| Course Name | Tourism and Hotel Management in German I |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER 111 | Fall | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | German | |||||
| Course Type | Required | |||||
| Course Level | Short Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | The objective of this course is to make students, who study Tourism and Hotel Management in the scope of Common European Framework of Reference, achieve A1.1 level. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | Providing students of Tourism and Hotel Management with Occupational German knowledge. |
| Related Sustainable Development Goals | |
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| Core Courses | X |
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction. General information and semester rules. Names, nationality, and spelling out names | |
| 2 | Greeting and sending off hotel guests, describing jobs | Unit 0 Page 7 Searching about countries |
| 3 | Numbers (1-100), greeting guests at the reception area, reviewing and reporting room availability | Unit 0 Types of rooms |
| 4 | Asking how long the guests will stay at the hotel, filling out registration form, definite and indefinite articles, negative articles (nominative) | Unit 1 Bringing different types of registration forms to the class |
| 5 | Asking for vacant hotel rooms, evaluating hotels, definite and indefinite articles (accusative case), Quiz 1 | Unit 1 Preparing the table for nominative and accusative cases |
| 6 | Providing luggage service, giving information about rooms, personal pronoun (nominative) | Unit 2 Page 31 Word study |
| 7 | Learning about time and days of the week, introducing an animation program, separable verbs | Unit 2 Searching about animation program times on the internet |
| 8 | Giving, reading and understanding bus and train schedules, learning about foods and beverages, Midterm Exam | Unit 2 Page 33 Reading the exercise |
| 9 | Taking orders and room service | Unit 2 Page 37 Listening to the CD |
| 10 | Accusative case, auxiliary verb “can” (können) | Unit 2 Writing the verb conjugation for auxiliary verb “können” |
| 11 | Ordering a breakfast and the auxiliary verb “like” (mögen/möchten), Quiz 2 | Unit 2 Preparing breakfast menus |
| 12 | Perfect | Unit 2 Preparing the list of „Perfekt“ |
| 13 | Actuation of hotel dialogues | |
| 14 | Oral Exam | |
| 15 | Final Exam | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Menschen im Beruf Tourismus, (Anja Schümann, Cordula Schurig, Brigitte Schaefer, Frauke van der Werff), Hueber Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-19-101424-7, Lektion 0, 1 und 2 |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Arbeitsblätter, PONS, Wörterbuch Türkisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Türkisch |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 20 |
| Laboratory / Application | - | - |
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 2 | |
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 10 |
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | 1 | 20 |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 20 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 30 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 6 | 70 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 30 |
| 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 | 15 | 1 | 15 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 2 | 3 | |
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 6 | |
| Presentation / Jury | - | ||
| Project | 1 | 6 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 6 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 8 | |
| Total | 111 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To have knowledge about the theories, concepts, methods and tools that constitute the basis of tourism and hotel management | |||||
| 2 | To be able to use the knowledge gained in the field of tourism in the field of application. | |||||
| 3 | To be able to act in accordance with social, scientific, cultural, legal and ethical values related to its field. | |||||
| 4 | To be able to develop sales marketing strategies of enterprises in tourism sector. | |||||
| 5 | To be able to interpret the relationship between the economy of the country and tourism economy. | |||||
| 6 | To be able to develop himself/herself socially and academically by following the developments in and out of the field. | |||||
| 7 | To be able to follow information about tourism and hotel management and communicate with colleagues by using two foreign language. | |||||
| 8 | To have knowledge and skills about kitchen services and techniques, to be able to apply catering and service procedures. | |||||
| 9 | To use information and communication technologies together with computer programs at the level required by the field of tourism and hotel management. | |||||
| 10 | To be able to provide continuous development by evaluating the acquired knowledge and skills with total quality management approach. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to apply the strategies by comprehending front office, housekeeping, food and beverage and human resources, accounting departments located in the hotel business. | |||||
| 12 | To be able to plan and organize meetings, congresses, conferences and fairs. | |||||
| 13 | To be able to understand the working area of travel agencies and tour operators and perform ticketing, product development and package tour design. | |||||
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