ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
BA4004 | Communication Skills II | Spring Fall |
3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Prof. Dr. ÜMİT EROL |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This course is designed to provide students with the necessary tools and knowledge to build fluent, accurate and a confident communication skills. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; Students who successfully completes this course will: -be able to contribute to a group discussion expressing their opinions, varying views, and questions -be able to use basic techniques to deliver a presentation to a specific audience -be able to converse in a variety of professional and academic situations -be able to participate in online discussions using web-based tools |
Speaking skills, Engaging with Others’ Ideas Empathy, disagreeing and refutation skills, academic speaking style, using communication skills in professional life |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction | |
2) | Communication Process: | |
3) | Improving Speaking Skils | |
4) | Engaging with Others’ Ideas and Emphaty | |
5) | Disagreeing and refutation skills | |
6) | academic communication style | |
7) | Midterm | |
8) | Using communication skills in professional life | |
9) | Using communication skills in professional life | |
10) | Negotiation Techniques | |
11) | Communication in a Global World | |
12) | Effective Presentation Techniques | |
13) | Presentations | |
14) | Presentations |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | various handouts |
References: | various handouts |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Homework Assignments | 1 | % 10 |
Project | 1 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 40 |
Presentations / Seminar | 4 | 8 |
Project | 6 | 18 |
Homework Assignments | 5 | 10 |
Midterms | 1 | 5 |
Final | 2 | 15 |
Total Workload | 138 |
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. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
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. | 2 |
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 |