ECTS - Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Introduction to Sociolinguistics (HUM310) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Introduction to Sociolinguistics | HUM310 | General Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Elective Courses |
| Course Level | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Field Trip. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | The objective of this course is to introduce students to current problems of linguistics, to give them a broad perspective on language and society relationships, and to develop research skills. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Factors contributing to the emergence of social approach to language; language variation and the factors that are responsible for the formation of regional and social variation of languages; various patterns of societal multilingualism and power relationships between/among languages; global trends affecting multilingualism; various political and socio-cultural factors that contribute to language maintenance; various methods used in linguistics research; a fieldwork using research methods. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Introduction to Linguistics | |
| 2 | Language and Society | |
| 3 | Distribution of languages in the world; languages and communities | |
| 4 | Languages in contact: bilingualism and diglossia; multilingualism and polyglossia | |
| 5 | Language Variation: Regional varieties | |
| 6 | Language Variation: Social varieties | |
| 7 | Mid-term | |
| 8 | Words and Culture | |
| 9 | Language Change and Shift | |
| 10 | Language Policy and Planning | |
| 11 | Language and Identity | |
| 12 | Language Ecology | |
| 13 | Student presentations on assigned journal articles/book sections | Sociolinguistics material (a journal article or a book section) assigned by the instructor |
| 14 | Student presentations on assigned journal articles/book sections | Sociolinguistics material (a journal article or a book section) assigned by the instructor |
| 15 | Student presentations on assigned journal articles/book sections | Sociolinguistics material (a journal article or a book section) assigned by the instructor |
| 16 | Fınal Exam Fieldwork assignments due |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. Ronald Wardhaugh & Janet Fuller. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Blackwell Publishing. (2015) |
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| 2. Rajend Mesthrie (ed). The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Cambridge University Press. (2011) | |
| Other Sources | 3. Marin J. Ball (ed). The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World. Routlegde. (2010) |
| 4. Janet Holmes. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Routlegde. (2013) | |
| 5. B. Spolsky. Language Policy. Cambridge. (2004) | |
| 6. P. Trudgill. Sociolinguistics. An Introduction to Language and Society. Penguin Group. (2000). | |
| 7. E. Sapir. Language. An Introduction to the Study of Speech. Harvest Books. (1921) | |
| 8. T. Ricento (ed) An Introduction to Language Policy: Theory and Method. Blackwell Publishing. (2006) | |
| 9. Joshua A. Fishman “Reversing Language Shift”. Multilingual Matters LTD. Clevedon, 1997 |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | 1 | 20 |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | 1 | 15 |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | 1 | 15 |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 20 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 30 |
| Toplam | 5 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 100 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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 |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Total Workload | 100 | ||