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 |
ENG1003 | Communications Skills and Academic Reporting I | Fall | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Must Course |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Instructor ELİF CANAN ONAT |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Instructor SERKAN GÜLŞEN Instructor YALÇIN GÜDEN Instructor IŞIL BURSALI Instructor NİLGÜN KARA Instructor SEVTAP SIVIŞ Dr. Öğr. Üyesi AYŞEGÜL LİMAN KABAN Instructor ZEYNEP MUTLU CANSEVER Instructor ANIL GÜNAYDIN Instructor DUYGU CAN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | 1. to demonstrate academic language learning strategies with examples 2. to transfer the fundamentals of Academic English 3. to illustrate academic language use with examples 4. to report results and comments in an academic style and format |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1. to guess unknown vocabulary from context 2. to use complex sentence structures and academic phrases 3. to identify the audience, tone, and purpose in academic writing 4. to analyze coherence, cohesion, and unity in academic writing 5. to summarize 6. to paraphrase 7. to apply rules and conventions of academic writing 8. to write a piece of writing in academic language |
EAP language skills based on the definition of CEFR B2 Level |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to the course requirements, syllabus, evaluation system and materials | Stated in the syllabus. |
2) | 1. Expanding notes into sentences 2. Correcting and evaluating sentences 3. Writing simple and compound sentences 4. Writing compound sentences using coordinators Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in the e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
3) | 1. Analysing paragraph structure 2. Recognizing cohesion in a paragraph 3. Cohesion (1): Pronouns and determiners Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in the e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
4) | Writing topic sentences and concluding sentences Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in the e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
5) | 1. Writing definitions using prepositional phrases 2. The structure of definitions (1): Noun + prepositional phrase Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in the e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
6) | 1. Writing definitions using relative clauses 2. The structure of definitions (2): Noun + relative clauses Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in the e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
7) | Writing a paragraph that includes definition Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in the e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
8) | Revision and feedback Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in the e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
9) | 1. Analysing, planning, and using notes to build up a paragraph 2. Cohesion (2): Using adverbials to introduce supporting information Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
10) | Writing a descriptive paragraph Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in the e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
11) | Revision and feedback Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in the e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
12) | 1. Analysing and using active note-taking strategies 2. Identifying and using summarizing words and phrases 3. Noun phrases (1): Summarizing ideas using key nouns and determiners 4. Noun phrases (2): Paraphrasing longer structures Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in the e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
13) | Writing a summary of a short academic text Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in the e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
14) | Revision and feedback Homework: Reading, listening, and vocabulary practice and graded tests in the e-learning platform | Stated in the syllabus. |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Garnet Yayınlarından seçilmiş ve uyarlanmış kitap bölümleri, bölüm hocalarının hazırladığı materyaller, ve Internet kaynakları Compiled parts from the books of Garnet Publishing, prepared materials by the department instructors, and Internet sources |
References: | English for Academic Study: Reading & Writing American Edition Course Book John Slaght, Paddy Harben, Anne Pallant A university preparation course published in collaboration with the University of Reading. Garnet Education ISBN: 9781859645550 |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Application | 10 | % 25 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | % 0 |
Midterms | 1 | % 25 |
Final | 1 | % 50 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 4 | 56 |
Application | 14 | 2 | 28 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 92 |
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. | 1 |
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. | 1 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 1 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 1 |
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. | 1 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 5 |