Architecture (English) | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code: | CORE301 | ||||||||
Course Name: | Intermediate Academic Written English | ||||||||
Course Semester: |
Fall |
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Course Credits: |
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Language of instruction: | EN | ||||||||
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Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||||||
Type of course: | Foreign Language Elective | ||||||||
Course Level: |
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Mode of Delivery: | Face to face | ||||||||
Course Coordinator : | Öğr.Gör. ÖZLEM GÖKKURT | ||||||||
Course Lecturer(s): |
Öğr.Gör. VOLGA KURBANZADE Öğr.Gör. B.Öğretim Elemanı Öğr.Gör. CEM AKSİNER |
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Course Objectives: | This course aims to help students develop their reading and writing skills at B1 level. |
Course Content: | This intermediate course is designed to help students develop specific skills required for academic reading, including skimming, scanning, identifying organizational patterns, constructing meaning by making inferences, identifying topic sentences and distinguishing fact from opinion. Students will also develop skills specific to writing, including use of logic flow and paragraph organization, incorporation of both facts and personal opinions, ensuring unity and coherence, comparing and contrasting along with explaining processes. |
The students who have succeeded in this course;
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Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | COURSE INTRODUCTION | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
2) | Reading 1 "Looking for Money: Crowdfunding and Angels" p. 3-10 Focus on Writing p.16-17 | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
3) | Reading 1 ""Man vs. Robot""p.27-33 Focus on Writing p.33 | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
4) | REVISION | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
5) | Reading 1: ""Bicycling: Health Risk or Benefit""p.49-56 Focus on Writing p.61-63 " | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
6) | Reading 1:"The Walking Cure" p. 73-78 Focus on Writing p.85-86 | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
7) | REVISION | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
8) | MID-TERM | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
9) | Reading 1:""Three ways 3D Printing Could Revolutionize Health Care"" p.95-102 Focus on Writing p.107-109 | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
10) | Reading 1:""Guide to Augmented Reality"" p. 119-125 Focus on Writing p.125-127 | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
11) | REVISION | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
12) | Reading 1:"" To Adapt MOOC, or not? That is No Longer a Question"" p. 141-148 Focus on Writing p.154-155 | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
13) | Reading 1:""Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers"" p.165-172 Focus on Writing p.178-179 | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
14) | REVISION | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
15) | FINAL EXAM WEEK | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
16) | FINAL EXAM WEEK | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Leap-2 Intermediate Reading and Writing |
References: | Online materials and worksheets |
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Program Outcomes | ||||||||||||||||
1) - Gaining discursive, theoretical and factual information from various environments, in local, national and global context for related field, architectural design/ planning/ design activities and researches, she has required ability and comprehension to reflect the information on academic environment. | ||||||||||||||||
2) - Has intellectual, discursive, scientific, technologic, esthetic, artistic, historic and cultural information and comprehension about related field. | ||||||||||||||||
3) - Has knowledge and understanding on human and community oriented and sensitive to environment (natural and built) architectural design/ planning/ design/ research methods on the related field. | ||||||||||||||||
4) - Has multidimensional knowledge and understanding on economics, topics related to disasters and environmental and societal sustainability principles and standards. | ||||||||||||||||
5) - They have knowledge about the principles, laws, regulations and standards related to their field. | ||||||||||||||||
6) - Has knowledge and understanding about institutional and ethical values related to the concerned field. | ||||||||||||||||
7) - Has knowledge and understanding about the place / importance of the related field in its historical, geographical, social and cultural context. | ||||||||||||||||
8) - Has ability to develop concepts in architectural design/ planning/ design fields. | ||||||||||||||||
9) - Has ability to provide integrity between discourse, theory and practise for architectural design / planning / design activities and researches. | ||||||||||||||||
10) - Has ability to identify facts, potential, problems and required researches for these in architectural design/ planning/ design issues. |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | - Gaining discursive, theoretical and factual information from various environments, in local, national and global context for related field, architectural design/ planning/ design activities and researches, she has required ability and comprehension to reflect the information on academic environment. | |
2) | - Has intellectual, discursive, scientific, technologic, esthetic, artistic, historic and cultural information and comprehension about related field. | |
3) | - Has knowledge and understanding on human and community oriented and sensitive to environment (natural and built) architectural design/ planning/ design/ research methods on the related field. | |
4) | - Has multidimensional knowledge and understanding on economics, topics related to disasters and environmental and societal sustainability principles and standards. | |
5) | - They have knowledge about the principles, laws, regulations and standards related to their field. | |
6) | - Has knowledge and understanding about institutional and ethical values related to the concerned field. | |
7) | - Has knowledge and understanding about the place / importance of the related field in its historical, geographical, social and cultural context. | |
8) | - Has ability to develop concepts in architectural design/ planning/ design fields. | |
9) | - Has ability to provide integrity between discourse, theory and practise for architectural design / planning / design activities and researches. | |
10) | - Has ability to identify facts, potential, problems and required researches for these in architectural design/ planning/ design issues. |
Expression | |
Brainstorming/ Six tihnking hats | |
Individual study and homework | |
Lesson | |
Reading | |
Homework | |
Project preparation | |
Q&A / Discussion | |
Web Based Learning |
Written Exam (Open-ended questions, multiple choice, true-false, matching, fill in the blanks, sequencing) | |
Homework | |
Group project | |
Presentation |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Homework Assignments | 1 | % 20 |
Project | 2 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 20 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 16 | 55 |
Homework Assignments | 15 | 41 |
Midterms | 16 | 16 |
Final | 16 | 16 |
Total Workload | 128 |