| Course Name | Academic Skills in English II |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| ENG 102 | Spring | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Required | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | This course aims at preparing students to use academic skills in English. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | ENG 102 is a compulsory course for first year students. ENG 102 focuses on the cognitive skills of listening, reading, writing and speaking. Students' academic listening skills will be improved by listening to important / relevant information from lectures or discussions and reading skills by reading recent academic texts and then using this information to create an output task. Speaking focuses on giving presentations and students get prepared to express their ideas and opinions by speaking persuasively and coherently. The writing component is a consolidation of the speaking activities. |
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction: Course objectives and assessment / Unıt I: Introduction to research | |
| 2 | Unit I: Introduction to research | |
| 3 | Unit I: Introduction to research | - |
| 4 | Unit I: Introduction to research | Blackboard 1 |
| 5 | Unit II: Data collection methods | - |
| 6 | Unit II: Data collection methods & Planning and cue cards for Optional Online Presentations | |
| 7 | Unit II: Data collection methods & Planning and cue cards for Optional Online Presentations & Catch-up Review | Blackboard 2 |
| 8 | Unit III: Phony pharmaceuticals | |
| 9 | Unit III: Phony pharmaceuticals / Planning and cue cards for Online Presentation 1 & Mock Midterm | Blackboard 3 |
| 10 | Online Presentation 1 | |
| 11 | Unit IV: Animal Testing | |
| 12 | Unit IV: Animal Testing | Blackboard 4 |
| 13 | Unit IV: Animal Testing & Evidence of Learning & End of Unit Test | |
| 14 | Planning and cue cards and visuals for Online Presentation 2 | |
| 15 | Online Presentation 2 | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Anchor 2 - Reinforcing English Language Skills in an Academic Context by Anita Afacan, Nil Akpınar Wising and Stefan O'grady / Editor: Aynur Yürekli Kaynardağ |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Supplementary material to be prepared when necessary by the course instructors |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 20 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 1 | 10 |
| Portfolio | ||
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| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 20 |
| Project | - | - |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 20 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 30 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 5 | 75 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 25 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 2 | |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 1 | 6 | |
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| Homework / Assignments | |||
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 6 | |
| Project | - | - | |
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| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 3 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 3 | |
| Total | 114 |
| # | 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, | |||||
| 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). | |||||
| 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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