ACADEMIC ENGLISH II/ENG204 |
Course Title: |
ACADEMIC ENGLISH II |
Credits |
3 |
ECTS |
3 |
Course Semester |
4 |
Type of The Course |
Compulsory |
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COURSE INFORMATION |
-- (CATALOG CONTENT) |
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-- (TEXTBOOK) |
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-- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK) |
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-- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES) |
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-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION |
English |
-- COURSE OBJECTIVES |
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-- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES |
At the end of this course students can:
* make inferences from a text, to evaluate and react to the ideas in a reading text,
* write a documented argumentative essay by using citation techniques in APA
style,
*initiate and maintain discussions,
*listen effectively and take notes in during a lecture or seminar, etc.
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-- MODE OF DELIVERY |
The mode of delivery of this course is face to face. |
--WEEKLY SCHEDULE |
1. Week |
INTRODUCTORY UNIT
RESEARCH SKILLS:
*Evaluating sources for relevance and reliability
*Identifying reference information
*Researching on the Intern |
2. Week |
INTRODUCTORY UNIT
RESEARCH SKILLS:
*Evaluating sources for relevance and reliability
*Identifying reference information
*Researching on the Intern | 3. Week |
UNIT 1
READING: Reading Text: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk- A Commander and an Effective Leader
WRITING: *Using the target vocabulary learned so far in writing
*Writing a reaction paragraph
*Writing parts of a documented essay
*Citation and borrowing ideas
LISTENING:
*While-listening 1: Student Pr | 4. Week |
UNIT 1
READING: Reading Text: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk- A Commander and an Effective Leader
WRITING: *Using the target vocabulary learned so far in writing
*Writing a reaction paragraph
*Writing parts of a documented essay
*Citation and borrowing ideas
LISTENING:
*While-listening 1: Student Pr | 5. Week |
UNIT 1
READING: Reading Text: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk- A Commander and an Effective Leader
WRITING: *Using the target vocabulary learned so far in writing
*Writing a reaction paragraph
*Writing parts of a documented essay
*Citation and borrowing ideas
LISTENING:
*While-listening 1: Student Pr | 6. Week |
UNIT 1
READING: Reading Text: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk- A Commander and an Effective Leader
WRITING: *Using the target vocabulary learned so far in writing
*Writing a reaction paragraph
*Writing parts of a documented essay
*Citation and borrowing ideas
LISTENING:
*While-listening 1: Student Pr | 7. Week |
MIDTERM | 8. Week |
UNIT 2
READING: Reading Text: The Changing Face of Power
WRITING: *Using the target vocabulary learned so far in writing
*Writing a reaction paragraph
*Synthesizing
LISTENING: *While-listening 1: Psychological Warfare
*Listening | 9. Week |
UNIT 2
READING: Reading Text: The Changing Face of Power
WRITING: *Using the target vocabulary learned so far in writing
*Writing a reaction paragraph
*Synthesizing
LISTENING: *While-listening 1: Psychological Warfare
*Listening | 10. Week |
UNIT 3
UNIT 3
READING: Reading Text: The Media: Voices of the Powerful
WRITING: The Argumentative Essay
*Writing the argumentative thesis statement
*Identifying the difference between the expository and *Argumentative thesis statement
*Preparing the pro- con chart
*Refuting the counterargume | 11. Week |
UNIT 3
READING: Reading Text: The Media: Voices of the Powerful
WRITING: The Argumentative Essay
*Writing the argumentative thesis statement
*Identifying the difference between the expository and *Argumentative thesis statement
*Preparing the pro- con chart
*Refuting the counterarguments
*Ou | 12. Week |
UNIT 3
READING: Reading Text: The Media: Voices of the Powerful
WRITING: The Argumentative Essay
*Writing the argumentative thesis statement
*Identifying the difference between the expository and *Argumentative thesis statement
*Preparing the pro- con chart
*Refuting the counterarguments
*Ou | 13. Week |
UNIT 4
READING: Reading Text: It is a Rich Man’s World
WRITING: The Reaction-Response Essay
LISTENING: *While-listening: Around the Track
*Listening and note-taking : Interviews on Globalization
SPEAKING: *Task 1: Reaction to an idea
*Task 2: Role play on gold-min | 14. Week |
UNIT 4
READING: Reading Text: It is a Rich Man’s World
WRITING: The Reaction-Response Essay
LISTENING: *While-listening: Around the Track
*Listening and note-taking : Interviews on Globalization
SPEAKING: *Task 1: Reaction to an idea
*Task 2: Role play on gold-min | 15. Week |
UNIT 4
READING: Reading Text: It is a Rich Man’s World
WRITING: The Reaction-Response Essay
LISTENING: *While-listening: Around the Track
*Listening and note-taking : Interviews on Globalization
SPEAKING: *Task 1: Reaction to an idea
*Task 2: Role play on gold-min | 16. Week |
FINAL EXAM |
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-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS |
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-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA |
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Quantity |
Total Weighting (%) |
Midterm Exams |
1 |
40 |
Assignment |
0 |
0 |
Application |
0 |
0 |
Projects |
0 |
0 |
Practice |
0 |
0 |
Quiz |
0 |
0 |
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Percent of In-term Studies |
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40 |
Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score |
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60 |
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-- WORKLOAD |
Activity |
Total Number of Weeks |
Duration (weekly hour) |
Total Period Work Load |
Weekly Theoretical Course Hours |
14 |
3 |
42 |
Weekly Tutorial Hours |
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0 |
Reading Tasks |
8 |
1 |
8 |
Searching in Internet and Library |
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0 |
Material Design and Implementation |
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0 |
Report Preparing |
3 |
2 |
6 |
Preparing a Presentation |
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0 |
Presentation |
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0 |
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam |
2 |
10 |
20 |
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam |
1 |
10 |
10 |
Other (should be emphasized) |
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0 |
TOTAL WORKLOAD: |
86 |
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: |
3.44 |
Course Credit (ECTS): |
3 |
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-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM |
NO |
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES |
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4 |
5 |
1 | Prevails over intellectual, discursive, theoretical, factual, scientific, technological and aesthetic knowledge concerning architectural design within the national and global context, and reflects this knowledge in academic interactions. | X | | | | |
2 | Develops the necessary human and community-oriented conceptual sensitivities towards natural and built environments an uses this idea to succeed in the design process in discursive, theoretical and practical stages. | X | | | | |
3 | Prevails over research methods and techniques, and uses these techniques to define the research extent and generate solutions on challenges concerning architectural design, while evaluating problems, values and potentials. | X | | | | |
4 | Estimates the fact that architectural design process requires critical and dialectical approach. Follows contemporary developments and transformations in structural, architectural and urban environment. Adapts oneself according to the conditions of the present. | X | | | | |
5 | Conducts an independent design process. Upon synthesizing retrieved data, takes the responsibility of teamwork. Does capable of establishing, coordinating, managing the aforementioned team. | X | | | | |
6 | Holds the necessary motivation and learning skills to plan the future. Determines the necessary learning requirements, plans and executes accordingly. | X | | | | |
7 | Holds the necessary multi-dimensional information regarding principles and standards of economical, environmental and social sustainability; diseaster management, institutional and ethical values and cognitions in architectural design practices concerning a sensitivity towards historical, geographical, cultural and social context. | X | | | | |
8 | Uses the knowledge on architectural design together with structural knowledge. Prevails over the knowledge on construction systems, its constituting elements and materials together with areas of use and property informations. Monitors changes in the transforming and developing techniques and materials while also executing them. Develops appropriate technical and material solutions according to the retrieved data. | X | | | | |
9 | Organizes projects, collaborations and events with a societal sense of responsibility concerning surrounding social sphere, informs interested agents and institutions in related issues regarding the discipline, is capable of transferring relevant thoughts and proposed solutions verbally, visually and textually, and shares information with both experts and non-experts by supporting the knowledge with quantitative and qualitative data. | X | | | | |
10 | Holds information and awareness concerning local, regional, national and disciplinary subjects. | X | | | | |
11 | Respects basic human, social and cultural rights. Shows sensitivity regarding the preservation of natural environment and cultural heritage, while acting on a sense of justice. | X | | | | |
12 | Recognizes the value of the profession regarding its services towards human rights and societal benefits. | X | | | | |
13 | Shows sensitivity in the context of social justice, culture of quality, conservation of natural and cultural values, environmental protection, occupational health and safety, disaster safety, rights of disabled, legal frameworks special to providing professional service and ethical principles. | X | | | | |
14 | Uses the knowledge, understanding and skills for evaluation of the given context, in the definition of problems, for the development of proper solutions requiring alternating architectural design decisions. | X | | | | |
15 | Has enough basis related with computers, technological innovation, and has capacity for updating this basis. Makes use of possibilities offered by the technology for the collection of the data required for the solution and the presentation of the resulting design. | X | | | | |
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-- NAME OF LECTURER(S) |
(Instructor HATİCE EDA KAYA) |
-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S) |
(https://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/egebenliler/contact)
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-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S) |
(egebenliler@gazi.edu.tr)
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