BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
Course Introduction and Application Information
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| GEP0419 | Persian I | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Basic information
| Language of instruction: | English |
| Type of course: | GE-Elective |
| Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Dr. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
| Course Objectives: | Introduction to the Persian alphabet and basic grammar. The student can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has. Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.. |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course; The students who succeeded in this course; Listening: S/he will be able to comprehend familiar words about family and close relatives and very basic structures when spoken slowly and clearly. Reading: S/he will be able to understand familiar words and very simple sentences in written texts such as short messages, menus, and job applications. Spoken Interaction: S/he will be able to communicate in a simple way on condition that the person opposite her repeats what he said more slowly and if he can help her form the things s/he wants to say.(for example: introducing herself and her close family members/friends, ordering food or drinks in a bar and restaurant and asking for the bill); Spoken Production: S/he will be able to use simple structures and sentences to describe herself, her age, the place she lives in, her job and her close family members. Writing: S/he will be able to introduce her/himself and her/his close family members/friends by writing short and simple sentences. |
Course Content
| The aim of this course is to make students, who are Basic Users in the scope of Common European Framework of Reference, achieve A1 level, which is named as Breakthrough. |
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction to the course. History of Persian language and culture. | Compiled Material |
| 2) | Persian sounds and Alphabet. Pronunciation and umlaut. Identify the letters through words by visuals. | Compiled Material |
| 3) | Week days, months, seasons, weather conditions, numbers and hours. | Compiled Material |
| 4) | Kinds of nouns and verbs. The three-sound roots. | Compiled Material |
| 5) | Simple sentence structure. Pronouns. | Compiled Material |
| 6) | Present Progressive Tense. | Compiled Material |
| 7) | Revision | Compiled Material |
| 8) | MIDTERM | |
| 9) | Simple Present Tense. | Compiled Material |
| 10) | Adverbs. | Compiled Material |
| 11) | Adjectives. | Compiled Material |
| 12) | Basic situational question-answer chunks related to routines and socialization. | Compiled Material |
| 13) | Basic situational question-answer chunks related to routines and socialization. | Compiled Material |
| 14) | Tenses and sentence structures. | Compiled Material |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | |
| References: | 1.General Course in Persian, by Ahmad Saffar Moghaddam 2.Persian Language- Basic Lessons, by: Ahmad Saffar Moghaddam 3.General Persian, by: Mahmoud Fotouhi & Habibollah Abbasi 4.A Selection of Persian Poetry & Prose, by: Manoochehr Daneshpejooh 5.Let’s Learn Persian, by: Mohammad Piri 6.Persian Language (Preliminary- Advance) by: Mehdi Zarghamian 7.Grammar of Spoken Persian, by: Taghi Vahidian Kamyar 8.An Introduction to Persian, by: W.M. Thackston 9.Persian Fiction Reader compiled by: Michael Craig Hillmann , with Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami 10.Persian Reading and Comprehension(Basic), by: Fatima Jafari, A’zam Al-Sadat Navvabi, Hamid Ebrahimi (Dehkhoda institution- Tehran) 11.Persian Reading and Comprehension(Intermediate), by: Fatima Ja’fari, A’zam Al-Sadat Navvabi, Hamid Ebrahimi (Dehkhoda institution- Tehran) 1.General Course in Persian, by Ahmad Saffar Moghaddam 2.Persian Language- Basic Lessons, by: Ahmad Saffar Moghaddam 3.General Persian, by: Mahmoud Fotouhi & Habibollah Abbasi 4.A Selection of Persian Poetry & Prose, by: Manoochehr Daneshpejooh 5.Let’s Learn Persian, by: Mohammad Piri 6.Persian Language (Preliminary- Advance) by: Mehdi Zarghamian 7.Grammar of Spoken Persian, by: Taghi Vahidian Kamyar 8.An Introduction to Persian, by: W.M. Thackston 9.Persian Fiction Reader compiled by: Michael Craig Hillmann , with Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami 10.Persian Reading and Comprehension(Basic), by: Fatima Jafari, A’zam Al-Sadat Navvabi, Hamid Ebrahimi (Dehkhoda institution- Tehran) 11.Persian Reading and Comprehension(Intermediate), by: Fatima Ja’fari, A’zam Al-Sadat Navvabi, Hamid Ebrahimi (Dehkhoda institution- Tehran) |
Evaluation System
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | 1 | % 10 |
| Application | 1 | % 15 |
| Quizzes | 3 | % 15 |
| Midterms | 1 | % 20 |
| Final | 1 | % 40 |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
ECTS / Workload Table
| Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Application | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 1 | 14 |
| Quizzes | 3 | 6 | 18 |
| Midterms | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Final | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Total Workload | 96 | ||
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 2 |
| 2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 1 |
| 3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
| 4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
| 5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
| 6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
| 7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
| 8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 1 |
| 9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
| 10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |