| Course Name | Essential Speaking Skills in English |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| ENG 310 | Spring | 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 | DiscussionGroup WorkSimulationLecture / Presentation | |||||||||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||||||||
| Course Objectives | This course aims at improving students' speaking skills in several different key areas and focuses on an interactive approach in order to fully involve students in this process. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | ENG 310 is a compulsory course for third year students and is designed to enable them to speak more effectively while expressing themselves in a variety of areas, such as business related and academic related topics. These areas range from participating in discusiions to presenting information in the form of short presentations, known as Pecha Kuchas. Students will also take part in role plays and formal debates. |
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction to the Course- Unit 01 – Introduction to Speaking | Jones, A. (2023) Essential Speaking Skills. İzmir: Izmir University of Economics. pp: 13-20 |
| 2 | Unit 02 – The Art of Listening | Jones, A. (2023) Essential Speaking Skills. İzmir: Izmir University of Economics. pp: 21-31 |
| 3 | Unit 03 – Personality | Jones, A. (2023) Essential Speaking Skills. İzmir: Izmir University of Economics. pp: 32-40 |
| 4 | Unit 04 – Exploring Famous Art | Jones, A. (2023) Essential Speaking Skills. İzmir: Izmir University of Economics. pp: 41-52 |
| 5 | Unit 05 – Memory | Jones, A. (2023) Essential Speaking Skills. İzmir: Izmir University of Economics. pp: 53-60 |
| 6 | Unit 06 – Trust / Acting Responsibly | Jones, A. (2023) Essential Speaking Skills. İzmir: Izmir University of Economics. pp: 61-70 |
| 7 | Unit 07 – Retail Sales / Entrepreneurship | Jones, A. (2023) Essential Speaking Skills. İzmir: Izmir University of Economics. pp: 71-80 |
| 8 | Unit 08 – Conflict Resolution/The Win Win Solution | Jones, A. (2023) Essential Speaking Skills. İzmir: Izmir University of Economics. pp: 81-89 |
| 9 | Speaking Assessment (Role Play) | Assessment |
| 10 | Speaking Assessment (Role Play) | Assessment |
| 11 | Unit 09 – Applying for a Schengen Visa | Jones, A. (2023) Essential Speaking Skills. İzmir: Izmir University of Economics. pp: 90-108 |
| 12 | Unit 10 - Schengen Visa Interview | Jones, A. (2023) Essential Speaking Skills. İzmir: Izmir University of Economics. pp: 109-118 |
| 13 | Speaking Assessment (Schengen Visa Interview) | Assessment |
| 14 | Speaking Assessment (Schengen Visa Interview) | Assessment |
| 15 | Review and catch up | Jones, A. (2023) Essential Speaking Skills. İzmir: Izmir University of Economics. pp: 13-118 |
| 16 | Final Exam (Oral Interview) |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Jones, A. (2023) Essential Speaking Skills. İzmir: Izmir University of Economics. ISBN: 9786057272409 |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | - | - |
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 1 | 5 |
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 5 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 5 | 60 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
| 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 | - | |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 2 | 30 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 1 | 3 | |
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 3 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 8 | |
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 16 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 12 | |
| Total | 120 |
| # | 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). | X | ||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently | X | ||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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