ECTS - English for Academic Purposes III

English for Academic Purposes III (ENG201) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
English for Academic Purposes III ENG201 3 0 0 3 3
Pre-requisite Course(s)
ENG101 & ENG102
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, Demonstration, Discussion, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice, Problem Solving, Team/Group, Brain Storming, Project Design/Management.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Instructor MDB Öğretim Görevlileri
Course Assistants
Course Objectives The aim of this course is to help the students to further improve their academic reading and writing skills. The students who have successfully completed this course are expected to be Independent Users at level B2* according to Common European Framework of Reference.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • By the end of this course, students will be able to: Reading: • identify and apply different reading strategies, • find out the purpose and spot the main idea(s) of a text, • find the details that support the main idea(s), • make connections between ideas, • infer information given in a text, • evaluate the author’s thesis in a critical way to develop arguments for and against it,
  • Writing: • write a well-organized argumentative essay with; • an introductory paragraph, • body paragraphs, • a concluding paragraph, • clear and logical transitions between the ideas/paragraphs, • structural and lexical variety and level-appropriate word choice.
  • Listening: • follow lecture videos on Moodle effectively in order to fulfill the requirements of the course, • watch unit videos of their course books.
  • Speaking: • exchange opinions in classroom discussions and state their ideas clearly and strongly with sufficient support and appropriate language.
  • Use of Technology take responsibility of their own learning by using the necessary technological facilities in a timely manner.
Course Content Advanced reading and writing skills, applying critical reading skills and strategies, identifying the organization of a reading text, main ideas of the texts, and the author?s main purpose, summarizing a given text, outlining and writing an argumentative essay.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Orientation & Meeting New Students / Introduction to the Course Material and Syllabus
2 Unit 1– Text Analysis and Discussion (“Changing Eating Habits in Italy”) Coursebook: 14, 22-31
3 Unit 2– Text Analysis and Discussion (“Distance vs. Face-to-Face Learning”) Coursebook pp. 32, 40-49 Coursebook pp. 32, 40-49
4 Unit 3– Text Analysis and Discussion (“The Homeopathy Debate”) Coursebook pp. 50-57, 64-67
5 Unit 4– Text Analysis and Discussion (“Combatting Drought in Rural Africa”) Coursebook pp. 68, 76-85
6 Unit 5– Text Analysis and Discussion (“Form, Function, or Both?”) Coursebook pp. 86, 94-103
7 Video 1 – Introduction to Argumentative Essay and Outline / Video 2 – Argumentative Essay: Introductory Paragraph Supp. Pack
8 Video 3 – Argumentative Essay: Body Paragraphs / Video 4 – Argumentative Essay: Concluding Paragraph / Supp. Pack
9 Writing Practice (Full Essay)
10 Writing Quiz
11 Unit 6 – Text Analysis and Discussion (“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”) Coursebook pp. 104, 112 & 118-121
12 Unit 7 - Text Analysis and Discussion (“Photography as Art”) Coursebook pp. 122, 130-139
13 Unit 8 - Text Analysis and Discussion (“The Social and Economic Impact of Aging”) Coursebook pp. 140-147 & 154-157
14 Extra Reading & Revision
15 Revision
16 FINAL EXAM

Sources

Course Book 1. Prism Reading 3 by Alan S. Kennedy, Chris Sowton – Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Other Sources 2. ENG201 Supplementary Pack prepared by the DML instructors / Lecture Videos on Moodle shot by the DML instructors

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application 1 10
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics 1 15
Homework Assignments 1 10
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 30
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 35
Toplam 5 100
Percentage of Semester Work 100
Percentage of Final Work 0
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 Integrates and utilizes the information, skills, and approaches obtained from basic, clinical, and medical sciences, behavioral sciences, and social sciences when offering healthcare services.
2 Offers healthcare services to patients with a biopsychosocial approach where the sociodemographic and sociocultural backgrounds of these individuals are taken into consideration, focusing on the universal human values, ethical principles, and professional duties; without exercising discrimination on the basis of language, religion, race, or sex.
3 Aims to protect, improve, and develop individual and public health when offering healthcare services.
4 Performs the necessary studies in sustaining and improving health, taking into the individual, public, social, and environmental factors to affect it.
5 Trains healthy individuals/ patients, their relatives, and other healthcare workers in healthcare upon determining the features, requirements, and expectations of their target audience.
6 Exercises a safe, rational, and effective approach in the procedures of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and rehabilitation; while offering healthcare services.
7 Implements interventional and/or non-interventional practices in a way that is safe and effective for patients during the procedures of diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and rehabilitation.
8 Offers healthcare services taking into account the health and safety of patients and employees.
9 Takes the regional and global changes in physical and socioeconomic settings to affect health, as well as the changes in the individual features and behaviors of patients referring to them into account, while offering healthcare.
10 Takes the good medical practices into account while performing their duties.
11 Undertakes the tasks and duties within the framework of their professional ethical rules, as well as their legal rights and duties.
12 Stands for the improvements in the manner in which healthcare services are offered, taking into account the concepts of social reliability and social duty, in an effort to protect and improve individual and public health.
13 Evaluates the effects of health policies and healthcare practices on public health indicators, and, where required, amends their evaluation on the grounds of scientific and social needs; in an effort to help improve the quality of healthcare services.
14 Leads their healthcare team while offering healthcare services, in a participative, and collaborative manner.
15 Establishes positive relationships within their healthcare team; and where needed, easily adapts to various positions among their team.
16 Exercises effective communication with patients, the relatives of patients, healthcare professionals, and groups from other professions, as well as institutions and organizations.
17 Plans and conducts scientific studies on the society to which they serve, and use the results of these, or those from other studies, to benefit the society.
18 Accesses the current literature on their profession, and evaluates them with a critical approach.
19 Chooses the correct sources of learning to improve the healthcare services that they offer, and regulates their own learning process.
20 Demonstrates the skills of obtaining and evaluating new information, integrating newer pieces of information with their current ones, as well as adapting to changing conditions throughout their professional life.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 14 3 42
Laboratory
Application 1 2 2
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 16 1 16
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments 1 4 4
Quizzes/Studio Critics 1 4 4
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 3 3
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 4 4
Total Workload 75