ECTS - Critical Reading
Critical Reading (KAM332) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Critical Reading | KAM332 | 6. Semester | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Compulsory Departmental Courses |
| 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 Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | This course helps students to gain skill on critical reading. Besides, they will have improved their writing and listening skills as well. This course aims to help students to gain skill on critical reading as well as critical thinking. Articles from newspapers, magazines and academic journals in their subject matter will be used during the course. They will learn what a text says and how that text describes the subject matter. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | English language course. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Course information. What is critical reading and critical thinking? | |
| 2 | How is critical reading done? What are the steps? Analysis (main idea and outlining) | Class notes |
| 3 | Analysis (main idea and outlining) of abstracts from Journals /articles | Class notes |
| 4 | Analysis (main idea and outlining) of abstracts from Journals/ articles | Class notes |
| 5 | Analysis (main idea and outlining)/ Texts from magazines, newspapers, web sites | Class notes |
| 6 | What is an annotation? Why do we need the annotation? | Class notes |
| 7 | Annotation practices | Class notes |
| 8 | MIDTERM EXAM (%40) | |
| 9 | Annotation practices / Articles from academic Journals | Class notes |
| 10 | Annotation practices / Texts from magazines, newspapers, web sites | Class notes |
| 11 | What is evaluation and summary? What is the help of the evaluation? | Class notes |
| 12 | Evaluating and Summary/ Article from journals, | Class notes |
| 13 | Evaluating and summary / texts from magazines, newspapers and websites | Class notes |
| 14 | Full text critical reading class activity | Class notes |
| 15 | Full text reading class activity | Class notes |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. The texts to be analysed will be delivered to the students in advance via “Atılım Moodle”. The lecture notes will be delivered via Atılım Moodle. |
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| Other Sources | 2. - Critical Reading: English for Academic Purposes, Tania Pattison, |
| 3. - Critical Reading in Higher Education: Academic Goals and Social Engagement by Manarin, Karen Carey, Miriam Rathburn, Melanie Ryland, Glen Hutchings, Pat, Indiana University Press |
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 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 60 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | |
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| Major Area Courses | X |
| 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 | Students can learn the basic concepts, theories and methods of political science and public administration and use them in the analysis of national and global political developments and cause-effect relationships. | |||||
| 2 | It enables one to understand how policies are created and implemented in real life at the local, national, regional and/or global level, to recognize the important institutions and actors that play a role in these processes, and to know the functioning of public administration. | |||||
| 3 | It provides a basic level of knowledge about other fields related to political science and public administration disciplines (such as international relations, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, economics, law, history, etc.) and thus provides an interdisciplinary understanding that takes into account the relationships between different areas of life and establishes connections. | |||||
| 4 | Learning the use of quantitative and/or qualitative research techniques that can be used in the field of political science and public administration, software, hardware and/or technical tools that can be useful; gaining experience in designing and executing research projects to develop their application skills in this field. | |||||
| 5 | By promoting critical analytical thinking, intellectual debate and lifelong learning, the development of the ability to act with an open mind, to avoid discrimination and to be sensitive and respectful of different points of view, thus developing skills for acting in partnership. | X | ||||
| 6 | To develop decision-making and initiative taking, work completion and time management competencies by understanding business ethics in public administration, politics and all related fields. | |||||
| 7 | Developing communication skills, oral and written expression, presentation techniques; learning the writing principles and procedures required to write an academic article on political science and public administration disciplines. | X | ||||
| 8 | The aim of the course is to master the English terminology in the disciplines of political science and public administration and to gain foreign language knowledge at a level to follow the studies written in English, so that current political developments and events in various countries can be analysed comparatively. | X | ||||
| 9 | To know the political history of both Turkey and the world in terms of periods, important turning points and actors, to comprehend the impact of the social-historical backgrounds of countries on current political and administrative issues. | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| 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 | 2 | 28 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total Workload | 125 | ||