Have you completed the TLU Summer or Winter School Russian language course and want to continue improving your skills? Our Russian Language Online Continuation Programme helps you maintain your progress and develop your language proficiency through individual online learning tailored to your needs.

The programme is designed exclusively for former participants of the TLU Summer and Winter School. Building on your teacher’s final assessment and your personal learning goals, we create an individual study plan that allows you to continue exactly where you left off.

This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the refugee-specific challenges and difficulties experienced by professionals who work with refugees. The course explores how lived experience of war, displacement, and uncertainty shape future adaptation processes in host countries. Particular attention is given to the developmental vulnerabilities of young refugees and the ways in which early exposure to trauma may influence emotional, cognitive, and social development.

Students will learn how trauma exposure may manifest in different population groups, and how to apply trauma-informed approaches to working with refugees. Participants will explore risk factors assessment during support interventions and develop strategies for creating safer and more sensitive professional environments. Ethical considerations are discussed throughout the course, with particular emphasis on the “Do No Harm” principle.

In addition, the course addresses the impact of refugee work on professionals themselves. Participants will gain awareness of tools that prevent burnout through guided reflection and discussion. The course encourages the development of self-reflective practices that support professional resilience and ethical decision-making.

Violence emerges from complex interactions between individuals, groups, and broader social systems. This two-week seminar examines violence through psychological, social, and structural lenses.

Students will explore individual risk factors such as personality traits, trauma histories, and impulsivity, while also analyzing how group processes—including deindividuation, moral disengagement, and radicalization—can escalate aggression into collective violence. The course further examines how community conditions, systemic inequities, and cultural narratives shape both the expression and prevention of violence.

A focused unit addresses psychopathy and sociopathy, drawing on empirical research and diagnostic frameworks to critically evaluate common myths and media portrayals. Throughout the course, students will apply theory to real-world case studies of notorious offenders, practicing careful ethical reasoning and trauma-informed analysis. Emphasis is placed not only on understanding violence but also on identifying evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies at multiple levels. By integrating research, discussion, and applied analysis, the course equips students with a nuanced, multi-level understanding of violent behavior and prepares them to think critically about policy, practice, and prevention.

This intensive three-week course focuses on strengthening and developing speaking skills. Through structured discussions, listening activities, guided presentations and interactive tasks, students further develop their ability to express and justify opinions, participate in debates, and respond spontaneously in various communication situations. Particular attention is paid to expanding vocabulary, improving pronunciation and increasing grammatical control in spoken language.

The course emphasises real-life communication scenarios relevant to academic, professional and everyday contexts in Estonia. Students practise both monologic and dialogic speech, receive regular individual feedback, and develop strategies for maintaining natural conversational flow. Small groups (max. 10 participants) ensure active participation, personalised guidance and measurable progress within a short period of time.

This course provides evidence-based strategies for preventing, responding to, and recovering from school violence, with a focus on engaging students, staff, and the broader community. Participants will explore universal, targeted, and intensive interventions to enhance school safety. The course will help participants analyze the causes and risk factors of school violence, apply different levels of interventions, and develop strategies to improve both psychological and physical safety within school environments.

The course introduces the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) to guide universal (Tier 1), targeted (Tier 2), and intensive (Tier 3) prevention strategies. Topics include school climate, trauma-informed practices, social-emotional learning, de-escalation techniques, restorative justice, and individualized interventions like Functional Behavior Assessments (FBA) and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP).

Participants will also learn how to identify at-risk students, conduct environmental scans, use anonymous reporting systems, and respond effectively to crises. Through real-life case studies and a final capstone scenario, the course equips learners to strengthen both the psychological and physical safety of school environments.

The course will help you to improve your Russian skills and to get familiar with famous Russian movies, cartoons, songs, musicians and singers.

During the classes, we will watch movies and listen to songs, do some tasks based on its plot and text, analyze and discuss our impressions as well as do some writing exercises. All necessary materials will be provided by the teacher.

At the end of the course, the participants will be able to use different oral and written expressions and grammar constructions that they can use in their everyday communication. Students will improve their Russian skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students will know more about well-known Russian movies, cartoons, songs, film directors, actors, composers and singers as a part of the country study. Students will be able to describe and analyze the plot of the movie / the text of the song, its characters, express their attitudes towards them and discuss their thoughts with others.

This is a 32-hour hands-on course for statistical data analysis using R. The main goal of this course is to empower participants to use R for data analysis and machine learning applications.

The course introduces students to the statistical programming language R and the use of R studio. We will cover the concepts of data manipulation and data preparation as well as uni- and bivariate statistics in R.

We will cover the so-called grammar of graphics in R with the ggplot2 package to create stunning and publication-ready data visualizations. We will also discuss how to conduct basic descriptive statistics (such as mean, standard deviation, correlation) in R to describe your data.

Our main focus will be the discussion of a selection of machine learning algorithms and their implementation in R. We will for example try to model the factors that influenced the survival of the Titanic passengers, predict customer churn for a telecommunications company and try to classify traffic signs based on images.

The course is designed to give a robust theoretical understanding of the methods and allow students to use the algorithms with real-world data sets.

Aims of the curriculum:

• Introduction to the statistical programming language R and the use of R studio
• Data manipulation and data preparation in R
• Uni- und and bivariate statistics in R
• Grammar of graphics in R (with ggplot2) to produce publication-ready graphics
• Theoretical understanding of selected machine learning algorithms (e.g. logistics regression, decision trees and random forests, k-nearest-neighbours, hierarchical cluster analysis)
• Practical application of selected machine learning algorithms in R