Addressing an Audience (KAM432) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Addressing an Audience KAM432 3 0 0 4 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
NONE
Course Language English
Course Type N/A
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice, Team/Group.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Instructor Şebnem Aykaç Ömeroğlu
Course Assistants
Course Objectives The general aim is to help the students succeed in their academic goals as well as personal communicative goals. KAM 432 Public Speaking aims at providing the Political Science and Public Administration students with opportunities to develop their skills in using English through short and various mini speeches based on written preparation and doing research and preparing a step by step written outcome for making public speech for various occasions. The students will have improved their speaking and presentation skills
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Have knowledge about the importance of public speaking,
  • Have knowledge about the speech types and speech text patterns so that they can define the type of the speech they are listening
  • Learn where to use which type of the speech in their speaking.
  • Recognize basic language forms and patterns, and use them to produce short texts to express their ideas both in spoken and written form meaningfully
  • Have experience in listening, speaking and writing in English.
Course Content English language course.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Course information.
2 What is Communication? What is effective communication? Class notes
3 Types of speeches Class notes
4 Informative speech - outline a speech Class notes
5 Body language Class notes
6 Informative speech Class notes
7 How to prepare a presentation ? Class notes
8 MIDTERM EXAM
9 Persuasive speech Class Notes
10 Persuasive speech Class notes
11 Special occasion speech Class notes
12 Special occasion speech Class notes
13 Importance of colors in speech Class notes
14 Job interviews Class notes
15 Revision of the term Class notes
16 Final exam presentation (%60)

Sources

Course Book 1. - English for Presentations, by Marion Grussendorf (2007),Oxford Bussiness English series.

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation 1 10
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 30
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 60
Toplam 3 100
Percentage of Semester Work 40
Percentage of Final Work 60
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Has the ability to apply scientific knowledge gained in the undergraduate education and to expand and extend knowledge in the same or in a different area
2 Can apply gained knowledge and problem solving abilities in inter-disciplinary research
3 Has the ability to work independently within research area, to state the problem, to develop solution techniques, to solve the problem, to evaluate the obtained results and to apply them when necessary
4 Takes responsibility individually and as a team member to improve systematic approaches to produce solutions in unexpected complicated situations related to the area of study
5 Can develop strategies, implement plans and principles on the area of study and can evaluate obtained results within the framework
6 Can develop and extend the knowledge in the area and to use them with scientific, social and ethical responsibility
7 Has the ability to follow recent developments within the area of research, to support research with scientific arguments and data, to communicate the information on the area of expertise in a systematically by means of written report and oral/visual presentation
8 To have an oral and written communication ability in at least one of the common foreign languages ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B2)
9 Has software and hardware knowledge in the area of expertise, and has proficient information and communication technology knowledge
10 Follows scientific, cultural, and ethical criteria in collecting, interpreting and announcing data in the research area and has the ability to teach.
11 Has professional ethical consciousness and responsibility which takes into account the universal and social dimensions in the process of data collection, interpretation, implementation and declaration of results in mathematics and its applications.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 14 4 56
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 14 3 42
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 10 10
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 17 17
Total Workload 125