 12 students have chosen the language in question.
You can also select other languages in the city syllabus
- A-language (advanced): German, French, Russian, Spanish and Chinese
- B3-language (lower intermediate): German, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Japanese and Chinese
