Course Name | English for Career Development |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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ENG 410 | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
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Course Language | English | ||||||||
Course Type | Required | ||||||||
Course Level | First Cycle | ||||||||
Mode of Delivery | - | ||||||||
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | |||||||||
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Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | The aim of this course is to prepare our students for starting their professional lives by simulating all stages of the job application process. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | This course is designed to equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge that they will need when they start their professional lives. The course simulates all stages of the job application process, including topics like finding job openings, CVs, job application forms, cover letters, job interviews, and following up, as well as handling job offers and rejection. |
Related Sustainable Development Goals | |
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Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introductory Unit Get an Idea: A Success Story - internal / external factors of success | Introduction to the Course PPT -Introductory Unit pgs. 1-6 |
2 | Unit 1 Get to Know Yourself: Researching YOU - personality, skills, SWOT analysis | Unit 1 pgs. 7-15 |
3 | Unit 2 Get Inside: Job Hunting - job advertisements, cold calling, Project | Unit 2 pgs. 16-24 |
4 | Unit 2 continued Get Inside: Job Hunting - networking, organizational culture | Unit 2 pgs. 25-39 |
5 | Unit 3 Get Ready: Preparing Your Documents -CVs | Unit 3 pgs. 40-52 |
6 | Unit 3 continued Get Ready: Preparing Your Documents - CVs Homework / Assignment | Unit 3 pgs. 53-56 |
7 | Unit 3 continued Get Ready: Preparing Your Documents - cover letters, job application forms | Unit 3 pgs. 57-60, 62-72 |
8 | Unit 4 Get Ahead: Prepping for a Job Interview -interview types, interview stages, small talk, personal/research/behavioral questions - Presentation / Jury | Unit 4 pgs. 73, 75-91 |
9 | Unit 4 continued Get Ahead: Prepping for a Job Interview - case / strategic questions, first impressions and body language | Unit 4 pgs. 89-99, 102-103 |
10 | Unit 4 continued Get Ahead: Prepping for a Job Interview - interview questions about CVs, job interview practice | Unit 4 pgs. 101, 104 |
11 | Revision + midterm (job interview) | |
12 | Unit 5 Get a Response: Following up - professional email essentials, follow-up emails | Unit 5 pgs. 105-112 |
13 | Unit 6 Get What You Want: Handling Job Offers and Rejection -accepting / declining / negotiating a job offer, salary negotiations, dealing with rejection | Unit 6 pgs. 113-126 |
14 | Review of the Semester | |
15 | - | |
16 | Final Exam |
Course Notes/Textbooks | Austin Ömürlü, H. (2019). Atlas: Putting your career on the map. (A. Yürekli, Ed.). Izmir: Izmir University of Economics. (in-house) |
Suggested Readings/Materials | www.mynextmove.org |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | 1 | 10 |
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | - | - |
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | - | - |
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 15 |
Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 |
Project | 1 | 10 |
Seminar / Workshop | - | - |
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | 1 | 25 |
Final Exam | 1 | 30 |
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 5 | 80 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 20 |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
Field Work | - | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | - | - | |
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 6 | |
Presentation / Jury | 1 | 5 | |
Project | 1 | 6 | |
Seminar / Workshop | - | - | |
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | 1 | 8 | |
Final Exams | 1 | 9 | |
Total | 110 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To be able to use advanced, field-specific conceptual, theoretical, and practical knowledge acquired, | |||||
2 | To be able to analyze and research field-specific concepts and ideas and to interpret data individually or as a team using scientific methods, | |||||
3 | To be able to understand and use grammatical and semantic structures of the source and target languages, | |||||
4 | To be able to obtain information about social, cultural, and historical approaches within the source and target languages and to use this information for textual analysis and production, | |||||
5 | To be able to understand and interpret written and oral texts in the source language and to transfer these texts into the target language using a semantically and functionally appropriate language, | |||||
6 | To be able to produce creative translations and assess the translation products critically by defining the steps, strategies and problems in the translation process in the light of field-specific theoretical knowledge and skills acquired, | |||||
7 | To be able to transfer the theoretical knowledge and research skills within different areas of expertise to translational act, | |||||
8 | To be able to use computer-assisted translation tools and machine translation effectively at each step of the translation process, and to follow the theoretical and practical developments in these fields, | |||||
9 | To be able to gain awareness of the translator’s social role, job profile, and professional ethical values and to acquire workload management skills for individual or team work, | |||||
10 | To be able to access necessary sources to improve quality at each step of the translation process and to assess the target text in accordance with the quality objectives by using these sources, | |||||
11 | To be able to establish effective oral and written communication skills both in English and Turkish, to be able to speak a second foreign language at a good level, to be able to use a third foreign language at intermediate level, | X | ||||
12 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. |
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