| 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 | Blended | |||||||||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | Discussion Group Work Q&A Role Playing | |||||||||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||||||||
| Course Objectives | This course aims to prepare students for professional life by navigating the job application process and exploring modern workplace expectations. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course helps students understand their personality, strengths, and career goals by guiding them through activities that build self-awareness. While learning to use professional networks effectively, students will also gain the ability to carefully review job advertisements and identify those that match their career interests. They will analyze and explain strategies for building important workplace skills and create tailored career documents, using digital tools responsibly as needed to support this process. Throughout the course, students will strengthen communication skills essential for job interviews and follow-up discussions, while engaging with key concepts and themes relevant to today’s professional environments. |
| Related Sustainable Development Goals | |
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| Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses | ||
| Supportive Courses | ||
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses | X |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction to the Course | |
| 2 | Researching Yourself | Austin Ömürlü, H. (2019). Atlas: Putting your career on the map. (A. Yürekli, Ed.). Izmir: Izmir University of Economics. pgs. 20-30 / Videos and Readings in the Learning Management System |
| 3 | Professional Growth and Personal Branding | Videos and Readings in the Learning Management System |
| 4 | Job Search | Austin Ömürlü, H. (2019). Atlas: Putting your career on the map. (A. Yürekli, Ed.). Izmir: Izmir University of Economics. pgs. 31-39/Videos and Readings in the Learning Management System |
| 5 | Writing a CV | Austin Ömürlü, H. (2019). Atlas: Putting your career on the map. (A. Yürekli, Ed.). Izmir: Izmir University of Economics. pgs. 52-67/Videos and Readings in the Learning Management System |
| 6 | Preparing for Modern Workplaces | Videos and Readings in the Learning Management System |
| 7 | Job Interviews – Part 1 | Austin Ömürlü, H. (2019). Atlas: Putting your career on the map. (A. Yürekli, Ed.). Izmir: Izmir University of Economics. pgs. 85-97/Videos and Readings in the Learning Management System |
| 8 | Job Interviews – Part 2 | Austin Ömürlü, H. (2019). Atlas: Putting your career on the map. (A. Yürekli, Ed.). Izmir: Izmir University of Economics. pgs. 98-105/Videos and Readings in the Learning Management System |
| 9 | Midterm Exam Week | |
| 10 | Job Interviews – Part 3 | Austin Ömürlü, H. (2019). Atlas: Putting your career on the map. (A. Yürekli, Ed.). Izmir: Izmir University of Economics. pgs. 106-112/Videos and Readings in the Learning Management System |
| 11 | Oral Exam - Job Interviews I | |
| 12 | Oral Exam - Job Interviews II | |
| 13 | Post-interview Interactions | Austin Ömürlü, H. (2019). Atlas: Putting your career on the map. (A. Yürekli, Ed.). Izmir: Izmir University of Economics. pgs. 120-133/Videos and Readings in the Learning Management System |
| 14 | Oral Exam - Role Play I | |
| 15 | Oral Exam - Role Play II | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| 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 | Weighting |
| Participation | 1 | 20 |
| Laboratory / Application | 1 | 20 |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | - | - |
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 10 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 |
| Project | 1 | 10 |
| Seminar / Workshop | - | |
| Oral Exam | 1 | 30 |
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 6 | 100 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 1 | |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Field Work | - | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | - | - | |
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 6 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 4 | |
| Project | 1 | 5 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | - | ||
| Oral Exam | 1 | 8 | |
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exams | |||
| Total | 115 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able master and use fundamental phenomenological and applied physical laws and applications, | |||||
| 2 | To be able to identify the problems, analyze them and produce solutions based on scientific method, | |||||
| 3 | To be able to collect necessary knowledge, able to model and self-improve in almost any area where physics is applicable and able to criticize and reestablish his/her developed models and solutions, | |||||
| 4 | To be able to communicate his/her theoretical and technical knowledge both in detail to the experts and in a simple and understandable manner to the non-experts comfortably, | |||||
| 5 | To be familiar with software used in area of physics extensively and able to actively use at least one of the advanced level programs in European Computer Usage License, | |||||
| 6 | To be able to develop and apply projects in accordance with sensitivities of society and behave according to societies, scientific and ethical values in every stage of the project that he/she is part in, | |||||
| 7 | To be able to evaluate every all stages effectively bestowed with universal knowledge and consciousness and has the necessary consciousness in the subject of quality governance, | |||||
| 8 | To be able to master abstract ideas, to be able to connect with concreate events and carry out solutions, devising experiments and collecting data, to be able to analyze and comment the results, | |||||
| 9 | To be able to refresh his/her gained knowledge and capabilities lifelong, have the consciousness to learn in his/her whole life, | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to conduct a study both solo and in a group, to be effective actively in every all stages of independent study, join in decision making stage, able to plan and conduct using time effectively. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of Physics and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | X | ||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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