POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code: | ENG2071 | ||||||||
Ders İsmi: | Professional English I | ||||||||
Ders Yarıyılı: |
Spring Fall |
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Ders Kredileri: |
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Language of instruction: | English | ||||||||
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Ders İş Deneyimini Gerektiriyor mu?: | No | ||||||||
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective | ||||||||
Course Level: |
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Mode of Delivery: | Face to face | ||||||||
Course Coordinator : | Lecturer SELMA UZUN | ||||||||
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Course Objectives: | This course aims to improve students' professional English knowledge; to make them able to use English effectively in their professional life; to improve students' reading, comprehension, writing and speaking skills; to make students able to express themselves both in written and spoken English. |
Course Content: | Professional terminology, correspondence (letters, emails, etc.), presentation methods, telephone calls, understanding of official documents and regulations, financial statements and tables, job application. |
The students who have succeeded in this course;
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Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Staff development and training - Reading: Recruitment brochure | Vocabulary review (Job training) |
2) | Job descriptions and job satisfaction - Writing: Brief job descriptions | Vocabulary review (Job titles and acronyms for job titles) |
3) | Letters of enquiry and applications - Writing: An email applying for a job | Vocabulary review; composing an email for a job application |
4) | Telephone skills - Listening: Telephone language | Vocabulary review; preparation for role-playing (Talking on the phone) |
5) | New product development - Speaking: Introducing a new product | Vocabulary review (Marketing terms); choosing a new product and preparing the introduction speech |
6) | Establishing relationships and negotiating - Reading: Asking questions about a product | Vocabulary review (Terms and conditions) |
7) | Review | |
8) | Financing the start-up - Speaking: (Role-play) Getting advice about starting up | Vocabulary review; preparation for the role-play |
9) | Presenting your business idea - Reading: Making the most of presentations | Vocabulary review (Equipment for presentation); drafting the presentations to be made |
10) | Reports - Speaking: Saying what charts show | Vocabulary review ( Vocabulary for expressing changes) |
11) | Business meetings - Listening: A business meeting | Vocabulary review (Types of meeting, expressing opinions) |
12) | Using the Internet - Reading Website design | Vocabulary review (Computers and the Internet) |
13) | Students' presentations | Preparation for the final draft of presentations |
14) | A staff survey - Writing: Report on staff survey to modernise the office | Vocabulary review (Expressing numbers and percentage) |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Brook-Hart, Guy. Business Benchmark, Upper-Intermediate,BULATS Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
References: | Brook-Hart, Guy. Business Benchmark, Upper-Intermediate,BULATS Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
Ders Öğrenme Kazanımları | |||||||||||
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Program Outcomes | |||||||||||
1) Grasp basic theoretical and conceptual knowledge about the field and relations between them at the level of practice. | |||||||||||
2) Possess basic knowledge about the causes and effects of political transformations in societies. | |||||||||||
3) Possess knowledge about quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods in social and behavioral sciences. | |||||||||||
4) Recognize historical patterns while evaluating contemporary political and social developments. | |||||||||||
5) Demonstrate interdisciplinary and critical approach while analyzing, synthesizing and forecasting domestic and foreign policy. | |||||||||||
6) Conduct studies in the field professionally, both independently or as a team member. | |||||||||||
7) Possess consciousness about lifelong learning based on Research & Development. | |||||||||||
8) Communicate with peers both orally and in writing, by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B1 General Level and the necessary informatics and communication technologies. | |||||||||||
9) Apply field-related knowledge and competences into career advancement, projects for sustainable development goals, and social responsibility initiatives. | |||||||||||
10) Possess the habit to monitor domestic and foreign policy agenda as well as international developments. | |||||||||||
11) Possess competence to interpret the new political actors, theories and concepts in a global era. | |||||||||||
12) Evaluate the legal and ethical implications of advanced technologies on politics. |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Grasp basic theoretical and conceptual knowledge about the field and relations between them at the level of practice. | |
2) | Possess basic knowledge about the causes and effects of political transformations in societies. | |
3) | Possess knowledge about quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods in social and behavioral sciences. | |
4) | Recognize historical patterns while evaluating contemporary political and social developments. | |
5) | Demonstrate interdisciplinary and critical approach while analyzing, synthesizing and forecasting domestic and foreign policy. | |
6) | Conduct studies in the field professionally, both independently or as a team member. | |
7) | Possess consciousness about lifelong learning based on Research & Development. | |
8) | Communicate with peers both orally and in writing, by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B1 General Level and the necessary informatics and communication technologies. | |
9) | Apply field-related knowledge and competences into career advancement, projects for sustainable development goals, and social responsibility initiatives. | |
10) | Possess the habit to monitor domestic and foreign policy agenda as well as international developments. | |
11) | Possess competence to interpret the new political actors, theories and concepts in a global era. | |
12) | Evaluate the legal and ethical implications of advanced technologies on politics. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 16 | % 10 |
Quizzes | 5 | % 10 |
Homework Assignments | 5 | % 10 |
Presentation | 1 | % 10 |
Midterms | 1 | % 25 |
Final | 1 | % 35 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 65 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 35 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Presentations / Seminar | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Homework Assignments | 6 | 2 | 12 |
Quizzes | 4 | 4 | 16 |
Midterms | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 75 |